News from HES (UK)
The executive committee has decided to postpone the annual HES (UK) conference until 2021. Full statement here.
A virtual event is in the works for Autumn 2020, in place of the annual conference. Watch this space!
This month we had a new contribution to our blog from Ann Marie Ryan, Charles Tocci, Seungho Moon and Michael Hines, on their new book The Curriculum Foundations Reader.
If you’d like to write for our blog, check out the details here.
Virtual Conferences
Don’t miss out on this free online conference: ICHRE Online History of Education Research Conference, Thursday 9 July 2020. Full details here.
Publications
Make use of free access to Tanya Fitzgerald (ed) Handbook of Historical Studies in Education: Debates, Tensions, and Directions (Springer)
… and this open access chapter: Roberts, M. and Webb, S. Students at Play: Sport in the Cheshire County Training College, 1908-1918, In Day, D. (ed), Playing Pasts (Manchester: MMU Sport and Leisure History, 2020), 37-55.
Check out the latest edition of Historia y Memoria de la Educación
Women’s History Review has a new special issue on Turns and Twists in Histories of Women’s Education edited by Sue Anderson-Faithful and Joyce Goodman.
Coming soon: Peter Mandler, The Crisis of Meritocracy: Britain’s Transition to Mass Education since the Second World War (OUP).
Other
Get you entries in for HES (US) book award: History of Education Society (US) Outstanding Book Award. Deadline: 1 July.
CFP: History of Education Review special issue on the history of knowledge and the history of education. Abstracts due: 1 October 2020.
The University fo Groningen has a PhD Scholarship Opportunity in Education in Culture. More info here.
What does Covid-19 mean for universities? Have a listen to the new podcast, The New Social Contract. Details here.