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Sophia Jex-Blake, pioneer of women's medicine
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Series
Committee of the Privy Council on Education and Associated Departments: Miscellanea
Catalogue reference: ED 9
What's it about?
ED 9
Miscellaneous correspondence, minute books, inspectors' reports, etc of the Committee of the Privy Council on Education and associated departments.The surviving documents include the manuscript minutes of proceedings of the Committee of the...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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ED 9
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Title (The name of the record)
- Committee of the Privy Council on Education and Associated Departments: Miscellanea
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Date (When the record was created)
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1839-1906
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Description (What the record is about)
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Miscellaneous correspondence, minute books, inspectors' reports, etc of the Committee of the Privy Council on Education and associated departments.
The surviving documents include the manuscript minutes of proceedings of the Committee of the Council on Education, 1839 to 1841; minute book of the secretary of the committee, 1848 to 1871; and papers of the Science and Art Department.
Only one manuscript volume of the minutes of the Committee of the Council on Education has survived.
Some volumes relate to non-recurrent subjects.
This series is neither large nor complete, defies classification, yet contributes to the study of educational history.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The list follows no defined order.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also Records of the Inspectorate
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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The secretary's minute book containing copies of rules, precedents, notes of decisions, memoranda, etc., kept by successive Secretaries to the Committee of the Council on Education, Vol. II dated November 1872 to December 1888 is missing.
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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26 file(s)
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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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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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These few files and volumes appear to have escaped by chance the severe and general destruction of certain series of nineteenth century records.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6808/
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