That 5:11am train to Oxford
(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 60th Anniversary Conference, 2025
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 event: From Naoko Saito (Kyoto…
PESGB 60th Birthday Celebrations
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 it to mark the 60th anniversary…
What the Flux? A Perplexing Legacy for Artwork Behind Closed Doors
Nathaniel Woodward reflects on his experience visiting The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Archives in New York Researching about something as enigmatic as the art-network Fluxus has been frustrating, but largely rewarding; I have been just as puzzled by…
‘Nobody ever goes in… Nobody ever comes out’
Paula Ambrossi reflects on the annual PESGB Conference, New College, University of Oxford (22 – 24 March, 2024). It was a pleasant March afternoon when I descended the train at Oxford and made my way to New College. The first…
Enabling free inquiry together: A response to Suissa and Sullivan*
This post can be downloaded as a PDF here [T]here are many gendered bodies in the world and ‘male’ and ‘female’ do not even begin the hard work of classifying them. (Halberstam, 2018, p. 154) So…
On the PESGB Annual Conference 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 it won’t be the last. It…
On the origins of PESGB
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 teacher education. This was…