And I admit I can’t quite remember the line of succession from Henry VII to George I!

The 2nd podcast in our series on exams is out tomorrow! Have exams got easier over time? Should we bring back questions involving long division of 10 digit numbers? If we don't, are we a fallen people? Have we sacrificed excellence for equity? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/les…

Come for the avant-garde theme music, stay for the educational content!

A rather personal episode of the podcast will be appearing on Friday morning - follow here to be the first to listen when it drops: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/les…

New podcast episode out tomorrow! It's on Miss Buss & Miss Beale, Victorian pioneers of girls' education. They founded famous schools, argued for girls to take exams & invented the term head mistress. Were they as stern as in these photos? Listen & find out!

This is just not the case. 1. These schools were built well after the Industrial Rev. 2. Their architect (ER Robson) disliked corridors as they impeded light & air. 3. He also created bigger classrooms (not "cells") for same reason.

Our new episode on school buildings is out now!

Our second episode on Building Schools in the Past is now live. We talk to structural engineer, Fiona Cobb, about why RAAC is more Crunchie than Aero and the reason new school buildings don’t look like this anymore. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/les…

Our next episode goes live tomorrow morning - with fun tangents on taxidermy, huel and effective altruism. Subscribe now to be the first to download: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/les…

I quite like those bits too!

Latest Lessons from History is on school absenteeism. But we also talk about the heyday of local government, when infrastructure projects came in under budget & ahead of schedule & the surplus was spent on statues celebrating local government. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/abs…

Our interview with Patrick Derham, former Head Master of Rugby and Westminster on the challenges facing the independent sector is now available podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/les…

Our next podcast episode is out tomorrow - first of a 2-parter on what we did before A-levels. Find out about the Higher School Certificate - the inter-war qualification for 18 year olds which has a bit in common with the new Advanced British Standard. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/les…

Daisy Christodoulou My Gran failed French in 1934 as part of her school certificate despite doing well in the others. Officially she left school with no qualifications. She often talked about how unfair the system was.

Great you have got this out there, Daisy. I loved the conversations we had about this seminal Act. Can hardly believe it’s 80 years ago…which makes my book about it 30 years ago!