Nicholas Joseph is Lecturer in Education at the University of Derby. His current interests include developing a historically informed Education curriculum at Level 7, designed to enable students to reflect on practice across a wide range of international settings.

• Introduction: Some dry bones for an evolving discipline Why study the history of education? Liberal education How concepts of femininity have influenced the education of girls and women in England, 1800 to 1988 Mass education The transformation of scientific and geographical education in eighteenth century England The Lax family of Staindrop and the making of a teaching dynasty Quintilian’s educational impact Imperialism and English schools: Education for, about, and because of empire Documentary visions of the secondary modern school Independent schools The history of Special Education in England: Divisions, divergences, and coalitions Adult to adult in loco parentis: The changing roles of the university from 1968 to 2018 Index

Nicholas Joseph is Lecturer in Education at the University of Derby. His current interests include developing a historically informed Education curriculum at Level 7, designed to enable students to reflect on practice across a wide range of international settings.

• Introduction: Some dry bones for an evolving discipline Why study the history of education? Liberal education How concepts of femininity have influenced the education of girls and women in England, 1800 to 1988 Mass education The transformation of scientific and geographical education in eighteenth century England The Lax family of Staindrop and the making of a teaching dynasty Quintilian’s educational impact Imperialism and English schools: Education for, about, and because of empire Documentary visions of the secondary modern school Independent schools The history of Special Education in England: Divisions, divergences, and coalitions Adult to adult in loco parentis: The changing roles of the university from 1968 to 2018 Index