by History of Education Society | Aug 18, 2014
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...
by History of Education Society | Jul 31, 2014
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...
by History of Education Society | Jun 25, 2014
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,...
by History of Education Society | May 5, 2014
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...
by History of Education Society | Apr 16, 2014
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...
