John Marincowitz

John Marincowitz began his career as a history teacher at a secondary school in a deprived area of Cape Town. He returned to London to pursue his interest in historical research and was awarded a PhD at SOAS in 1985. In that year he joined the History Department at Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet. He worked at the school for 26 years during which time the focus of his attentions shifted increasingly to matters of pedagogy, school management and leadership. He was Headmaster of Queen Elizabeth's from 1999 to 2011. His various other positions of responsibility in education included the Chairmanships of the Governors of Little Heath primary school, the Management Committee of the Adolescent Education Unit at Edgware Psychiatric Hospital and Barnet Council's Schools' Finance Committee. This book, which reflects his abiding interest in history and education, is the product of research he conducted over eight years following his retirement as Headmaster.

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