New open access paper by ICHRE colleagues @IOE Jenny Bond & @ProfGinaB explores the lives of Chinese students at British universities and colleges 1908-1937 academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

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

8 May 1945: ‘A few hours later we wound our way through crowded London streets, when peace was still young. I could see us play a part in history as, with elastic steps, we flowed like a river banked’ magazine.ucl.ac.uk/london-stude... @ioe.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

It's here. Our 50th anniversary special issue, on 'London's Past Today', edited by @aidannorrie.bsky.social and Robert Shoemaker: www.tandfonline.com/toc/yldn20/c.... 🧵

The next @IHR.bsky.social History of Education seminar is on Thursday 1 May at IOE & hybrid and features @lottiehoare.bsky.social See here: www.history.ac.uk/events/readi...

Highly recommend this new exhibition at the @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social featuring some if the @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social research BBC News - ‘Sobbing over semolina’: Your school dinner memories - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Serving up a spoonful of nostalgia 🥄 Gary McCulloch's @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social project on the history of the School Meals Service contributed to this exhibition, featured in Waitrose Magazine: www.weekend-online.com/issue... bsky.app/profile/heatherlwel...

A pleasure talking to the @bbcradio4.bsky.social Today Programme this morning about our @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social research and the upcoming exhibition at @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social! #schoolmeals #histed @unishefplayer.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social #histed

A 200-year story in the making: To celebrate #UCL200 @ucl.ac.uk is releasing three new publications tracing two centuries of student stories, innovation and research, and architectural history. @uclpress.bsky.social Find out more: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/mar/...

Announcing ‘Student London: A New History of Higher Education in thr Capital’, out next year, read more about it here & how the authors will write students back into London’s history: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...

📢 New OA project publication written by @heatherlwellis.bsky.social and Isabelle Carter! Control, Resistance, and the Senses: Neurodivergent Perspectives of the UK School Meals Service www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #histed @histedsocuk.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social

Today, on International School Meals Day, Gary McCulloch and @heatherlwellis.bsky.social presented our project findings to the APPG School Food. Thanks for the invite & for supporting our research! We missed @gurpinderlalli.bsky.social today. #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social #ISMD2025

We’ve joined Bluesky! Kicking things off by sharing research on students & AIDS/HIV activism in 1980s & 1990s London studentsunionucl.org/articles/hiv...