Harley Richardson
blogger, historyofeducation.net; organising committee, AoI Education Forum; author, The Liberating Power of Education

Harley helps run the Academy of Ideas Education Forum and oversees the forum’s column for Teach Secondary magazine. He has worked in online education publishing for over 20 years, and helped establish the Bafta award-winning Espresso service for primary schools, as well as Discovery Education’s international business in the UK and Middle East.

Harley is a keen contributor to debates about education and a believer in the liberating power of knowledge. He has given illustrated talks on the history of education for researchED, Microsoft’s Education team, the Battle of Ideas, the East London Science School, and the U3A. In 2020 he gave Derby University’s 4th Annual Education Studies Lecture on liberal education. He is currently writing about the schools and universities that preceded the state system in England for a forthcoming Routledge book on the history of education. Harley is the author of The Liberating Power of Education, a radical pamphlet in the series Letters on Liberty.

Harley blogs about learning through the ages at historyofeducation.net

Follow Harley on Twitter: @harleyrich

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