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September 2020: Monthly Roundup
News from HES The Editorial Board of History of Education is seeking expressions of interest in the role of Book Reviews Editor.This year's conference is going virtual! 'Education Otherwise: historical perspectives' will be 25th-27th November on Zoom. We love to...
Book Reviews Editor, History of Education
The Editorial Board of History of Education is seeking expressions of interest in the role of Book Reviews Editor. History of Education is a leading international journal which is listed in the Thomson Reuters Social Science Citations Index. The...
August 2020: Monthly Roundup
News from HES (UK) For this year’s annual conference, we’re going virtual! This year’s conference is on the theme ‘Education Otherwise: historical perspectives’ and will take place from 23rd to 27th November 2020. See the CFP here– deadline...
July 2020: Monthly Roundup
News from HES (UK) For this year's annual conference, we're going virtual! This year's conference is on the theme ‘Education Otherwise: historical perspectives’ and will take place from 23rd to 27th November 2020. See the CFP here- deadline 11th September....
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...