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:

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

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!

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

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

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

Looking forward to it!

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....

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....

📢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....

Historians of education should focus on emotions and senses, as is the emphasis of our latest journal edition. 'To write the history of education in this way is not to abandon structural analysis but to deepen it.' Read in full here!

Thanks @heatherlwellis.bsky.social for including my article based on my keynote! Check out the whole SI here.

Happy to share the new SI of History of Education(55:3) “Senses, Emotions and Experiences in #histed” From the 2023 @histedsocuk.bsky.social conference in Sheffield, OA articles explore how education feels through bodies, memory, belonging & resistance. Guest-ed by me 😊 doi.org/10.1080/0046...

Nice to talk about our @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social research at the @sheffielduni.bsky.social School of Education Voices seminar this lunchtime along with colleagues from our Policy Research Cluster #histed sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Great to chat to colleagues about all things #schoolmeals at the first ever Faculty of Social Sciences Research Showcase today at @sheffielduni.bsky.social. And to find so many unexpected connections between colleagues' research and our own @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social project! ✨️🍎 #histed

Great to talk to BBC Radio York, Lincolnshire & Sheffield tdy about govt plans to reduce deep-fried, high-sugar foods in school meals & our @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social research on school meal history from WW2 to 1980s marketisation #histed 🍽️ @sheffielduni.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Delighted that the School Dinners exhibition we collaborated with @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social on has been shortlisted for the Museums + Heritage Awards 2026 Temporary or Touring Exhibition of the Year 🥛🍎🍽 awards.museumsandheritage.com/2026-shortli... #ISMD2026 #histed @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social

Two great new articles on university history in History of Education 1. Tomas Vancisin & @aileenfyfe.bsky.social: St Andrews records reveal how universities were embedded in British imperial networks. doi.org/10.1080/0046...

🎥 We’re interested in different ways of disseminating research. So, we’re trying our hand at short-form video content to summarise the core arguments of amazing projects. 🥘 Up first, here’s our journal’s co-editor @heatherlwellis.bsky.social talking about the @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social project:

Super exciting to see this in the flesh! This was such a side project for me but I got so much from it and loved having the opportunity to do it!

Delighted be part of this excellent volume. Thanks to @heatherlwellis.bsky.social and @capandgown.bsky.social for overseeing the project to completion!

So...it finally arrived 🥳 A Cultural History of Higher Learning in the Age of Industry Edited with @capandgown.bsky.social and published with @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social With contributions from @tomasirish.bsky.social, @stuartjones.bsky.social, @echomikeromeo.bsky.social and others #histed

On Weds we'll be with historians at Sheffield Hallam University & University of Sheffield for the next RHS visit with academics and history practitioners in the city. Our visit ends with a guest lecture by Prof David Stack (Reading) to which all are welcome www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-an... 1/2

Thank you Yoonmi Lee, I am happy that scholars are benefitting from our double SI in History of Education, the product of much wonderful collaboration between multiple authors and editors.

Thanks @heatherlwellis.bsky.social for bringing this to my attention and to you and Mark for being such excellent co-editors.

Some nice comments on our double SI @stephanieolsen.bsky.social and Mark Freeman! 'the recent special issue of History of Education (2023), which represents a significant initiative to redefine and expand the field by challenging its traditionally Eurocentric focus.' #histed doi.org/10.4000/1489i

What changes were made to REF2029 as part of last December's 'unpausing'; and what are the likely implications - positive and negative - for History and the wider humanities? New on the RHS blog: bit.ly/3ZIfe0P #Skystorians @artsandhums.bsky.social

Early career historians, studying for an MA or PhD in #history or a cognate subject, are invited to join the Royal Historical Society as Postgraduate Members bit.ly/4kknnCb Applications are welcome at any time: next closing dates: 9 March and 11 May 2026 #Skystorians 1/2

Excited to see the first in a series of articles (& future virtual special issue) of @hisjournalha.bsky.social coming out of the 'Communities of Knowledge-Making' workshop I organised w. Martha Vandrei at @brlsi.bsky.social in June 2024. Congratulations Julia! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We enjoyed two seminars from the School Meals team. There was a lot of it to discuss and we only really touched on it. It is interesting to read how the project is continuing and great to see how it is having an impact. 😀

Very good to see Heather's research on the history of school meals provision being widely shared today. An excellent example of the value and application of historical research in contemporary policymaking. @heatherlwellis.bsky.social was a superb guest lecturer at a recent RHS visit #Skystorians

Great lunchtime seminar in London today hosted by @britishacademy.bsky.social sharing @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social findings w. policymakers, academics, charities & school leaders. Strong appetite for long historical view in #schoolmeals policy 🍽🍎🥦 @sheffielduni.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org #histed

Off to London today to share key findings from our @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social research with policymakers at a @britishacademy.bsky.social lunchtime seminar — what 120 years of UK #schoolmeals can teach today’s policy 🍎🍽 #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social @ichre-ioe.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org

New book review: Ellis on Case, Stephen: _Creatures of Reason: John Herschel and the Invention of Science_. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20138526

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out @heatherlwellis.bsky.social (@sheffielduni.bsky.social)’s review of @stephenrcase.bsky.social (Olivet Nazarene Uni)’s book _Creatures of Reason: John Herschel & the Invention of Science_ 2024 @upittpress.bsky.social #hstm Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

I’ve used the BBC Written Archives Centre for research and I deplore the new restrictive rules and the sneaky way they were introduced. It’s unbecoming of a public institution that is supposed to be about informing people to effectively close off proper archival research.

Early Christmas present! 🎁✨️ New paperback edition of the Bloomsbury Cultural History of Education series 🎄 (I edited Vol 5) 📚 #histed @unishefplayer.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sheffieldcems.bsky.social

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

Great to be part of this visit yesterday and share findings with colleagues from @royalhistsoc.org, @ioe.bsky.social, @lshtmhistory.bsky.social and everyone who came to @heatherlwellis.bsky.social's lecture. #histed #schoolmeals @sheffielduni.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social

Thanks for inviting me to give the lecture! It was a really valuable and interesting day.

Informative and intriguing lecture by @heatherlwellis.bsky.social yesterday on the history of the School Meals Service in Britain @royalhistsoc.org

Heading into London for this today. So glad to see @royalhistsoc.org focusing on historians working outside history departments. Such an important topic for our discipline! Looking forward to talking about @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social later as an eg of this work #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social

Tomorrow's visit includes a public lecture, by @heatherlwellis.bsky.social (School of Education, University of Sheffield), on: 'Hunger, Health and Hope: A History of School Meals in Britain' bit.ly/3K8Utrd Booking to attend the lecture online remains open: 6pm Wednesday 10 Dec #Skystorians 2/2

Tomorrow we make our final Visit of 2025: to historians @lshtm.bsky.social and @ioe.bsky.social. Our focus is on working as a historian outside 'traditional' history departments - something that's increasingly common. The RHS welcomes historians to join us, wherever they work bit.ly/3KBcnTy 1/2