Our first sessions are about to start! We have so many great choices and a lovely variety of speakers. #HES2025 #histed

Fantastic timing. Do read this and get a glimpse of Joyce's legacy which we are celebrating at the conference. #HES2025 #histed

Pleased to see this published and just before the 2025 @histedsocuk.bsky.social conference in Winchester! #histed @lottiehoare.bsky.social @stephanieolsen.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It's out! Six volumes of a superb 'Cultural History of Higher Learning', from antiquity to the present day, written by 67 authors from all around the world. I am delighted to see this wonderful collective work published and to have had the opportunity to take part in it.

Great cover!

Really excited to see this volume published! My contribution is called 'communities' and explores 19th century universities as sites of inclusion and exclusion in real and imagined ways.

An ideal Christmas present

So great that this is out in the world after years of hard work! My chapter, 'Contestations', is about the global history of home economics as a university subject, and what that tells us about institutional reform, gender, and empire at the turn of the 20th century.

📢 Ed. with @capandgown.bsky.social A Cultural History of Higher Learning in the Age of Industry was published by Bloomsbury today! Many thanks to the series eds & all contributors www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-... #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social @ische-news.bsky.social

Come and join us at History of Education! We're looking for a new editor for our special section 'Workspace'. Deadline is 30 October. More information here: historyofeducation.org.uk/e:oi_special... @lottiehoare.bsky.social @stephanieolsen.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social #histed

📢 Our first full-team article from the School Meals Project is now published 🎉 🍽️ "The UK School Meals Service, 1944–Present: A Sensory and Emotional Experience" 📖 Read it here: lnkd.in/eiWQT4fN #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social @ichre-ioe.bsky.social @wlvuni.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social

In case you missed it... Our @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social Policy Briefing is now available! Details below #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social @ische-news.bsky.social

🍽 ICYMI Our Policy Briefing on the history & future of school meals is now available to read & share. Drawing on over a century of evidence and new oral histories, we show how mealtimes are about much more than nutrition. @sheffielduni.bsky.social @wlvuni.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social #histed

Come and join us at History of Education! We're looking for a new editor for our special section 'Workspace'. Deadline is 30 October. More information here: historyofeducation.org.uk/e:oi_special... @lottiehoare.bsky.social @stephanieolsen.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social #histed

Published 30 Oct ... I'm in vol 5, expertly edited by @heatherlwellis.bsky.social and @capandgown.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...

A belated, warm welcome to Laura Nys, History of Education's new book reviews ed, and a huge thank you to @histosaurusbex.bsky.social ! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @lottiehoare.bsky.social @heatherlwellis.bsky.social

Excited to give the @royalhistsoc.org's public lecture this December: 'Hunger, Health and Hope: A History of School Meals in Britain' @sheffielduni.bsky.social @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social #histed 📅 Tuesday 10 December, 6pm 🎟️ Free, all welcome. Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hunger-hea...

New open access article, based on my keynote at the HES conference in Sheffield : Towards an Emotional and Experiential History of Modern Education: Children’s Essays on the Cinema Around the First World War www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @hexhistory.bsky.social

Pleased to see the new edition of this is now available in paperback and at a much more reasonable price! #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social @unishefplayer.bsky.social

It has been a lovely week at @ische-news.bsky.social #ISCHE46im Lille. Thought-provoking panels, catching up with old friends and sharing results of the @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social project! #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social @wlvuni.bsky.social @ichre-ioe.bsky.social

Welcome to our June 2025 newsletter, the final one of the funded project! This month, we look at our end-of-project conference held at Friends House in London on 19 June and our panel at #ISCHE2025. @sheffielduni.bsky.social @ichre-ioe.bsky.social @wlvuni.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social #histed

"We found a huge appetite to think long-term but frustration that the machinery pulls in the opposite direction." This year's Heywood Fellow, Lucy Smith, makes the case for a long-term national strategy ⬇️

On my way to #ISCHE2025 in Lille to talk (among other things) about our @esrcscische-news.bsky.social project! #histed @ische-news.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social

We recently announced a Call for Papers for our next Annual Conference this November in Winchester! You can submit an abstract now until Thursday 31st of July! PGRs are especially welcome. Information: historyofeducation.org.uk/conference/ #histed #cfp #conference #history #education #edusky

Our Annual Conference this November is dedicated to Joyce Goodman. Her co-authored paper with Sue Anderson-Faithful, 'Turning and twisting histories of women’s education: matters of strategy', resonates strongly with our conference theme. Read: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #histed #edusky

This ESRC project on the UK's school meal service is really fascinating work on a key aspect of UK education

To try and capture some of the key themes and ideas discussed at our end-of-project conference last Thursday, we worked with Jules from Illustrated Live who produced this great live illustration for us! #histed @ioe.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @wlvuni.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social

And thank you to @drjuliabish.bsky.social who did the lion's share of the organisation!

Excellent event - thanks to all who came and supported it. Food for thought (of course!)

We had a great time at our end-of-project conference today in London! Thanks to everyone for coming and to Sharon Hodgson MP for talking to us about the current policy landscape on school meals. #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social @wlvuni.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social

Looking forward to our end-of-project conference tomorrow in London. Conference packs and programmes ready to go! #histed #schoolmeals @ioe.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social

A first publication from Leo Clarkson, an aspiring 15 year old analyst (and my son)

Lovely to see this! Leo - my son - had a fantastic time at the conference, especially listening to @stephanieolsen.bsky.social's keynote. Thank you to everyone for welcoming him.

Enjoyed the first day of the International workshop 'Rebuilding Peace: Universities and Knowledge in the 1940s Postwar World' at the @eui-eu.bsky.social in Florence! #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social @unishefplayer.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social

Great to read about the excellent presentations by my colleagues this month. And a reminder to join @sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social, the project team and colleagues in London on 19 June for our free end-of-project conference (booking link in the newsletter!).

Welcome to our May newsletter! Our team gave presentations in Stockholm at #NEHC25, in China, and we look ahead to our end-of-project conference on 19 June in London as well as a number of other talks! #histed @histedsocuk.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @ichre-ioe.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social

Now open access - special issue edited by me, Dec 2024 www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal..., including @heatherlwellis.bsky.social @erinbeeston.bsky.social

Great news!

Really useful workshop on *food banks in schools* today funded by @sheffielduni.bsky.social. Such interesting research in this space across educational provision @trusselluk.bsky.social @gurpinderlalli.bsky.social @jfledderjohann.bsky.social @emmawainwright.bsky.social @alicebradbury.bsky.social

Presenting research on Lit and Phils in a pre-formed panel at #NEHC2025 #histed @histedsocuk.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social

Taking part in a journal editors' roundtable at #NEHC2025 with @stephanieolsen.bsky.social representing History of Education, The journal of @histedsocuk.bsky.social! #histed

Great to be here at #NEHC2025! Here to talk about the @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social project as well as knowledge networks in 19thC @histedsocuk.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social #histed

Welcome to our April 2025 newsletter! Find out more about what the team has been up to including the wonderful Food Museum launch, talking to the BBC Food Programme, and lots more! #histed @ichre-ioe.bsky.social @wlvuni.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social

Excellent contributions from @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social @heatherlwellis.bsky.social @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social and many others to this timely programme! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Join us for our free 1-day end-of-project conference on 19th June at Friends House, London! We'll share our key findings & recommendations and discuss all things #schoolmeals with some great people including @sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social! #histed Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-school...

📢 Today’s episode of BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme features our ESRC-funded research on past, present & future of school meals, incl an interview with @heatherlwellis.bsky.social & more on the new @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social exhibition! @sheffielduni.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Join us on 7th May 11am BST for an online roundtable to celebrate the launch of our new edited volume: A Cultural History of Higher Learning in the Age of Industry! #histgeoguni #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social @capandgown.bsky.social

Next Wednesday - online roundtable on Cultures of Higher Learning in the Age of Industry ... register here www.histgeog-uni.net/history-of-u... ... including @capandgown.bsky.social @heatherlwellis.bsky.social and others (inc me)

An article of mine for Le Grand Continent exploring America's state crisis and how Europe can prepare for a post-American order legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/04/2...

Great to talk to @thesheiladillon.bsky.social about our @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social research for BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme today and #schoolmeals over the last 120 years! #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social @unishefplayer.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social