📗 A new book review is out in the History of Education. Seyma Aksoy reviews Dzovinar Kévonian and Guillaume Tronchet's "Managing Global Student Migration in the Twentieth Century: The Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris Experiment" Have a read here:

🇮🇪 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:

Under a week to register for the Children's History Society conference in July! 👇

Want to get more involved in #histed? Did you know you can join the History of Education Society? Plenty of perks, including copies of the Researcher, attendance at our conference, and plenty of opportunities to get your work noticed and rewarded. Join here: historyofeducation.org.uk/membership/

🏫 TONIGHT! Catherine Freeman is at the IHR Life Cycles seminar discussing her research on girls' swimming lessons in the late 19th and early 20th century!

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

The chosen few The 1963 Campaign for Education lobbied for wider access & greater investment in higher education Their short film 'The chosen few'-online at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... - opens a window into '60s education, highlighting shortage of places, crowded conditions & lack of opportunity

If you work in #histed, the deadline for submitting abstracts for this year's History of Education Society conference is 25th. May. The conference will be at Maynooth University, near Dublin on 13th-15th. November. There will be some PGR bursaries. hes2026.wixsite.com/hes2026mayno...

There are only five days to go to get your abstracts in for our conference in Ireland this November!

🎇💡All welcome to our 'History of Interdisciplinary Education' symposium on Weds 17 June at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social w/ @histedsocuk.bsky.social. 16 speakers across 4 roundtables, keynote and a great chance to make connections. ℹ️🎟️ info & free tickets: www.imperial.ac.uk/events/20984...

You can now register for the History of Interdisciplinary Education Symposium on 17 June, held at Imperial College London. A great opportunity to meet more people in the history of education ecosystem, and hear some fascinating papers: www.imperial.ac.uk/events/20984...

Next Tuesday, 26th. May, we are going swimming. This doesn't necessarily involve getting wet as dry swimming lessons will be included. @catgqf.bsky.social will present her findings from school records and newspapers detailing girls' swimming lessons, 1890-1914. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

🥇 Congratulations to our journal's co-editor Heather Ellis on a richly deserved award!

The deadline for submitting an abstract for the HES 2026 conference in Maynooth is Monday 25th May. We look forward to meeting many of you in November 2026! hes2026.wixsite.com/hes2026mayno...

The School Meals Service has delivered more than 54 billion meals to schoolchildren since its creation in 1906. What do experts think needs to happen to ensure the service helps more children thrive? 🧵

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

With my @histedsocuk.bsky.social History of Education Researcher book reviews editor hat on, I'm looking for a #histed PGR or ECR to review this book for the November issue. Yale UP sent me this copy for review so I will post it to you (owing to postage, UK addresses only). DM me if interested.

The latest issue of History of Education Quarterly is out. Here are all the articles -- free to you. 1/n

Today's article explores physical culture in Finnish schools in the 1950s, arguing that it emphasised moral values, aimed for equality, encouraged aspiration to the upper middle-class, and offered symbolic spaces to experience emotional regimes. Read here 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

HERJ has a new series call for papers on 'Decolonisation and Heritage in History Education'! For more information, including how to express your interest in submitting, please see the series call for papers here: journals.uclpress.co.uk/media/journa...

Just over two weeks to go!

One of our latest book reviews 👇

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....

📢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....

We're back, and greeting the summer term of seminars with school meals. What's not to love? Well, maybe lumpy custard and inequality, among other things. Join us in person at the lovely Institute of Historical Research in Bloomsbury, or online on Zoom. Free and very open to the interested public.

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....

This evening @petermandler.bsky.social gives the 2026 UCL Neale Lecture: ‘Eight Reasons to Study History: The Rise (and Fall?) of History as an Undergraduate Degree’. In-person and online from 6pm bit.ly/4n8KcKE #Skystorians @ihr.bsky.social @histassoc.bsky.social

New in 'Transactions': how might early medieval history be taught in schools? bit.ly/49bQRxB Toby Purser's new article makes the case for 'Beowulf' in the context of the UK government's 2025 curriculum review, and its proposals for GCSE history. #Skystorians #medieval @histassoc.bsky.social 1/2

On protecting what matters. @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @histassoc.bsky.social History UK www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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!

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...

The deadline to apply is today! 🚨

Check out our exciting programme for the term, starting this Monday 27/04 with our brilliant u/g and MSt students presenting on education in Shanghai, Girlhood Culture in France, Childhood and memory in South Africa & multiracial family like in the late 20thC US

Many thanks to Karen Graves for such a generous review of Teaching Gender in History of Education @histedsocuk.bsky.social! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📗 Volume 55, Issue 3​ of the History of Education Journal is out today! 👇 See here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/thed20/5...

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...

👋 We're now on LinkedIn! We'll continue to be active on BlueSky, but come and join the conversation over there too: www.linkedin.com/posts/histor...

McGill University and University of Ottawa 2026 Special Event Histories of Global Mental Health: An International Conference 25-26 June 2026 Montreal, Canada Full details available at: www.mcgill.ca/tcpsych/trai... #histmed

A fantastic full-time salaried Postdoctoral Researcher Opportunity has just gone live from Tampere University on the history of nationalism and childhood. International applications are encouraged. Check it out! 🧒👧 tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...

📣 Call for papers: @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social - @histedsocuk.bsky.social History of Interdisciplinary Education symposium, Imperial, Wed 17 Jun 2026. All welcome, free of charge. 📎 See attached for information! Call closes Mon 27 Apr. 📬 Please reach out with any questions or proposals!

Just over a month to go...

🎥 As we head into the Easter weekend, @jennycrane.bsky.social gives us a summary of her ‘Gifted Children’ project. 🧒 The book covers themes of childhood, elitism, equality, perceptions of national decline, innate intelligence, individualism, and more… 😁 Here’s Jenny with a 2-minute summary:

Just a few more days to apply to this year’s Take Your Research Public course - an introduction to public writing, social media, podcasting and more for academics new to this work. Guests include @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social and @estelleprnq.bsky.social. Free, online, over four Tuesdays in June.

🌟 NEW PRE-PRINT! 🌟 “It seems that everyone has got something”: A qualitative study of adolescents’ attitudes towards self-diagnosing with mental health problems from me and @nhigsonsweeney.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

🏫 More information on the History of Education Society and @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social History of Interdisciplinary Education Symposium, which is being held in June this year. 📆 Proposal deadline: 27 April 👇 See more here: www.imperial.ac.uk/centre-for-l...

📖 Check out some of the recent book reviews in the History of Education Journal. In the first, Antoine Marquis discusses Briony Neilson's "Dangers of Youth" and its broader implications for class, age, the role of the state, and 'young offenders'. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

2.5 year postdoc opportunity at CoE NARS, Tampere University. The focus is on the history of everyday nationalism and we encourage applications dealing with the history of childhood and youth. Please distribute far and wide and encourage great scholars to apply. tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...

A friendly reminder to submit your proposal for the HEIRNET 2026 Conference, which will be held at the University of Padova, Italy, from August 26 to 28, 2026.

📣 Call for papers: Caring Communities: Rethinking Histories of Care, Class, and Kinship, 1800-present Newcastle University, Thursday 3 - Friday 4 September 2026. Deadine for submissions: Friday 24 April 2026. caringcommunities.co.uk/conference/

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/...