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Call for applications – History of Education Anniversary Small Grants
Call for applications – History of Education Anniversary Small Grants To mark its 50th anniversary year, the History of Education Society invites proposals for small grants to aid activities aimed at furthering research, engagement, dissemination and impact in the...
Postdoctoral research post on the Mobile Museum project.
Postdoctoral research post on the Mobile Museum project. Historians of education will be particularly interested in a new postdoctoral research position on the Mobile Museum: Economic Botany in Circulation project. The appointee will join an interdisciplinary research...
Power-assisted learning? Exhibiting, interpreting and teaching on technology in the twentieth-century industrial city
Power-assisted learning? Exhibiting, interpreting and teaching on technology in the twentieth-century industrial city An AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award with the University of Manchester and the Museum of Science and Industry. We invite applications for a...
A Hungarian University Health Protection System in the Reflection of Treaty of Versailles (1924-1947)
A Hungarian University Health Protection System in the Reflection of Treaty of Versailles (1924-1947) [1] by Adrienn Sztana-Kovacs In our blog post we would like to point out why it was so important to organize a proper health-care system at the Royal Hungarian...
Call for Papers: History of Education & Children’s Literature
The international journal History of Education & Children’s Literature has issued a call for papers on school memories and public celebrations of education in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The special issue aims to focus on the multifaceted...
Educating Workhouse Children
Educating Workhouse Children by Dr Lesley Hulonce In 1877 schools inspector, J. L. Clutterbuck, painted this rather weary and monotonous picture of workhouse education: The annals of workhouse schools, as a rule, are uneventful. Teachers come and go, and boards of...
Call for Papers: ‘Revisiting the local dimension in historical-educational research’
The editors of Rivista di Storia dell’Educazione (RSE) have announced a call for papers for a special issue, ‘Revisiting the local dimension in historical-educational research’. RSE is the journal of the Centro Italiano per la Ricerca Storico- Educativa (CIRSE), the...
‘Sight, Sound and Text in the History of Education’ HES 2016
Maria is a doctoral student at UCL Institute of Education under the supervision of Professor Gary McCulloch. Prior to commencing my research she worked in London comprehensive schools for thirty years. ‘Sight, Sound and Text in the History of Education’ was the theme...