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Clever but underbred: mid-Victorian women qualified to teach
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...
2020 Birmingham Conference Postponed
With great regret the Executive Committee of the History of Education Society UK has decided that we have to postpone the annual conference until November 2021. This is due to the continuing uncertainty surrounding the Covid-19 situation in the UK, and the fact that...
June 2020: Monthly roundup
News from HES (UK) The executive committee has decided to postpone the annual HES (UK) conference until 2021. Full statement here. Plans for a virtual event to replace the annual conference are in the works for November 2020. Stay tuned for a CFP soon! This month...
Colleges in Medieval Universities
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...
Sex Education: Looking to the Past to Inform the Present
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...
Education in the Mandates: Anna Bugge-Wicksell at the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League, 1921-1927
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...
May 2020: Monthly Roundup
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...
The Curriculum Foundations Reader
“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...