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/...

🔔⏰Just over 1 month to go! ⏰🔔 Call for papers: Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn' A two-day workshop organised by @andrewseaton.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May. Details in poster below!

📗 The latest article in the History of Education Journal. Burak Taş and Sena Coşğun-Kandal discuss the Turkish Temperance Youth League in the 1930s and how it sheds light on broader themes of discipline, leisure, and belonging. Read in full here 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣Bookings now open! 👉Celebrating 50 years of the Social History Society with our 'Festival of Social History' @ihr.bsky.social Panels, zine-making stall, tours, lunch, a roundtable, & keynote by Naomi Tadmor 📅 24 Apr 2026 💷 from £10 for members All welcome! socialhistory.org.uk/events/festi...

👀 Deadline for abstracts is next month!

Great to see the new combined book prize for a first book in women's history, from @womenshistnet.bsky.social and @whaireland.bsky.social. Entries can be made for research-based books published in 2025, until 31 July 2026. Spread the word! womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...

ICYMI: Jenny Crane on ‘gifted children’. Who is considered gifted and why? What were they encouraged to do? How did these approaches fit into evolving global and national political landscapes?

🎥 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:

Sad news about the well-respected historian of education and former President of the Society, Roy Lowe. historyofeducation.org.uk/roy-lowe-not...

Next month the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social is hosting a Festival of Social History! Come one, come all! 🗃️ Experts! Projects! Zines! Lunch! Wine! socialhistory.org.uk/events/festi...

How do history textbooks contribute to developing a democratic culture? This new paper aims to explore how teaching the evolution of twentieth-century democracy in Spanish history textbooks contributes to the promotion of competences for a democratic culture of learners. doi.org/10.14324/HER...

The London Group of Historical Geographers resumes (in person and online) on 12 May, consuming school dinners with Heather Ellis's 'Feeding the Nation's Children: School Meals, Inequality & the Politics of Care in Modern Britain'. All welcome, free and intellectually fun. Registration link below.

"The idea of education as a route to success is just not culturally embedded like it is in China. If anything, what is culturally embedded here is the Clarkson mantra – ‘I didn’t get any A levels, and look how rich I am.’" To what extent does this resonate?

Grants, loans, student discounts: IOE academics dive into the history of student finance 💰📚 "It's clear that many of today's support systems arose out of activism, from student discounts to subsidised canteens to union shops and hardship funds." https://bit.ly/4lVOPag

🌞 Spring is coming, and it's nearly the end of the week... 📗 Why not check out our latest edition of the History of Education Journal to celebrate? www.tandfonline.com/toc/thed20/c...

The Cambridge Gender & Sexuality History Workshop is now accepting papers for the Easter term. To participate, please send an abstract of 250 words, along with a brief biography (100 words) to [email protected] by Sunday, 19 April 2026.

The history of education is so often linked to its contemporary policy implications... The UK Postgraduate Diversity Network is hosting a summit on equity in postgraduate study at the University of Leeds on 12 May 2026. See more below👇 www.postgraddiversitysummit.co.uk/summit2026

📃 CALL FOR PAPERS: Imperial-HES History of Interdisciplinary Education Symposium 📆 Paper proposals due 20 April 2026; event on 17 June 2026 🎫 FREE to attend and open to all, celebrating a centenary of Imperial College’s Acland Prize in Humanities 👇 More: historyofeducation.org.uk/call-for-pap...

🇮🇪 2026 CONFERENCE 🏫 Theme: 'Democracy and Education: Histories of Inclusion and Exclusion' 📝 Call for Papers: OPEN. Due 25 May 2026, 250-word abstracts. All abstracts will be reviewed by the Local Organising Committee and we will be in touch in the summer with the outcomes of this review process.

We are approaching the last seminar of the term! On Tuesday 24/3/26 from 17:30 GMT, Jillian Southart will be our speaker. Register below to hear 'Just ‘a heap of rags and tangled hair’? : identifying the female scholar in London’s ragged schools, 1840-1870'. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

In addition to today's guide to national history societies in the UK and Ireland, we also have listings of c.100 Record Societies. These societies are central to our research culture, with a focus on regional history / primary source publications. Here is England: bit.ly/4sPSwk3 1/2 #Skystorians

ICYMI: we're on the lookout for papers for our Annual Conference in November 2026. See more here! 👇

🗣️ CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS! 🇮🇪 The History of Education Conference is back for 2026, and will be held at Maynooth University, Ireland. 📆 Now, you can submit your 250-word abstracts - you have until 25 May 2026! 👇 More here: hes2026.wixsite.com/hes2026mayno...

Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS! See below for the details of a conference in Liverpool on the early history of teacher training colleges in Britain, specifically between 1836 and 1914 📍 Liverpool, 2 June 2026 historyofeducation.org.uk/call-for-pap...

📚 Nominations for our book prizes are OPEN! See below how to nominate a book that was published in 2023, 2024, or 2025, with our winner to be announced at our annual conference in November. 👇 historyofeducation.org.uk/book-prizes/

📱 We’re on TikTok! If you’re also over there, please do come and say hi - our first video is the start of our attempts to bring academic pieces to life, in short video form. 👇 vm.tiktok.com/ZNRuUaePd/

🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS! See below for the details of a conference in Liverpool on the early history of teacher training colleges in Britain, specifically between 1836 and 1914 📍 Liverpool, 2 June 2026 historyofeducation.org.uk/call-for-pap...

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...

Join us on Tuesday 10th. February from 17:30 GMT to hear @elenarossi.bsky.social speak about families in the middle ages as their children left for university and international travel. We will be at the IHR in London. You may meet us there or online. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

🎥 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:

📣We are delighted to announce the 2026 recipients of the Joint BME Small Grants! This scheme is supported by @histedsocuk.bsky.social; EHS; History UK; @historyworkshop.org.uk; @royalhistsoc.org; @sslh.bsky.social and @womenshistnet.bsky.social!✨ socialhistory.org.uk/2026/02/17/b...

To mark the 200th anniversary of @ucl, Georgina Brewis and Sam Blaxland have written a history of 'Student London' - putting students at the heart of otherwise institutional histories. Watch some of their reflections here 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfxj...

✍️ Fancy doing more writing? 📖 We are encouraging more people to submit a blog post to the History of Education Society! 👇 More here - this is an excellent chance to boost your writing and see more published online, especially for early ideas. historyofeducation.org.uk/submit-a-blo...

👋 We'd like to welcome our new Fellows to the Society! 🙋‍♂️ Tom Cryer - @thomascryer.bsky.social - is our new Richard Aldrich Fellow; Jack Deasley - @jldeasley.bsky.social - is our new Peter Gosden Fellow. Learn more about their roles here: historyofeducation.org.uk/fellows/

ICYMI: the History of Education Society Conference is back! ✈️ We'll be off to Maynooth, Ireland from Friday 13 to Sunday 15 November 2026 The call for papers will be in early March, so keep your eyes peeled! See more here:

Excellent talk yesterday at our seminar by Ian Archer 16thC children's work - some of it under the aegis of charity - beginning a conversation tbc in our colloquium this year - Monday 22nd June, 'Charity, Humanitarianism, and Childhood' get your abstracts in! deadline 13th March 2026

🚨 EXCITING NEWS - SAVE THE DATE! The History of Education Society conference is back for 2026. 🇮🇪 13-15 November 2026. Maynooth University, Ireland. Find out more below 👇 historyofeducation.org.uk/conference/

I had great fun writing this article, which sits at the intersection of so many of my bibliographical and historical interests, incl. critical university studies. I mobilize affective and queer bibliographical methods for a very different project. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hello everyone, Today is my final day as Peter Gosden Fellow. I've greatly enjoyed updating HES's socials over the last 2 years, as well as updating the official website, and leading on the launch of our PGR Hub. Look forward to a new Fellow keeping you all in the loop from tomorrow! - Jenny

✍️ Call for Blog Posts! We’re always keen to hear new voices on the HES UK blog — from early career researchers to established scholars. Short pieces, works-in-progress, and reflections all welcome. 📩 Get in touch if you’d like to contribute. Blog: historyofeducation.org.uk/blog/ #histed

Interested in submitting a paper on the subject of #histed ? Check out the submission policy for our journal History of Education Researcher; we are open to contributions from students, early career researchers and experienced academics. Info: historyofeducation.org.uk/history-of-e...

Congratulations to Dr Jenny Crowdy (Peter Gosden Fellow) on being awarded her PhD! Jenny's research centred on the concept of creativity in the digital age, tracing the history of the word, and how we can encounter it today. Jenny's Bio: historyofeducation.org.uk/person/jenni... #histed #edusky

For those who may not be aware, back in November 2025 we welcomed Tom Woodin, taking over from Jonathan Doney, as the new President of the History of Education Society UK. We look forward to their leadership in the years ahead. More info: historyofeducation.org.uk/executive-co... #histed

Sunday thought ☕📖 From books to laptops, oral exams to online submissions, education has always been changing. Studying its history reminds us that today’s debates have deep roots. #histed

#histed Object from the Past! Before creative writing was encouraged, pupils learned by copying model texts line by line. These copybooks trained handwriting, grammar, and moral conduct all at once; often containing maxims like “Industry is the road to happiness.” #EduSky

#histed Quote of the Week! “The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.” — Rabindranath Tagore A powerful global voice in educational thought.

Happy New Year! To start off 2026, take a look at the many opportunities you can explore! New Fellowship Opportunities (Deadline Friday 9th), Books to Review for our journal, Book Prize Nominations, and several Calls for Papers! Find out: historyofeducation.org.uk/news-2/ #histed

It's the end of 2025! What are your plans for 2026? Looking back on our own achievements, we: - Published many blog posts and journal articles from around the world - Held a very successful Annual Conference - Hosted several PGR workshops - Co-led a summer school ...and more! #histed

We have another exciting conference to promote in the lead up to Christmas! A free one-day event by ICHRE; ways of writing histories of universities and inviting exploration of students’ everyday lives. Info: historyofeducation.org.uk/ichreconfere... Deadline: 14 February 2026 #histed #edusky