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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...
April 2020: Monthly Roundup
News from HES (UK) The HES (UK) annual conference CFP is now live! This year’s theme is ‘Timeless Memories’. The conference will be hosted by the University of Birmingham on 6- 8 November 2020. Check out the conference website. This month we posted a new post to our...
Education, Education, Education: 500 Years of Learning at Eton College
Henry VI founded Eton College in 1440 for “25 poor and indigent scholars to learn grammar”. He wanted his subjects to have the opportunities of acquiring knowledge that he had enjoyed, and named William Stokke and Richard Cokkes as the first two boys to have a...
HES 2020 Book Prize Shortlists
The History of Education Society (UK) is delighted to confirm the shortlists for our 2020 book prizes. Anne Bloomfield Prize For the best book written in English on the History of Education published between 2017 and 2019 Tom O’Donoghue and Teresa...
March 2020: Monthly Roundup
News from HES (UK) The HES (UK) annual conference CFP is now live! This year's theme is 'Timeless Memories'. The conference will be hosted by the University of Birmingham on 6- 8 November 2020. Check out the conference website. Owing to the current Covid-19 situation,...