Oral history trials
By Laura Carter During the last few weeks of August I carried out three oral history interviews, the first for our project. Oral history has always been an obvious avenue…
By Laura Carter During the last few weeks of August I carried out three oral history interviews, the first for our project. Oral history has always been an obvious avenue…
By Peter Mandler While my colleagues on this project were both wholly educated in the UK, my own schooling took place entirely in Canada and the US – except for…
By Chris Jeppesen I am writing this while humming along as next door’s builders belt-out Three Lions (Football’s Coming Home); with excitement levels soaring in anticipation of England men’s first…
By Laura Carter Over the past few weeks I have been collating published central government statistics on the numbers of single-sex and co-educational schools across the various school types and…
By Laura Carter We are now six months into this research project, and it felt like the right time to tentatively air some ideas and instincts, with the conspicuous caveat…
By Chris Jeppesen // On the evening of Monday 22 January 2018, SESC was delighted to welcome an audience of almost fifty to watch the 1967 film adaptation of E.…
By Chris Jeppesen Since writing this post, Chris has also participated in an episode of 'Archive on 4' on BBC Radio 4, discussing the 1977 documentary and its fallout. You…
By Laura Carter Image: original film poster of To Sir, With Love (1967) We're holding our first film night on 22 January 2018, at 20:30, in the awesome setting of The Dome at…
By Laura Carter Thanks for taking an interest in our new research project, 'Secondary Education and Social Change in the UK since 1945' (SESC). We'll be using this blog to…