Research Projects and other information

Stronach, I. (2006) Inspection and justice: HMI and Summerhill School. In Vaughan, M. (ed.) Summerhill and A.S.Neill. Maidenhead: Open University press.
Stronach,I., Piper, H.(2008) Case study: Summerhill School – the exception to the rule. In Piper & Stronach Don’t touch. The educational story of a panic. Abingdon: Routledge.
Stronach, I., Piper, H. (2008) Can liberal education make a comeback? The case of “relational touch” at Summerhill School. American Educational Research Journal 45, 1: 6 – 37.

List of books by A. S. Neill

Abebooks - To obtain second hand books by A.S Neill try this site, it has had many good offers in the past.

A Dominie’s Log – Herbert Jenkins, 1916; Hart, 1975
A Dominie Dismissed – Herbert Jenkins, 1917; Hart, 1975
A Booming of Bunkie – fiction, Herbert Jenkins, 1919
A Dominie in Doubt – Herbert Jenkins, 1921; Hart, 1975
Carroty Broon – fiction, Herbert Jenkins, 1921
A Dominie Abroad – Herbert Jenkins, 1923
A Dominie’s Five – fiction, Herbert Jenkins, 1924
The Problem Child – Herbert Jenkins, 1926; McBride, 1928
The Problem Parent – Herbert Jenkins, 1932
Is Scotland Educated? - Routledge, 1936
That Dreadful School – Herbert Jenkins, 1937
Last Man Alive – A Story for Children from the Age of Seven to Seventy - Herbert Jenkins, 1939; Gollancz, 1970
The Problem Teacher – Herbert Jenkins, 1939; International Universities Press, 1946
Hearts Not Heads in the School – Herbert Jenkins, 1945
The Problem Family – Herbert Jenkins, 1949; Hermitage Press, 1949
The Free Child – Herbert Jenkins, 1953
Summerhill - Gollancz, 1962; Penguin, 1968; Hart 1960
Freedon not License! – Hart 1966
Talking of Summerhill – Gollancz, 1967
Neill! Neill! Orange Peel! – A Personal View of Ninety Years, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973; Quartet, 1977. ISBN 0 297 76554 X
All The Best, Neill, Letters From Summerhill – Jonathan Croall (ed.), Andre Deutsch, 1983. ISBN 0 233 97594 2
The New Summerhill - Albert Lamb (ed.), Penguin Education, 1992. ISBN 0-14-016783-8

BOOKS ABOUT NEILL & SUMMERHILL

Neill of Summerhill, The Permanent Rebel – Jonathan Croall, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983. ISBN 0-7100-9300-4
Neill & Summerhill, A Man and His Work – A pictorial study by John Walmsley, Penguin Education, 1969
Fifty Years of Freedom, A. S. Neill and the Evolution of the Summerhill Idea – Ray Hemmings, Allen & Unwin 1972
Summerhill, A Loving World – Photographs by Herb Snitzer, Macmillan, 1964
Record of a Friendship, The Correspondence of Wilhelm Reich and A. S. Neill – Beverley R. Placzek (ed.), Gollancz, 1981. ISBN 0 575 03054 2
Inside Summerhill – Photographs by Joshua Popenoe, Hart, 1969
Summerhill: For and Against: Assessments of A. S. Neill – Harold Hart (ed.), Hart, 1970; Angus & Robertson, 1973 (includes essays by Bruno Bettleheim, John Holt, Sylvia Ashton- Warner, Paul Goodman, Fred Hechinger, Erich Fromm).
Summerhill Diary – Bjarne Segefjord, Gollancz, 1971
Free Range Childhood – Matthew Appleton, Gale Centre Pulications, 2002; Solomon Press, 2000. ISBN 1870258460
Alexander S. Neill - Axel D. Kühn, Rowholt, Germany. ISBN 3-499-50549-5
Real Education, Varieties of Freedom - David Gribble, Lib Ed, 1998. ISBN 0 9513997 5 6
Inspecting the Island, a Novel based on Summerhill – Hylda Sims, Seven-Ply Yarns, 2000. ISBN 0-9538797-0-4
New Dutch editon of Matthew Appleton's book "A Free Range Childhood" is available by clicking here. Matthew was a houseparent at Summerhill for many years and draws on his experiences for this book.

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