Category Archives: Special Collections
T. Percy Nunn’s ‘Education: Its Data and First Principles’
Today we celebrate the anniversary of Sir T. Percy Nunn’s birthday for he was born on 28th December 1870 – the year in which the 1870 Education Act, which promised a national education system, was passed. Thomas Percy Nunn was … Continue reading
The Christmas Box
The tradition of having a Christmas tree goes back to the early1800s when Queen Charlotte (queen to George III) set up the tradition of having a candle-lit tree, with presents and ribbons hanging on the branches inside the palace at Windsor. Soon after this, the idea of the Christmas box which children could open on Christmas Eve started. The two soon became familiar rituals in the homes of many well-to-do families. Continue reading
Spotlight on the NUT donation: “Homework. A Memorandum issued by the National Union of Teachers on Educational Pamphlet No. 110 of the Board of Education”
As you may already be aware, in late 2016 we received a wonderful donation from the National Union of Teachers (NUT) which included 380 pamphlet boxes containing material published by the NUT itself and many other organisations operating in the … Continue reading
Posted in Library and Archives, Official Publications, Special Collections
Tagged 11+ examination, AAM, Association of assistant Mistresses (AAM), Board of Education, Conservative, Damian Hinds, DERA, elementary school, Grammar Schools, Homework, junior school, Labour, National Union of Teachers, NUT, pamphlets, parents, Primary Schools, Susan Hallam
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Two Years in the Infant School—a review by Paul May
I was surprised when the children’s author, Paul May, contacted me about a post I had written on Enid Blyton as an educationalist, for once written and published, these posts are often forgotten! I was also curious about what he thought … Continue reading
BBC Broadcasts and ‘Back in Time for School’
Back in Time for School takes a group of fifteen children and their teachers back through time to experience what schooling was like at different times, from the Victorian period up to the 1990s. Last summer, I was involved in doing some … Continue reading
“Outdoor learning and Physical Education in Schools – what DERA has to say?”
The IOE Library has always collected documents published by government and other relevant bodies in the areas of education, training, children, and families. Today, the Official Publications Collection here at the Library is the largest of our special collections and … Continue reading
Posted in Library and Archives, Official Publications, Special Collections
Tagged children, DERA, House of Commons Library, mental health, nature, Nature Deficit Disorder, obesity, outdoor learning, physical activity, Physical Education, physical health, play, Stephen Moss, The Daily Mile, The National Trust, wellbeing
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An eminent female academic at the IOE: Clotilde von Wyss (1871-1938)
I have been doing some research on some women teacher trainers at the IOE in order to understand their contribution to pedagogical practice in London during the interwar years. One of the teacher trainers I have been most intrigued with … Continue reading
‘A Splendid College’: Institutional Histories of Teacher Training Colleges
The Institute of Education Library has an extensive collection of education institutional histories (approximately 2,500 books). These include school, college, and university histories. Related to the colleges and universities histories collection, are the training college prospectuses from the 1930s that … Continue reading
‘Excavations’ in the IOE’s School Histories Collection
The Newsam Library at the Institute of Education has a large collection of education institutional histories. These form a discrete collection and provide a rich source of information on individual schools, colleges and universities and their communities across Britain. The … Continue reading
Volunteers’ Week
In celebration of Volunteers’ Week, our two wonderful volunteers, Ashley Zuelke and Teodora Lazar, both UCL students, write about the work they are doing on the Clarke Collection held at the Institute of Education Library. Ashley Zuelke: Ralph Waldo Emerson … Continue reading
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Tagged Fred Clarke, history of education, Volunteers
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