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General records created or inherited by the Department of Education and Science and...
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Division within ED
General records of the Board of Education and successors relating to the central administration of the creating bodies.Registered files concerning the establishment of education committees are in ED 139. General education files are in ED...
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- Division within ED
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Title (The name of the record)
- General records created or inherited by the Department of Education and Science and predecessors
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1846-1996
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Description (What the record is about)
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General records of the Board of Education and successors relating to the central administration of the creating bodies.
Registered files concerning the establishment of education committees are in ED 139. General education files are in ED 10.
Various lists of educational institutions and departmental staff are in ED 270. Files relating to schemes under the 1918 and 1921 Education Acts are in ED 13 and ED 120, while registered files concerning schemes for divisional administration under the 1944 Education Act are in ED 151. Files relating to practical instruction centres are in ED 70 and ED 96. Records reflecting the Board and Ministry's responsibilities for wartime services are in ED 134.
Specimens of printed forms are in ED 8. Circulars and administrative memoranda are in ED 142, with procedure minutes and instructions in ED 230, and press notices in ED 229.
Copies of the departmental business directory (List 240) are in ED 227. Drafts and papers of the Official History of Education, Second World War and General Historical Survey, are in ED 138.
Records of the Board of Trade and the Department of Overseas Trade relating to the administration of the Imperial Institute are in ED 26.
Specimens of documents destroyed are in ED 900.
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 17 series
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C806/
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