This 132-year-old schoolbook shows how kids used to be taught - including perfect handwriting and complex maths.

The book belonged to Charles Stevenson who in 1891 had beautiful cursive writing - aged just 13.

He was also learning complicated equations, fractions and percentages.

His nephew, Peter Mowbray, 82, recently dug out his uncle's old books when he heard Rishi Sunak discussing his new maths policy.

Mr Stevenson died in 1958 and Mr Mowbray had stored the books away until he read the PM wants students to continue maths up to 18.

Mr Mowbray, from Sibsey, near Boston, Lincs., said he was "shocked" at the difficulty of the sums in the book."

He believes it shows how the standards of schooling have changed over the centuries.

He said: "Me and my uncle were very close, he was like a grandfather to me."

"He left me all his old maths books and the sums are really tricky to work out - considering calculators hadn't been invented yet!"

Mr Stevenson went to Sibsey Village School and grew up to be a coal merchant.

He left Mr Mowbray a variety of possessions when he died in 1958, including all his maths books.

Mr Mowbray hadn't looked at the books for 20 years when Mr Sunak announced his plans.

After hearing the announcement, he dusted off the books to compare the standards of maths taught nowadays.

He discovered page after page of complicated equations, fractions and percentages, which were jotted down by Charles 132 years ago.

Mr Mowbray, a retired farmer and dad-of-one, said: "I decided to fish his books out after hearing Sunak's plans to make maths mandatory until 18."

"The calculations inside are really complicated - I couldn't even think of doing them without a calculator."

"It just shows how difficult school was back in Victorian times - but you were expected to just get on with it."

"The books have survived two World Wars and they're still in quite good condition. My uncle's handwriting is even quite neat - for a 13-year-old!"