| Gender, Work and Education in Britain in the 1950s S Spencer Springer, 2005 | 112 | 2005 |
| A uniform identity: Schoolgirl snapshots and the spoken visual S Spencer History of education 36 (2), 227-246, 2007 | 35 | 2007 |
| Reflections on the ‘site of struggle’: girls' experience of secondary education in the late 1950s S Spencer History of Education 33 (4), 437-449, 2004 | 24 | 2004 |
| Advice and ambition in a girls' public day school: the case of Sutton high school, 1884–1924 S Spencer Women's History Review 9 (1), 75-94, 2000 | 23 | 2000 |
| Women's dilemmas in postwar Britain: career stories for adolescent girls in the 1950s S Spencer History of Education 29 (4), 329-342, 2000 | 21 | 2000 |
| Schoolgirl to career girl. The city as educative space S Spencer Paedagogica historica 39 (1), 121-133, 2003 | 18 | 2003 |
| Learning lives and alumni voices A Jacobs, C Leach, S Spencer Oxford Review of Education 36 (2), 219-232, 2010 | 15 | 2010 |
| Learning the rules: writing and researching school stories in history of education S Spencer History of Education Review, 2018 | 12 | 2018 |
| Revisioning the History of Girls and Women in Britain in the Long 1950s P Tinkler, S Spencer, C Langhamer Women's History Review 26 (1), 1-8, 2017 | 12 | 2017 |
| Educational administration, history and ‘gender as a useful category of historical analysis’ S Spencer Routledge 42 (2), 105-113, 2010 | 12 | 2010 |
| British and American School Stories, 1910–1960: Fiction, Femininity, and Friendship NG Rosoff, S Spencer Springer, 2019 | 10 | 2019 |
| British and American School Stories, 1910–1960 Fiction, Femininity, and Friendship S Spencer, N Rosoff | 10* | 2019 |
| Alumni voices: the changing experience of higher education S Spencer Winchester University Press, 2015 | 9 | 2015 |
| Boarding School Fictions: schoolgirls' own communities of learning S Spencer Women's History Review 22 (3), 386-402, 2013 | 8 | 2013 |
| “Knowledge as the Necessary Food of the Mind”: Charlotte Mason’s Philosophy of Education S Spencer Women, Education, and Agency, 1600-2000, 121-141, 2009 | 8 | 2009 |
| Cosmopolitan Sociability in the British and International Federations of University Women, 1945–1960 S Spencer Women's History Review 26 (1), 93-109, 2017 | 6 | 2017 |
| Just a book in a library? The Sybil Campbell Library Collection fostering international friendship amongst graduate women S Spencer History of Education 42 (2), 257-274, 2013 | 5 | 2013 |
| Travelling across national, paradigmatic and archival divides: new work for the historian of education T Allender, S Spencer Routledge 38 (6), 721-727, 2009 | 5 | 2009 |
| Girls at risk. Early school‐leaving and early marriage in the 1950s S Spencer Journal of Educational Administration and History 41 (2), 179-192, 2009 | 5 | 2009 |
| No “fear of flying”? Worrals of the WAAF, fiction, and girls’ informal wartime education S Spencer Paedagogica Historica 52 (1-2), 137-153, 2016 | 4 | 2016 |
