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1913
Sybil Mary Edwards was born
1913 -23
Attended Ramsey Heights Elementary School
1923-32
Attended Ramsey Grammar School
1933
Started work as an uncertified teacher at South Woodham Ferres Primary School, Essex
By 1937 she had moved to a school in Huntingdon
1939
Married local farmer Francis Marshall
1941
Birth of daughter, Prue
1942
Started at Kingston Primary School near Cambridge
1948
Divorced from Francis Marshall
1948-49
Attended Exhall Grange Emergency Training College
1960
August 29th, Kingston Primary School closed.
Aged 48, Sybil started at New Hall College, Cambridge reading English
1962-1967
Became lecturer in Education at Sheffield Institute of Education.
1963
An Experiment in Education was published.
Fenland Chronicle was published.
Sybil met Ewart Oakeshott at a dance.
1965
Started as Education Adviser at Granada Television on Picture Box TV programme (until 1978).
1967
The Plowden Report references Experiment in Education as a key text.
Started at Sussex University running the Primary Education Course
1968
Adventure in Education published - an hilarious account of headteacher training!
1976
Retires from Sussex University.
1979
Once Upon a Village published.
1981
Received an Honorary Degree from Sussex University.
Winner of the Angel Prize for Literature for Everyman's Book of English Folktales.
1987
The Silver New Nothing (Edwardian Childhood in the Fens) published.
1992
A Pride of Tigers published.
1993
A Nest of Magpies published following a 10 year battle with cancer.
Was Sue Lawley's castaway on Desert Island Discs on Radio 4.
1994
Sharp Through the Hawthorn published.
1995
Married Ewart Oakeshott.
The Chequer Board published
1996
Strip the Willow published.
2000
Ring the Bell Backwards published.
2002
Ewart died.
2005
August 29th Sybil died.
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