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Seminars
ICHRE runs the History of Education Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research. The seminar attracts speakers from around the world, providing a forum for established historians as well as early-career researchers to present their work. For further information please contact Sam Blaxland or Gary McCulloch at ioe.ichre@ucl.ac.uk.
All seminars will be held in ‘hybrid’ mode, with both face-to-face and online attenders. Details of rooms and Zoom links are given below. All seminars will start at 5.30pm UK time.
Thursday 1 May 2025
Room 731 IOE, 20 Bedford Way
Reading Child Drama (1954) Seven Decades After Publication
Lottie Hoare (University of Cambridge and Middlesex University, London)
https://ucl.zoom.us/j/99219668144?pwd=8hgVfYikbZasIVoMrYnMudPqZLU7Y4.1
(Passcode if required: 424494)
This talk offers some reflections on the book Child Drama (1954) which was published by the University of London Press. I came across the book by chance while looking for something else on the open shelves in IoE library during 2024. The author Peter Slade (1912–2004) later became known as a pioneer of drama therapy but that is not the focus of this talk. Instead I explore this book as a record of what Slade had come to understand in the first 25 years of his working life about the relationship between play and drama after observing children in schools, art centres and out in the streets making up imaginary games. The visual and the verbal ways that he went about sharing his research with an audience are also discussed in relation to the specific historical moment and wider educational context of 1954.
Lottie Hoare is a Senior Teaching Associate at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge and a Lecturer in Education and Early Childhood Studies at Middlesex University, London. Her published peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters have reflected on both historical and contemporary educational experiences with a focus on arts education, pedagogy, home language schools, the representation of education in radio and film and the networks of individuals who lobby to influence reforms in education policy. She also uses arts-based methods in her own research.
Thursday 5 June 2025
Room 731 IOE, 20 Bedford Way
The School Meals Service: Aims, Achievements and Limitations.
Gary McCulloch, UCL
https://ucl.zoom.us/j/93912747818?pwd=faSlN0YQKA8bdyFR565oLrPaZnCtXj.1
(Passcode if required: 880556)
In this seminar presentation we will reflect on the findings of the ESRC funded research project on the School Meals Service since 1906, in particular its aims, achievements and limitations in a changing context.
Gary McCulloch is Brian Simon professor of history of education at UCL Institute of Education London and principal investigator of the research project on the SMS along with Heather Ellis (University of Sheffield) and Gurpinder Lalli (University of Wolverhampton).
