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Series
Education Department and successor: Elementary Education, London General Files
Catalogue reference: ED 14
What's it about?
ED 14
This series has been formed from a 'closed' series of files dealing with the general problems which confronted the London School Board in the implementation of the Elementary Education Act 1870, and later legislation.There is no comparable...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ED 14
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Title (The name of the record)
- Education Department and successor: Elementary Education, London General Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1870-1923
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series has been formed from a 'closed' series of files dealing with the general problems which confronted the London School Board in the implementation of the Elementary Education Act 1870, and later legislation.
There is no comparable current series devoted solely to 'General' matters particular to London. Many subjects are non-recurrent.
No key linking subject headings to registered file numbers is available.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
By numbered sequence of the files
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also Records of the Inspectorate
Continuity in respect of 'Supply' matters may be found on the current Local Education Authorities file [P/S 25 G].
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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)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Board of Education, 1899-1944
- Education Department, 1856-1899
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 106 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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- Topics
- Education
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- This series has been subjected to weeding. It may be assumed that the gaps in the sequence E.25/1 to E.25/151 have been occasioned by destruction.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6813/
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