Catalogue description Education Department, and Board of Education, Welsh Department: Welsh General Education, Files

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Details of ED 91
Reference: ED 91
Title: Education Department, and Board of Education, Welsh Department: Welsh General Education, Files
Description:

Files of the Education Department and Board of Education, Welsh Department concerning matters of general education common to, or not peculiar to, elementary and secondary education in Wales.

The series includes papers of the committee on Intermediate and Higher Education - Wales 1880-1882 and memorials seeking the establishment of a university college in Wales; the setting up of a Joint Education Committee for Wales and Monmouthshire; HM Inspectors' reports on the provision of elementary, secondary and further education by the responsible authorities in Wales; the contribution for Wales to the Board of Education's Annual Report for some years, and the appointment of a departmental committee to inquire into the position occupied by Welsh (language and literature) in the educational system of Wales.

Prior to 1921 the files were in an unnumbered series but subsequently a numbered series was introduced which absorbed cognate papers from the earlier series.

Date: 1880-1938
Arrangement:

The "Unnumbered" and "Numbered" files are arranged alphabetically under subject headings to form groups of the periods 1880-1911 and 1912-1935

Related material:

See also Records of the Inspectorate Division within ED

For files on administration of the Education Acts and effect of Second World War on education in Wales see ED 10

Separated material:

Many files from this series were destroyed during the Second World War. No papers for the period 1936-1945 survived the 1960 floods.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Education, 1899-1944

Board of Education, Welsh Department, 1907-1944

Education Department, 1856-1899

Physical description: 59 file(s)

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