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Exploring the history of education through pop music
by Charlotte Rochez“The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together,...
Shakespeare on (early) modern education
by Charlotte RochezMany are currently celebrating Shakespeare's 450th birthday. A search for Shakespeare quotes on education and school, returned this top ten from the American Shakespeare Center. The quotes indicated how many of our contemporary views on school may...
Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson (1881-1955)
By Emma AnthonyTo mark our Wellcome Trust funded project, ‘Documenting the Understanding of Human Intelligence’*, which aims to catalogue and preserve the papers of educator and psychologist Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson (1881-1955), Edinburgh University archives and...
Writing and Academic Space – History of Education Society Annual Student Conference
By Lottie HoareNews and Call for Papers:Writing and Academic Space History of Education Society Annual Student ConferenceSaturday 5 July 2014, 11am-5pm - University of NottinghamThe title for this years History of Education Society student conference came about after...
What’s the point of HES blog?
By Charlotte RochezIt is estimated that only 10 percent of historians share their scholarship in digital form in openly-accessible forms online (Townsend 2010 cited Nawrotzki & Dougherty 2013). In questioning this lack of engagement, and in...
Sad news: Kevin J. Brehony
The historian of education Professor Kevin J. Brehony passed away on Tuesday, 15 October 2013, surrounded by his loving family and friends. Kevin was Froebel Professor of Early Childhood Studies, President of the International Froebel Society, Director of the...