“Suzanne Karpelès: Thinking Through The Width and Thickness of Time” explores questions of temporality using letters written between 1930 and 1935 by Suzanne Karpelès (1890-1968), director of the Royal Library at Phomn Penh (1925-41), chief publications officer for the École Supérieure de Pāli (1925-41) and director of the Institute of Buddhist Studies (1930-41) (which became a centre for resistance
Exploring the Sybil Campbell Collection
Vivyenne Rubinstein’s lecture about the establishment of the Sybil Campbell Library at Crosby Hall, the British Federation of University Women’s Hall of Residence, highlights Alys Russell’s important role in the acquisition of books for the Library. Alys Russell’s activities appear regularly in the annual reports of the British Federation of University Women and of the
Special Issue: Empires at Home and Empires Overseas
Empires at Home and Empires Overseas is the special issue of Paedagogica Historica with articles from the international seminar funded by the History of Education Society UK and held in Hamburg to augment the seminar series entitled Education and Social Change that was funded by the ESRC. This symposium aimed to contribute to understandings of
Review: Education, Identity and Women Religious, 1800-1950
Education, Identity and Women Religious, 1800-1950: Convents, Classrooms and Colleges edited by Deirdre Raftery and Elizabeth Smyth is an excellent addition to the history of women religious, gender, religion, and social and cultural change. It looks at the work of women religious in missions and in founding schools, colleges and teaching hospitals and in the wider
Household and Domestic Science: Entangling the Personal and the Professional
This article focuses on how a BSc (Household and Social Science) from Kings College of Household and Social Science (KCHSS) inflected the life and work of Winifred Egan (1915-2007), a teacher, whose career spanned elementary and secondary schooling and teacher education. The article illustrates the ways in which KCHSS graduates deployed disciplinary knowledge around
Internationalism, Empire and Peace in The Woman Teacher
Internationalism, Empire and Peace in the Woman Teacher, 1920-1939 points to the importance of the journal the Woman Teacher in creating the NUWT’s independent public political identity and the Union’s place within the wider national feminist movement. Both the NUWT and the Woman Teacher were established in the face of hostility from male National Union
Thinking Through Sonorities in Histories of Schooling
Thinking Through Sonorities in Histories of Schooling (2017) uses an unattributed photograph taken around 1964 to commemorate an audio recording the junior choir was about to make at the girls’ state secondary grammar school I attended as a pupil from 1958 to 1965. In the photograph I am documented visually as the girl seated at
Women, Educational Policy-Making and Administration in England
When Women, Educational Policy-Making and Adminstration in England (co-edited with Sylvia Harrop) was published, the role of women in policy-making had been largely neglected in conventional social and political histories. This book opened up this field of study, taking the example of women in education as its focus. It examines the work, attitudes, actions and
Gender, Colonialism and Education: The Politics of Experience
Gender, Colonialism and Education (co-edited with Jane Martin) examines the ways in which gender intersects with informal and formal education in England, Germany, Indonesia, South Africa, USA and the Netherlands. The book looks at various issues including: citizenship; authority; colonialism and education; and the construction of national and transnatioal identities. Goodman, Joyce, and Jane Martin, eds.
Women and Education, 1800-1980, with Jane Martin
Women and Education, 1800-1980 examines and celebrates the lives, aims, and achievements of six British women educational activists within nineteenth- and twentieth-century history: Elizabeth Hamilton, Sarah Austin, Jane Chessar, Mary Dendy, Shena Simon and Margaret Cole. Employing a biographical approach, it adopts eminist and historical models to explore how these women resisted gender roles and
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