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...
by Clare Stainthorp | Sep 17, 2018
Student Identities at Birmingham’s Mason College The 1870 Foundation Deed for a science college in Birmingham outlined the need for an education ‘specially adapted to the practical, mechanical, and artistic requirements of the manufactures and industrial...
by Malcolm Tozer | Aug 2, 2018
Music at Uppingham School, 1853–1908 Music played little part in the education of British children before 1853 when Edward Thring was appointed headmaster of Uppingham School in the English Midlands. Thring created an innovative holistic curriculum for the two dozen...
by Ken Clayton | Jul 9, 2018
Research into the history of education in nineteenth century England reveals a variety of different classifications of school. This blog provides an explanation of some of the more frequently encountered descriptions. Board schools: By the late 1860s there was a wide...
