Скачать или смотреть From Hills Road to Mill Road: A history of Cambridge schooling in the twentieth century

On Tuesday 14 June 2022 Mill Road History Society presented a talk on education from Hills Road to Mill Road. An informative and fascinating talk on the history and evolution of schools in the Mill Road area.

The talk reviews social and economic factors driving political and policy developments to reflect on how things have changed and why. It considers the impact on children, young people and families of Mill Road.

The speakers Dr. Peter Cunningham and Dr. Melanie Keene are connected with Homerton College. Dr. Cunningham is an Emeritus Fellow, a historian and educationist with specialist interests in social and cultural history, histories of childhood and pedagogy, educational policy and practice, visual and oral history. His interests extend from curriculum history and teachers’ professional lives and careers, to the social and cultural history of education in many forms and phases. He has published and contributed to many books including: Beyond the Lecture Hall: Universities and community engagement from the middle ages to the present day; Politics and the Primary Teacher; Education through the Arts for Well-Being and Community: The Vision and Legacy of Sir Alec Clegg and Curriculum Change in the Primary School since 1945: Dissemination of the Progressive Ideal.

Melanie Keene is the Director of Studies for History and Philosophy of Science at Homerton College, Cambridge. Her research focuses primarily on the history of science for children in the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly in Britain. In 2015 her first book was published, ‘Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain’.

Read more about Mill Road history at https://www.millroadhistory.org.uk