Molly graduated in 2016 from Oxford University with a first class degree in History. Her thesis used primary school readers from East and West Germany to illuminate the pedagogical traditions and innovations applied to the re-socialization of children in the early decades of the BRD and GDR, both in terms of individual and collective identities, as well as aspirational ideals. After a year of developing her own pedagogical approach in the classroom, Molly is now looking forward to returning to university with the Global History MA. She hopes her work will contribute to the analysis of how individual perceptions of the self are constituted, and how these selves determine the decision-making of those humans long subsumed within historical scholarship into vague and agency-denying notions of 'women' and 'subjects'.