IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0366 KIT
Held at: Institute of Education
Title: Jack Kitching, HMI Archive
Date(s): 1871-1992
Level of description: collection
Extent: 51 boxes
Name of creator(s): Jack Kitching HMI Archive
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Archive of the Board of Education Inspectors' Association was named after Jack Kitching who was an HMI (Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools) from 1973-1982 and subsequently Honorary Archivist of the Association. Founded in 1919 as a direct consequence of the application of Whitleyism to the Civil Service, the Association was affiliated to the Association of First Division Civil Servants and its executive acted as the staff side of the Inspectorate Whitley Committee. Its main concerns were therefore salaries, pensions and conditions of service, although it also dealt with the function and activities of HMIs. In 1945 it changed its name to the Association of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools and in 1973 it amalgamated with the Association of First Division Civil Servants. It wound up its activities in 1992 on the creation of the Office for Standards in Education.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of the Board of Education Inspectors' Association (later the Association of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools), 1871-1992, including annual reports, minutes and papers of the Executive Committee and Divisional Committees, reports and memoranda, 1920-1992; lists of Divisions, Districts and staff, issued by the Education Department, 1871-1946; collected personal papers of individual HMIs; material gathered for a post-war history of the Inspectorate.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Permission Required.
Conditions governing reproduction:
A reader wishing to publish any quotation of information, including pictorial, derived from any archive material must apply in writing for prior permission from the Librarian or other appropriate person(s) as indicated by the Archivist. A limited number of photocopies may be supplied at the discretion of the Archivist.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Catalogue available.
Collection level description available on-line at the Institute of Education website
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
The Archive is added to yearly by the Honorary Archivist.
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited by the First Division Section Committee in 1997.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Created 11/24/1999, modified 12/6/2000