by Katie Carpenter | Nov 23, 2020
Professor Stephen G. Parker, President of the History of Education Society (UK), welcomes you to our first virtual conference… It’s with great pleasure that I welcome you to the first History of Education Society, UK, online conference. In ‘normal...
by History of Education Society | Aug 3, 2020
In 1865, according to Elizabeth Missing Sewell, middle class parents considering their daughters’ education found themselves on the horns of not one but three dilemmas. Firstly how could they ensure that the result of education was that their daughters...
by Katie Carpenter | Jun 29, 2020
The blog post was written by Elena Rossi, Student Lead on the Medieval Student Experience Project at Queen Mary, University of London. Today, the collegiate system is normally only associated with the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, with many tourists flocking...
by History of Education Society | Jun 7, 2020
This blog post comes from Ellie Simpson, PhD student at the University of Winchester, and the History of Education Society (UK) postgraduate representative. In September 2020, for the first time in British history, sex education will become a compulsory subject within...
by Katie Carpenter | Jun 1, 2020
In 1921, the Norwegian feminist, lawyer and League of Nations delegate, Anna Bugge-Wicksell, became the only woman member of the newly formed Permanent Mandates Commission (PMC) at the League of Nations. During the next six years she would draw attention to the role...
by Katie Carpenter | May 22, 2020
“I don’t wanna go to school!” All of a sudden, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought school into millions of homes around the world. A familiar morning complaint like the above does not always happen anymore. The Western notion that formal education primarily occurs...
