Jocelyn Robson Boeken

The book delves into the distinctions and similarities between teachers in further and higher education, highlighting the unique characteristics and challenges faced by each group. By examining their roles, practices, and contexts, it provides insights into the educational landscape and encourages a deeper understanding of the teaching profession across various levels of education.

In 1907, Grace Oakeshott faked her own death by drowning. Aged 35, she left a marriage and a successful professional life in England and fled with her lover, Walter Reeve, to New Zealand. What prompted her to do so? Jocelyn Robson traces her life story through social, political and religious reform movements of the fin de siecle period.

This book is the first full length biography of Elizabeth Heyrick and it sets her life in the context of the British anti-slavery movement of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.