MIDDLESEX EDUCATION SOCIETY

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 ACC/0915
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: MIDDLESEX EDUCATION SOCIETY
Date(s)	: 1887-1957
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.15 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: County of Middlesex Education Society | 1887-1957

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The County of Middlesex Education Society was founded in 1887 on the initiative of G. Armine Willis, one of H.M. Inspectors, to promote "educational efficiency and general sociability". It was the first society in the country where School Inspectors and School Teachers could meet on equal terms and, at a time when the system of "payment by results" with its "consequent suspicion and subterfuge on every side" was in force, it was regarded as a novel and even hazardous experiment.

When the Society was finally wound up in 1957, it was resolved that its records should be "deposited in the archives of the Education Office, 10, Great George Street, S.W.I." (the offices of the Middlesex Education Committee).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the County of Middlesex Education Society including minute books; notices of meetings and lectures; cash books and published history of the society, 1877 to 1934.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

ACC/0915/001-010: Minutes; ACC/0915/011-015: Other records.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Records deposited in March 1966.

Allied Materials

Related material:

See reference MCC/EO for records of the Middlesex County Council relating to education.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
June to August 2010.