History of Education Review: Volume 39 Issue 2

A yarning place in narrative histories

Cheree Dean

In this article I will first explore current research definitions, uses and roles of yarning. From this I will argue yarning is undervalued and underutilised as a potentially rich…

‘Our war and the Pacific’: allies and enemies in Victoria’s education department publications, Australia, 1914‐18

Rosalie Triolo

This article investigates Departmental representations of allies and enemies, especially in the Pacific Ocean, during the Great War. The first section provides an overview of the…

Learning about empire and the imperial education conferences in the early twentieth century: creating cohesion or demonstrating difference?

Maxine Stephenson

Despite the exponential spread of the British Empire by the late nineteenth century, there remained in England a continued indifference to “the Empire”. In 1883, J.R. Seeley…

Empire, state and public purpose in the founding of universities and colleges in the Antipodes

Geoffrey Sherington, Julia Horne

From the mid‐nineteenth to the early twentieth century universities and colleges were founded throughout Australia and New Zealand in the context of the expanding British Empire…

In search of scholarly expertise: transnational connections and women graduates at the University of New Zealand, 1911‐1961

Jenny Collins

This article examines the national and international connections made by women graduates of the School of Home Science in their efforts to develop the scholarly expertise and…

Connections: women educators in the national memories of New Zealand and Australia: Catherine Francis and Dorothy Dolling

Kay Whitehead, Kay Morris Matthews

In this article we focus on two women, Catherine Francis (1836‐1916) and Dorothy Dolling (1897‐ 1967), whose lives traversed England, New Zealand and South Australia. At the…

Thinking transnationally: interconnections and connectivity within and across Australia and New Zealand

Tanya Fitzgerald

In this article I examine the role of ANZHES and its contribution to the development of the field over the past 40 years. Drawing on a range of theories, I argue that the annual…