About the contributor

Margaret Sanders has written a running autobigraphical account of events in her life of which three chapters have been submitted to the BBC People's War website.
Born in 1916, Margaret was in her young adulthood around the second world war years.
She trained as a Primary School teacher at the Froebel Institute, Roehampton and had a resulting career as a headmistress of a small village school in Herefordshire through the 50s and 60s.
Thereafter she re-trained and became a Teacher Training Lecturer in Wolverhampton and Dudley.
She retired to Gloucestershire and has pursued her interests in literacy, church organ and choral music and still enjoys, at age 88, an active social and family life.
Whilst working in the Midlands she resarched literacy learning and developed a reading scheme called Minimal Phonic Cues, which teachers throughout the English-speaking world used with considerable reported success as it helps new learners, including adults for whom English is a second language, to overcome the spelling irregularities of written English. When Evans Publishers ceased their operations, the MPC Scheme had no reference works in print. There are plans to revive the Scheme currently in process with a former academic colleague. Any inquiries about this can be directed to her son, Peter Sanders at petersanders@supanet.com