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Series
Board of Education and successors: Welsh Department and successors: Registered Files...
Catalogue reference: ED 216
What's it about?
ED 216
Registered files of the Welsh Department of the Board of Education and its successors mainly relating to individual elementary, primary and secondary schools in Wales.Some files relate to policy matters including the introduction of separate...
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 216
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Education and successors: Welsh Department and successors: Registered Files (Various W Prefixes)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1893-1983
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Description (What the record is about)
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Registered files of the Welsh Department of the Board of Education and its successors mainly relating to individual elementary, primary and secondary schools in Wales.
Some files relate to policy matters including the introduction of separate primary and secondary schools in Wales following the 1944 Education Act, the distribution of teachers especially in rural areas with a low population, language policy in schools and the development of teaching through the medium of Welsh, and the effects of the decisions to close many small rural schools, particularly those in Welsh speaking areas.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Alphabetically within county and county borough order, and by file prefix within each transfer.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- WE file series, WN file series, WP file series, WP/S file series, WRS file series and WS file series
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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
- Board of Education, Welsh Department, 1907-1944
- Department of Education and Science, Education Office for Wales, 1964-1970
- Department of Education and Science, Welsh Education Office, 1970-1978
- Education Department, 1856-1899
- Ministry of Education, Welsh Department, 1944-1964
- Welsh Office, 1965-1999
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 510 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1994 Welsh Office
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- A key to the file prefixes and abbreviations of schools used in the list is available. Please speak to staff at the enquiry desk for the precise location.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- A number of these files have been cited in Which Nation's Schools by Gareth Elwyn Jones.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7015/
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