https://mla.hcommons.org/members/mayhe50p/activity/ Activity feed for Helen May. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:53:18 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 504e508f00e17f7dfc743367c7889af1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884836/ Wed, 01 May 2024 23:37:58 -0400 Entrepreneur Geoffrey Pyke (1893-1948) founded and funded the Malting House School Cambridge, England as a site for “scientific experiment and research” in the field of early education; adopting too psychoanalytic understandings of child development. The Malting House experiment which operated during 1924-1929 is one of five case studies in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 f544ad3dac0ab58a321b710138664561 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1883759/ Tue, 23 Apr 2024 01:33:39 -0400 Nola Carrington was born in 1918 and died in 1998. After her marriage to Cyril Bradwell in 1945 she became Nola Bradwell. From childhood to old age Nola sewed, knitted, crocheted and embroidered. Moreover, she tailored, fashioned, decorated, gifted, clothed and mended for work and leisure — for friends and family, as an economic necessity, as a h…[Read more]

]]> 0 2af86aa41ce25807a323c6e03332320f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1756613/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 02:26:09 -0400 Catherine Jubilee Robertson (1890-1979), also known as Kathleen, was my unknown grandmother and the birth mother of my father, Cyril Robertson Bradwell (1916-2008). She was also unknown to my father except for a ‘forgotten’ name Kathleen Jubilee Robertson, vaguely recalled later when cited on a birth certificate that listed his birth on the 19t…[Read more]

]]> 0 96afcd5b5be6abd5043477fbfac2a9e1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1756604/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 02:08:34 -0400 My writing about these few years in Kenya is for my children and grandchildren, but it is also a story of childhood; situated both on the edges and in the midst of British colonial conquests and experiments. There are differences and similarities in the consequences of Africa’s colonial stories and that of New Zealand’s. My own forbears were buf…[Read more]

]]> 0 395e5517fccc11b9b1cd9772526a1a05 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1756508/ Mon, 25 Oct 2021 00:34:59 -0400 This is a story of three lady teachers whose teaching careers and endeavours on behalf of women and children have been mainly forgotten. It is an incomplete story, lacking in photographic records and collated from a myriad of fragmentary news clippings, writings, sightings and reports gathered over some years. Misses Agnes Inkpen and Isabella…[Read more]

]]> 0 40023354757678693a0ac0c74e8b66a5 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693366/ Thu, 25 Jun 2020 02:31:07 -0400 0 2105fec63870b77c5b752b4a997050fe https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693365/ Thu, 25 Jun 2020 02:04:41 -0400 An international Froebel conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, in June 2020 (cancelled due to COVID19) was the opportune occasion to present Miss Little’s story at the same institution where she trained as a teacher in the 1890s. A century ago she travelled to New Zealand and embarked on a range of endeavours for the betterment of children and…[Read more]

]]> 0 76ea869c40cf4f63934c6a9e6a0b18e8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693364/ Thu, 25 Jun 2020 01:52:24 -0400 This is an overview essay setting the context of Scottish – New Zealand education links in colonial times that shape our story of three infant teachers who arrived in New Zealand in the early 20th century. As historians of early childhood institutions in New Zealand our researches, collectively and separately, have included the archival…[Read more]

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