English Public Schools and the Imperial Networks of the City of London, c.1880-1945: The Case of Rugby School

本研究拟以1880 - 1945年间的拉格比学校为个案，探讨英国公立学校与英国金融精英的形成之间的关系，特别是作为帝国商业、银行和保险中心的伦敦。在此期间（及以后），城市中公立学校校友的重要存在经常得到承认和量化（特别是橄榄球校友），但很少有研究详细研究这些联系及其相关网络。该项目试图解决的正是这种学术上的缺失，将拉格比学校--尽管不排除对其他学校的比较工作--作为挖掘这些网络并重建其形成、功能和遗产的主要调查地点，无论是在英国还是在整个帝国。贯穿始终的焦点将是这些网络的帝国维度，因为这些网络流经或来自于城市及其资助和服务的许多企业所创造的财富。

This project proposes to use Rugby School, roughly during the period 1880 to 1945, as a case studyto explore the relationship between public schools and the formation of Britain's financial elites,especially the City of London as a centre of imperial commerce, banking and insurance. Thesignificant presence of public school alumni in the City during this period (and beyond) has oftenbeen acknowledged and quantified (including specifically Rugby alumni), but few studies haveexamined these connections and their associated networks in any particular detail. It is this absencein the scholarship that the project seeks to address, taking Rugby School - though not precludingcomparative work on other schools - as the principal site of investigation for excavating thesenetworks and reconstructing their formation, functioning and legacy, both in Britain and across theempire. The focus throughout would be the imperial dimensions of these networks as these flowedthrough, or were derived from, the wealth generated by the City and the many enterprises which itfinanced and serviced.