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 …
Rosa Branson, Art, Life and Education
The focus of the book project, entitled Rosa Branson: Art, …
Alys Russell: A Life in Education and Public Service
Alys Russell (1867-1951): A Life in Education and Public Service …
Publications
Afterword: histories of women’s higher education, time and temporalities
The Afterword to this special issue of Paedagogica Historica entitled Breaking …
Women and Education, 1800-1980, with Jane Martin
Women and Education, 1800-1980 examines and celebrates the lives, aims, …
Temporalities and the Transnational: Yoshi Kasuya’s Consideration of Secondary Education for Girls in Japan (1933)
This chapter in The Transnational in the History of Education: Concepts …
Presentations
Visualising from “Above” Or From the Margins? Defining the “University Woman” and Internationalising Knowledge: Types of University Training (IFUW, 1934)
This paper traces the social processes and social categories codified …
Working For Displaced Persons and Refugees
Edith Morley was appointed Professor of English Language at Reading University …
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 …
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 …
School Stories, Histories of Education (video)
Watch School Stories, Histories of Education, the inaugural lecture from Professor …