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.
This month we had a new contribution to our blog. Read Johanna Holmes’s post ‘Clever but Underbred: Mid-Victorian Women Qualified to Teach’.
We love to showcase the latest research in the history of education on our blog. Interested in writing something? Check out the details here!
Calls for Papers
- Got an article up your sleeve looking for a home? Check out the History of Education Researcher .
- History of Education Review special issue on the history of knowledge and the history of education. Abstracts due: 1 October 2020.
- Edited volume: How computers entered the classroom, 1960 – 2000. Deadline: 18 September 2020.
- Workshop: The Rise of Education across European Regions in the last two centuries. University of Groningen, 20-21 January 2021. Deadline: 15 September 2020.
- History of Education Quarterly is seeking manuscripts on the history of environmentalism and education. Deadline for submissions is March 30, 2022. Details here.
New Publications
- Helen Carr, ‘I think you have ignored the relevant provisions of the 1944 Education Act’: Muslims, the state and education in England c.1966–c.1985‘, Contemporary British History
- Pioneering Women in European Adult Education in 1860-1910s ed. Françoise Laot and Michał Bron Jr. See page of contents here.
- Restaging the Past: Historical Pageants, Culture and Society in Modern Britain, ed. Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Alexander Hutton and Paul Readman
- Show, Don’t Tell: Education and Historical Representations on Screen and Stage in Germany and the USA, eds. Tim Zumhof & Nicholas K. Johnson
Other
- Online Seminar Series: ‘Reforms in Education’. See programme here.
- Secondary School Stories will be tweeting #OnThisDay entries from different schools around the UK since 1945. Follow them on Twitter here.
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