Queen Anne’s encourages girls to find their passion
in and out of the classroom. The school community
is notably loyal, warm and down-to-earth. Daniel Talbot’s book reveals how that tradition evolved and helped to shape the very special character of the institution we know and love today.
In The Scarlet Runners: A Social History of Queen Anne’s, Caversham, individual voices predominate, throwing light on the great variety of experience the school has offered girls through the generations.
These unique accounts are precious records of
individual thoughts and emotions, but placed in the context of broader social developments they result in a ‘social history’ of the school. The book will bring a historian’s perspective to our growing wealth of archives, offering insights into the rich and often very personal responses to life at Queen Anne’s. So although the book will evoke many memories it will also surprise the reader.
