Archives on education

This guide to education archives is not intended to be exhaustive. It complements the archives catalogue, which includes a subject search facility.

School

  • Teacher-pupils: Andrew Bell papers, ref: MS1110, date(s): 1797-1807
  • Infant education: Samuel Wilderspin papers, ref: MS917, date(s): 1823-c1980
  • Infant education: Samuel Wilderspin papers, ref: MS975, date(s): c1824-c1980
  • Victorian education policies: Medley Collection, ref: Medley, date(s): 1883-1884
  • School notebooks: Atkinson family, ref: MS384, date(s): 1668-1696
  • Examinations: University of London Examinations Board, ref: UoL/SE, date(s): 1908-1995

Adult education

  • Russell Committee on Adult Education papers, ref: MS866, date(s): 1969-1972
  • Frank Sydney Milligan papers, ref: MS867, date(s): [?1698], 1918-1968
  • Wakefield Mechanics' Institution, ref: MS917/5/58, date(s): 1843
  • Wilderspin in Wakefield, ref: MS975/68, date(s): 1843-1866, 1938, 1957, 1961, 1973, c1980
  • University of London Department of Extra-Mural Studies, ref: UoL/EM, date(s): c1876-c1990

Private Tuition

  • Teresa Ann Englefield papers, ref: MS284, date(s): 1772

Religious Education

  • Cobham College, ref: MS496, date(s): 1598

Higher Education

  • Notes on an educational method by Philip Doddridge, ref: MS609, date(s): 1708-1821
  • University of London archive (includes African universities), ref. UoL, date(s): 1791-
  • University of London Collection, ref. ULC, date(s): 1825-1999
  • University of Copenhagen documents, ref: MS783 date(s): 1837-1838
  • Silvanus P Thompson correspondence (University of London) ref: AL304, date(s): 1891-1909
  • Professor H.H. Bellot papers (University of London, African universities), ref: MS823 date(s): c1850-1969
  • Albert Frederick Pollard papers (University of London) , ref: MS860, date(s): 1884-1948
  • Andrew Rutherford papers (University of London, literature teaching), ref: MS983, date(s): 1960s-1998
  • Professor Arthur Geoffrey Dickens (universities of London and Hull), ref: MS923, date(s): c1929-1992
  • Sir Douglas William Logan papers (University of London), ref: MS926, date(s): 1930-1987
  • James Stewart Cook papers (University of London), ref: MS986, date(s): 1922-1979
  • London Schools and Colleges Dining Club (University of London), ref. MS1182, date(s): 1926-2011