Marjorie Reeves served on several national committees and was a major contributor to the education of history in Britain.
18 Facts About Marjorie Reeves
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Marjorie Reeves helped create St Anne's College as part of Oxford University in 1952, and she led a revival of interest in the work of Joachim of Fiore.
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Marjorie Ethel Reeves was born in 1905 in Bratton in Wiltshire where her father made agricultural machinery.
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Marjorie Reeves was inspired by the headteacher at the girl's high school in Trowbridge to study history at Oxford University.
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Marjorie Reeves drew attention to Leone Tondelli who had deciphered Joachim's peculiar diagrams in 1937.
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Marjorie Reeves was to be awarded an honorary citizenship of the commune of San Giovanni.
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Marjorie Reeves began training teachers at St Gabriel's Teacher Training College in Camberwell in 1931.
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Marjorie Reeves enjoyed this and developed new approaches, including a syllabus that was aimed at students who preferred hairdressing to history; these students were asked to create classic Egyptian haircuts as part of their history lessons.
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Marjorie Reeves was the general editor for Longman of the "Then and There" series of history books which gave a new approach to history in schools.
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Marjorie Reeves created twelve of the books in the series herself, over thirty years.
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Marjorie Reeves returned to Oxford where she taught for the Society of Oxford Home-Students, a body responsible for educating women which eventually became St Anne's College.
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Marjorie Reeves was a member of The Moot, a meeting of people who wanted to discuss the future of education during the war; the group are seen as important in shaping the Education Act 1944.
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The Moot was linked to a Student Christian Movement of which Marjorie Reeves was an active supporter in the 1940s.
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Decades later, Marjorie Reeves wrote the history of this group and its association with the Moot.
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Marjorie Reeves had a long association with St Anne's College, serving as a fellow and as a tutor who was involved in creating the conditions for the college to become a constituent part of Oxford University in 1952.
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Marjorie Reeves was the vice-principal of the college from 1951 to 1967, and later helped ready her college to admit men in 1979.
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Marjorie Reeves was given the Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 1993 for improving history education.
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Marjorie Reeves had been awarded honorary citizenship of the commune of San Giovanni.