Trivium Home School
Library
A selection of great literature and resources
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Visit →Mr Men: The Complete Series
The original BBC series from 1974–78, narrated by Arthur Lowe. Every Mr Man in one collection.
Watch →Great Books of the Western World
Encyclopaedia Britannica’s great collection, beginning with The Great Conversation.
Read →The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
The classic introduction to the three arts.
Read →The Lost Tools of Learning
The essay that gave the modern classical movement its name.
Read →Dumbing Us Down
The award-winning New York teacher on the hidden curriculum of compulsory schooling.
Read →Weapons of Mass Instruction
Gatto’s later book on how schooling shapes children, and how some escaped it.
Read →The Underground History of American Education
Gatto’s long investigation into where modern mass schooling came from and why.
Read →How the Order Controls Education
Sutton’s study of the influence of a Yale society on American education.
Read →The Dodd Report to the Reece Committee on Foundations
The report to the 1954 US congressional committee that investigated tax-exempt foundations and their influence on education.
Read →How to Read a Book
The classic guide to active, intelligent reading, from elementary to analytical reading.
Read →The Grand Bible
The Grand Bible, third edition.
Read →The Story of Civilization
Will and Ariel Durant’s eleven-volume history of the world, from the ancient East to Napoleon.
Read →A History of Western Philosophy
Russell’s witty, opinionated tour from the Presocratics to the twentieth century.
Read →The Gods and the Cosmos
A short handbook of late pagan belief from the fourth century, written by a friend of the emperor Julian.
Read →War Is a Racket
The famous 1935 speech and book by a twice-decorated US Marine Corps general on who profits from war.
Read →All Quiet on the Western Front
The First World War through the eyes of a young German soldier: the most famous war novel ever written (1929).
Read →A Farewell to Arms
An American ambulance driver on the Italian front in the First World War, and a love story (1929).
Read →Three Soldiers
Three young American soldiers and what the army and the war do to them (1921).
Read →Slaughterhouse-Five
Vonnegut, who survived the bombing of Dresden as a prisoner of war, tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, who has come “unstuck in time” (1969).
Listen →Catch-22
The darkly comic novel about an American bomber squadron in the Second World War, which gave English the expression “catch-22” (1961).
Listen →Graded Lessons in Physiology and Hygiene
A school textbook from 1903: the human body and healthy living, lesson by lesson.
Read →The Vital Importance of Eugenics
A historical primary source: the 1930s essay by the biologist Julian Huxley arguing for eugenics.
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