Church, school and locality: Revisiting the historiography of “state” and “religious” educational infrastructures in England and Wales, 1780–1870

The Roehampton Campus Project: Using campus, collections and memories of the university as a learning and teaching resource for Humanities students

“…Froebelian principles of early childhood education are discussed as an example for changing perceptions of children, childhood and learning in the modern period (Hendrick, 1997; Lascarides, 2000; Nutbrown and Clough, 2014). Through the history of the colleges and the university, national educational policies of the last 175 years are explored (Abbott, 2013; Argles, 1971; Murphy 1971). Eighteenth-century neo-classical architecture and artworks are examined within a theoretical framework of classical reception studies (Hardwick, 2003; Kallendorf, 2007).…”

“…Georgian houses, their architects and some of their famous inhabitants provide case studies for an engagement with class, privilege and social hierarchies (Byrne, 1986;Greig, 2013). The religious foundations of the colleges offer a starting point for a debate on the role of religious communities in education in the past and in the present (Martin, 2013). The close connections of artists belonging to the Arts and Crafts movement with Whitelands College that are well documented through their artworks and documents in the archive allow biographical research, yet another form of historical study (Caine, 2010;Carter, 2015;Vaninskaya, 2012).…”