History of Education Review: Volume 45 Issue 2

Universities, expertise and the First World War

The purpose of this paper is to: introduce the topic of the relationship between universities and the First World War historiographically; put university expertise and knowledge…

The “knowledge front”, women, war and peace

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the idea of the “knowledge front” alongside ideas of “home” and “war” front as a way of understanding the expertise of…

Universities, war and the professionalization of dentistry

The purpose of this paper is to bring together the history of war, the universities and the professions. It examines the case of dentistry in New South Wales, detailing its…

Portrait of an artist as an ex-war surgeon

To examine how art is shaped by war, outside of the official commemorative projects of the First World War. The purpose of this paper is to examine the experience of a…

British academics, liberalism, and the First World War

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the War on two prominent academic liberal historians.

Nationalism, the First World War, and sites of international memory

The purpose of this paper is to restore the history of internationalism to our understanding of the legacy of the First World War, and the role of universities in that past. It…

Sydney Professor G.A. Wood and the Great War 1914-1918

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the views of Professor George Arnold Wood, a leading Australian scholar at the University of Sydney, concerning the involvement of the…

Australian universities and the commemoration of the First World War

The purpose of this paper is to examine how Australian universities commemorated the First World War, with a focus on the University of Melbourne as an institution with a…

Education, Culture and the Singapore Development State: “World Soul Lost and Regained”?

Empire of Scholars: Universities, Networks and the British Academic World 1850-1939

The Institute: a centennial history of the Institute of Senior Educational Administrators, formerly known as the Institute of Inspectors of Schools and Senior Educational Administrators, and before that as the Institute of Inspectors of Schools of NSW