Education

School tools: whale-bone writing-tablet and styluses from the middle Anglo-Saxon period

Inside the Anglo-Saxon Classroom

Schoolboys forget their books, lose their pens and laugh at dirty jokes. This was true even in the rigorous atmosphere of the Anglo-Saxon classroom.

Still remembered: Joseph Lancaster in an illustration from Our World’s Greatest Benefactors, 1888.

The Poor Child’s Friend

One of the 19th-century pioneers of education for the working class is emerging from neglect.

To ask the value of speech is like asking the value of life.’ Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone and advocate of deaf education.

Deafness, 'Visible Speech' and Alexander Graham Bell

Bell is most known for the invention of the first patented telephone, but his work on deafness and speech sounds should not be forgotten.

The Great Revolution: Women’s Education in Victorian Times

Joanna Richardson describes how, in 1865, Miss Buss told a School Enquiry Commission: 'I am sure that the girls can learn anything they are taught in an interesting manner.’

Madame Campan

Barbara Scott describes how a tutor to royal princesses and to the Bonaparte family, Henriette Campan, became a pioneer of girl's education in France.

School History in the Melting Pot

Every generation, writes E.E.Y. Hales, will have to consider afresh the principles of selection and the paths that may be usefully followed.

Lord Barrymore at Eton

During the eighteenth century, writes Bill Hooper, ‘barbaric anarchy’ reigned at Eton.

English Textbooks and Foreign Complaints

E.H. Dance

Free Data on Dead People

Tim Hitchcock sets out on an online archival journey, seeking high-quality, free resources for researchers, especially those working on British history.