Professor Michele Cohen leads workshop on Education in 18th Century at the University of London

20/10/2011

Professor Cohen organized a day workshop entitled ‘From Uniformity to Reform: Education in the Very Long Eighteenth Century (1660-1870)’. The conference was held at Senate House, University of London on 15 October 2011.

There were two plenary speakers: Jill Shefrin, a specialist in printed pastimes and teaching aids in early modern and nineteenth-century education; and Dr Mary Hilton, a teacher in children’s literature at the Cambridge Faculty of Education and who is currently working on Baptists missionaries in India.

Papers ranged from, the 'Representation of Education in late 18th century French Art' and ‘The House System' in Public Schools for Boys in South East England, 1845-1875', to ‘Educating Genius: The Influence of Women Writers of Educational Literature on Notions of Originality 1780-1820'.

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