News from HES (UK)
The HES (UK) annual conference CFP is now live! This year’s theme is ‘Timeless Memories’. The conference will be hosted by the University of Birmingham on 6- 8 November 2020. Check out the conference website.
This month we posted a new post to our blog. Read about the history of Eton in this blog by Eleanor Hoare, Eton college archivist.
If you’d like to write for our blog, check out the full details here!
Recent/Upcoming Books
Heather Ellis (ed.), A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Empire (1800 – 1920) (Bloomsbury)
Helge Wasmuth, Fröbel’s Pedagogy of Kindergarten and Play : Modifications in Germany and the United States (Routledge)
Kar Qualls, Stalin’s Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-1951 (University of Toronto Press)
Fanny Isensee, Andreas Oberdorf and Daniel Töpper (eds.) Transatlantic Encounters in History of Education: Translations and Trajectories from a German-American Perspective (Routledge)
Stephen Jackson, Religious Education and the Anglo-World: The Impact of Empire, Britishness, and Decolonisation in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand (Brill)
Christopher W. Berg and Theodore M. Christou (eds.),The Palgrave Handbook of History and Social Studies Education (Palgrave Macmillan)
Christian Ydesen and Karen Egedal Andreasen, ‘Historical Roots of the Global Testing Culture in Education’, Nordic Studies in Education, 40(2), 149–166.
Other
Helen Sunderland gave a virtual paper, ‘Schoolgirls’ visits to the Houses of Parliament, 1880-1918’, to the IHR Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar. You can read about it on the History of Parliament blog.
CFP: History of Education Review special issue on the history of knowledge and the history of education. Abstracts due: 1 October 2020.
The History of Education Society (US) is inviting submissions for the Eggertsen Dissertation Prize in History of Education and the 2020 History of Education (US) Prize for the best article published over the past two years. Deadline: 15 May 2020.
The history of Education Society (US) in collaboration with the Society for the History of Children and Youth is accepted proposals for its virtual conference, 5-8 November 2020. See the full details here.
Historians of education might be interested in this new podcast about universities post-COVID.
A century-old chalkboard mural has been uncovered at Kew Primary School.