Barbara Wootton
1897-1988

Baroness Wootton of Abinger

Welcome to the Barbara Wootton website. This is where you can find out more about Barbara Wootton (1897-1988), a pioneer social scientist, reformer and policy activist, whose work spanned many of the most troubling and unsolved issues confronting modern society.

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The Wootton Effect:

Ann Oakley, Tessa Blackstone and Margaretta Jolly in conversation about the fascinating life of this unsung heroine of the 20th century.

 Brtitish Library, the Terrace Restaurant. Wed 16 Nov 2011, 18.30 – 20.00.
  

This website has been produced by Ann Oakley, Anne Ingold and Sergio Graziosi (full credits); this site a Social Science Research Unit (Institute of Education, University of London) satellite site. It is linked to a biography of Barbara Wootton written by Ann Oakley: A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century, published by Bloomsbury Academic in June, 2011
Thanks to the Nuffield Foundation, the Titmuss-Meinhardt Fund at the London School of Economics and the Institute of Education for supporting the biography and website work.
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