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DELEGATES gathering for the last conference of the National Union of Teachers will have a number of chances to celebrate the extraordinary history of a union that has been centre stage in public life for all of 147 years.
They will receive a copy of a popular pictorial history entitled Pride, Passion, Professionalism: The NUT and the Struggle for Education 1870-2017.
Though written by author and activist Martin Cloake, this history draws on a collaboration between colleagues with a variety of skills. But then how could a history of the main teachers’ union not be based on working together?
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MEIC BIRTWISTLE offers an appreciation of the renaissance man GARETH MILES
Maggie Bowden was a trailblazing campaigning lawyer at Birnberg and Thompsons, women’s organiser of the Communist Party, and general secretary of Liberation