In this two-part instalment of Passing Notes Oliver Mumford is joined by Professor Tim Allender of the University of Sydney to discuss his award-winning book Empire Religiosity: Convent habits in colonial and postcolonial India. Professor Allender’s research considers how the Loreto Sisters - Roman Catholic female missionaries - operated in colonial and postcolonial India to carry out their educational mission. In part one Professor Allender discusses the background and origins of his b...

In this episode Oliver Mumford is joined by Dr Jonathan Doney from the University of Exeter to discuss Dr Doney's book: Unearthing Policies of Instrumentalization in English Religious Education Using Statement Archaeology. The book was awarded the 2023 Kevin Brehony Prize by the History of Education. Dr Doney discusses the origins, purpose and method of his approach: statement archaeology. The episode explores the use of this approach through the examination of developments of English Religio...

Professor Gary McCulloch joins Oliver Mumford to discuss the life and work of Brian Simon, following Professor McCulloch’s recent biography of Brian Simon, authored with Antonio F. Canales and Hsiao-Yuh Ku. The episode explores the life of Brian Simon through his family life and educational experiences, his political engagement and beliefs, campaigns for equal secondary opportunities through comprehensive schooling and his contribution to the study and understanding of the history of educatio...

In this episode Oliver Mumford speaks with the Chair of Trustees at the National Education Museum, Anne Swift. Anne discusses the ideas behind the Museum's foundation, its development, and future. The significance of a new national museum, dedicated to the history of education in England and Wales is considered along with its current relevance.Note: This episode was recorded before the 4th July UK General Election. Guest references to the 'present government' were made with regard to the prev...

In this episode Professor Rosalind Crone of the Open University joins Oliver Mumford to discuss her book Illiterate Inmates: Educating Criminals in Nineteenth Century England. The book was awarded the 2023 Anne Bloomfield Prize by the History of Education Society UK, and examines the development, rise, and decline of prison education in England between 1800 and 1899. Discussing her research, Professor Crone reflects on the ideas, politics, and changes behind prison education, and some of its ...

Professor Catherine Lee of Anglia Ruskin University in conversation with Syeda Ali about her research into Section of the Local Government Act which was passed in the UK in 1988. The law prohibited the 'promotion' of 'homosexuality' by local authorities in state schools and was the first anti gay-propaganda law. Lee reflects on her time as teacher during Section 28, and subsequently as a researcher and campaigner for LGBTQ+ teachers'.

To accompany the 50th Anniversary special edition of the History of Education Journal, we spoke to some of the contributors. These podcasts focus on two of the themes in the journal:Geographical historiographies of education andThematic intersections with the history of education.Episode 3 - Intersections: Histories of Medicine and HealthIn this episode, Laura Newman, Postdoctoral research associate at Kings College, University of London, engages the listener with a fascinating tour of ...

To accompany the 50th Anniversary special edition of the History of Education Journal, we spoke to some of the contributors. These podcasts focus on two of the themes in the journal:Geographical historiographies of education andThematic intersections with the history of education.Episode 4 - Intersections: Histories of Science and TechnologyIn this episode, Roland Wittje, Associate Professor in History of Science and Technology, IIT Madras illuminates his unique perspective on histories...

To accompany the 50th Anniversary special edition of the History of Education Journal, we spoke to some of the contributors. These podcasts focus on two of the themes in the journal:Geographical historiographies of education andThematic intersections with the history of education.Episode 2- GeographyIn this episode, Johannes Westberg, Professor of Theory and History of Education at the University of Groningen, presents a lucid overview of the state of the field in the Nordics, to ...

To accompany the 50th Anniversary special edition of the History of Education Journal, we spoke to some of the contributors. These podcasts focus on two of the themes in the journal:Geographical historiographies of education andThematic intersections with the history of education.Episode 1 - GeographyIn this episode, Desmond Ikenna Odugu, Associate Professor of Education at Lake Forest College in Illinois presents a comprehensive discussion of the context for his article, Education in A...

We’re back today with our second of three episodes looking at the performing arts in education. In this episode, we move forward to the nineteenth century to look at theatre in Jesuit schools in the United States. My guest this week, who will walk us through this history, is Michael Zampelli, SJ. Michael is a theatre director and historian at Fordham University, where he also directs the MA Philosophy and Society . His research interests include gender and sexuality in performance, antit...

For our next few episodes, we’re going to turn to performance and look at how music, theatre and dance have intersected with education in the past. Our stop will be in early modern England, where Dr Amanda Eubanks Winkler will be our guide to performance in the schoolroom. Amanda is a historian of English music in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and twentieth centuries at Syracuse University. Her research interests include the relationship among musical, spiritual, and bodily disorder; perf...

We're excited to share a special guest episode today from our colleagues at HEQ&A, the official podcast of History of Education Quarterly. They have an outstanding archive of episodes, but given the interdisciplinary focus of this season, today I thought we’d share an interview they did with Sarah Lynch, where she discusses her most recent article, Marking Time: Making Community in Medieval Schools. Her work embraces methods from sociology and anthropology and is a really interesting look...

I'm taking a few weeks off this summer to work on my dissertation, so instead of new episodes we'll be sharing some of our favorite interviews from the archive. We'll also have some guest episodes from other history of education podcasts.In today's episode, Bethany White speaks to Dr. Tamson Pietsch and Dr. Joel Barnes about their work on the connections - and tensions - between the fields of the history of knowledge and the history of education. We discuss how the focus and methods of the hi...

Continuing our exploration of international student experiences, this episode we move to the other side of the world and examine the experience of overseas students in Australia. Beginning in 1948, Australia offered a number of different scholarship programmes targeted at students from Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. To guide us through the soup of acronyms and ‘schemes’ is Dr Anna Kent. Anna is a historian of education currently tutoring at Deakin University whose research focus...

The half a million international students studying in the UK are heirs to a complex legacy of overseas students studying in Britain. From medieval scholars traveling between Oxford and Paris, medical students traveling to Edinburgh, Indian students coming over in the late 19th century, or Chinese students studying in London today – politics and education combine in these students studying away from home. One moment that is particularly important for international students occurred in 1966-67,...

Today’s conversation picks up on the discussion of American imperial education from our last episode. I speak with Brianna Lafoon, who researches the education networks that formed within and between the mainland United States and its colonial holdings. We discuss how these networks operated, the practices and ideas they spread, and how an imperial perspective informs the history of mass schooling in the United States.Brianna Lafoon is a historian of the late nineteenth and early twentieth ce...

In today's episode, I was lucky enough to speak with not one but two researchers! Both Funie Hsu and Malini Johar Schueller look at the role of race and racialisation in shaping education policy during the American occupation of the Philippines. Our discussion focuses on the introduction of compulsory, English-language education, the role that conceptions of race played in developing that system, and how their professional identity shapes the ways they approach their research. Funie Hsu is an...

In today’s episode, we continue our series on graduate student research with an interview with Daniel Adamson. We discuss Daniel’s research on how the British response to the Holocaust is represented in schools and museums, as well as how Daniel uses approaches from memory studies to information his research. Daniel Adamson is a PhD student at Durham University whose research focuses on representations of the British response to the Holocaust in schools, museums and other educational se...

On today’s episode, we speak with Adam Crymble about his new book, Technology and the Historian, which looks at the history and development of digital history as a discipline in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. Adam’s book focuses on the (longer than you might expect) history of using computers to do historical research and the different ways historians have integrated digital methods into their work. We discuss this history, as well as the ways that combining intellectual hi...