Margaret Scutt: the WI and Revolution
‘If men use explosives and bombs for their own purpose they call it war and the throwing of a bomb that destroys …
Margaret M. Scutt: Researching Writing Lives
Spending the semester creating Margaret Scutt’s author blog was extremely fulfilling in the sense that I felt like I was contributing to …
Margaret Scutt: Home and Family
Unfortunately, we know very little about Margaret’s own family. All that can be gathered from her documented speeches is that her schoolmaster …
Margaret Scutt: the Importance of Literacy
Reading is a process and a concept that has been studied by many years. What, why, and how people read has been …
Margaret Scutt: Village Life and Culture
Margaret tells us a lot about village culture. A community where everyone knows everyone, so much so the locals ‘could almost tell …
Margaret M. Scutt (b.1875): The Transcript
[1]* Script of a Talk Given by My Mother About 1950. Schools and Schooling in the Last Century. Education is a word …
Rural Education: Margaret Scutt
‘Education is a word we hear over and over again. To get on in life our children and grandchildren must have paper …
Margaret’s Audience: ‘Talk Given by My Mother at a Women’s Meeting’
Both entries for Margaret Scutt in the Burnett Archives are typescripts of talks she gave at her local Women’s Institute, the first …
Margaret M. Scutt (b.1875): An Introduction
‘But there it is. The old order changeth’ (6) Margaret Scutt is quite different to many of the other authors that can …