News
The University at War 1914-25
The History of Education Society welcomes a post from Dr Tomás Irish, winner of the 2017 KEVIN BREHONY BOOK PRIZE (Best first book in History of Education) Writing in 1917, the president of the British Board of Education, H.A.L. Fisher, described the First World War...
History of Education Society Fellowships 2018
In 2018, the History of Education Society will fund two Fellowships. The purpose of the Fellowship schemes is to establish a higher public profile for the History of Education Society, its associated publications and conferences, and other activities concerned with...
Thinking Beyond the Impossible-new futures for secondary education
Last week I took part in a new venture at Putney High School GDST school in South London. With invited pupils from other local schools the event took staff and students off timetable for a day and offered a range of seminars by visiting speakers. We were asked to...
Civil Society, Race, and a Public Curriculum: Black Civic Organizations in the History of Education
My 2009 book, The National PTA, Race, and Civic Engagement, 1897-1970, was an opportunity to explore the relationship between civil society and education, an area I believe is overlooked in the history of education. By writing this book, I learned that the National...
Rethinking the school magazine
Reform and expansion changed middle-class education in the nineteenth century. As a result, the middle-class school is ideal for ‘Rethinking the Institution in the Long Nineteenth Century,’ the aim of a conference held between 13 and 14 July 2017 at Liverpool John...
Anniversary Conference programme
We are pleased to announce the draft programme for our 50th Anniversary Conference: ‘Celebration, Commemoration and Collaboration – Milestones in the History of Education’ 10 – 12 November 2017 at The Winchester Hotel Conference hashtag: #ukhes50 @HistEdSocUK...
International Standing Conference for the History of Education
This blog post features the newsletter of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE). It includes information about opportunities for early career researchers as well as a report of the recent ISCHE conference in Argentina. ISCHE 39 in...
Sources and the History of Women Religious Medieval to Modern: Archival, Oral, Material and Digital
The 2017 History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland (H-WRBI) Annual Conference took place recently at University College Dublin, Ireland and was immensely helpful to me as a researcher in the history of education. Deidre Raftery and her team at UCD provided us...