Boarding Schools
Research and Resources
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Books
Apple pie beds and eggy bread — Diana Landon
Too Marvellous for Words — Julie Welch
* Our Uninvited Guests
* British Summer Time Begins: The School Summer Holidays 1930-1980
From Morality to Mayhem: The Fall and Rise of the English School Story — Julian Lovelock
Finding Our Way Home: Women’s Accounts of Being Sent to Boarding School — Nikki Simpson
The Making of Them: The British Attitude to Children and the Boarding School System — Nick Duffell
Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege: A Guide to Therapeutic Work with Boarding School Survivors — Nick Duffell & Thurstine Basset
Boarding School Syndrome: The psychological trauma of the ‘privileged’ child — Joy Schaverien
Terms and Conditions: Life in Girls’ Boarding Schools 1939-1979 — Ysenda Maxtone Graham
Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class
Bad Behaviour: A Memoir of Bullying and Boarding School
*The Child in British Literature — Adrienne Gavin
Articles
Boarding school survivors reveal their horrific stories of childhood abuse in ‘MeToo’ moment – https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19529579.neil-mackays-big-read-boarding-school-survivors-reveal-horrific-stories-childhood-abuse-metoo-moment/
‘It was like Lord of the Flies’ – Horrific accounts of abuse could be boarding schools’ ‘MeToo’ moment — https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19322569.neil-mackays-big-read-it-like-lord-flies—horrific-accounts-abuse-boarding-schools-metoo-moment/
Secrets, crimes and the schooling of the ruling class: how British boarding school stories betrayed their audience — https://www.culturematters.org.uk/index.php/arts/fiction/item/3067-secrets-crimes-and-the-schooling-of-the-ruling-class-how-british-boarding-school-stories-betrayed-their-audience
Enforcing Performance: Disciplining Girls in British Co-educational Boarding School Stories, 1928–58 — https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/ircl.2008.0002?journalCode=ircl