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‘Fors Clavigera’, the Young Women of Whitelands College, and the Temptations of Social History
By Christopher BischofOn the first of May each year from the 1880s onward the young women at Whitelands teacher training college in London celebrated by throwing to the wind the timetable that normally dictated how their every moment would be spent. Instead,...
International Standing Conference on the History of Education 2014
The Past in the Present…Rainy day reflections on the scorching days of summerBy Jonathan Doney ~ @Jonathan_Doney As the rain pours down on the ‘summer’ Bank Holiday, the scorching sunny days of early July spent in London attending the ISCHEconference at the...
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...
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...