The history of education is a contested field of study, and has represented a site of struggle
for the past century of its development. It is highly relevant to an understanding of broader …

This book compares the formal education of the majority of girls in Britain and Ireland in the
nineteenth century. Previous books about 'Britain'invariably focus on England, and such …

This article looks through the lens of the gendered politics of historical writing at the main
forms and direction of scholarship on gender in History of Education since its publication. It …

170 McCulloch among many others has demonstrated, English traditions were dominant in
this process, and differed significantly from those of Scotland, Wales and Ireland. These …

Girls' secondary education shared similarities but also differed in England, Wales, Scotland,
Ireland, and the British colonies. It was inflected by Anglicanism in England, Presbyterianism …

This article focuses on an underexplored aspect of the Catholic convent school experience,
namely the kinds of socialisation and regulation of emotion maintained within the convent …

Reviewing the historiography of education provides insights into both the past and present
of this growing area of research across the UK and Ireland. In the nineteenth century …

Abdullah Abdurahman is best-known in South African historiography for his four-decade
career as the first coloured City Councillor of Cape Town and the President of the African …

The Argyll Commission was set up in 1864 with Alexander Nicolson as assistant
commissioner reporting back on education provision in the Hebrides. The Education …

This chapter provides an introduction to research in the field of the history of education. It
discusses the legacy of the history of 'ideas' in education, gives an overview of …