Today we are journeying back to the beginning of organised education in England. Developed initially as a means of ensuring the local monks could keep buying the top quality cassocks to which they had become accustomed; no one could have foreseen the resentment that would build up between the poor townsfolk and the privileged and unruly students.

They should have been able to foresee it though.... I mean, they were supposed to be intelligent.

Guest Host: Jack Heathcote