Recent Blog Posts
Household and Domestic Science: The Personal and The Professional
Winifred Egan’s testimonial in 1961 from the headmistress of Wellington …
The Girl At The Piano
Sitting at the piano accompanying the choir at my girls’ …
Empire, Internationalism and Peace in The Woman Teacher
Editorials, articles, and conference accounts in the Woman Teacher illustrate the …
Projects
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 …
Rosa Branson, Art, Life and Education
The focus of the book project, entitled Rosa Branson: Art, …
Publications
Suzanne Karpelès: The Width and Thickness of Time
"Suzanne Karpelès: Thinking Through The Width and Thickness of Time” explores questions …
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 …
Temporalities and the Transnational: Yoshi Kasuya’s Consideration of Secondary Education for Girls in Japan (1933)
This chapter in The Transnational in the History of Education: Concepts …
Presentations
Temporalities, Trajectories and Histories of (Women’s) Education
This keynote address uses three vignettes from the history of …
Noreen Branson (1910-2003): Inside/Outside Social History and Histories of the Communist Party of Great Britain?
This symposium presentation for International Women's Day asks who counts …
‘Though We Have the Vote We Still Have to Fight Every Point of Equal Opportunity and Equal Status’:
Alys Russell, Suffrage Campaigning and Work for Graduate Women, 1888-1930. …
Resources
School Stories, Histories of Education (video)
Watch School Stories, Histories of Education, the inaugural lecture from Professor …
Laundry Work 1898
My copy of The Theory and Practice of Laundry Work …
Plain Class Cookery
This notebook from the course of Plain Class Cookery at …