Sitting at the piano accompanying the choir at my girls’ grammar school around 1964, I did not know that the girl at the piano was an iconic image in the history of women’s education, or that the Schools Inquiry Commission (1868) saw piano playing as a t“showy accomplishments” that demonstrated the parlous state of girls’
Household and Domestic Science: The Personal and The Professional
Winifred Egan’s testimonial in 1961 from the headmistress of Wellington Secondary (Modern) School for Girls in Cheshire, England, states that Winifred was ‘a capable teacher … who … closely linked the teaching of Housecraft with Science’. This situates Winifred (1915-2007) within a tradition of domestic subjects teaching that had been the focus of debate during
Empire, Internationalism and Peace in The Woman Teacher
Editorials, articles, and conference accounts in the Woman Teacher illustrate the diversity of views that women brought to the active pursuit of peace during the inter-war years and contests the idea of an inter-war feminist retreat. So, too, do calls to women teachers to participate in meetings and demonstrations, to implement peace education and anti-militaristic practice,
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