The “non-classical” leading scientific and pedagogical school in the practice of the University of Cambridge in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. F.W. Maitland's experience

The study is devoted to the phenomenon of the scientific and pedagogical school of F.W. Maitland, one of the greatest British historians of the 19th century, in the context of the Cambridge Historical School. The “non-classical” F.W. Maitland School is presented as an intellectual interdisciplinary community of professors, lecturers, tutors, and dons at Cambridge University, united by common methodological positions, proximity of scientific topics, and the presence of communicative links between teachers and students, which tended to the format of the “invisible college” as a traditional form of integration of British humanities scholars. It is shown that the Maitland School has synthesized several types of scientific schools – scientific and educational, research and trend. The article reveals the specifics of this school, which functioned on the basis of the paradigm of network learning, the “Maitland network”, which created the effect of a pluralistic cognitive platform for the formation of a researcher while maintaining fundamental positions dating back to the leader of the school. The importance of the personal experience of F.W. Maitland's “apprenticeship”, which served as an example for many of his students, is noted. © 2025, Aquilo. All rights reserved.