Education history has neglected the Secondary Modern schools and their pupils. This book aims to fill that gap with original contributions from the baby boomer generation (born approximately 1946-64) who went to Secondary Moderns from the 1950s to the early 1970s. There are two research groups, one from contributors who went to Secondary Moderns in the Newcastle, Staffordshire area of the UK and the other from those who joined the Queen Alexander Royal Naval Nursing Service or (for the men) the Medical branch of the Royal Navy; these contributors went to schools all over the country but they...