"A Schoolgirl's War" tells the story of school life during WW2, using two fascinating and recent discoveries at a school in Kent. The first is a set of well preserved underground classrooms, complete with benches and chalked lessons still visible on the walls. The second discovery is a collection of paintings created by a young wartime art teacher who set out to document in paint and pencil the lives of school children and their teachers as the war unfolded, creating a unique and intriguing record. Her work features in paint the disrupted schooling, air-raids, doodlebugs, and underground lessons in shelters which were experienced by so many children.
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About the Speaker
Mary Smith
Mary Smith has spent her career in education, working in secondary, further and higher education settings, most recently as headteacher of a large girls' secondary school. She has also worked as a freelance writer on educational and other issues, and as an education consultant.
