• That 5:11am train to Oxford

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    31st March 2026

    (Above is an audio recording of the blog post) It was still dark when I got on the train to Oxford. Still half asleep, my eyes wouldn’t stay open. As it happens when I am moody for a lack of...
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  • Photo challenge winners from the PESGB...

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    23rd March 2026

    In the lead up to to the 61st annual PESGB conference, New College, University of Oxford, Friday 27th March - Sunday 29th March 2026, below are the winners of the photo competition from last year's...
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  • PESGB 60th Birthday Celebrations

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    10th February 2025

    Dear all, The archives of the PESGB are in the UCL Institute of Education Library Archives. This pamphlet is a flavour of what is there, which people may consult by appointment.  We have produced...
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  • What the Flux? A Perplexing Legacy for...

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    16th April 2024

    Nathaniel Woodward at MoMA. Nathaniel Woodward reflects on his experience visiting The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Archives in New York Researching about something as enigmatic...
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  • ‘Nobody ever goes in… Nobody ever...

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    4th April 2024

    New College, University of Oxford (Copyright Paula Ambrossi) Paula Ambrossi reflects on the annual PESGB Conference, New College, University of Oxford (22 - 24 March, 2024).  It was a pleasant...
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  • Enabling free inquiry together: A...

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    18th December 2022

        This post can be downloaded as a PDF here     here are many gendered bodies in the world and ‘male’ and ‘female’ do not even begin the hard work of...
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  • On the PESGB Annual Conference 2021

    25th September 2021

      This post is available as a PDF here, and an audio recording below:     The first online PESGB Annual Conference took place on September 3-5 2021. Given its success, I am sure...
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  • On the origins of PESGB

    16th June 2021

    This post is available as a PDF here, and as an audio recording below:     It was taken as read in its first years of life in the late 1960s that PESGB’s raison d’être was...
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