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'{{Infobox Organization |name = Girls' Day School Trust |image = GDST-logo.jpg |image_border = |size = |caption = |map = |msize = |mcaption = |abbreviation = GDST |motto = |formation = 1872 |extinction = |type = [[Non-governmental organization|Non-governmental organisation]] |status = |purpose = [[Educational accreditation]] |headquarters = |location = |region_served = England and Wales |membership = |language = |leader_title = |leader_name = |main_organ = |parent_organization = |affiliations = |num_staff = |num_volunteers = |budget = |website = {{url|http://www.gdst.net/}} |remarks = }} The '''Girls' Day School Trust''' ('''GDST''') is a group of 26 [[independent school]]s - 24 schools and two [[Academy (English school)|Academies]] - in England and [[Wales]], catering for pupils aged 3 to 18. It is the largest group of independent schools in the UK, and educates 20,000 girls each year.<ref> {{cite web | last = Girls' Day School Trust | title = Introduction | url = http://www.gdst.net | accessdate = 2007-02-15}}</ref> It was formed in 1872 to provide affordable day school (non-boarding) [[education for girls]] as '''The Girls' Public Day School Company''' (1872–1905), then '''The Girls' Public Day School Trust''' (1906–1998). The GDST is a [[Charitable organization|registered charity]] in the United Kingdom. In 2006–7 it had a gross income of £177million,<ref>{{UK charity|306983}}</ref> making it one of the 20 largest charities in the UK.<ref>Ranked by total annual income averaged over three years. Source: {{cite journal | title = Charity 100 Index | journal = Charity Finance | month = April | year = 2008 | issn = 0963-0295 }}</ref> ==History== ===Origins=== The origins of the GDST can be traced back to the Schools Enquiry Commission set up in 1864 to survey the field of male and female secondary schools, which concluded that there was a "general deficiency" in the provision of secondary education for girls.<ref> {{Cite book | last = Carmichael | first = Oliver Cromwell | title = Universities: Commonwealth and American. A comparative study | publisher = Harper & Bros. | year = 1959 | location = New York | page = 159 | isbn = 0836927605}} </ref> The challenge to provide education for girls aged over ten was tackled by [[Maria Georgina Grey|Maria Grey]] and her sister [[Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff|Emily Shirreff]], who had previously published ''Thoughts on Self Culture'', which pointed out the shortage of education for women in England.<ref> {{Cite book | last = Grey | first = Maria | coauthors = Shirreff, Emily | title = Thoughts on Self Culture | year = 1850 | location = London}} </ref> In November 1871 the sisters launched the "National Union for improvement of the Education of Women of All Classes", later the Women's Education Union.<ref> {{Cite book | last = Littlewood | first = Kathleen D B | title = Some Account of the History of the Girls' Public Day School Trust | publisher = Girls' Public Day School Trust | year = 1960 | location = London | page = 9}}</ref><ref> {{Cite book | last = Kamm | first = Josephine | title = Indicative Past: A Hundred Years of the Girls' Public Day School Trust | publisher = George Allen & Unwin | year = 1971 | location = London | page = 42}}</ref> The Union aimed to establish good and cheap day schools for all classes of girls above the level of elementary education and was the leading force behind the formation of the Teachers’ Training and Registration Society and the Girls' Public Day School Company.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Littlewood | title = History of the Girls' Public Day School Trust | year = 1960 | page = 10}}</ref> The Union was supported by many major figures of the time, notably Lady Henrietta Maria Stanley of Alderley, Mary Gurney, and [[Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll|HRH Princess Louise]], who became the President of the Union.<ref> {{Cite book | last = Kamm | title = Indicative Past | year = 1971 | pages = 42–44}} </ref> ===Foundation=== The Union planned to create a limited liability company to raise revenue to achieve their aims and presented the proposed scheme at a public meeting at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] in June 1872.<ref> {{cite book | last = Kamm | title = Indicative Past | year = 1971 | pages = 46–47}} </ref> The new company was registered as the '''Girls’ Public Day School Company''' (GPDSC) with a nominal share capital of £12,000. Many of the figures involved in the Women's Education Union also were key figures in the creation the GPDSC including Maria Grey, Emily Shireff, Mary Gurney and Lady Stanley. HRH Princess Louise became the patron of the GPDSC. Members of the founding council included David Graham Drummond Ogilvy, fifth Earl of Airlie, GPDSC's first president; Henrietta Powell; Sir George Bartley; [[Douglas Strutt Galton]]; Sir Walter James, second baronet; [[Joseph Payne]]; [[James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth]]; Charles Savile Roundell; and the [[Marquess of Lorne]].<ref name=ODNB> {{cite encyclopedia |last=Goodman | first=Joyce F. | title=Girls' Public Day School Company (act. 1872–1905) | encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edition | publisher=Oxford University Press | url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/theme/94164 |date=October 2005 | accessdate=2007-11-07}} </ref> ===Girls’ Public Day School Company (1872–1905) === The GPDSC's aim was to establish academic high schools for girls of all classes which provided a high standard of academic education, together with moral and religious education. School fees were kept low and schools were expected to become self-supporting as soon as possible, though the GPDSC council retained overall control of the schools.<ref name="Kamm 1971 50">{{cite book | last = Kamm | title = Indicative Past | year = 1971 | page = 50}} </ref> The policy of the Council, the executive body of the GPDSC, was to only found new schools were they were most needed, funded by shares taken up by local people. The first school opened at Durham House, Chelsea in January 1873 (later transferred to Kensington).<ref> {{cite book | last = Kamm | title = Indicative Past | year = 1971 | pages = 51–54}} </ref> In February 1875 the GPDSC opened [[Norwich High School for Girls]], its first school outside London. By 1905 the GPDSC owned 37 school across the country, including 19 schools in the London area. Each school was to have three departments, (preparatory, Junior and senior.......IN CAlifornia is where they got the idea form the myans and the school they got it from is LIBERT HIGH SCHOOL for everyone not juss girls and they are aloud to wear regualr clothing becasue california has SWAGG and we are legit and dont be jelous we have hot girls..thats why katy Perry made california girls cause we are hot you know it..ok peace out homiess!!!!!!..............under a headmistress with a staff of trained teachers. Schools were to be tested by regular inspections and examinations. Girls were prepared to take Oxford and Cambridge Local Examinations or examinations administered by the [[College of Preceptors]]. A class of student ‘pupil teachers’ were attached to each school.<ref name="Kamm 1971 50"/> Initially the schools provided in-house training for pupils who intended to go on to teaching after graduation through the ‘Pupil teachers’ system. From 1903 some of the larger school also developed teacher training departments, recognised by the [[Board of Education]], where post-graduate students training to become secondary, kindergarten, or art teachers. The largest was housed at Belvedere School in Liverpool. Clapham Training College, founded in 1900, also had a domestic science department. In 1938 it moved and became the Clapham and Streatham Hill Training College, transferring to the London County Council in 1949 to become the Phillipa Fawcett Teacher Training College.<ref name=ODNB /> From 1875–1901 the GPDSC amended its constitution so it could be recognised as a charity to receive grants from the [[Science and Art Department]] (and the Board of Education from 1899), who only wanted to give public grants to non-profit organisations.<ref name="Kamm 1971 183">{{cite book | last = Kamm | title = Indicative Past | year = 1971 | page = 183}} </ref> Due to the financial needs of the trust there were many years in which the dividends were not paid to shareholders. By 1900 the GPDSC educated over 7000 pupils in 33 schools.<ref> {{cite book | last = Kamm | title = Indicative Past | year = 1971 | page = 96}} </ref> In 1899 the new Board of Education became responsible for issuing government grants under much stricter regulations and the GPDSC agreed for their schools to be inspected by school inspectors to continue to qualify for grants.<ref> {{cite book | last = Kamm | title = Indicative Past | year = 1971 | pages = 97–99}} </ref> ===Girls' Public Day School Trust Limited (1905–1950)=== The [[Education Act 1902|Education Act of 1902]] determined that secondary education should be accessible to as many children as possible which had financial complications for the GPDSC as it had to provide more free places and cater for increasing numbers of pupils. In 1902 the GPDSC was warned that it would not longer receive grants from the Board of Education after 1903 because it was a dividend-paying company.<ref> {{cite book | last = Kamm | title = Indicative Past | year = 1971 | page = 108}} </ref> This date was later extended to 1905 and the GPDSC was reconstituted as the '''Girls’ Public Day School Trust Limited''' (GPDST), a limited company with charitable status, in Jan 1906. The new constitution required that the GPDST would have to be wound up by 1 January 1956 if it failed to make an acceptable offer to buy the GPDSC's share capital.<ref> {{cite book | last = Kamm | title = Indicative Past | year = 1971 | pages = 110–111}} </ref> To prevent the closure of the GPDST 100 new shares were created in 1911, held as trustee shares of nominal value, which carried large voting rights to enable the GPDST's Council to buy the existing share capital before 1956.<ref name="Kamm 1971 183"/> From 1912 no dividends were paid to shareholders and, along with the financial burdens caused by World War I and the proceeding economic depression (see [[Great Depression]]), some shareholders became restive due to the lack of dividends.<ref> {{cite book | last = Kamm | title = Indicative Past | year = 1971 | page = 184}} </ref> World War II plunged the GPDST into more financial trouble and the [[Education Act 1944|1944 Education Act]] presented them with new challenges as they had to extend the schools to cater for increasing numbers of pupils. The GPDST was increasingly unable to purchase the remaining share capital from the shareholders and was quickly approaching the 1956 deadline. In 1944 the GPDST joined the Government's new [[Direct Grant Scheme]] to help keep the school fees low during the financial difficulties. This scheme used grants to support independent academically-selective schools outside the non-selective public education system of the time. The scheme insisted that a third of the members of the Governing Bodies had to be representatives of the local education authority and 25% of pupils admitted had to come directly from elementary schools.<ref> {{cite book | last = Kamm | title = Indicative Past | year = 1971 | page = 179}} </ref> After the war the GPDST relied on funding from the [[Ministry of Education (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Education]] and any profits received from school fees were used to refurbish the schools. The Council worked on a reconstruction scheme which would satisfy the shareholders and for the trust to be recognised as an educational charity before the 1956 deadline. The scheme, led by William Cash, was presented in March 1950 and confirmed in May 1950, saving the GPDST from liquidation. 'Limited' was dropped from the name of the Trust and it became '''The Girls' Public Day School Trust'''.<ref name="Kamm 1971 190">{{cite book | last = Kamm | title = Indicative Past | year = 1971 | page = 190}} </ref> The GPDST still had to make the repayments of £75,000 to shareholders and extended its mortgages and set up an endowment fund to pay off the debt.<ref> {{cite book | last = Kamm | title = Indicative Past | year = 1971 | page = 189}} </ref> ===Girls' Public Day School Trust (1950–1998)=== After the debts were repaid the GPDST set up The Friends of the Girls' Public Day School Trust in March 1951.<ref name="Kamm 1971 190"/> The Friends published an annual newsletter and also awarded scholarships and gift to schools. The Friends also created schemes to raise money to refurbish the schools. When the direct grant scheme was abolished in 1976, the GPDST schools converted to full independence to remain academically selective. In the same year the GPDST instituted the Girls' Public Day Trust Bursaries Fund, a separate charity, to cater for the loss of the Government funding. The fund provided bursaries for girls who otherwise could not afford to go to the schools.<ref name=GDST-history> {{cite web | last = Girls’ Day School Trust | title = History | url = http://www.gdst.net/aboutus/introduction/Pages/History.aspx | accessdate = 2008-08-04 }} </ref> In 1980 the GPDST applied for the Government's [[Assisted Places Scheme]] for all schools and registered as a private company under the Companies Act 1980. The GPDST was a part of the scheme until the scheme's closure in 1997.<ref name=GDST-history/> ===Girls' Day School Trust (since 1998)=== In 1998 the organisation became the Girls’ Day School Trust (GDST).<ref name=GDST-history/> In 2005 some GDST schools began to be co-educational, such as Howell's School, Llandaff, which taught sixth-form boys. Hilden Grange, a co-educational preparatory school, joined the GDST in 2005. In 2007 the GDST administered 29 day schools, offering education from the ages of three to 18.<ref name=GDST-history/> The GDST is at the forefront of the independent-led arm of the Labour Government's [[Academy (English school)|Academy]] programme and has begun to convert schools back into the maintained sector, with [[The Belvedere Academy|The Belvedere School]], Liverpool, in September 2007 and [[Birkenhead High School]] in September 2009.<ref> {{cite web | last = BBC News | title = Private school's academy plans | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4414112.stm | date = 7 November 2005 | accessdate = 2007-02-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last = Birkenhead High School | title =Birkenhead High School Academy Proposal | url = http://www.ecommnet.co.uk/test/gdst/birkenhead/news.asp?id=384&page=newsroom.asp | date = 5 October 2007 | accessdate = 2007-02-14}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}} </ref> These schools lose their right to select pupils on the basis of academic ability, but retain some independence from the Government with the GDST maintaining a majority on the governing body. The Junior Department of The Belvedere School, which had been retained as an independent preparatory school by the GDST, as the renamed The Hamlets, was subsequently sold in 2010, renamed Belevdere Preparatory School and is going co-educational. ==Current GDST schools== Schools run by the GDST as of August 2010 include: ===Preparatory schools=== *Kensington Preparatory School.<ref>http://www.kensingtonprep.org.uk/</ref> (Opened 1873) ===Schools for 3–18 year olds=== *[[Birkenhead High School Academy]]. (Opened 1901). *[[Blackheath High School]]. (Opened 1880). *[[Brighton and Hove High School]]. (Opened 1876). *[[Bromley High School]]. (Opened 1883). *[[Central Newcastle High School]]. (Opened 1895). *[[Croydon High School]]. (Opened 1874). *[[Heathfield School, Pinner]]. (Opened 1900. Joined the GDST in 1987). *[[Howell's School Llandaff|Howell's School, Llandaff]]. (Joined the GDST in 1980). *[[Ipswich High School]]. (Opened 1878). *[[Northampton High School]]. (Joined the GDST in 2006). *[[Norwich High School for Girls]]. (Opened 1875) *[[Nottingham High School for Girls]]. (Opened 1875). *[[Notting Hill & Ealing High School]]. (Opened 1873). *[[Oxford High School (Oxford)|Oxford High School]]. (Opened 1875) *[[Portsmouth High School (Southsea)|Portsmouth High School]]. (Opened 1882). *[[Putney High School]]. (Opened 1893). *[[Royal High School, Bath]]. (Opened 1875). *[[Sheffield High School (South Yorkshire)|Sheffield High School]]. (Opened 1878). *[[Shrewsbury High School (England)|Shrewsbury High School]]. (Opened 1885). *[[South Hampstead High School]]. (Opened 1876). *[[Streatham and Clapham High School|Streatham & Clapham High School]]. (Opened 1887). *[[Sutton High School (London)|Sutton High School]] (Opened 1884) *[[Sydenham High School]]. (Opened 1887). *[[Wimbledon High School]]. (Opened 1880). ===School for 11–18 year olds=== *[[The Belvedere Academy]], Liverpool. (Opened 1880 as Liverpool High School, later The Belvedere School). ==Former GDST schools== The following schools were once opened or administered by the GDST.<ref> {{Cite book | last = Kamm | first = Josephine | title = Indicative Past: A Hundred Years of the Girls' Public Day School Trust | publisher = George Allen & Unwin | year = 1971 | location = London | pages = 212&ndash;215}}</ref><ref>[http://www.ioe.ac.uk/services/23505.html Records of the Girls' Day School Trust], (Ref: GDS), held by the [[Institute of Education]] archives</ref> The dates relate to when the school was connected to the Trust. Unless otherwise stated the later date signifies the date of the closure of each school. * [[City of Carlisle|Carlisle]] High School, 1884&ndash;1904. Transferred to the [[Cumberland County Council]]. Later became St Aidan's County High School and Specialist Sports and Science College, now Richard Rose Central Academy.<ref>http://www.richardrosecentralacademy.org/</ref> * Charters-Ancaster School, 1988&ndash;1995. Merged with [[Battle Abbey|Battle Abbey School]]<ref>[http://archive.ioe.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=%28RefNo==%27GDS/13/3%27%29 Charters-Ancaster School], (Ref: GDS/13/3), held by the [[Institute of Education]] archives</ref>. * [[Clapham]] Middle School, 1875&ndash;1904. Merged with Clapham High School<ref>[http://archive.ioe.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=%28RefNo==%27GDS/13/4%27%29 Clapham Middle School], (Ref: GDS/13/4), held by the [[Institute of Education]] archives</ref>. * [[Clapham]] High School, 1882&ndash;1938. Merged with [[Streatham and Clapham High School|Streatham Hill and Brixton High School]]<ref>[http://archive.ioe.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=%28RefNo==%27GDS/13/5%27%29 Clapham High School], (Ref: GDS/13/5), held by the [[Institute of Education]] archives</ref>. * [[Upper Clapton|Clapton]] and [[London Borough of Hackney|Hackney]] High School, 1875&ndash;1899. Originally Hackney High School. * [[Dover]] High School, 1888&ndash;1908<ref>[http://archive.ioe.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=%28RefNo==%27GDS/13/6%27%29 Dover High School], (Ref: GDS/13/6), held by the [[Institute of Education]] archives</ref>. * [[Dulwich]] High School, 1878&ndash;1913. Transferred to Church Schools' Company. Closed in 1938<ref>[http://archive.ioe.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=%28RefNo==%27GDS/13/7%27%29 Dover High School], (Ref: GDS/13/7), held by the [[Institute of Education]] archives</ref>. * [[Gateshead]] High School, 1876&ndash;1907. Merged with [[Central Newcastle High School]]<ref>[http://archive.ioe.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=%28RefNo==%27GDS/13/9%27%29 Gateshead High School], (Ref: GDS/13/9), held by the [[Institute of Education]] archives</ref>. * Greycotes School, Oxford c1990s, Merged with the Squirrel School to form the preparatory department of [[Oxford High School (Oxford)|Oxford High School]]. * [[Highbury]] and [[Islington]] High School, 1878&ndash;1911<ref>[http://archive.ioe.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=%28RefNo==%27GDS/13/10%27%29 Highbury and Islington High School], (Ref: GDS/13/10), held by the [[Institute of Education]] archives</ref>. * [[Hilden Grange School]], 2005&ndash;2010. Ownership of the school was transferred to Alpha Plus Group from September 2010.<ref>[http://www.hildengrange.gdst.net/Documents/lettertoparents.pdf} Letter to parents] Accessed 2010-09-01]</ref> * [[Kensington]] High School, 1873&ndash;1948. The junior school continued to function as Kensington Preparatory School<ref>[http://archive.ioe.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=%28RefNo==%27GDS/13/11%27%29 Kensington High School], (Ref: GDS/13/11), held by the [[Institute of Education]] archives</ref>. * East [[Liverpool]] High School, 1891&ndash;1921. Merged with [[The Belvedere Academy|Liverpool High School]]<ref>[http://archive.ioe.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=%28RefNo==%27GDS/13/8%27%29 East Liverpool High School], (Ref: GDS/13/8), held by the [[Institute of Education]] archives</ref>. * [[Newton Abbot]] High School, 1881&ndash;1888. School transferred to Miss Ridley. * [[Paddington]] and [[Maida Vale]]High School, 1878&ndash;1912. Originally Maida Vale High School. Transferred to London County Council in 1912<ref>[http://archive.ioe.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=%28RefNo==%27GDS/13/12%27%29 Paddington and Maida Vale High School], (Ref: GDS/13/12), held by the [[Institute of Education]] archives</ref>. * The Squirrel School, [[Oxford]], 1996&ndash;1997. Merged with Greycotes School to form preparatory department of [[Oxford High School (Oxford)|Oxford High School]]. * [[Swansea]] High School, 1888&ndash;1895<ref>[http://archive.ioe.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=%28RefNo==%27GDS/13/13%27%29 Swansea High School], (Ref: GDS/13/13), held by the [[Institute of Education]] archives</ref>. * The Hamlets School, Liverpool.<ref>http://www2.gdst.net/hamlets/</ref>, 1912&ndash;2010. Opened 1912 as junior section of The Belvedere School. Joined the GDST as a separate school in 2006. Sold in 2010 * [[Tunbridge Wells]] High School, 1883&ndash;1945<ref>[http://archive.ioe.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=%28RefNo==%27GDS/13/14%27%29 Tunbridge Wells High School], (Ref: GDS/13/14), held by the [[Institute of Education]] archives</ref>. * [[Weymouth, Dorset|Weymouth]] High School, 1880&ndash;1894<ref>[http://archive.ioe.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=%28RefNo==%27GDS/13/15%27%29 Weymouth High School], (Ref: GDS/13/15), held by the [[Institute of Education]] archives</ref>. * [[York]] High School, 1880&ndash;1907. Transferred to Church Schools' Company and became York College for Girls<ref>[http://archive.ioe.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=%28RefNo==%27GDS/13/16%27%29 York High School], (Ref: GDS/13/16), held by the [[Institute of Education]] archives</ref>. ==Patrons of the Girls' Day School Trust== <!-- Please note that this section was added following deletion of [[:Category:Patrons of the Girls' Day School Trust]] at [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 June 26#Category:Patrons of the Girls' Day School Trust]] --> * [[Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll]] 1872&ndash;1939<ref name="ONB">{{cite encyclopedia | title = Louise, Princess, Duchess of Argyll (1848–1939) | encyclopedia = [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]] | last = Stoker | first = Mark | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]] | date = September 2004; online edn, January 2008 | url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34601 | accessdate = 2008-06-23}}</ref> * [[Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester]] ==See also== *[[Kitty Anderson]] ==References== {{reflist}} ==Further reading== ===Published histories of the Trust=== *{{cite book | last=Magnus | first=Laurie | title=The Jubilee Book of the Girls' Public Day School Trust, 1873–1923 | location=Cambridge | publisher=Cambridge University Press | year=1923}} *{{cite book | last=Littlewood | first=Kathleen D. B.| title=Some account of the history of the Girls' Public Day School Trust | year=1960}} *{{cite book | last=Kamm | first=Josephine| year=1971 | title=Indicative Past: a hundred years of the Girls' Public Day School Trust| location=London | publisher=George Allen & Unwin | isbn=0043730027}} ===Primary sources=== The [[Archives]] of the GDST are held by the [[Institute of Education]] Archives: * {{cite web | title = IOE – DC/GDS Records of the Girls' Day School Trust | publisher = Institute of Education | url = http://www.ioe.ac.uk/services/23505.html | accessdate = 2009-04-23}} The full catalogue can be found on the archives' [http://archive.ioe.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=NaviTree.tcl&dsqField=RefNo&dsqItem=GDS#HERE on-line catalogue]. The records of individual schools are held by the schools or in the relevant local authority archives. ==External links== * [http://www.gdst.net Official website] *{{UK charity|306983}} * [http://www.independentschools.com/england/girls'-day-school-trust_32472.html Entry in Independent Schools Directory] * {{NRA| id=O28727}} * {{Cite news | last = Jackson | first = Nick | title = Girls' day school trust: Rise to the charity challenge | newspaper = [[The Independent]] | date = October 25 2007 | url = http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/schools/girls-day-school-trust-rise-to-the-charity-challenge-397761.html | postscript = <!--None-->}}. 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