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Anti-Popery and the Board School Elections in Late Victorian England

by History of Education Society | Oct 1, 2021

Aidan Cottrell-Boyce is a research fellow at St Marys University. He was awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2018. He is the author of Israelism in Modern Britain (2020) and Jewish Christians in Puritan England (2021). In the middle of the nineteenth...

Conserving the American Man: Gender, Eugenics, and Education in the Civilian Conservation Corps

by Katie Carpenter | Oct 1, 2021

‘Schools? Education? Nerts! I’ve had enough! Teachers and professors? Take ‘em away!’[1] That was the recruitment pitch to young American men to join the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the Great Depression. The CCC was a novel United States federal work...

Impressions and lessons from the research workshops of SWG ‘Observatory for the History of Education’

by Katie Carpenter | Sep 3, 2021

ISCHE 42 Online Conference 14–25 June 2021 Standing Working Groups (SWG) are a special feature of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE). Small, focused research groups, they bring together scholars from across the globe for two...

Including invasion: Challenging 200 years of national narratives in the Australian Curriculum

by History of Education Society | Aug 4, 2021

Danielle Hradsky is a PhD candidate at Monash University, Australia, living and working on the unceded lands of the Bunurong and Woiwurrung peoples of the Kulin Nations. She is exploring professional learning which engages teachers with the complexities of teaching...

The impact of Sir Thomas Muir (1844–1934) on education in the Cape Colony

by Katie Carpenter | Jun 23, 2021

This blog post was written by Peter Elliott. Peter Elliott is a great-grandson of Sir Thomas Muir. He grew up in South Africa, attended the University of Cambridge and pursued a legal career in England. In retirement, he has published three Southern African-related...

Call for Proposals: History of Education (US) Society 2021 Annual Meeting

by Katie Carpenter | Mar 10, 2021

The Program Committee for the 2021 Annual Meeting of the History of Education Society invites proposals on all topics related to the history of education. We invite proposals for individual papers, complete paper sessions, panel discussions, or workshops. Proposals...
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