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Season 2 Episode 1: Distance Education in the Eighteenth Century with Rachel Bynoth
For our first episode of the season, we talk with Rachel Bynoth about distance education in the late-eighteenth century and how using the dual lens of gender and emotions can help us better understand educational processes. We focus on Rachel's recent article in...
Education during a Global Health Crisis
Alexa Rodríguez, University of Virginia Almost two years later and school systems across the world continue to be disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, this is not the first-time schools have faced the challenge of operating during a public health crisis such as...
Season 2: Passing Notes Trailer
The History of Education Society is excited to announce the second season of their podcast. Titled Passing Notes, this season looks at how the field connects with other disciplines. Drawing on interviews with both historians of education and scholars from a wide range...
On Interdisciplinarity
Karen Lillie, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Truly good research – the kind that offers new insights into long-standing ideas, that pushes us to see a little differently – can rarely be labelled as purely one thing or another. In synthesising...
Late-Victorian attitudes towards the teaching of myth-histories in schools
Joe Smith, University of Stirling Myth-histories have unrivalled discursive power in calling up the imagined community of the nation. These stories – whether Homeric epics, Arthurian chivalry, or Wagnerian operas – supposedly distil the character of the nation in...
Researching Student Histories
Researching student histories: Workshop 1 - The Archive, 26 January 2022, 2.30-4.30pm Book here Researching student histories: Workshop 1 - The Archive Tickets, Wed 26 Jan 2022 at 14:30 | Eventbrite Booking is now open for the first of a series of workshops...
Teaching Anti-Racism on the New York Frontier: Beriah Green’s Oneida Institute
When the fervent abolitionist Beriah Green took the reins as president of the Oneida Institute in Whitestown, New York, in 1833, he made it clear that his vision was to turn it into a school that would fight not just slavery in America, but racism itself. ...
Anti-Popery and the Board School Elections in Late Victorian England
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...