Institute of Education Library and Archives, University College London
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- 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL, England, UK
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- By appointment only. Special Collections material should be requested in advance and must be consulted in the Archives Reading Room at a mutually agreed time.
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- Archival and Other Holdings
- The Institute of Education holds collections of archive materials ranging in date from 1797 to the present day. These archives are intended to reflect the broadest possible range of issues and concerns surrounding teaching and lifelong learning in past, present and future societies. This includes all levels of education from pre-school and school through to further, higher, teacher and adult education, in formal, informal and experimental settings. It includes research, practice, policy and thought in education and related areas. They provide a rich resource for the history of education and educationists both in this country and abroad.
- We hold:
- Deposited Collections, given to us by people and organisations related in some way to education. There are over 100 of these, ranging in size from one box to over 300.
- The Institute Archive, comprising the records of the Institute of Education itself, dating from its creation in 1902.
List of Collections(View as Search Results)
- The Librarians of Institutes and Schools of Education (LISE)
- Accounts of Unstreaming
- Art education in schools 1950-1951 (photographic collection)
- Cambridge Association for the Advancement of State Education
- Coombe Lodge Further Education Staff College (FESC) records
- Dorothy Glynn: slide collection
- Educational Film Strips and Notes
- Faiths and Beliefs in Further Education
- Flysheet Camps
- Hackney Downs School
- Jack Kitching Archive: Records of the Board of Education Inspectors' Association
- League of Exchange for Commonwealth Teachers (LECT)
- London History Teachers' Association
- Papers of (William) Michael Duane (1915-1997)
- Papers of Amelia Fysh (nee Bullen)
- Papers of Arabella Kurdi
- Papers of Arthur Raymond Sporne (1890-1977)
- Papers of Bernard Holloway (1918-1995)
- Papers of Bernarr Rainbow (1914-1998)
- Papers of Brenda Francis
- Papers of Brian Simon (1915-2002)
- Papers of Bridget Horatia Plowden (1910- 2000)
- Papers of Bruce Martin (b. 1917)
- Papers of Charles Henry Burden (1869-1957)
- Papers of Cynthia Reynolds (1928-2008)
- Papers of David Hylton Thomas (1910-1999)
- Papers of David Medd (1917-2009) and Mary Medd (1907-2005)
- Papers of David Watson
- Papers of Denis Herbert Stott
- Papers of Dorothy Gardner (1900-1972)
- Papers of Dr F.H. Hilliard
- Papers of Duncan Taylor
- Papers of Ebenezer Cooke (fl. 1853-1911)
- Papers of Eileen Molony
- Papers of Elsie Victoria Lane (née Leak) (fl. 1900-1981)
- Papers of Ethel Martha Hatchard née Smith
- Papers of Frederick James Gould (1855-1938)
- Papers of Gabriel Goldstein
- Papers of Gene Adams
- Papers of George and Judith Baines
- Papers of Harold and Pamela Silver
- Papers of Harold Rosen (1919-2008)
- Papers of Harry Alfred Rée (1914-1991)
- Papers of Hilde Jarecki
- Papers of Horace Panting (fl 1916-1998)
- Papers of Howard Gilbert
- Papers of Isabel Fry (1869-1958)
- Papers of Jack E C Thornton
- Papers of Jagdish Gundara
- Papers of James Lumsden
- Papers of Jessie Frances Harrison (nee Knight)
- Papers of John Stanley Beaumont Boyce (1911-1992)
- Papers of Joseph Payne (1808-1876) and family
- Papers of Katherine Bathurst
- Papers of Leila Berg
- Papers of Lesley Longley
- Papers of Lilian Flora Best
- Papers of Louis Arnaud Reid
- Papers of Louis Christian Schiller (1895-1976)
- Papers of Margaret Read
- Papers of Margherita Rendel
- Papers of Marian Ray
- Papers of Marina Foster
- Papers of Martin Lightfoot (1942-1999)
- Papers of Mary Bailey
- Papers of Mary Irene Anderson (b 1920)
- Papers of Michael Marland
- Papers of Mimi Hatton
- Papers of Nathan Isaacs (1895-1966)
- Papers of Nicholas Hans (1888-1969)
- Papers of Nigel Spearing
- Papers of Peter Cornall (b. 1930)
- Papers of Peter Williams
- Papers of Philip Toogood
- Papers of Professor David Hicks
- Papers of Professor Kate Myers
- Papers of Professor Ken Jones
- Papers of Professor Norman Graves
- Papers of R.H. Tawney (1880-1962)
- Papers of R.T. Smith
- Papers of Richard Aldrich
- Papers of Robin Tanner (1904-1988)
- Papers of Ronald Haig Wilson (1917-2005)
- Papers of Rose Kosky
- Papers of Rosemary Sassoon
- Papers of Simon Clements
- Papers of Sir Fred Clarke (1880-1952)
- Papers of Sir Toby (Tobias Rushton) Weaver (1911-2001)
- Papers of Sophia Weitzman (1896-1965)
- Papers of Susan Isaacs
- Papers of Sydney Herbert Wood
- Papers of the Forest School Camps
- Papers of the Hands family
- Papers of the Harrison Family
- Papers of the Reverend Michael Burden
- Papers of the Textbook Colloquium
- Papers of the White family
- Papers of Trevor Jaggar
- Papers relating to Mother Goose Award
- Photographic Archive of the Architects and Building Branch, Ministry of Education and its successors
- Records of ALPAG (All London Parents Action Group) and Parents Initiative
- Records of German Educational Reconstruction
- Records of the Advisory Centre for Education (ACE)
- Records of the All Souls Group
- Records of the Assistant Masters' Association (AMA)
- Records of the Basic English Foundation
- Records of the British Association for International and Comparative Education (formerly the British Comparative and International Education Society)
- Records of the British Families Education Service/Service Children's Education Association
- Records of the British National Conference on Social Work
- Records of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies
- Records of the CESE (Comparative Education Society of Europe)
- Records of the Child Development Society
- Records of the Committee of Inquiry into Reading and the Use of English
- Records of the Education in Human Rights Network
- Records of the Forest School Camps
- Records of the General Teaching Council for England
- Records of the Girls' Day School Trust and predecessors (GDST)
- Records of the GTC (England and Wales) and the GTC (England and Wales) Trust
- Records of the Headmasters' Association Benevolent Fund
- Records of the History in Education Project
- Records of the History of Education Society
- Records of the ILEA Bridging Course
- Records of the Independent Schools Careers Organisation (ISCO) and predecessors
- Records of the Institute of Education 1902-
- Records of the International Professional Development Association
- Records of the Journal of Moral Education 1971-2012
- Records of the Leggatt Trust
- Records of the London Association for the Teaching of English (LATE)
- Records of the London Parents' Ballot Campaign
- Records of the Moot
- Records of the MRC National Survey of Health and Development
- Records of the National Commission on Education
- Records of the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS)
- Records of the National Union of Women Teachers (NUWT)
- Records of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain
- Records of the Pre-School Learning Alliance (PLA) and the Pre-School Playgroups Association (PPA)
- Records of the Programme for Reform in Secondary Education (PRISE)
- Records of the REfIT Project
- Records of the Schools Council for Curriculum and Examinations
- Records of the Schools Curriculum Award
- Records of the Society of Teachers Opposed to Physical Punishment (STOPP)
- Records of the Teaching, Learning and Research Programme (TLRP)
- Records of the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers and predecessor organisations
- Records of the World Education Fellowship
- Records of the World Studies Trust
- Records of Writing Research Projects
- Risinghill Revisited Project
- Roland Meighan
- Scrapbooks relating to playgroups
- Social Change and English, 1945-1965, Project