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Series
Education Department and Board of Education: HM Inspectorate: Circulars and Memoranda
Catalogue reference: ED 22
What's it about?
ED 22
Copies of Education Department and Board of Education circulars and memoranda to inspectors of elementary, secondary and technical schools, schools of art, teacher training colleges and junior instruction centres.Each series has an index.
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 22
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Title (The name of the record)
- Education Department and Board of Education: HM Inspectorate: Circulars and Memoranda
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Date (When the record was created)
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1878-1941
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Description (What the record is about)
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Copies of Education Department and Board of Education circulars and memoranda to inspectors of elementary, secondary and technical schools, schools of art, teacher training colleges and junior instruction centres.
Each series has an index.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
In a series corresponding to the class of school, with a separate series for Wales.
The memoranda are listed in chronological order under their respective headings.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Records of the Welsh Department and successors:
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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, HM Inspectors of Schools, 1899-1923
- Board of Education, Inspectorate (England), 1923-1944
- Board of Education, Inspectorate (Wales), 1923-1944
- Committee of the Privy Council on Education, HM Inspectors of Schools, 1839-1899
- Education Board, Elementary, 1856-1899
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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234 file(s)
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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 unless otherwise stated
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Class is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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The series suffered some destruction of earlier issues as they became obsolete; in certain cases, however, drafting papers have been preserved, eg minutes by R L Morant.
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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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Circulars and memoranda were used to acquaint the Inspectorate with office procedure and current educational policy as well as matters of domestic administration and interest.
Prior to 1905 they were known as circulars but from that date onwards they were issued as memoranda.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6821/
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