The Lutterworth imprint, named after the small English town of Lutterworth in Leicestershire, where John Wyclif served as Rector in the fourteenth century, has been used since 1932, and Lutterworth continued most of the then current RTS publications.
The Lutterworth Press, one of the oldest independent British publishing houses, has traded since the late eighteenth century - initially as the Religious Tract Society (RTS).
JSTOR ( February 2010) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message). Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "The Lutterworth Press" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. It concludes that fiction read alongside a range of other evidence offers a rich source for the historian engaged in a search for the gendered nature of education beyond the classroom.This article needs additional citations for verification. The conundrum of why Johns chose to put Worrals in the WAAF, rather than in Air Transport with the likes of Amy Johnson, is further explored in the light of evidence that a number of WAAF were seconded to the SOE. Drawing on Erica Jong's 1970s metaphor of "flying" as representative of female freedom, it is possible to read Worrals' character as a role model for teenage girls. The article discusses how historians of education can draw on fiction in order to identify aspects of informal education, especially during wartime, when so many children's formal schooling was disrupted or non-existent. Johns chose to ignore that the WAAF supported pilots through their work on the ground and did not themselves fly. The Worrals books were published from 1941 when recruitment for the Women's Auxiliary Air Force was falling. 
This article focuses on the series of 11 books about a young female pilot, "Worrals of the WAAF," by W.E.
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