Women in memory and in the history of education

Abstract

This article takes readers on a tour of my decades-long devotion as a student, teacher and academic to women’s
history and education. My own research and that of many others in the field highlight the silence that surrounded women in
our student days. Fortunately, today research and publications on women teachers, lecturers, inspectors, writers and students,
and all-women schools and colleges abound and are being taught to new generations. There is no shortage of teachers
involved in this endeavour, teachers who wish to tell the full story, not just men’s story, and who realise that understanding the
past allows us to better understand the present.