Recent Blog Posts
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 …
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 …
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
Girls Secondary Education in the Western World
Girls' Secondary Education in the Western World: From the 18th …
International Women’s Organisations, Peace and Peacebuilding
This chapter in The Palgrave Handbook of Global Approaches to Peace uses …
Turning and Twisting Histories of Women’s Education: Matters of Strategy
Written with Sue Anderson-Faithful, Turning and Twisting Histories of Women's Education: …
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 …
Temporalities and Texts: Abstracting as Practice of Synchronisation
This paper uses examples from two comparative education texts published …
Overseas Headteachers and St.Swithun’s School: Women Educators in Winchester and Beyond
As chair of the Overseas Committee of the Association of …
Resources
School Stories, Histories of Education (video)
Watch School Stories, Histories of Education, the inaugural lecture from Professor …
Digital Archive – Prior’s Field School
The searchable online archive of Prior’s Field School, founded by …
Plain Class Cookery
This notebook from the course of Plain Class Cookery at …