Series editor's introduction. Preface. List of contributors. Part I: Contexts for Newbolt.
1. Contexts for Newbolt: Introduction.
2. The Newbolt Report and its contexts.
3. Colleagues in collaboration: The story behind Newbolt's Committee.
4. A tale of two committees: Newbolt illuminated through the Cox models.
5. Speaking silently: Voice poverty and The Newbolt Report.
6. The 'spirit' of Newbolt: Education, war and technology. Part II: Newbolt, language and literature.
7. Newbolt, language and literature: Introduction.
8. 'Evil habits of speech' and 'correct grammar': A genealogy of language ideologies in Newbolt and contemporary education policy.
9. While waiting for the poet: Speech and conversation in The Newbolt Report.
10. The Newbolt Report: The art of the progressive.
11. Primum mobile: The genesis of The Newbolt Report.
12. Transporting English(ness): The influence of The Newbolt Report on the subject of English in secondary schools in Australia. Part III: Newbolt and education.
13. Newbolt and education: Introduction.
14. The Newbolt Report: Discussing empire, race and racism in the classroom.
15. Diversity and The Newbolt Report.
16. 'The right sort of reading': Three post-Newbolt anthologies as libraries in parvo and pedagogic prompt-books.
17. A century of teaching creative writing in schools.
18. The purpose of education and the persistence of a silenced debate: Reflections on the teaching of English.
19. The significance of emotion in English literature teaching: From Newbolt to today. Afterword: The New Newbolt: A vision from the past or a vision for the future?