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The Spread of the Maria Montessori Method in Catalonia, 1914-1939
The History of Education Society welcomes a post by Bernat Sureda García and Francisca Comas Rubí from the History of Education Research Group (GEDHE) at the University of the Balearic Islands. The Maria Montessori educational method found a favourable setting for its...
The Importance of Multicultural Education History
The History of Education Society welcomes a post by Joe Hopkinson. Joe is a Heritage Consortium PhD Candidate at The University of Huddersfield researching ‘The Experiences of Commonwealth Immigrants at School in the Industrial North, 1960-1980’. …
The University at War 1914-25
The History of Education Society welcomes a post from Dr Tomás Irish, winner of the 2017 KEVIN BREHONY BOOK PRIZE (Best first book in History of Education) Writing in 1917, the president of the British Board of Education, H.A.L. Fisher, described the First World War...
Thinking Beyond the Impossible-new futures for secondary education
Last week I took part in a new venture at Putney High School GDST school in South London. With invited pupils from other local schools the event took staff and students off timetable for a day and offered a range of seminars by visiting speakers. We were asked to...
Civil Society, Race, and a Public Curriculum: Black Civic Organizations in the History of Education
My 2009 book, The National PTA, Race, and Civic Engagement, 1897-1970, was an opportunity to explore the relationship between civil society and education, an area I believe is overlooked in the history of education. By writing this book, I learned that the National...
Rethinking the school magazine
Reform and expansion changed middle-class education in the nineteenth century. As a result, the middle-class school is ideal for ‘Rethinking the Institution in the Long Nineteenth Century,’ the aim of a conference held between 13 and 14 July 2017 at Liverpool John...
Sources and the History of Women Religious Medieval to Modern: Archival, Oral, Material and Digital
The 2017 History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland (H-WRBI) Annual Conference took place recently at University College Dublin, Ireland and was immensely helpful to me as a researcher in the history of education. Deidre Raftery and her team at UCD provided us...
Power-assisted learning? Exhibiting, interpreting and teaching on technology in the twentieth-century industrial city
Power-assisted learning? Exhibiting, interpreting and teaching on technology in the twentieth-century industrial city An AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award with the University of Manchester and the Museum of Science and Industry. We invite applications for a...
A Hungarian University Health Protection System in the Reflection of Treaty of Versailles (1924-1947)
A Hungarian University Health Protection System in the Reflection of Treaty of Versailles (1924-1947) [1] by Adrienn Sztana-Kovacs In our blog post we would like to point out why it was so important to organize a proper health-care system at the Royal Hungarian...
Educating Workhouse Children
Educating Workhouse Children by Dr Lesley Hulonce In 1877 schools inspector, J. L. Clutterbuck, painted this rather weary and monotonous picture of workhouse education: The annals of workhouse schools, as a rule, are uneventful. Teachers come and go, and boards of...