Education

History graduate Steve Humphries' 1998 film explores the stories of women who worked in Magdalene laundries such as St Mary's Training School, Dublin (pictured here in 1935–38). (Photo by BNPS)

How my history degree led to my dream job

Passengers reading a newspaper while waiting to disembark from the 'Empire Windrush' at Tilbury, having sailed from Jamaica, taken by an unknown photographer for the Daily Herald newspaper, 21 June 1948. "The Windrush scandal would have been inconceivable if we knew that those we are deporting not only helped to build the welfare state but were either born as, or to subjects of, the British state", says Professor Kehinde Andrews. (Photo by Daily Herald Archive/SSPL/Getty Images)

Do we need to decolonise history? And if so, how?

Alan Johnson talks to the History Extra podcast about schools through history. (Photo by Roberto Ricciuti)

Schools through time

The Shaftesbury Welcome Ragged School in Battersea , 1899. Classes of 40 were not rare, and they could stretch to 80 during staff shortages. (Photo by Mary Evans)

Class warfare: a day in the life of a Victorian schoolchild

London schoolboys on strike, Shoreditch, September 1911. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The 1911 schoolchildren strikes

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So, you want to study history? Top tips from a graduate

An 1824 cartoon depicting the drinking escapades of Oxford students. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The history of student life: 7 things you didn’t know

Studying in Venice was a course highlight for our deputy editor, Charlotte Hodgkin. (Image by Getty Images)

Study history: Lessons from abroad

When we conduct historical research, we encounter terms and concepts that are familiar to us in the present. Yet we should not assume that these concepts possessed the same meaning in the past as they do now, says Dean Blackburn. (Image by Shawshots / Alamy Stock Photo)

5 tips for historical research: from uncovering local history to plotting your family tree

Student support is key to making your time at university as positive as possible. (Image by Getty Images)

10 tips to choosing a history degree

The 14th-century Bodiam Castle, Sussex. “All historians and students of history have to think about how the society they are studying functions,” says Dr Alice Taylor. (Picture by Getty Images)

Study history: How looking at the past can equip you for the future

An illustration of Rugby school

The Library Schools of hard knocks: Georgian and Victorian public schools

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Top teacher tips for GCSE history exam students 2018

Street urchins in Lambeth, London, 19th century

Escaping the workhouse: the Victorian war on child poverty