Recalling its origins as a research journal addressing educationists this article seeks to understand historical research published in "History of Education" as aimed at a professional audience. Primary schooling provides a significant focus as the study of education history was fostered especially in the training of elementary teachers.1 In that…

This issue introduces a new feature to appear regularly in "History of Education". A compelling aspect of education history and one that is drawing new writers and readers in the field is the increasing diversity of sources on which education historians draw. New forms of admissible evidence challenge us to adopt different approaches to…

A conference to honour the memory of Brian Simon (1915-2002) was a privilege and a challenge for its organizing committee. Simon was an educationist and an activist, a chronicler and a critic. His intellectual field encompassed psychology, pedagogy and politics as well as history. His legacy was both to education and to its history. Any…

Responds to the progressive education concepts analyses of Herbert Kliebard and Sol Cohen. Offers the methodology concept of propography, or collective biography, to explain interests perceived as a homogenous progressive movement in education. Demonstrates the promise of prosopography as a methodology to bring agendas of less well-known…

Examines teachers' perceptions of evacuation that prevailed at the outbreak of World War II. Focuses on the teachers' press, central government policy documents, and contemporary evacuation surveys. Explores four issues impinging upon the teachers' role related to the national identity. (CMK)