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Centre for History of Women’s Education
The Centre for the History of Women’s Education
(CHWE) provides a forum for research into
the gendered nature of educational provision,
practice and thought in order to provide a sound
evidence base for understanding historical and
contemporary policy and practice in respect of
education for women and girls.
We take a broad cultural definition of Education: one
which transcends schooling to encompass learning
and teaching (formal and informal) at any phase
of the life-cycle, in any setting or historical period,
including the recent past. As an area of research and
teaching, the history of women’s education generates
cross-disciplinary projects and challenges both
boundaries of knowledge and ways of seeing.
We aim to develop a broad portfolio of research.
Current areas of work include oral history in
higher education; Mary Sumner , the Mothers’
Union and the Girls’ Friendly Society ; the
Headmistresses’ Association; transnational and
trans-imperial approaches to the education of
women and girls and the work of women educators;
teenfictions- school stories for girls in the US and
UK 1900-1960; education and women’s national
and international organisations, including the
British and International Federations of University
Women; T.H.Green and British idealists We
conduct research on and with the Sybil Campbell
Library Collection deposited at the University of
Winchester and arrange seminars, lectures and a
reading group focusing on the Collection.
Our membership in addition to academics within the
university includes national and international visiting
research fellows, postgraduates studying for PhD and
MA degrees. Undergraduate students who are interested
in our area of research are warmly welcome to attend
and participate in seminars and events.
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