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Researching Petty Schools of 17th Century England; Surely Somebody Has Been Here Before?
By Ken ClaytonIn researching the history of education in 17th century England, we might expect to find a number of books examining the subject in detail. To a degree this is true, but only to a degree; when it comes to petty schools, there is very little existing...
Call for Papers: History of Education Society Annual Conference 2014: Transnationalism, gender and teaching
The deadline is fast approaching to submit abstracts to present at the History of Education Society annual conference, at University College Dublin, on the 21st-23rd November 2014. We invite papers that examine the conference theme: Transnationalism, gender and...
10 Documentaries on the History of Education
by Charlotte Rochez"Above all, documentary must reflect the problems and realities of the present. It cannot regret the past; it is dangerous to prophesy the future. It can, and does, draw on the past in its use of existing heritages but it only does so to give point...
Exploring the history of education through pop music
by Charlotte Rochez“The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together,...
Shakespeare on (early) modern education
by Charlotte RochezMany are currently celebrating Shakespeare's 450th birthday. A search for Shakespeare quotes on education and school, returned this top ten from the American Shakespeare Center. The quotes indicated how many of our contemporary views on school may...
Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson (1881-1955)
By Emma AnthonyTo mark our Wellcome Trust funded project, ‘Documenting the Understanding of Human Intelligence’*, which aims to catalogue and preserve the papers of educator and psychologist Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson (1881-1955), Edinburgh University archives and...
Writing and Academic Space – History of Education Society Annual Student Conference
By Lottie HoareNews and Call for Papers:Writing and Academic Space History of Education Society Annual Student ConferenceSaturday 5 July 2014, 11am-5pm - University of NottinghamThe title for this years History of Education Society student conference came about after...
What’s the point of HES blog?
By Charlotte RochezIt is estimated that only 10 percent of historians share their scholarship in digital form in openly-accessible forms online (Townsend 2010 cited Nawrotzki & Dougherty 2013). In questioning this lack of engagement, and in devising this blog, I...