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Total number of records: 357

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items345
Archives11
Objects1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection53
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society38
English Literature9
Quaker Collection9
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society5
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection3
Ripon Cathedral3
Leeds Russian Archive1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
education357
poor39
charity laws and legislation38
poor laws38
child rearing14
education and state10
history8
educational sociology7
mechanics' institutes7
moral education7

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain43
England39
Enfield, Middlesex2
France2
Germany2
Leeds (England)2
Scotland2
China1
Edinburgh (Scotland)1
Europe1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed To Inquire Into the Education of the Poor38
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)19
Rollin, Charles (1661-1741)12
Baines, Sir Edward (1800-1890)10
Genlis, Stephanie Felicité Comtesse De (1746-1830)9
Locke, John (1632-1704)9
Hamilton, Elizabeth (1758-1816)8
Coste, Pierre7
Coste, Pierre (1668-1747)7
Edgeworth, Maria (1767-1849)7

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From 15003
From 16009
From 1700115
From 1800230

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Up to 15993
Up to 16999
Up to 1799114
Up to 1899231

Archive File

Lecture syllabus "The History and the Achievements of the Working Classes in Union and Co-operation"

1885

Syllabus of lecture to the Barnsley Co-Operative Society (Ltd) Hoyland Branch at the Primitive Methodist Schoolroom at Hoyland on Monday March 9th 1885 2 pp printed on poor quality pink paper with tea...

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Letters on various subjects written at school by Fanny Oates, Midsummer 1853

Oates, Fanny

1853

Six school exercises, four of them in the form of letters addressed to members of her family on the following subjects: (1) Discovery of America; (3) Mount Carmel; (5) On the invention of the art of p...

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Printed gathering "Memorandum on the inspection and examination of secondary schools"

1899

At head of the first page: Intermediate Education (Ireland) Commission. [No imprint]. Subsequently published in 'Appendix to the final report of the Commissioners, Part II: miscellaneous documents', I...

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Unbound printed pamphlet "Secondary education in its bearings on practical life. An address, delivered at Howick, Northumberland on August 26th, 1899."

1899

Printed in Newcastle-on-Tyne: Ward & Sons, Reprinted in Higginson, pp. 28-35; Item 72 in Pickering 23 pp.

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"Syllabus of a Course on the beginnings of Modern Socialism"

1890

“Lectures to be delivered in the new Islington Hall, Ancoats, Wednesday 8th January, Thursday 9th January and Friday 10th January 1890, at 7.45, by Michael E Sadler Ma [.] printed at Manchester for ...

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MS article "Brief summary of history of the pupil-teacher system"

1897

Memorandum, with a crossed out note at the top of the first page: "Alternative to the longer paper, part of which has been already sent and the remaining pages of which accompany this memorandum, M.E....

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Medals

1803

Silver engraved medal for industry awarded to Charles Cowden Clarke during his time as a teacher at Enfield School, also known as Clarke's Academy, in June 1803.

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