by History of Education Society | Aug 24, 2014
By Ken ClaytonIn researching the history of education in 17th century England, we might expect to find a number of books examining the subject in detail. To a degree this is true, but only to a degree; when it comes to petty schools, there is very little existing...
by History of Education Society | Jul 31, 2014
by Charlotte Rochez”Above all, documentary must reflect the problems and realities of the present. It cannot regret the past; it is dangerous to prophesy the future. It can, and does, draw on the past in its use of existing heritages but it only does so to give...
by History of Education Society | Jun 25, 2014
by Charlotte Rochez“The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together,...
by History of Education Society | May 5, 2014
by Charlotte RochezMany are currently celebrating Shakespeare’s 450th birthday. A search for Shakespeare quotes on education and school, returned this top ten from the American Shakespeare Center. The quotes indicated how many of our contemporary views on school...
by History of Education Society | Apr 16, 2014
By Emma AnthonyTo mark our Wellcome Trust funded project, ‘Documenting the Understanding of Human Intelligence’*, which aims to catalogue and preserve the papers of educator and psychologist Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson (1881-1955), Edinburgh University archives and...
by History of Education Society | Mar 31, 2014
By Lottie HoareNews and Call for Papers:Writing and Academic Space History of Education Society Annual Student ConferenceSaturday 5 July 2014, 11am-5pm – University of NottinghamThe title for this years History of Education Society student conference came about...
