Education
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 386 Collections and/or Records:
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Official: Cabinet: Standing Committee on Expenditure: Papers 13 - 27., 10 Feb 1925 - 17 Dec 1925
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/52
Scope and Contents
Includes papers from various individuals on various subjects, including: Leo Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies, on marketing Empire foodstuffs in Britain; extracts from speeches by Leo Amery, WSC, (Chancellor of the Exchequer), Stanley Baldwin, (Prime Minister), and from a meeting of the Council of Agriculture, on Empire foodstuffs; a Treasury memorandum on admission fees for national galleries and museums; a Treasury and Board of Education statement on the reduction of Education...
Dates:
10 Feb 1925 - 17 Dec 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Colonial Office: correspondence, mainly on South African affairs., 02 Sep 1906 - 30 Sep 1906
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/15
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Frederick Ponsonby [later 1st Lord Sysonby, Assistant Private Secretary to King Edward VII] passing on the King's concern about the future of South Africa; 2nd Lord Selborne [Governor of the Transvaal and High Commissioner for South Africa] (4) on subjects including recruiting mining labour in Portuguese East Africa [later Mozambique] and his desire for Sir Richard Solomon [Acting Lieutenant-Governor of the Transvaal] to be first Prime Minister of the Transvaal, with...
Dates:
02 Sep 1906 - 30 Sep 1906
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Official: Colonial Office: correspondence, much on South African affairs., 01 Mar 1907 - 30 Mar 1907
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/23
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Thomas Ratcliffe (3) on subjects including offering to campaign against WSC at North West Manchester; Colonel Sir Howard Melliss; John Norton-Griffiths; Frank Smith, Director of Agriculture for the Transvaal [South Africa]; James Ramsay Macdonald (3) on subjects including Ratcliffe; Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary]; 2nd Lord Selborne [Governor of the Transvaal and High Commissioner for South Africa] (3); Sir Richard Solomon [Attorney-General of the Transvaal];...
Dates:
01 Mar 1907 - 30 Mar 1907
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Official: Colonial Office: Sudan native education system: correspondence and reports., 22 Jan 1906 - 03 Feb 1908
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/56
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: James Currie, Principal of the Gordon College, Khartoum, and Director of Education in the Sudan (3); Sir Frederick Lugard [High Commissioner and Commander in Chief of Northern Nigeria].Subject covered by the file: the applicability of the Sudanese education system to other colonies in east and west Africa.Also includes: annual reports and budgets for the education department, a list of boys graduating in 1907, and a note by the workshop manager.
Dates:
22 Jan 1906 - 03 Feb 1908
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Official: Treasury: Board of Education administrative memorandum number 44 on local education authority estimates., 31 Dec 1925
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/16
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Treasury papers contain correspondence, minutes, tables, printed reports, and other papers which were created or accumulated as a result of WSC's activities as Chancellor of the Exchequer, a position held from November 1924 to June 1929. The papers have been divided into general correspondence, WSC's outgoing minutes, and subject-based files and are arranged chronologically.The Treasury material covers WSC's ministerial duties as Chancellor, including the annual production of the budget,...
Dates:
31 Dec 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Official: Treasury: papers and correspondence on block grants., 20 Aug 1926 - 25 May 1927
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/62
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Alfred Hurst [Treasury] (5); Sir George Barstow [Controller of Supply Services, Treasury] (3); Neville Chamberlain [Minister of Health] (2); Lord Eustace Percy [President of the Board of Education] (3).Also includes: Cabinet Committee on Block Grants papers, including its composition and terms of reference, memoranda by WSC (2), Percy (2), Chamberlain (2), and Home Secretary [Sir William Joynson Hicks, later 1st Lord Brentford], conclusions of meetings, reports, and...
Dates:
20 Aug 1926 - 25 May 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Sub-Series
Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos: letters and papers, 1906 - 1972
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAN I/8/1-12
Scope and Contents
Includes childhood and war time letters to his parents.
Dates:
1906 - 1972
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Sub-Series
Oliver Lyttelton: speeches, 1942 - 1971
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAN II/4/17/1-30
Scope and Contents
CHAN II/4/17/A/1 contains original listings of Lyttelton's speeches 1942-1971
Dates:
1942 - 1971
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
On Educating Youth in the Universities, c 1690
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4005.5: 14-15
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Papers either in Newton's hand or concerning his life and work. Subjects covered include the Royal Society, education, cosmography, mechanics, mathematics, astronomy and shipbuilding.
Dates:
c 1690
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
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Oxford Polytechnic, 1979
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLAD 2/1/53
Scope and Contents
Recorded speeches from a conference on Higher Education in Polytechnics and similar institutions.
Dates:
1979
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
Papers of the Degrees for Women Syndicate, 1868 - 1900
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Synd.II
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Management Group:
The category - Teaching, learning and research records - comprises records relating to curriculum delivery and examination, further research and the award of degrees; also such adjuncts to study as laboratories, the Botanic Garden and University Library.
Dates:
1868 - 1900
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Sub-Series
Papers relating to commemoration of admission of women to full degrees in 1948, 1998
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Degr.M.17
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Management Group:
The category - Teaching, learning and research records - comprises records relating to curriculum delivery and examination, further research and the award of degrees; also such adjuncts to study as laboratories, the Botanic Garden and University Library.
Dates:
1998
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Papers relating to education, 1977 & May 1979-April 1983, 1977 - 1983-04
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/2/51
Scope and Contents
Part 1, 1977-79: includes copy of a "A programme for political education, the political awareness of the school leaver" (Hansard Society, 1977); notes from John Hunt (Cabinet Secretary), 7 May 1979, Mark Carlisle MP (Secretary of State for Education), 9 May 1979, George Younger MP (Secretary of State for Scotland), 10 May 1979, and ‘TPL [Tim Lankester, MT’s Private Secretary for Economic Affairs]’, "Teachers’ pay", 18 May 1979
Also includes note from ‘JN [John Nott...
Dates:
1977 - 1983-04
Conditions Governing Access:
Part 1 opened in February 2010; part 2 in March 2011; part 3 in March 2012; part 4 in March 2013; and part 5 in October 2013
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
File
Papers relating to education, December 1980 & September 1981, 1980 - 1981
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/6/8
Scope and Contents
Part 1, 1980: consists of notes from Dr Rhodes Boyson MP enclosing statistics on qualifications gained by school leavers, December 1980
Part 2, 1981: consists of note to MT from Kenneth Baker MP (Minister for Information Technology) on the use of micro-computers in schools, September 1981, with attached literature from the Department of Industry
Dates:
1980 - 1981
Conditions Governing Access:
Part 1, opened in March 2011; part 2, opened in March 2012
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Papers relating to education, February 1975-June 1976, 1975-02 - 1976-06
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/99
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with Jonathan Guinness, Philip Goodhart MP, Norman St John-Stevas MP and William ("Bill") Shelton MP
Also includes summary by the Conservative Research Department of Commons' debates arising from the Education bill, 4 February 1976
Dates:
1975-02 - 1976-06
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in November 2003
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Papers relating to education, May 1983-November 1986, 1983-05 - 1986-11
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/3/72
Scope and Contents
Part 1, 1983: Includes briefing note on ILEA [Inner London Education Authority] for London MPs by Dr Rhodes Boyson MP, May 1983
Part 2, 1984: includes copies of background briefing papers on education by Stuart Sexton (Special Adviser, Department of Education) on, "Reform of examinations at 16 plus", 20 June 1984
Part 3, 1985: includes papers relating to an education seminar at 10 Downing Street [attended by MT], 2 October 1985
Part 4, 1986: copies of background...
Dates:
1983-05 - 1986-11
Conditions Governing Access:
Part 1. opened in October 2013; part 2, opened in October 2014; part 3, opened in October 2015; and part 4, opened in January 2017
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
File
Papers relating to education, October 1976-August 1978, 1976-10 - 1978-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/100
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with Dr Keith Hampson MP, Jill Knight MP, Bob Mitchell MP, Adam Ridley (Conservative Research Department), Norman St John-Stevas MP, Jack Straw, Dr Arthur Suddaby and Professor Jack Wiseman
Dates:
1976-10 - 1978-08
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in November 2003
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
File
Papers relating to equal opportunities, December 1977, 1977-12
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/107
Scope and Contents
Consisting of papers relating to an investigation into education in Tameside Local Education Authority [Manchester], including correspondence with Betty Lockwood (Chairman, Equal Opportunities Commission)
Dates:
1977-12
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in November 2003
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
Fonds
Personal Papers of Helen Marion Wodehouse, 1895 - 1993
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Wodehouse
Scope and Contents
The papers comprise talks, speeches and sermons, papers and articles for publication as well as published material, chiefly on the subjects of philosophy, ethics, education and teaching; a collection of poems written by others; portrait photographs; and newspaper cuttings on her arrival as Mistress at Girton.
Dates:
1895 - 1993
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Girton College Archive
/
Personal Papers
Fonds
Personal papers of Sir Lionel Whitby, Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge University (1945-56) and Master of Downing College, 1916 - 1964
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/WHI
Scope and Contents
Includes original articles, diaries, photographs and other papers, plus copies of originals held by the family of Sir Lionel Whitby. Also includes other items such as his undergraduate gown, medals and awards, copies of published books and secondary material donated by his family.
Dates:
1916 - 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
Generally open.
File
Photocopy of speech given by Edward Heath MP to the National Advisory Committee on Education, circulated by Conservative Central Office, June 1967, 1967-06
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/19/1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series describes the contents of the personal filing kept by Margaret Thatcher’s while at No 10 Downing Street and are items which were of particular interest or importance to her. Many of these papers complement or are duplicated in other series. This personal files series was added to after her departure from Downing Street in 1990.
There are some papers from Margaret Thatcher's early political career (1949-), but generally very little before she became Prime Minister in 1979....
Dates:
1967-06
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in July 2009
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
Series
Podcasts for interviews conducted during the Centenary Year of Women in Parliament, 2017-11-15 - 2019-01-31
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOBA 1
Scope and Contents
76 podcast interviews collated for the publication 'When There's a Woman in the Room - #Vote 100 year January 2018 to January 2019' and written with journalists Jackie Ashley, Deborah McGurran and Linda Fairbrother. Sones' focus was primarily on recording interviews with MPs who champion public policy reforms through debates in Westminster Hall or by asking questions at PMQs.Topics include a range of issues from the centenary of women’s suffrage to Brexit debates. These...
Dates:
2017-11-15 - 2019-01-31
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Policy, 1950's, 1953-01 - 1957-11
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/2
Scope and Contents
Minutes, papers and correspondence of the Conservative Policy Study Group on subjects including: education (including memorandum by 2nd Lord Hailsham, [Minister of Education, earlier Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone]); agriculture; industrial policy; national insurance; taxation; defence regulations; social services; pensions; nationalised industries; the structure of the Social Services Ministries; the People's League for the Defence of Freedom and the Middle Class...
Dates:
1953-01 - 1957-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
Series
Policy: Education and science, 1980 - 1993
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 7
Scope and Contents
Includes: papers on education policy, particularly private education, teacher shortages, education spending, educational maintenance allowances and the Inner London Education Authority; collected speeches by NK on education; papers on religious education and the Church; papers on science policy.
Dates:
1980 - 1993
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Neil Kinnock
File
Policy proposals, 1985-10 - 1986-09
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 2/1/77
Scope and Contents
Reports by members of the Shadow Cabinet on policy proposals and their projected costs, including: Denzil Davies on defence; [Giles Radice] on education; Stan Orme on energy; John Prescott on employment; Michael Meacher on social security; [George Foulkes] on foreign affairs; Roy Hattersley on home affairs; Robert Hughes on transport; John Smith on trade and industry; Donald Dewar on Scotland; Barry Jones on Wales; Peter Archer on Northern Ireland; Patricia Hewitt [Press and Broadcasting...
Dates:
1985-10 - 1986-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.