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I went to boarding school (not Eton or Harrow!) from the age of 6 to the age of 17 in the 80s and 90s. A mixed boys and girls prep school till I was 14, then an all boys senior school for the rest. Both were in the North of England.
Apr 29, 2021 · JOANNA LUMLEY has explained why she took the decision to send her son to boarding school, despite hating it herself and branding her experience 'grim'.
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May 24, 2021 · The Thick Of It and W1A actress Joanna Scanlan has said her girls boarding school did not provide her with “the life skills required to support my adult life”.
- Medieval Women: Mental Maths and Life in The Nunnery
- Early Modern Women: The Freedom of An Education
- Georgian Women: Dame Schools and Governesses
- Victorian Women: The Beginnings of Formal Education
- The Early 20th Century: Votes and Degrees
- 1975 Onwards: Equal Education For Boys and Girls
- The 21st Century: Girls Overtaking Boys
Educational opportunities for most people in medieval England were slim, and educational priorities were different. For instance, King Alfred’s biographer wrote that Alfred only learned to read at the age of 12; while his biographer considered this to be negligent on the part of his parents and tutors, it was clearly not unthinkable even for the yo...
It’s tempting to think of history as moving steadily forwards in the direction of progress, but in fact it was often a case of two steps forward, one step back. The early modern period was a time of two steps forward, when women enjoyed a greater measure of freedom and, by consequence, of education. A growing merchant class meant a growing number o...
The Georgian period has been seen as a step back in the freedoms and education available to women in Britain. It was a time of some bright sparks in women’s education, such as the beginnings of the Bluestocking movement – a loose alliance of mostly upper-class women sharing educational pursuits – or the writings of thinkers such as Mary Wollstonecr...
By the Victorian era, women’s frustration with the poor quality of the education available to them was starting to show more and more. In 1840, 60% of women were still illiterate, but by 1860, only 40% were. The industrial age meant that education increasingly offered men the opportunity to better themselves, and where educational opportunities wer...
The Victorian era had seen the establishment not only of schools open to women, but also of universities, and colleges within Oxford and Cambridge. Many of the universities founded in the Victorian era were co-educational from the start, and the red-brick universities of the early 20th century followed suit. The University of London was the first i...
It seems hard to believe that in 1975, it was still perfectly legal to hire men in preference to women for no other reason than their sex, and until 1971, it was legal to pay them more for the same work as well. The Women’s Liberation Movement had been founded in 1969, holding a series of conferences around the country to demand equal pay, equal ed...
In the four decades since the Sex Discrimination Act, the landscape of education in the UK has changed dramatically. Institutional bias against women in higher education still exists, as is shown by the fact that even today, women hold only 20% of professorships in UK universities, and in Cambridge that number is just 15%; some of the very oldest p...
May 15, 2021 · Because of this, parents who did wish their daughters to attend boarding school put a great deal of time and effort into choosing the right one. Most girls, however, were taught either in a schoolroom at home, at day schools, or later in the century by governesses.
Sep 14, 2018 · In 2001, two boys at Winchester College hacked their school’s private email system and exposed a price-fixing scheme aimed at ensuring that fees rose well above inflation across the sector. One...
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Dec 14, 2022 · "While my father was posted to Epsom, my sister Aelene and I were sent to board at a small school called Mickledene in Rolvenden, Kent, where my parents eventually bought a house. Mickledene was contained in a small farmhouse and a pair of oast-houses for drying hops; their roundels had been converted to circular classrooms, and morning ...
