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Series
Board of Education and successors: School History Sheets
Catalogue reference: ED 185
What's it about?
ED 185
School history sheets of the Board of Education and successors.A sheet was provided to each school for completion with the school name, location, status and size of the school, and the sex and the age range of the pupils: the date of...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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ED 185
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Education and successors: School History Sheets
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Date (When the record was created)
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1870-1983
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Description (What the record is about)
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School history sheets of the Board of Education and successors.
A sheet was provided to each school for completion with the school name, location, status and size of the school, and the sex and the age range of the pupils: the date of establishment was also required, and the date range of the pieces in the series reflects this date. In the case of a voluntary school (usually a church school), information on ownership of the premises could also be noted additionally. Particulars of statutory proposals involving the school, or of building projects on its premises, were commonly included, and often other details of the school or its organisation.
A few Welsh schools are included.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The records in this series are separated into those of schools closed during the years 1900 to 1983, and those of schools open on 1 January 1984, and then arranged by geographical location of the Local Education Authority.
The date range given in the list reflects the age of the schools rather than the date of the assembly of the information.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Papers relating to individual schools can be found in many ED series.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Board of Education, 1899-1944
- Department of Education and Science, 1964-1992
- Education Department, 1856-1899
- Ministry of Education, 1944-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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108 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Education
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- A place names index is available. Please speak to staff at the enquiry desk for the precise location.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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School history sheets were introduced by the Board of Education in the 1920s and were discontinued by the Department of Education and Science in 1983. Today the DES continues to record individual school details on subject files and on computer.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6984/
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