Education

Albert Brackmann & the Nazi Adjustment of History

Michael Burleigh charts the career of one of the pillars of the German scholarly establishment under the Third Reich an invaluable middle-man in 're-educating' his pupils and massaging research to suit Nazi ideology.

Room at the Top

Rosemary Day considers Oxford and Cambridge in the Tudor and Stewart age

Autobiographies of Childhood: The Experience of Education

The autobiographies of ordinary men and women are an important, though neglected, source of social history. John Burnett, Professor of Social History at Brunel University, has been collecting and studying these writings, many of them unpublished, for several years. This month and next, History Today is publishing an extract from the section on education in his book, Destiny Obscure.