Sylvia Harrop Editor

Joyce Goodman is reader in the history of education at King Alfred’s College, Winchester, where she is director of the Centre for Pedagogical Studies. She has published on women, education and authority, technical education for women and girls, and education, gender and colonialism. Sylvia Harrop is a senior fellow in the Department of Education at the University of Liverpool. She has written widely on the histories of adult and higher education and women’s education, and is currently co-directing (with Joyce Goodman) a historical project on women and the governance of girls’ secondary schools in Britain.