Catalogue description Committee of the Privy Council on Education and Associated Departments: Miscellanea

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Reference: ED 9
Title: Committee of the Privy Council on Education and Associated Departments: Miscellanea
Description:

Miscellaneous correspondence, minute books, inspectors' reports, etc of the Committee of the Privy Council on Education and associated departments.

The surviving documents include the manuscript minutes of proceedings of the Committee of the Council on Education, 1839 to 1841; minute book of the secretary of the committee, 1848 to 1871; and papers of the Science and Art Department.

Only one manuscript volume of the minutes of the Committee of the Council on Education has survived.

Some volumes relate to non-recurrent subjects.

This series is neither large nor complete, defies classification, yet contributes to the study of educational history.
Date: 1839-1906
Arrangement:

The list follows no defined order.
Related material:

See also Records of the Inspectorate Division within ED
Separated material:

The secretary's minute book containing copies of rules, precedents, notes of decisions, memoranda, etc., kept by successive Secretaries to the Committee of the Council on Education, Vol. II dated November 1872 to December 1888 is missing.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 26 file(s)
Selection and destruction information: These few files and volumes appear to have escaped by chance the severe and general destruction of certain series of nineteenth century records.

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