[Edward]

Please help When did it become legal to go to school in london?

[MrJohnDClare]

I think you mean 'compulsory'.
School has ALWAYS been legal in London - in the sense that you were allowed to go.
It has only been compulsory since the 19th century.

There is a list of important dates here:
http://www.thepotter...s/education.htm.
The dates you need are 1870, 1876 and 1880.

From the web:
"The passing of the 1880 Elementary Education Act committed local authorities to the enforcement of compulsory school attendance, thereby creating a new agency of the state in the form of the ‘School Board Man’ or ‘Kiddy-catcher’. The role combined both knowledge-gathering about working-class families and the enforcement of the legal requirement to attend school. These men (and it was mainly men) formed the main conduit of communication between school and home and between local authority and parents, between the emerging ‘social’ state and the self-contained communities of the working classes. "

On schools in London, try:
http://www.eastlondo...y.com/victorian education.htm
http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/server...ationRecord.198

[Edward]

thanks alot