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Historians of education are well placed to engage in applied historical approaches providing authoritative evidence of the past to inform policy and practice. This article is based on the presidential keynote delivered at the History of Education Society (UK) annual conference in 2019. As such it reflects on possible future directions for the history of education and considers the role of informal educational activity that takes place outside the classroom, including that of children's reading for pleasure. Stories in the interwar British, Canadian and Australian Girl's and Boy's annuals provide an example of how appropriate gender roles were presented to their young readers at a time of intense social and political change for Britain. With Brexit heralding a similar significant moment of change and the pandemic lockdowns resulting in children spending more time at home, it is concluded that the significance of 'informal' education, both historically and today, requires our attention.

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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- The School and College Story -- The Novels -- The Authors -- Jessie Graham Flower and Pauline Lester, Pseudonyms of Josephine Chase (1883-1931) -- Alice Ross Colver (1892-1988) -- Dorita Fairlie Bruce (1885-1970) -- Elinor Brent-Dyer (1894 -1969) -- Themes: Fiction, Femininity, and Friendship -- Fiction -- Femininity -- Friendship -- Structure of the Book -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 2: School Stories: A Transnational Perspective -- Introduction -- The School Story in Britain and the United States -- Toward a Transnational Reading of School Stories -- Conclusion: Transnational Fiction, Femininity, and Friendship -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 3: Sociability -- Introduction -- Education for Girls in Britain and the United States, 1910-1960 -- Learning the Rules -- Team Spirit -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 4: Responsibility -- Introduction -- Citizenship in Britain and the United States -- Learning to Be Good Citizens within Their Community -- Citizenship and the Wider Community -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 5: Domesticity -- Introduction -- Learning Domesticity in Britain and the United States -- Managers, Matrons, and Maids -- Domestic Education -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 6: Authority -- Introduction -- Authoritative Women in Britain and the United States -- Headmistresses and Principals -- Teachers and Prefects -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 7: Possibility -- Introduction -- Future Possibilities in Britain and the United States -- Higher Education and the World of Work.