Scope and Contents Documents and correpondence relating to the educational activities of Prebendary Joseph Lloyd Brereton, founder of Cavendish College, Cambridge (1873 to 1892) which later became Homerton College (1894). The collection includes a selection of sources for the history of Cavendish College as well as records of Brereton's scheme for the education of girls through the Graduated County Schools Association. The Association was in existence between 1881 and 1887 to enable self-supporting schools...

Scope and Contents Letters written by Third Earl Hugh Fortescue to Joseph Lloyd Brereton concerning educational proposals/activities, political and rural issues and personal matters. The pair had a life-long friendship having met as neighbours in West Buckland where they opened a proprietory boarding school for farmer's sons. Fortescue was a considerable landowner, concerned with the welfare of rural England and sympathetic to the unsectarian religious views of Brereton. He became Brereton's first convert...

Scope and Contents Contains brief notes on the activities of the school from its opening on 4 April 1870 to the late 1890s. Daily entries may include information on admissions and discharges, weather, attendance, examinations, discipline, subjects taught and the observations/recommendations of inspectors. Names of teachers and visitors appear throughout the volume with the names of individual children appearing roughly from the early 1880s. The final pages of the volume jump between dates in the mid-1890s...

Scope and Contents Contains brief notes on the activities of the school from its opening on19 May 1876 to 3 January 1895. Daily entries may include information on admissions and discharges, weather, attendance, examinations, discipline, subjects taught and the observations/recommendations of inspectors. Names of teachers and visitors appear throughout the volume with the names of individual children appearing inconsistently. The final pages of the volume include object lessons and recitations for the school...

Content Description

Field notebooks, notes, draft and published articles, and audio-visual material relating for the most part to Roberts's research on education in Ghana. Together with a series of photographs and slides documenting aspects of life in Sefwi Wiawso and Roberts's time in Ghana and Nigeria.