... they required a separate typology and analysis to be taken up elsewhere. Findings The paper frames women's clubs as informal educative networks where women were able to acquire the knowledge and skills in modernity for effective participation in the public sphere. The analysis shows that three-quarters...

... use of nature in both formal and informal education in this period. As Hester Barron has shown, the School Journey Movement, which facilitated educational fieldtrips led by teachers, was partly a response to concerns about urban poverty in the interwar period and the perceived impact this was having...

...Stephanie Spencer Purpose The purpose of this paper is to set out three dilemmas that challenge historians of education who write for both professional and academic audiences. It focuses on the example of using fiction as a source for understanding the informal education of girls in the twentieth...