Board of Education and predecessors: Specimens of Printed Forms

ED 8

1846-1924

A series of bound volumes and boxes of specimens of obsolete printed forms. The forms range through all the various branches of the work of the Education Department and of the Science and Art Department, and of their successor, the Board of Education.

The volumes also include many kinds of printed lists such as school boards, training colleges, schools and various institutions, and of staff.

Many have at the beginning a printed abstract of forms and list of circulars which, although not an index, is useful for identifying individual papers.

As no indexes were kept, and a good deal of searching was entailed to produce any particular edition of a form, this method of keeping superseded or disused forms was discontinued in 1924; since then all editions of a particular form have been kept together.

Chronological. Except in the case of the Science and Art Department volumes the dates refer to the time of the forms becoming disused or superseded, not when they were brought into use. In each volume the arrangement of the forms is by their numbers, with unnumbered ones at the end.

Public Record(s)

English

• Board of Education, 1899-1944
• Committee of the Privy Council on Education, 1839-1899
• Education Department, 1856-1899
• Science and Art Department, 1856-1899

101 volume(s)

Topics

Art, architecture and design

Education