Recent Blog Posts
Empire, Internationalism and Peace in The Woman Teacher
Editorials, articles, and conference accounts in the Woman Teacher illustrate the …
The Girl At The Piano
Sitting at the piano accompanying the choir at my girls’ …
Household and Domestic Science: The Personal and The Professional
Winifred Egan’s testimonial in 1961 from the headmistress of Wellington …
Projects
Educational Cinema, Empire and Internationalism
In 1931 Suzanne Karpelès, founding director of the Royal Library …
Alys Russell: A Life in Education and Public Service
Alys Russell (1867-1951): A Life in Education and Public Service …
Women and Comparative Education, 1800-1980
Amélie Arató’s (1934) study, L’Enseignement secondaries des jeunes filles en …
Publications
Concentric Circles and Magnetic Currents: Moral Disarmament at the League of Nations International Institute of Educational Cinematography, 1931-34, in Folds of Past, Present and Future: Reconfiguring Contemporary Histories of Education, edited by Frederik Herman, Geert Thyssen, Angelo van Gorp, Sarah van Ruyskensvelde and Pieter Verstraete (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenberg), 34-81
This chapter explores spatial and temporal elements in configurations that …
Life Histories
Written with my colleagues Sue Anderson-Faithful, Alys Blakeway and Stephanie …
Shaping the Mentality of Races & Especially Young People
In her report to the League of Nations’ Liaison Committee …
Presentations
Working For Displaced Persons and Refugees
Edith Morley was appointed Professor of English Language at Reading University …
Overseas Headteachers and St.Swithun’s School: Women Educators in Winchester and Beyond
As chair of the Overseas Committee of the Association of …
Suzanne Karpelès: Entangling the Human and the Non-human
Suzanne Karpelès (1890-1969): Entangling the Human and the Non-human in …
Resources
Mary Sumner: Mission, Education and Motherhood
Mary Sumner (1828-1921) was the founder and president of the …
Laundry Work 1898
My copy of The Theory and Practice of Laundry Work …
St Felix School Southwold: Play Summer 1930
This image comes from an album of photographs and cards …