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President’s Welcome: HES (UK) Virtual Conference
Professor Stephen G. Parker, President of the History of Education Society (UK), welcomes you to our first virtual conference... It's with great pleasure that I welcome you to the first History of Education Society, UK, online conference. In 'normal times' our annual...
Clever but underbred: mid-Victorian women qualified to teach
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...
Colleges in Medieval Universities
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...
Sex Education: Looking to the Past to Inform the Present
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...
Education in the Mandates: Anna Bugge-Wicksell at the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League, 1921-1927
In 1921, the Norwegian feminist, lawyer and League of Nations delegate, Anna Bugge-Wicksell, became the only woman member of the newly formed Permanent Mandates Commission (PMC) at the League of Nations. During the next six years she would draw attention to the role...
The Curriculum Foundations Reader
“I don’t wanna go to school!” All of a sudden, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought school into millions of homes around the world. A familiar morning complaint like the above does not always happen anymore. The Western notion that formal education primarily occurs...
Education, Education, Education: 500 Years of Learning at Eton College
Henry VI founded Eton College in 1440 for “25 poor and indigent scholars to learn grammar”. He wanted his subjects to have the opportunities of acquiring knowledge that he had enjoyed, and named William Stokke and Richard Cokkes as the first two boys to have a...
5 Top Tips for Academic Blog Writing
More and more researchers are turning to blogs to get their ideas and opinions to a wide audience quickly. It’s even good for your academic writing! But what makes a good academic blog? Here's 5 top tips for writing for the HES blog Keep It Simple Scholar You don’t...
‘The Negroes in Britain Industry’: Race-Relations Studies at Edinburgh University in the 1950s
UncoverEd is a collaborative and decolonising research project, funded by Edinburgh Global, which aims to situate the ‘global’ status of the University of Edinburgh in its rightful imperial and colonial context. Led by PhD candidates Henry Dee and Tom Cunningham, the...
postgraduate report from our annual conference
PGR Report, History of Education Society Annual Conference, Limerick 9-10 November 2018 Catherine Holloway and Ellie Simpson This year’s History of Education Annual Conference was welcomed to the historical city of Limerick, the third largest city in Ireland....