The National Education Association

Summary of contents:

Minutes

Formation and endowment

Accounts

Annual reports

Correspondence

N.E.A. publications: The School Child

Bulletins

Leaflets

Other publications

Miscellaneous files and bundles:

(i) Parliamentary Publications

(ii) Ministry of Education

(iii) Case files

(iv) Education pamphlets

(v) Reference papers

<p>(See A/LIB)</p>

Ac. 72.63; Ac. 73.33; Ac.74.5; Ac.74.14

The former reference numbers refer to a list made by A.P.Derrington of the records of the N.E.A. when held by the Free Church Federal Council.

The N.E.A. was formed to give effect to the resolutions of the Education Conference Committee held in 1888 in reaction to the report of the Cross Commission, 1886-1888. It aimed to promote a 'free progressive system of national education, publicly controlled and free from sectarian interest' both by publicizing and advancing the School Board system and by undermining denominational and private schools.

Formed in 1888 and formally constituted in 1889 under the presidency of A.J.Mundella the N.E.A. acted as the education sub-committee of the Liberation Society, whose aim were the disestablishment of the Church of England, the attainment of religious equality for Non-Conformists and the preservation of the rights of conscience

The N.E.A. was disbanded in 1959 and its duties taken over by the Free Church Federal Council who inherited its records.