Hester Barron, "The Social World of the School: Education and Community in Interwar London" (Manchester UP, 2022)
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I was wondering if you could maybe tell us a bit about kind of the materials you were able to use for the book. I think my, well, not I think my most important source space was school log books. And thousands of these log books are held in the London Metropolitan Archives. That was my main archive. The other big source that I looked at was school inspection reports which held up in the National Archives. So there's school inspection reports of individual schools which we've done every few years. There was an exam questions set to children of one school in 1930 and it asked them to write about the differences between a man, a native or a foreigner,. wanting food and needing food and
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