Ian Grosvenor is Professor of Urban Educational History and Director of Teaching and Learning at the School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK. He has been involved in anti-racist politics and curriculum activity around Birmingham since the early 1980s. His first book was Assimilating Identities: Racism and Education in Post 1945 Britain (Lawrence and Wishart, 1997). He is a founder member of Black Pasts, Birmingham Futures. He co-edited Making Connections, Birmingham Black International History (2001) with Rita McLean and Siân Roberts. He is academic adviser to the HLF supported Connecting Histories Project and has worked with the HLF and the National Trust on other projects linked to cultural diversity. Current research focuses on new ways of conceptualising and presenting the educational past through consideration of issues relating to space, design, technology, the visual in education, artefacts and identity formation. Wrote The School I’d Like with Catherine Burke (Routledge 2003) and co-edited with Martin Lawn Materialities of Schooling. Design, Technology, Objects, Routines (Symposium Books, 2005). Convenor of the History of Education Network within the European Education Research Association and co-founder of the Domus Centre for Interdisciplinary Research into the Cultural Histories of Education and Childhood at Birmingham.

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The School of Education, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom.

E-mail: I.D.Grosvenor@bham.ac.uk