Recent Blog Posts
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 …
Empire, Internationalism and Peace in The Woman Teacher
Editorials, articles, and conference accounts in the Woman Teacher illustrate the …
Projects
Educational Cinema, Empire and Internationalism
In 1931 Suzanne Karpelès, founding director of the Royal Library …
Women and Comparative Education, 1800-1980
Amélie Arató’s (1934) study, L’Enseignement secondaries des jeunes filles en …
Alys Russell: A Life in Education and Public Service
Alys Russell (1867-1951): A Life in Education and Public Service …
Publications
Review: Education, Identity and Women Religious, 1800-1950
Education, Identity and Women Religious, 1800-1950: Convents, Classrooms and Colleges edited …
Household and Domestic Science: Entangling the Personal and the Professional
This article focuses on how a BSc (Household and Social …
International Women’s Organisations, Peace and Peacebuilding
This chapter in The Palgrave Handbook of Global Approaches to Peace uses …
Presentations
The “Value and Attraction …of a Centre like Reid Hall” : Reid Hall, Crosby Hall and University Women of the World
The 1922 conference of the International Federation of University Women …
Temporalities, Trajectories and Histories of (Women’s) Education
This keynote address uses three vignettes from the history of …
Looking to the Future, Looking to the Past: Shaping GWI Peacebuilding and GWIs Future with IFUW’s History
This plenary lecture looks towards GWI’s future by honouring the …
Resources
Plain Class Cookery
This notebook from the course of Plain Class Cookery at …
Mary Sumner: Mission, Education and Motherhood
Mary Sumner (1828-1921) was the founder and president of the …
Digital Archive – Prior’s Field School
The searchable online archive of Prior’s Field School, founded by …