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The Seven Liberal Arts part 2: Three roads to knowledge
Exploring the historical origins of grammar, rhetoric and dialectic.
May 26, 2024
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Harley Richardson
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March 2024
The Seven Liberal Arts part 1: tools for learning
The first in a series of articles looking at a remarkable medieval curriculum which took human freedom as its starting point and truth as its end.
Mar 10, 2024
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October 2023
Finally, a new book on the History of Education
An essential read for anyone interested in the roots and development of today’s education system
Oct 8, 2023
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May 2023
The day passes profitably: Robert Raikes and the Sunday school movement
How Sunday schools helped bring education to the masses
May 14, 2023
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The day passes profitably: Robert Raikes and the Sunday school movement
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April 2023
Learning what we don't need to know
How the history of education is bound up with the fight to be free
Apr 4, 2023
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March 2023
The bad-tempered backstory of 'Town Versus Gown'
How tensions between locals and students led to the founding of England's great universities
Mar 7, 2023
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February 2023
How we learned to teach ‘small children’
The philosophical roots of education for the under-sevens
Feb 21, 2023
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January 2023
What do we mean by 'the best that's been thought and known'?
Exploring the radical ideas about education in Matthew Arnold's 'Culture and Anarchy'
Jan 31, 2023
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Education can save your life – the story of the Neck Verse
How learning a little Latin helped medieval criminals escape the noose
Jan 18, 2023
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Frances Mary Buss, the first ‘Head Mistress’
A tribute to the pioneering 19th century teacher and campaigner for women’s education
Jan 11, 2023
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What makes a ‘public school’ public?
The surprising origins of the prestigious schools for the British elite
Jan 6, 2023
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December 2022
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An occasional newsletter about the history of education.
Dec 4, 2022
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