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Aidan Cottrell-Boyce is a research fellow at St Marys University. He was awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2018. He is the author of Israelism in Modern Britain (2020) and Jewish Christians in Puritan England (2021). In the middle of the nineteenth...

‘Schools? Education? Nerts! I’ve had enough! Teachers and professors? Take ‘em away!’[1] That was the recruitment pitch to young American men to join the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the Great Depression. The CCC was a novel United States federal work...

ISCHE 42 Online Conference 14–25 June 2021 Standing Working Groups (SWG) are a special feature of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE). Small, focused research groups, they bring together scholars from across the globe for two...

Danielle Hradsky is a PhD candidate at Monash University, Australia, living and working on the unceded lands of the Bunurong and Woiwurrung peoples of the Kulin Nations. She is exploring professional learning which engages teachers with the complexities of teaching...

This blog post was written by Peter Elliott. Peter Elliott is a great-grandson of Sir Thomas Muir. He grew up in South Africa, attended the University of Cambridge and pursued a legal career in England. In retirement, he has published three Southern African-related...

The Program Committee for the 2021 Annual Meeting of the History of Education Society invites proposals on all topics related to the history of education. We invite proposals for individual papers, complete paper sessions, panel discussions, or workshops. Proposals...

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...

The blog post was written by Elena Rossi, Student Lead on the Medieval Student Experience Project at Queen Mary, University of London. Today, the collegiate system is normally only associated with the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, with many tourists flocking...

This blog post comes from Ellie Simpson, PhD student at the University of Winchester, and the History of Education Society (UK) postgraduate representative. In September 2020, for the first time in British history, sex education will become a compulsory subject within...