Lessons from History

Lessons from History

By Daisy Christodoulou and Elizabeth WellsSociety & CultureEducationHistory
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Lessons from History episodes

  • Building Schools in the Past (pt. 1)
    In the first of two episodes looking at school buildings, Daisy and Elizabeth focus on the Board School building boom of the late nineteenth century and its legacy

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    41 min
  • Miss Buss & Miss Beale
    In this episode Daisy and Elizabeth discuss Miss Buss and Miss Beale, two pioneers of education for girls in Victorian England.

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    53 min
  • Exams (pt. 2)
    In the second part of our two part special on exams, Daisy and Elizabeth address grade inflation and whether exams really are getting easier.

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    44 min
  • Exams (pt. 1)
    In 1858 the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge set the first external school exams. They went on to form the template for today's GCSEs and A-Levels. In this episode, the first of a two part special on exams, Daisy and Elizabeth consider how similar those exams were to those which are sat today.

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    47 min
  • 1870 Elementary Education Act
    The 1870 Elementary Education Act was a landmark piece of legislation, broadening access to primary education in England and Wales. Daisy and Elizabeth discuss the controversies caused by the Act's passage through Parliament and how it ignited a nineteenth century culture war.

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    41 min
  • Roald Dahl

    Roald Dahl was in the news earlier this year, when there was public outcry at the decision by publisher, Puffin, to edit his works. His writing continues to spawn fresh adaptations, with the musical film 'Wonka', a prequel to Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, due to be released in December.


    Dahl's autobiography 'Boy' is one of the all-time popular children's books, but how accurate is it and what does it teach us about British schooling in the inter-war period?

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    54 min
  • Educational Innovation
    From the printing press through to Chat GPT, educational innovation is a constant. We take a whirlwind tour through the history of new ideas about education.

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    47 min
  • Working Class Autodidacts
    How did working class people educate themselves before free state education, and is knowledge really power?

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    54 min
  • Public Schools
    Daisy and Elizabeth discuss the history of English public schools. Never far from the news - how much has changed?

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    38 min

About Lessons from History

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Thinking about education in the past can help us make sense of it in the present and the future. In this podcast Daisy and Elizabeth consider what lessons the history of education can teach…