John Howlett

Publications

1 Books

1.1 Authored books

• HOWLETT. J. (2013) Progressive Education: a Critical Introduction (London, Bloomsbury Publishing), pp. 312.
• HOWLETT, J. (2016) Edmond Holmes and Progressive Education (London, Routledge Press), pp. 196.
• HOWLETT, J. (in press, 2023) Challenging the Orthodox: The Development of Progressive Education in the United Kingdom 1850-1950 (London, Routledge), pp. 196.

1.2 Edited Collections

• HOWLETT, J. (2016) Selected Poems and Prose of Edmond Holmes (New York, Farleigh Dickenson University Press), pp. 200 including 10000 word Introduction and 7000 critical notes.
• HOWLETT, J. (2017) Invictus: Selected Poems and Prose of W.E. Henley (Hove, Sussex Academic Press), pp. 200 including 13000 word introduction and 5000 word critical notes.
• HOWLETT, J. (2017) Collected Poems of Clere Parsons (Beeston: Shoestring Press), pp. 72.
• HOWLETT, J.  (2021) At the Dark Hour: Collected Poems of Paul Dehn 1935-1965 (Hove, Waterloo Press), pp. 162 including 5500 word introduction.
• HOWLETT, J. (2021) Selected Poems of James Reeves (London, Greenwich Exchange Press), pp. 150 including 5000 word introduction. 
• HOWLETT, J. (2021) For Johnny: Selected Poems of John Pudney (Brighton, DareGale Press), pp. 120 including 4000 word introduction.
• HOWLETT, J. (2023) Playing the Game: Selected Poems of Henry Newbolt (Liverpool, Liverpool University Press), pp. 256 including 22000 word introduction, 6000 word critical notes. 
• HOWLETT, J. (forthcoming 2023) Dancing Years: Selected Poems of Christopher Hassall, (Hove, Waterloo Press), pp. 180 including 7000 word introduction.
• HOWLETT, J. (forthcoming 2023)  The Sweet Anarchist: Selected Poems of John Barlas, (London, Greenwich Exchange Press), pp. 150 including 5000 word introduction.
• HOWLETT, J. (forthcoming 2024)  Coventry Patmore: Victorian Angel (London, Greenwich Exchange Press), pp. 150, 46000 words.
• HOWLETT, J. (forthcoming 2024)  Out of the Forest: Selected Poems of Leonard Clark, (University of Gloucestershire Press), pp. 96 including 4000 word introduction.

1.3. Chapters in books

• HOWLETT, J. (2021) Caldwell Cook, Play and the Perse, in: J. Howlett and A. Palmer (Eds) English Pioneers in Arts Education: Unfolding Creativity 1870-1939 (London, Palgrave Macmillan) pp. 148-168.
• HOWLETT, J. (2021) Harriet Finlay-Johnson and the lite school on the Downs, in: J. Howlett and A. Palmer (Eds) English Pioneers in Arts Education: Unfolding Creativity 1870-1939 (London, Palgrave Macmillan) pp. 125-146.
• HOWLETT, J. (2021) Introduction, in: J. Howlett and A. Palmer (Eds) English Pioneers in Arts Education: Unfolding Creativity 1870-1939 (London, Palgrave Macmillan) pp. 1-30.
• HOWLETT, J. (2021) Conclusion, in: J. Howlett and A. Palmer (Eds) English Pioneers in Arts Education: Unfolding Creativity 1870-1939 (London, Palgrave Macmillan) pp. 236-253.

2 Academic Articles

• HOWLETT, J. (in press, accepted 2023) From Romanticism to the Buddha: Edmond Holmes and the Victorian Poet-as-Philosopher. To be published in Victorian Poetry 2023.
• HOWLETT, J. (in press, accepted 2023) Freedom, Democracy, and Self-Government. The Progressive Case of J.H. Simpson. To be published in History of Education 2023.
• HOWLETT, J. (in press, accepted 2023) The Last Noble Failure: Chivalry and The Great War Poetry of Henry Newbolt. To be published in War Poetry Review. The Journal of the War Poets Association 2023.
• HOWLETT, J. (2023) Freedom, Differentialism, and the Partnership Method: The Progressive Education of Norman MacMunn. History of Education 52 (1), pp. 56-75.
• HOWLETT, J. (2021) John Pudney, War Poetry Review. The Journal of the War Poets Association 2021, pp. 36-53.
• Howlett, J. (2021) Norman MacMunn. The Staffordian: The Magazine for King Edward VI Alumni, 4000 words, pp. 28-31.
• HOWLETT, J. (2021) The Educational Thought and Spiritual Life of Victor Lytton, History of Education, 50 (6), pp. 802-819.
• HOWLETT, J. (2019) Henry Caldwell Cook, Creativity and Democratic Learning, History of Education Review 48 (2), pp.227-241.
• HOWLETT, J. (2017) The Formation, Development and Contribution of the New Ideals in Education Conferences, 1914 – 1937, History of Education 46 (4), pp.459-479.
• HOWLETT, J. (2011) Quentin Skinner, Intentionality and the History of Education, Paedagogica Historica 47 (3), pp. 415 – 433.
• HOWLETT, J. (2012) Actions Speak Louder than Words: An Application on Intentionality to History of Education 2, History of Education Researcher 90, pp. 97 – 109.
• HOWLETT, J. (2010) Good Intentions Count: An Application of Intentionality to the History of Education, History of Education Researcher 86, pp. 61 – 71.
• HOWLETT, J. (2010) Method in the Meaning: Intentionality and the Re-visioning of Progressivism, History of Education Researcher 85 pp.11-18.

3 Book reviews and other publications

• Howlett, J. (2013) Review of Ian Abbott, Michael Rathbone and Paul Whitehead, Education Policy (London, SAGE Publications), British Journal of Education Studies, 61(4), pp. 494-495.
• Howlett, J. (2014) Paired Review of James M. Banner Jr., Being a Historian: An Introduction to the Professional World of History (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press) and J.H. Elliott, History in the Making (New Haven, Yale University Press), History of Education, 44(2), pp. 251-255.
• Howlett, J. (2015) Review of Barnita Bagchi (Ed), Eckhardt Fuchs (Ed) and Kate Rousmaniere (Ed) Connecting Histories of Education: Transnational and Cross-Cultural Exchanges in (Post)colonial Education (New York, Berghahn Books), Cambridge Journal of Education 45(4), pp. 558 – 560.
• Howlett, J. (2016) Review of David Turner, The Old Boys: The Decline and Rise of the Public School (New Haven, Yale University Press), Journal of British Studies, 55(1), pp. 203-204.
• Howlett, J. (2016) Review of Tom O’Donoghue and Judith Harford, Secondary School Education in Ireland: Histories, Memories and Life Stories, 1922-1967 (London, Palgrave Macmillan), History of Education, 44(1), pp. 139-141.
• Howlett, J. (2016) Review of Ken Jones, Education in Britain 1944-2014 2nd edition (Cambridge, Polity Press), History of Education, 46(3), pp. 410-411.
• Howlett, J. (2018) Review of Mustafa Eryaman (Ed) and Bertram Bruce (Ed), International Handbook of Progressive Education (New York, Peter Lang Publishing), Other Education – the journal of Educational Alternatives 7(1), pp. 71-74.
• Howlett, J. (2017) Review of John Cannon, Schooling in England 1660-1850 – Part I: Introduction ‘a Noiseless Revolution’ and Part II: the Gazetteer of English Schools (List and Index Society), History of Education, 47(3), pp. 436-438.
• Howlett, J. (2017) Review of Brendan Walsh (Ed), Essays in the History of Irish Education (London, Palgrave Macmillan), History of Education, 47(4), pp. 570-572.
• Howlett, J. (2017) Review of Philip Dixon, Testing Times: Success, Failure and Fiasco in Welsh Education Policy since Devolution (Cardiff, Welsh Academic Press), British Journal of Education Studies, 66 (2), pp. 278-280.
• Howlett, J. (2018) Review of Agnieszka Bates, Transforming Education: Meaning, Myths and Complexity (London, Routledge Press), British Journal of Education Studies, 66(3), pp. 414-416.
• Howlett, J. (2018) Review of Gary McCulloch and Stevan Cowan, A Social History of Educational Studies and Research in History of Education (London, Routledge Press), 48(3), pp. 422-424.
• Howlett, J. (2019) Review of Peter Gronn, Just As I Am: A Life of J.R. Darling (London, Hardie Grant Publishing), History of Education 49 (5), pp. 729-731.
• Howlett, J. (2019) Review of Bryan Caplan, The Case Against Education: why the Education System is a waste of Time and Money (Princetown, Princeton University Press), British Journal of Education Studies, 67(4), pp.561-563.
• Howlett, J. (2019) Review of Jane Kenway (Ed), Johannah Fahey (Ed), Aaron Koh (Ed), Cameron McCarthy (Ed) and Fazal Rizvi (Ed), Class Choreographies. Elite Schools and Globalization (London, Palgrave Macmillan), British Journal of
  Education Studies, 68 (1), pp. 135-137.
• Howlett, J. (2020) Review of Helen Loader, Mrs Humphrey Ward and Greenian Philosophy (London, Palgrave Macmillan), in History of Education, 50(2), pp. 284-286.
• Howlett, J. (2020) Review of Michael Shattock and Aniko Horvath The Governance of British Higher Education: The Impact of Governmental, Financial, and Market Pressures (London: Bloomsbury Academic), in British Journal of Education Studies 69(1), pp. 129-131.
• Howlett, J. (2021) Review of Tina Bruce, Friedrich Froebel. A Critical Introduction to Key Themes and Debates (London, Bloomsbury Academic), The Curriculum Journal, 32(4), pp.758-759.
• Howlett, J. (2022) Review of Keith Harber, Post-Covid Schooling: Future Alternatives to the Global Normal (London: Routledge Press) in Other Education – the journal of Educational Alternatives 11(1), pp. 150-153.
• Howlett, J. (2022) Review of Histories of Everyday Life. The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918-1979 (Manchester, Manchester University Press) in History of Education 52 (1), pp. 139-141.
• Howlett, J. (2023) J.H.Simpson in The Rendcombian: Old Rendcombian Society Newsletter, 49th Edition, pp. 55-56.
• Howlett, J. ‘Play up! play up! and play the game!’ - the vital legacy of poet Henry Newbolt. Available at https://liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2023/06/29/play-up-play-up-and-play-the-game-the-vital-legacy-of-poet-henry-newbolt/
• Howlett, J. (2012, November) The 150-year Battle to Improve Britain’s Schools, BBC History Magazine (interview).
• Howlett, J. (2018, August) The Historians View: Do Grammar Schools have a Future as well as a Past?, BBC History Magazine (debate piece).
• Howlett, J. (2016) Introduction to E. Holmes, Freedom and Growth and Other Essays, London, Routledge Revivals).
• Howlett, J. (2010) A Graduate’s Tale in P. Warner and P. Raby (Eds) Homerton: Evolution of Cambridge College (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press), pp. 47-53.

4 Web-based internet resources

• Howlett, J. (2021) ‘James Herbert Simpson (1883-1959)’ as part of Oxford University Press’s Dictionary of National Biography. Available at https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-63837?rskey=zTEEqs&result=7