This week was all about focusing on the research for the essay. I have been looking in the library for books relating to the changes to education due to the outbreak of the second world war. There were many changes following the war with the education act being produced after the McNair report, which was researched during the war period.

The difficulty with finding resources and books stems from very little research being done on female education with much of the scholarship being male-focused. This is especially prominent when the scholarship surrounds the war period as male teachers are mentioned as being drafted into the war with their then being a shortage of teachers. But there is then very little mention of women being trained up or entering the teaching profession, with just an assumption that they did.

Also, scholarship surrounding Roehampton and its education history is very hard to come by as some other institutions have been researched more than Roehampton and it’s colleges. Therefore, I am going to focus my research on applying what scholarship I can find to the evidence I acquire from the archives.