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Series
Board of Education and predecessors: Private Office: Papers (Series 1)
Catalogue reference: ED 24
What's it about?
ED 24
The surviving records of the Private Office comprising confidential minutes, memoranda and correspondence addressed to, or emanating from, the President and Vice-President, of the Council of the Committee on Education, later the Board of...
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 24
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Education and predecessors: Private Office: Papers (Series 1)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1851-1935
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Description (What the record is about)
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The surviving records of the Private Office comprising confidential minutes, memoranda and correspondence addressed to, or emanating from, the President and Vice-President, of the Council of the Committee on Education, later the Board of Education, draft parliamentary bills, departmental committee reports, rare copies of printed papers, some papers of Sir William Anson relating to his term of office as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education, 1902 to 1905, and a number of ancillary papers including House of Commons Returns.
Private Office papers are not registered but are kept in folders indexed under broad subject headings.
The series also includes material which would otherwise be found elsewhere in ED amongst the Records of the Committee of the Privy Council on Education.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The surviving nineteenth century material has been arranged under original titles and sub-titles and items thereunder appear in chronological order.The 1902 Bill Papers are arranged in a numerical sequence which does not conform to a chronological order.
The index to this arrangement no longer exists although the order of the papers has been maintained.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Nineteenth century papers in this series suffered much destruction.
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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, 1899-1944
- Committee of the Privy Council on Education, 1839-1899
- Education Department, 1856-1899
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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2141 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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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- The 'Key to Arrangements' shows in alphabetical order the subject matter of the papers contained in this series and for ease of reference the code number assigned to the subject. The pages of the list are in code number order. Please speak to staff at
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6823/
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