What can radio broadcasts, school curriculums and letters to the headmistress tell us about everyday experiences of mass education in 20th century Britain?

Dr Nathaniel Andrews is joined by Dr Laura Carter for a discussion of her fascinating research on British mass education and the everyday . Tune in to hear Dr Carter’s thoughts on the role of everyday life history in pedagogic practice, the ways in which class, gender and race influenced the curriculum and classroom experiences of 20th century British students, and how changing everyday interactions with the environment can be seen in an educational setting.

More information about Dr Laura Carter can be found here: https://larca.u-paris.fr/en/membre/carter-laura-en/

Miniatures is the podcast of the ERC-funded ‘Dictatorship as Experience’ project at the University of St Andrews. We show how the big picture in history is best seen through the assemblage of individual and local stories, what the German historian Alf Lüdtke called ‘miniatures’. At Miniatures, we forego a studio model and instead adopt a ‘guerrilla’ approach to podcasting, grabbing interviews on handheld recorders with busy researchers whenever and wherever we can find them: in their offices, at conferences, or at a distance via video chat. Please do excuse any sound-based issues that may occur as a result of this method. To learn more about the wider project, visit: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/everyday-dictatorship/

Key words: Miniatures, Everyday Life History, Everyday Dictatorship Project, education, secondary school, radio, environment, gender, race, imperialism, class, childhood, pupils, letters, archives, history, everyday life, history, podcast.

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Release Date: 02/04/2025, 21:08:44