In this season of austerity, I would like to humbly propose that we return to some of the foundational traditions of our colleges and universities. No, I do not mean the values of the 1950s, when the ...

My area of expertise is the social and cultural history of the Middle Ages. In particular, I examine these topics through the lens of medieval education, tracing the lived experiences of teachers and ...

This week, BBC1's Panorama reported on the Saudi school textbooks used in over 40 Saudi schools in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The investigation found that the books contained messages of hatred, ...

The education secretary, Charles Clarke, today strongly denied that he had dismissed medieval historians as "ornamental" or suggested the state should not fund them. His rebuttal of a report in the ...