International Centre for Historical Research in Education
@ichre-ioe.bsky.social
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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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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We’ve joined Bluesky! Kicking things off by sharing research on students & AIDS/HIV activism in 1980s & 1990s London studentsunionucl.org/articles/hiv...
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...
‘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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June 25, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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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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
May 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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
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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May 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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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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....
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May 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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....
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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...
Reading Child Drama (1954) Seven Decades After Publication
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April 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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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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
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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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April 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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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...
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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...
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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April 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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...
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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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
Did someone say turkey twizzlers? Did you catch @heatherlwellis.bsky.social on Radio 4 this morning talking about a school meals exhibition?
The @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social's 'School Dinners' exhibition is open from 2 April 2025 and will be well worth a visit:
foodmuseum.org.uk/events/schoo...
The @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social's 'School Dinners' exhibition is open from 2 April 2025 and will be well worth a visit:
foodmuseum.org.uk/events/schoo...
School Dinners - Food Museum
Explore school dinners past, present and future as memories and tastes of school food are brought to life through our new annual exhibition
foodmuseum.org.uk
April 1, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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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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/...
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/...
March 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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/...
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/...
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...
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...
www.ucl.ac.uk
March 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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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📢 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
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
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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March 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
📢 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
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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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
#histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social #ISMD2025
March 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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
#histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social #ISMD2025
We’ve joined Bluesky! Kicking things off by sharing research on students & AIDS/HIV activism in 1980s & 1990s London studentsunionucl.org/articles/hiv...
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...
studentsunionucl.org
March 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM
We’ve joined Bluesky! Kicking things off by sharing research on students & AIDS/HIV activism in 1980s & 1990s London studentsunionucl.org/articles/hiv...