Marjorie Reeves

Marjorie Ethel Reeves, (17 July 1905 – 27 November 2003) was a British historian and educationalist. She served on several national committees and was a major contributor to the education of history in Britain. She helped create St Anne's College as part of Oxford University in 1952, and she led a revival of interest in the work of Joachim of Fiore.

Life Marjorie Ethel Reeves was born in 1905 in Bratton in Wiltshire where her father made agricultural machinery. The family were Baptists and her mother was said to have come from a family known for its independent women. In the 1970s an international study centre for Joachim of Fiore was created in San Giovanni in Fiore, and the community also rebuilt Joachim's church. Reeves was to be awarded an honorary citizenship of the commune of San Giovanni.

Reeves returned to Oxford where she taught for the Society of Oxford Home-Students, a body responsible for educating women which eventually became St Anne's College. She was given the Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 1993 for improving history education. In the 1996 Birthday Honours she was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). She had also been awarded honorary citizenship of the commune of San Giovanni.

Selected works

Christian Thinking and Social Order: Conviction Politics from the 1930s to the Present Day, 1999

Favourite Hymns, 2006