This chapter started off in the minds of this book's editors as a fairly straightforward and factual history of arts education... except that of course no history is either straightforward or factual. What Lord Byron called 'History's purchased page'rightly finds itself academically in Arts rather than Science faculties–and Byron goes on in the same poem to remind us sharply:'What deeds of prowess unrecorded died!'as his hero reflects on some echoes of past grandeur in Germany (Byron 1816). The cautionary references from Byron, a