by Maria Patricia Williams | Aug 10, 2017
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...
by Alice Kirke | Mar 28, 2017
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...
by Adrienn Sztana-Kovacs | Mar 24, 2017
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...
by Dr Lesley Hulonce | Mar 13, 2017
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...
by Maria Williams | Dec 12, 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...
by Jonathan Doney | Sep 13, 2016
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....
