Education: Parents and Children, 1920-1964
By Bernard Barker Bernard Barker is a former comprehensive school headteacher and emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Leicester. He was the first comprehensive school student to become…
By Bernard Barker Bernard Barker is a former comprehensive school headteacher and emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Leicester. He was the first comprehensive school student to become…
By Natalie Thomlinson // Natalie Thomlinson is Lecturer of Modern British Cultural History at the University of Reading. Natalie is currently Co-Principal Investigator on an AHRC-funded project, Women in the Miners’ Strike,…
By Richard Hall Richard has recently completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge, working with SESC Advisory Board member Dr Lucy Delap. His thesis is entitled The Emotional Lives…
By Laura Carter Over the past month I have been travelling around England and Wales visiting Local Authority (LA) archives – Glamorgan, Bristol, Tyne and Wear, and North Yorkshire –…
By Laura Carter, Peter Mandler, and Chris Jeppesen Last month the SESC team attended the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) in Providence, Rhode Island. As is always the…
By Harry Gibbins Harry is a third year undergraduate student in History at Selwyn College, Cambridge, working on a dissertation with Dr Chris Jeppesen entitled The Experience of Secondary School Amalgamation in…
By Laura Carter This summer Chris Jeppesen and I have begun working in the archives of the 1958 and 1946 British birth cohort studies, respectively. This involves us collecting qualitative…
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…