John Lawson & Harold Silver 
Social History of Education in England [PDF ebook] 

Originally published in 1973, this book describes the medieval origins of the British education system, and the transformations successive historical events — such as the Reformation, the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution — have wrought on it. It examines the effect on the educational pattern of such major cultural upheavals as the Renaissance; it looks at the different parts played by church and state, and the influence of new social and educational philosophies.