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...
by Katie Carpenter | Apr 29, 2020
Henry VI founded Eton College in 1440 for “25 poor and indigent scholars to learn grammar”. He wanted his subjects to have the opportunities of acquiring knowledge that he had enjoyed, and named William Stokke and Richard Cokkes as the first two boys to have a...
by Katie Carpenter | Feb 3, 2020
More and more researchers are turning to blogs to get their ideas and opinions to a wide audience quickly. It’s even good for your academic writing! But what makes a good academic blog? Here’s 5 top tips for writing for the HES blog Keep It Simple Scholar You...
by Fatima Seck | May 6, 2019
UncoverEd is a collaborative and decolonising research project, funded by Edinburgh Global, which aims to situate the ‘global’ status of the University of Edinburgh in its rightful imperial and colonial context. Led by PhD candidates Henry Dee and Tom Cunningham, the...
by Catherine Holloway and Ellie Simpson | Feb 18, 2019
PGR Report, History of Education Society Annual Conference, Limerick 9-10 November 2018 Catherine Holloway and Ellie Simpson This year’s History of Education Annual Conference was welcomed to the historical city of Limerick, the third largest city in Ireland....
by Catherine Sloan | Nov 7, 2018
We are looking forward to hearing the latest in research in history of education at the annual conference in Limerick this weekend. As is our custom the AGM will also be held at the conference where I will report on the activities of the Society over the past year and...
