🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS!
See below for the details of a conference in Liverpool on the early history of teacher training colleges in Britain, specifically between 1836 and 1914
📍 Liverpool, 2 June 2026
historyofeducation.org.uk/call-for-pap...
An old colour picture postcard showing a watercolour of London buildings; gothic, light stone and towery to the left; more square and squat to the right
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the old London University complex
The tower remains, as part of @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
@londonu.bsky.social was, I think, the less ornate building on the right
If you like this image, please repost it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
Celebrating World Book Day, with a #UCL200 twist 📚💜🏛️
Which ones have you read?
@ucl.ac.uk
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1. Wen Li
2. Lucy Pope
3. UCL Special Collections, @profginab.bsky.social
4. Chris Moos
To mark the 200th anniversary of @ucl, Georgina Brewis and Sam Blaxland have written a history of 'Student London' - putting students at the heart of otherwise institutional histories.
Watch some of their reflections here 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfxj...
A new book from @profginab.bsky.social and Sam Blaxland is writing higher education students back into the story of London.
They reflect on their research into student life, from material culture to memory sources and oral interviews #UCL200
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2026/02/...
Raises some important issues but also ignores the fact that many Humanities staff outside the magic circle are facing redundancy. They are naturally willing, indeed desperate, to apply for entry-level Oxbridge posts. The situation is grim. 1/2
Faces of UCL: Celebrating the LGBTQ+ historical visionaries who challenged norms, broke barriers and lived life on their own terms #UCL200
Discover their stories in this short film, ft. IOE's @profginab.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=adQd...
Great evening yesterday @thelondonarchives.bsky.social where @profginab.bsky.social and Sam Blaxland presented on the methodology behind their book ‘Student London: a new history of higher education in the capital’ for #ArchivesforLondon
Tagging @profginab.bsky.social who writes better histories than me!
📺"What is now an institution in the top 10 elite list of universities started off as an up-start"
BBC London report on @ucl.ac.uk's 200th anniversary, featuring Prof @profginab.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social and UCL President & Provost, Dr Michael Spence.
🔊"In London you have an education in the wider sense of the word. It's not only the law or studying at university, it's the museums, the art galleries, the cinemas and the social life is also important"
▶️Listen to @uclalumni.bsky.social and Dr Sam Blaxland @ioe.bsky.social on BBC London, from 41:17
Thank you for saying so! It is nicer in print of course
The special issue of Cultural and Social History on “Researching Student Lives: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives” (co-ed. w Georgina Brewis & Jodi Burkett) is live - yay! Several articles are OA :) Huge thanks to our contributors & the journal editors!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfcs20/2...
This @historytoday.com article is FREE for 7 days to mark the 200th anniversary of London's first university #UCL200 @ioew.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
Student life in London has always had a political dimension.
Sam Blaxland delves into the history of UCL students' anti-apartheid protests and boycotts, including the campaign for a scholarship to fund Black South African students to study in London.
magazine.ucl.ac.uk/autumn-20...
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...
Chip shop tea…!
We are delighted to offer 12 PGR and ECR bursaries for people presenting at our 2025 conference!
⏰Deadline to apply: 31 March 2025
🌟Bursary: Free registration and £220 towards costs of accommodation & travel
For more information and to apply: socialhistory.org.uk/events/bursa...
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Not ‘the first time ever’ of course. The pattern of commuting to study was the norm outside Oxbridge before the funding changes & accommodation building programmes of the 1960s, particularly for London students @wonkhe.bsky.social
We've created a Starter Pack of #History societies and groups working to support promote our disciple and historians, in higher education and related professions go.bsky.app/68FsvjY
Mainly UK but also international, with selected societies from related humanities subjects. Please share #Skystorians
A man changing the name of the IOE Drama Studio to read Punnett Hall
Signage changes so it must be official - very excited we now have a room named after a woman @ioe.bsky.social! Why did it take so long? blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2024/10/...
Very exciting fully funded PhD opportunity to work on the history of the Salvation Army's HIV/AIDS work. I think this will open up fascinating new avenues for our understandings of religious HIV/AIDS work and activism in the UK. Full details here. northernbridge.ac.uk/media/sites/...
