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July 2020: Monthly Roundup
News from HES (UK) For this year's annual conference, we're going virtual! This year's conference is on the theme ‘Education Otherwise: historical perspectives’ and will take place from 23rd to 27th November 2020. See the CFP here- deadline 11th September. We're also...
Clever but underbred: mid-Victorian women qualified to teach
In 1865, according to Elizabeth Missing Sewell, middle class parents considering their daughters’ education found themselves on the horns of not one but three dilemmas. Firstly how could they ensure that the result of education was that their daughters...
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Any suggestions from the #HistEd community?
@histchild #twitterstorians @HistEdSocUK I'm researching children in the English peace movement 1920s-1960s, looking for history/history of childhood leads to help think about 'generations' and inter-generational dynamics! Esp re children in 'movements' with adults too? Thanks!
Online search of articles from historical journals, 1939-2014
2020 Birmingham Conference Postponed
With great regret the Executive Committee of the History of Education Society UK has decided that we have to postpone the annual conference until November 2021. This is due to the continuing uncertainty surrounding the Covid-19 situation in the UK, and the fact that...