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
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, …
Educational Cinema, Empire and Internationalism
In 1931 Suzanne Karpelès, founding director of the Royal Library …
Publications
Exploring the Sybil Campbell Collection
Vivyenne Rubinstein’s lecture about the establishment of the Sybil Campbell …
Suzanne Karpelès’ 1931 Encounters in Indochina and Europe: Multiple Femininities, Colonial Relations and Educative Sites
Suzanne Karpelès’ 1931 Encounters in Indochina and Europe: Multiple Femininities, …
Life Histories
Written with my colleagues Sue Anderson-Faithful, Alys Blakeway and Stephanie …
Presentations
International Women’s Organisations and the Politics of Knowledge: Organisational Positioning and Encounters across an “East/West” Divide
The paper problematises mechanisms of internationalism through which knowledge was …
Suzanne Karpelès: Entangling the Human and the Non-human
Suzanne Karpelès (1890-1969): Entangling the Human and the Non-human in …
Temporalities and Texts: Abstracting as Practice of Synchronisation
This paper uses examples from two comparative education texts published …
Resources
St Felix School Southwold: Play Summer 1930
This image comes from an album of photographs and cards …
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 …