Join us! 27 October @ 12 noon, Sheffield for 'Feeding Children in Hard Times: School Meals, Poverty and the Cost of Living in Britain' 🍽🍎 2026 ESRC Festival of Social Science www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/feeding-ch... #histed @histedsocuk.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social

Feeding Children in Hard Times

School meals, poverty and the cost of living in Britain.

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This week sees the publication of new School Food Standards for England. Our @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social research shows that school meals are never just about nutrition. I spoke to the Yorkshire Post about why school meals should be seen as social & educational infrastructure. 🍉 🥦 🌮 🍽️ #histed

Enjoyed talking to Steph Watkins on BBC Radio Guernsey about plans to introduce primary #schoolmeals there by 2030. Drawing on our @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social research, we discussed what it takes to build a service from scratch🍎 #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ysenuxsf (10:15-10:30)

Radio Guernsey - Listen Live - BBC Sounds

Listen live to Radio Guernsey on BBC Sounds

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Read more about our findings on persistent stigma and free school meals here! 🍎🍽 @royalhistsoc.org @histedsocuk.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social sheffield.ac.uk/news/120-yea...

120 years of school dinners: How canteen stigma shapes lives for decades

As pupils across the UK head back to school, new research reveals canteen choices can shape children’s lives for decades, and argues universal school meals are the key to ending the long-standing stig...

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Dr Heather Ellis @heatherlwellis.bsky.social · last mo.

Great to talk to Ellie Coulton this morning on BBC Radio Sheffield about our @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social research into persistent stigma around free school meals #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @histedsocuk.bsky.social @ichre-ioe.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Great to talk to Ellie Coulton this morning on BBC Radio Sheffield about our @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social research into persistent stigma around free school meals #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @histedsocuk.bsky.social @ichre-ioe.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio Sheffield - Ellie Colton at Breakfast, 09/09/2026

Wake up with a smile with Ellie and everything you need to know in South Yorkshire.

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On my way to the International Committee of Historical Sciences (CISH) Centennial Conference in Leipzig on the Past, Present and Future of History

Nice to see this out in the world! "The Teaching-Research Nexus in Literary and Philosophical Societies in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Case of Manchester" Many thanks to the editors for guiding the book through to publication😊 #histed shorturl.at/2GIzA

Enjoying presenting our ongoing research from our @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social research at @ische-news.bsky.social 47 in Athens! 🏛🇬🇷🌞 #histed

🌍 Die BBF ist im Sommer wieder international unterwegs! 📍 Los geht´s: #ISCHE47 | Panel “Digital Approaches to the History of Education: Methods, Sources, and Practices” | mit @josefinewaehler.bsky.social @m-lorenz.bsky.social #DanielErdmann & Chair @kpriem.bsky.social ▶️ bbf.dipf.de/de/aktuell/t...

Looking forward to seeing this out in the world soon... 🥳 'The Teaching-Research Nexus in Literary and Philosophical Societies in Late 18th and Early 19thC Britain: The Case of Manchester' #histed www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

The Teaching-Research Nexus in Literary and Philosophical Societies in

This chapter examines the development of the teaching and research nexus in Britain before the rise of the modern research university. It focuses on the role of

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Enjoyed sharing our research into building engaged online learning communities at the Collaborative Pedagogic Research Symposium today with Linda Wilkinson and @jaynefinlay.bsky.social It also saw the launch of the International Pedagogic Research Network!

If you're planning a visit to The School Food Show 2026 at the NEC today or tomorrow, please check out the touring version of the 'School Dinners' exhibition, our collaboration with the @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social! We are celebrating 120 years of #schoolmeals in UK and how to make them even better 🍎🥦🍽

An obituary for the late Roy Lowe is now out in the History of Education Journal, written by Gary McCulloch. Read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Interesting day in Groningen @rug.nl, hearing about the work of PhD students in the morning, followed by great discussions at the afternoon's DEEP Day. I enjoyed giving a keynote lecture on my Classics and Science research and hearing about other people's research #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social

Lovely day marking the opening of the touring/pop-up 'School Dinners' exhibition in the Houses of Parliament, which the @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social team worked on together with @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social 🍽🥪🥕 #histed @histedsocuk.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @ichre-ioe.bsky.social

Enjoyed talking to the News From Nowhere Club in Leytonstone last night with Martha Vandrei on the past, present & future of Lit & Phils #histed For more on Lit & Phils see our article in History Today www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

Looking forward to giving the keynote talk at this year's DEEP Day in Groningen (Dutch Expertise Centre in the Theory & History of Education & Psychology) Title: Beyond the Two Cultures: Classical Learning and the Making of Modern Science #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social

🇮🇪 The deadline for abstracts has now passed, but there is plenty of time to register for the History of Education Conference in November. 👇 Here is all you need to know about booking accommodation:

History of Education Society UK@histedsocuk.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🏘️ The website has details on accommodation available on the university campus and in local hotel. Limited spaces on campus, so book early! hes2026.wixsite.com/hes2026mayno...

🌞 Enjoying the Bank Holiday weather? Don't forget to submit your abstract for the HES Conference - today is the FINAL DAY! 🚨

History of Education Society UK@histedsocuk.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🗣️ CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS! 🇮🇪 The History of Education Conference is back for 2026, and will be held at Maynooth University, Ireland. 📆 Now, you can submit your 250-word abstracts - you have until 25 May 2026! 👇 More here: hes2026.wixsite.com/hes2026mayno...

absolutely wild to see people out here saying that it is responsibility of peer reviewers to check for hallucinated references. it is hard enough to persuade people to read articles and provide reviews. expecting them to spend hours cross reffing literature is unreal.

🥇 Congratulations to our journal's co-editor Heather Ellis on a richly deserved award!

Dr Heather Ellis @heatherlwellis.bsky.social · 5mo ago

So pleased that our 'School Dinners' Exhibition at @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social has won *Best Temporary or Touring Exhibition of the Year at the 2026 Museums + Heritage Awards*🏆 @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social project is the core academic partner for 'School Dinners' 🍽 #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social

So pleased that our 'School Dinners' Exhibition at @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social has won *Best Temporary or Touring Exhibition of the Year at the 2026 Museums + Heritage Awards*🏆 @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social project is the core academic partner for 'School Dinners' 🍽 #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social

It was lovely to take a School Food APPG delegation to the Food Museum, Suffolk today with local MP Peter Prinsley. We visited the School Dinners exhibition, which I opened recently. A great chance to engage across the sector as free school meals expand to 500,000 kids and breakfast clubs roll out.

Thrilled to see @britishacademy.bsky.social has published the Policy Histories Seminar report from our project-The UK School Meals Service: Past, Present and Future? First comprehensive history of #schoolmeals #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social

The British Academy@britishacademy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The School Meals Service has delivered more than 54 billion meals to schoolchildren since its creation in 1906. What do experts think needs to happen to ensure the service helps more children thrive? 🧵

Was lovely to talk about our @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social research tonight. Great discussion, thanks so much for the invitation and all the questions #histed #schoolmeals @histedsocuk.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We're back, and greeting the summer term of seminars with school meals. What's not to love? Well, maybe lumpy custard and inequality, among other things. Join us in person at the lovely Institute of Historical Research in Bloomsbury, or online on Zoom. Free and very open to the interested public.

Thrilled to see @britishacademy.bsky.social has published the Policy Histories Seminar report from our @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social project- The UK School Meals Service: Past, Present and Future? First comprehensive history of school meals #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social

The British Academy@britishacademy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The School Meals Service has delivered more than 54 billion meals to schoolchildren since its creation in 1906. What do experts think needs to happen to ensure the service helps more children thrive? 🧵

Looking forward to it!

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We're back, and greeting the summer term of seminars with school meals. What's not to love? Well, maybe lumpy custard and inequality, among other things. Join us in person at the lovely Institute of Historical Research in Bloomsbury, or online on Zoom. Free and very open to the interested public.

Another from our latest edition of the Journal. Stephanie Olsen looks into drawing out the 'specificities' of children's worlds in order to gain an emotional and experiential understanding in various history of education contexts Read in full 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Towards an Emotional and Experiential History of Modern Education: Children’s Essays on the Cinema Around the First World War

This article probes the potential of emotional and experiential histories of education. London children’s school essays on their experiences in the First World War, their stories, their dreams and ...

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History of Education Society UK@histedsocuk.bsky.social · 5mo ago

More on our latest edition of History of Education: Judith Harford and Tom O'Donoghue delve into the role the Catholic Church had in the 'organisational culture of schools' and how this led to a regulation of sexuality in the early decades of the Irish state 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

More on our latest edition of History of Education: Judith Harford and Tom O'Donoghue delve into the role the Catholic Church had in the 'organisational culture of schools' and how this led to a regulation of sexuality in the early decades of the Irish state 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“An Ireland of Brave, Manly Boys, an Ireland of Pure, Modest Girls1”: The Education System and the Regulation of Sexuality in Ireland, 1922–1968

This article examines how the Catholic Church, working hand in glove with the Irish State, used the education system in order to regulate Irish sexuality in the early decades of Irish independence....

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📢New piece out now in @theconversation.com #Schoolmeals stigma, pleasure, memory, class & why they still matter so much in 2026. Reflections on our @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social research in light of UK govt review of school food standards #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social doi.org/10.64628/AB....

School dinners are changing: the strong emotions and memories around these meals reflect their social, economical and cultural importance

When people remember school dinners they remember how they made them feel as much as what they ate.

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