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Series
Board of Education and successors: Personal Files
Catalogue reference: ED 36
What's it about?
ED 36
Small selection of personal files relating to persons employed by the Board of Education and successors.They include people of national importance, such as Matthew Arnold, who had been one of the earliest Inspectors of Schools, and Sir Trenchard...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ED 36
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Education and successors: Personal Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1859-1966
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Description (What the record is about)
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Small selection of personal files relating to persons employed by the Board of Education and successors.
They include people of national importance, such as Matthew Arnold, who had been one of the earliest Inspectors of Schools, and Sir Trenchard Cox, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The two files relating to Inspectors of Schools (HMIs) show the way in which the department dealt with staff, while the file relating to the Chief Librarian contains information on the employment of women in professional posts in the department.
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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
- Department of Education and Science, 1964-1992
- Education Department, 1856-1899
- Ministry of Education, 1944-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 13 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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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)
- Some files were selected because they showed the way in which the department dealt with staff.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6835/
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