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Schoolboy romances were supposedly very common in the great British public schools of the 19th and early 20th centuries. As many of these boys would later go on to high political offices, could these relationships act as a kind of 'old boys network within the old boys network'?

by /u/Full-Yellow in /r/AskHistorians

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