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Ann Sharman, married and pregnant at seventeen, imagines another life outside the village. Eighty-six-year-old Sybil Hayhoe looks back with pride at her years in service, while the village postwoman is sharply aware of her unequal wages. Girls aspire to be housewives, hairdressers or nurses - except Fiona, who dreams of training horses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTold through the voices of ordinary women, Mary Chamberlain's portrait of an isolated village in the Cambridgeshire Fens remains as vital and thought-provoking as on its groundbreaking publication in 1975. A feminist answer to Ronald Blythe's \u003ci\u003eAkenfield\u003c\/i\u003e, it vividly captures the rhythms, hopes and tensions of women's lives in a working-class rural community, and offers a unique snapshot of an almost-vanished England.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003eFenwomen\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating insight into 20th-century rural life' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A strong and moving book' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'[A] masterpiece' \u003ci\u003eReviews in History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A pioneering work of oral history' History Today\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55897793823093,"sku":"9780349020419","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780349020419_0a4a472a-2e7b-4818-a135-54f4191e8662.jpg?v=1786013667"},{"product_id":"9780956186959","title":"Fenwomen","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1975, \u003cem\u003eFenwomen \u003c\/em\u003ewas the first non-fiction book published by Virago. A vivid social and oral history of an isolated village in the Cambridgeshire Fens, it provides a unique portrait, spanning nearly 100 years, via the previously unheard voices of the women who lived there, of a community where there were virtually no professional or middle-class people, where intermarriage was common and a single family owned all the village land. \u003cem\u003eFenwomen \u003c\/em\u003ewas in a tradition stretching through Ronald Blythe (\u003cem\u003eAkenfield\u003c\/em\u003e) and 20 years further back to the true pioneer of English oral history, George Ewart Evans, with his publication \u003cem\u003eAsk the Fellows Who Cut the Hay\u003c\/em\u003e (1956).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an extended new introduction to this Full Circle edition, \u003cstrong\u003eMary Chamberlain\u003c\/strong\u003e ecalls her original intent to write a \"feminist \u003cem\u003eAkenfield\u003c\/em\u003e\", a \"history from the bottom up… not of great country houses and the chatelaines who ran them but of women as labourers and labourers' wives\". She describes, too, how she revisited the village and talked to some of the original women about how their lives had changed over 35 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"By any measure, this book is essential reading, but in this handsome new edition, with Justin Partyka's eloquent, unforgettable photographic portraits of Isleham and its people, it is a joy to own\" - Stephanie Cross, \u003cem\u003eThe Lady\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295601078645,"sku":"9780956186959","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780956186959_cfdf95b6-20e5-493e-81e8-2036c0a33836.jpg?v=1786016274"},{"product_id":"teaching-with-clarity","title":"Teaching with Clarity","description":"How can teachers and leaders make sound professional decisions amid competing demands, continual reform, and increasing classroom complexity?Teaching with Clarity offers a coherent, evidence-informed framework for keeping attention where it belongs: on learners, their experiences, and their progress. Its six interdependent capabilities help educators connect the relational, cultural, instructional, and evaluative dimensions of teaching. These capabilities provide a shared language for examining practice, interpreting evidence, and deciding what to do next.   Recognising the importance of professional judgement, this book helps educators navigate the complex and dynamic demands of teaching while maintaining a coherent focus on purpose and progress. It supports teachers to strengthen their practice, teams to develop shared expectations, and leaders to build the conditions for sustained improvement across a school.   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