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International Centre for Historical Research in Education

@ichre-ioe.bsky.social
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Researching and teaching history of education, youth and childhood. Based at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. Runs History of Education seminar at IHR.

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International Centre for Historical Research in Education @ichre-ioe.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
New open access paper by ICHRE colleagues @IOE Jenny Bond & @ProfGinaB explores the lives of Chinese students at British universities and colleges 1908-1937 academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...
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‘Ambassadors of cultural appreciation’: the social, political, and associational life of Chinese students in Britain, 1908–37
Abstract. This article uncovers the experience of Chinese students in Britain before the Second World War, focusing on students who attended universities a
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ESRC School Meals 🍽 @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Welcome to our April 2025 newsletter! Find out more about what the team has been up to including the wonderful Food Museum launch, talking to the BBC Food Programme, and lots more! #histed @ichre-ioe.bsky.social @wlvuni.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social
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International Centre for Historical Research in Education @ichre-ioe.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
8 May 1945: ‘A few hours later we wound our way through crowded London streets, when peace was still young. I could see us play a part in history as, with elastic steps, we flowed like a river banked’ magazine.ucl.ac.uk/london-stude... @ioe.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
It's here. Our 50th anniversary special issue, on 'London's Past Today', edited by @aidannorrie.bsky.social and Robert Shoemaker: www.tandfonline.com/toc/yldn20/c.... 🧵
"The London Journal
A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present
Vol. 1 No. 1 May 1975"

Text over red cover based on historical map of London near Thames."The London Journal
A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present
50th Anniversary Special Issue: London's Past Today
Editors: Aidan Norrie and Robert Shoemaker."

Red cover composed of illustration of London on Thames, accompanied by other historical illustrations and photos of London.
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International Centre for Historical Research in Education @ichre-ioe.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The next @IHR.bsky.social History of Education seminar is on Thursday 1 May at IOE & hybrid and features @lottiehoare.bsky.social See here: www.history.ac.uk/events/readi...
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Reading Child Drama (1954) Seven Decades After Publication
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Julia Bishop @drjuliabish.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Highly recommend this new exhibition at the @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social featuring some if the @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social research BBC News - ‘Sobbing over semolina’: Your school dinner memories - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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‘Sobbing over semolina’: Your school dinner memories
You share your memories of old favourites like jam roly-poly and the foods that made you 'gag'.
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UCL Institute of Education @ioe.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Serving up a spoonful of nostalgia 🥄 Gary McCulloch's @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social project on the history of the School Meals Service contributed to this exhibition, featured in Waitrose Magazine: www.weekend-online.com/issue... bsky.app/profile/heatherlwel...
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Dr Heather Ellis (@heatherlwellis.bsky.social)
Talking to BBC radio stations today about our @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social research & partnership with @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social on a new #schooldinners exhibition! People sharing great memories of their school meals in Newcastle, York, Cambridge, Hereford, Berkshire, Nottingham, Merseyside #histed
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ESRC School Meals 🍽 @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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New School Dinners exhibition launches
A two-year exhibition on the history of school dinners in the UK has launched at the Food Museum near Ipswich.
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Dr Heather Ellis @heatherlwellis.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
A pleasure talking to the @bbcradio4.bsky.social Today Programme this morning about our @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social research and the upcoming exhibition at @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social! #schoolmeals #histed @unishefplayer.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social #histed
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UCL Institute of Education @ioe.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
A 200-year story in the making: To celebrate #UCL200 @ucl.ac.uk is releasing three new publications tracing two centuries of student stories, innovation and research, and architectural history. @uclpress.bsky.social Find out more: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/mar/...
Students protesting against education cuts 1970s, IOE Archive; UCL students with their mascot Phineas in the 1930s, UCL Special Collections.Students protesting against education cuts 1970s, IOE Archive; UCL students with their mascot Phineas in the 1930s, UCL Special Collections.
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International Centre for Historical Research in Education @ichre-ioe.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Announcing ‘Student London: A New History of Higher Education in thr Capital’, out next year, read more about it here & how the authors will write students back into London’s history: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...
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A 200-year story in the making: New publications to launch for UCL’s Bicentenary
Three new publications will be released in 2026 to mark UCL’s 200th anniversary, tracing two centuries of ground-breaking discoveries, architectural history, and generational stories of staff and stud...
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ESRC School Meals 🍽 @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
📢 New OA project publication written by @heatherlwellis.bsky.social and Isabelle Carter! Control, Resistance, and the Senses: Neurodivergent Perspectives of the UK School Meals Service www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #histed @histedsocuk.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social
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Control, Resistance, and the Senses: Neurodivergent Perspectives of the UK School Meals Service; A Case Study
The UK school meals service has a distinctive history shaped by early welfare policies, austerity measures, and the introduction of universal free school meals, thus making it a useful case study f...
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ESRC School Meals 🍽 @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Today, on International School Meals Day, Gary McCulloch and @heatherlwellis.bsky.social presented our project findings to the APPG School Food. Thanks for the invite & for supporting our research! We missed @gurpinderlalli.bsky.social today. #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social #ISMD2025
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International Centre for Historical Research in Education @ichre-ioe.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
We’ve joined Bluesky! Kicking things off by sharing research on students & AIDS/HIV activism in 1980s & 1990s London studentsunionucl.org/articles/hiv...
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HIV and AIDS activism in Bloomsbury and beyond during the 1980s and 1990s
If you happened to be walking on the shingle beach of Dungeness on 22 September 1991, you may have witnessed a curious event: a group of gay men dressed as nuns preforming a ceremony with the visual a...
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