The Educational Times Database: History of the Educational Times and Mathematical Questions, 1847–1918

The following three subsections provide an overview of the importance of the ET (and its offshoot MQ) and its contributors to the history of mathematics:

• Founding of the Journals and Early Contributors
• Women Contributors
• International Contributors

When the collective contents and widespread readership of the ET and MQ are appraised together, their historical significance is clear. The ET and MQ were read seriously by many of the nineteenth century’s leading mathematicians. It is hoped that this brief history illuminates the role of the ET/MQ in British and transnational mathematics communities, as well as shows how the journals validated women’s participation in a profession that typically excluded or marginalized women. No definitive history of the ET/MQ yet exists, but more details on the journals, their readers, editors, printers, and publisher can be found in excellent articles by Janet Delve [2003], Sloan Despeaux [2017], Ivor Grattan-Guinness [1992], and Shawnee McMurran and James Tattersall [2004]. These articles cannot be recommended highly enough for readers interested in the ET/MQ. They offer inspiration and encouragement for scholars to pursue further research on a remarkable pair of historic journals.