Tudor Education 

Henry VIII's break with Rome created an existential crisis for the new Protestant state.
With church leaders no longer playing prominent roles in government, an educated Protestant elite was needed.
Edward VI's government decided to refound many of the old chantry schools for this purpose as free grammar schools.
Walter Mildmay of Chelmsford played a major role in effecting the transition.
The talk will use the Free Grammar School of Chelmsford as a case study and trace the development and problems faced by all such schools over their first 200 years when their classical and Anglican curriculum became stuck in time and increasingly unpopular with would-be customers.