📚 Grace Huxford reviews @lauratisdall.bsky.social's new book, We Have Come to Be Destroyed: Growing Up in Cold War Britain: Read here! 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

'A record 262,820 UK 18 year olds have been accepted on to a higher education course this UCAS cycle – that’s three per cent more than last year. Some 79 per cent of 18 year old applicants from England, Wales, and Northern Ireland who held an offer have been placed at their first choice'. 1/3

A bumper crop of higher education entrants, but is university becoming less popular among the better off?

It's DK's annual data spectacular on JCQ (A level and other level three outside of Scotland) results day.

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📗 A new article in the History of Education journal! Taylor C. Sherman explores adult education in India in the 1950s and 1960s 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Radio and Television for Development and Democracy: Adult Education in India in the 1950s and 1960s

At independence, the task of educating India’s masses was tied to the imagination of the young country as a democracy. It was also key to fostering the changes in agricultural practices necessary t...

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New on the @histchild.bsky.social website, access a bibliography of works published in the history of childhood in the past c.15 years, and contribute yourself. Thanks so much to @karl-haohaozhang.bsky.social www.histchild.org/resources/co... #histchild #skystorians

Contribute to a history of childhood bibliography

Check out this working bibliography and add more resources yourself

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How may we take a broader view to historicise 'NEETs' and youth unemployment, perhaps through centring the voices of young people and disability histories?

Will Davies@will-davies.bsky.social · 2w ago

I've written about Neets for the LRB. It is odd listening to recent debates about this completely ignore the overwhelming fact of this current crisis, that it is one of inactivity, disability, mental ill-health and neurodevelopmental disorders (as I discuss) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Would you like to publish an article on the history of education? The History of Education Society welcomes anyone, especially PGRs and ECRs, to submit an article for the November issue of the History of Education Researcher. More information: historyofeducation.org.uk/history-of-e...

Barefoot to school, Corleaghan National School. Clogher, County Tyrone, Ireland, early 20th century, photo by Rose Shaw.

Are you a member of the Society? Lots of perks, including access to our journals, events, and academic prizes. Join here:

Membership - History of Education Society

The HES (UK) is open to anyone with an interest in the history of education. Benefits of membership of the Society include:

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☀️ Fancy some summer reading? Our special edition in April covered 'Senses, Emotions and Experiences', arguing that historians have not sufficiently emphasised how educational life felt, instead focusing on accounts of policy and formal structures. Read here:

History of Education

Senses, Emotions and Experiences in the History of Education. Volume 55, Issue 3 of History of Education

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🇬🇷 Next week, plenty of HES members will be heading to Athens for the 47th International Standing Conference for the History of Education. We hope to see plenty of you there - if not, ISCHE is held each year and runs online sessions in the days leading up to it.

ISCHE 47 Conference in Athens, Greece!

ISCHE is an academic association dedicated to the history of education. Founded in 1978 as standing conference, it is now registered since 2015 in the German register of associations, keeping the same name. It includes individual and institutional members from all over the world.

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Bristol PhD candidate @busedp.bsky.social has written this article on her early research on gifted children in England. Covering themes of recognition, reframing, and healing, while also reflecting on the project's oral history approach. Read here:

Revisiting the Gifted Child in England: Emotional Memory, Recognition, and Healing in Adult Testimonies

Buse Demirkan (PhD candidate, University of Bristol)

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🚌 Interested in a social history of secondary education in Britain? Historians Peter Mandler, Laura Carter, and Chris Jeppesen have an ongoing project exploring experiences and attitudes from 1944, and have made plenty of resources available on their website. Check it out 👇️

Home - Secondary Education and Social Change in the United Kingdom since 1945

Welcome to the website of Secondary Education and Social Change in the United Kingdom since 1945 (SESC). SESC is a history research project funded by the ESRC [project reference ES/P010261/1], based…

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🇨🇭 Interested in how education developed in Switzerland? Amanda Nägeli reviews Ingrid Brühwiler, Lucien Criblez, Claudia Crotti, Marianne Helfenberger, Michèle Hofmann, and Karin Manz's history of institutional development in the 19th and 20th centuries 👇️

📗 In the History of Education journal, David Thorsén and Eva Insulander explore where museums found themselves in the jigsaw of a 'national public education framekwork' - and 'democratic welfare society' - in Sweden across the twentieth century. Read here:

Historical Developments of the Museum-School Relationship: The Swedish Case, 1930–1970

This paper examines the development of museum education for schools with mid-twentieth-century Sweden as an empirical example, focusing on the Nordic Museum (Nordiska museet) and the Swedish Museum...

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🏂️ Gabe Logan reviews Eric A. Moyen and John R. Thelin's "College Sports" How sports became an 'engrained component in higher education' in the United States and its relationship with broader social changes in the twentieth century 👇️

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....

📖 We have new book reviews in the Journal! 🏫 Mark Lewis Tizzoni reviews Alison John's "Learning and Power in Late Antique Gaul", exploring the 'social and political roles of education' and asking where classical education features in the archives 👇️

📗 Tyler Denmead sheds light on 'gendered racialisation' in English schools in a recent History of Education article, by analysing a character from the novel Dr. Wortle’s School and the racial thought of its author. Read here 👇️

Looking forward to presenting my paper at the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Conference next week, about the experiences of working-class girls in the Tripartite Secondary School System in the West Mids during the late 1950s-1960s… not least because the weather in Lancaster is looking wonderfully mild…

What can we learn from the histories of universities and higher education, in Britain and beyond, to address these contemporary challenges? What do we learn about what is important in these moments of 'crisis'?

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'it would be wrong to assume that earnings are the only valid measure of a degree. Going to university can be a life-defining experience that enables new social contacts and opportunities aside from formal learning.' 1/2

🎫 HES Conference early bird registration available now! Early bird available until 31 August. Registration includes lunch and dinner across the conference days and further details on accommodation are to follow in this thread... Secure your place here: shop.maynoothuniversity.ie/index.php?ap...

History of Education (HES) Society Conference 2026

UDL International Symposium Event Description: Registration for the History of Education (HES) Society Conference, 13th-15th November 2026, is now open here. Fees for fully-waged and non fully-waged m...

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Do we have the data we need to make sense of education? Join this webinar on 30 June to hear how the education system could make better use of the data it collects, and how to fill the gaps that existing data leave. www.ucl.ac.uk/education-re...

Do we have the data we need to make sense of education?

Quantitative data play a large part in how many education systems run. From policymakers’ points of view they are integral to how they judge whether the desired pupil attainment outcomes are being met...

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TODAY's the DAY!

Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood@histchildoxford.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excited to publish the programme for our 2026 Colloquium on Charity, Humanitarianism and Childhood - Monday 22nd June at Magdalen College and online - please register and share!

We’re having a great time at the Anniversary Cultures conference at the Senate House today. One more panel to come - followed by the Richard Aldrich lecture at 5.30pm.

Into the afternoon sessions at the Imperial-HES history of education symposium!

For anyone contemplating a history research degree, or finishing one and pondering what to do next, Becoming a Historian by Penelope Corfield and @timhitchcock.bsky.social, published by @ihr.bsky.social in 2022, is an invaluable guide. I wish I’d kept Hugh Trevor-Roper’s short guide for comparison.

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

What can histories of education and childhood say about this new UK policy?

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

UK parents support an under-16 social media ban – but what do their children think?

Summer School: Class, Culture & Discontents Free + free lunch. What's not to like? July 23-24th in Balham (South London) 11-3pm each day featuring some great speakers talking on some very timely topics Supported by @thesociologicalreview.org www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-sch...

Summer School: Class, Culture & Discontents

Summer School on class, culture and discontents.

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I'll be chairing a panel at this, which will include discussions of the 'new' 1960s institutions; the purpose of learning in universities; examples of further and technical education in the mid-twentieth century; and more. It's at 2pm on Thursday 18th - come along if you're around!

History of Education Society UK@histedsocuk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The last tickets available for the Anniversary Cultures conference at the Senate House in London next Thursday! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/anniversar...