Hughes, Thomas

has biography | a une biographie: English lawyer, judge, politician and author in the nineteenth century. Hughes's novel Tom Brown’s School Days (1857), a recollection of his time at Rugby and the experience of young men in the world of the British public school, was one of the foundational works of the Muscular Christianity philosophical movement. The emphasis Muscular Christianity placed on the importance of physical exercise and Christian instruction was highly influential to the culture of public schools in the Victorian era, many of whom would train young men for future colonial service overseas.
was born | est né: 20 October 1822
died in | est mort par: 22 March 1896
has nationality | a la nationalité: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: depicted

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; National Portrait Gallery; Tommy Maddinson, 'Colonial Statues, Public Space and Masculinity in Postcolonial Britain', Cast in Stone blog post, December 12 2023; Schools of Empire: Class, Race, and Colonialism, c.1750-1945; C. L. R. James, Beyond a Boundary (London: Hutchinson, 1963)

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