Learning through the ages

The Seven Liberal Arts part 2: Three roads to knowledge

Exploring the historical origins of grammar, rhetoric and dialectic.

May 26, 2024 • 

Harley Richardson

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 • 

Harley Richardson

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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 • 

Harley Richardson

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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 • 

Harley Richardson

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 • 

Harley Richardson

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 • 

Harley Richardson

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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 • 

Harley Richardson

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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 • 

Harley Richardson

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 • 

Harley Richardson

Frances Mary Buss, the first ‘Head Mistress’

A tribute to the pioneering 19th century teacher and campaigner for women’s education

Jan 11, 2023 • 

Harley Richardson

What makes a ‘public school’ public?

The surprising origins of the prestigious schools for the British elite

Jan 6, 2023 • 

Harley Richardson

December 2022

Learning Through the Ages

An occasional newsletter about the history of education.

Dec 4, 2022 • 

Harley Richardson