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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...
‘Sight, Sound and Text in the History of Education’ HES 2016
Maria is a doctoral student at UCL Institute of Education under the supervision of Professor Gary McCulloch. Prior to commencing my research she worked in London comprehensive schools for thirty years. ‘Sight, Sound and Text in the History of Education’ was the theme...
What is YOUR story?
In a recent editorial in History of Education Researcher (May 2016), Rob Freathy and I examined the life of Lord Asa Briggs, focusing on his lesser known role as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park, and as a contributor to first ever edition of The History of Education....
Taking seriously what happens in the moment: rethinking the role of museums in the lives of young children
The grand room is dominated by a huge dining table. The dining table is laid with a full dinner service, covered with a glass dome so people cannot actually touch it. There are big windows, fireplace and portraits in this room. In the dining room, Izzy and Anna ran...
What should the new HES website look like?
The History of Education Society’s website is being revamped to celebrate the Society’s 50th birthday in 2017. How do you want it to look? As one of the Society’s Peter Gosden Fellows, I’m looking for ideas and suggestions from current and prospective members about...
Open Access Book Publishing? Some frequently asked questions
What is open access? Open Access (OA) is a simple idea, but it’s also one that challenges our established norms of scholarly communication. Peter Suber (2012), who directs the Harvard Open Access Project, defines OA as making “research literature available online...
It was not meant to be like this: The Great War and an English public school
One hundred years ago, in December 1915, Harry McKenzie resigned as Headmaster of Uppingham School. McKenzie was approaching his sixty-fourth birthday when the Great War began and, under the terms of his appointment, he had three more years to run. Now, however, the...