by Elena Rossi | Jan 28, 2022
Karen Lillie, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Truly good research – the kind that offers new insights into long-standing ideas, that pushes us to see a little differently – can rarely be labelled as purely one thing or another. In synthesising...
by Katie Carpenter | Feb 3, 2020
It’s the first Monday of the month and that means it’s our first Monthly Roundup of news from the History of Education community. Here’s some news and events from January: HES News The History of Education Society had its first executive committee meeting of 2020- the...
by Ken Clayton | Jul 9, 2018
Research into the history of education in nineteenth century England reveals a variety of different classifications of school. This blog provides an explanation of some of the more frequently encountered descriptions. Board schools: By the late 1860s there was a wide...
by History of Education Society | Nov 12, 2015
By Peter Cunningham I visited our Faculty archive for a conference we’re holding next year to mark the centenary of Democracy and Education. I wanted to explore when and how Dewey entered the syllabus, but it turned out his entrance was painfully slow. What caught my...
by History of Education Society | Nov 6, 2015
By Ken ClaytonThomas Beard, Oliver Cromwell’s schoolmaster at Huntingdon Grammar SchoolTo be a master at a Grammar school in seventeenth century England might look like an enviable career. In fact, it seems that a high proportion of them were, in effect,...
