Co-editor of History of Education

Heather Ellis teaches and researches in the history of education at the University of Sheffield.

Her research interests lie primarily in the interconnected histories of knowledge, ideas and identity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

She is the author of Generational Conflict and University Reform: Oxford in the Age of Revolution (2012) and Masculinity and Science in Britain, 1831-1918 (2017).
Heather is a Co-Investigator on the ESRC-funded project ‘The School Meals Service: Past, Present, and Future?’ (2023-2025) and is a Co-editor of the Society’s journal, History of Education.