Isobel Ross (2024) Almost Boys: The Psychology of Co-ed Boarding in the 1960s, Cheltenham: Goldcrest Books

Isobel Ross was a pupil at a co-educational boarding school in Scotland from 1965 to 1971. Unique about this school was that boy boarders far outnumbered girl boarders, and, by the late 1960s, the adults in charge had become confused about their duty of care.

Words from Isobel’s adolescent diaries, anxious but perceptive, and her current voice, based on over thirty years as an educational psychologist, combine in this narrative to create a unique psychological perspective.

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