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Optional Print Course Material: English: Education, Health and Contemporary Documents
*Course material will only be sent to students who are registered in the course.
This course starts with a survey of English education records including basic history and types of schools, including adult and post-secondary institutions. The emphasis is on the surviving records of students, what they contain and where to find them. We then look at health and hospital records which can be surprisingly detailed and are now becoming more available. The third section is a really mixed bag of all kinds of contemporary documents with which the student should be familiar, and which can add so much to the family history. Included are passports, records associated with death, diaries & letters, directories, newspapers, magazines, illustrations & photographs, titled and landed families, topography and much more.
Course Length: 8 weeksMODULE 1
INTRODUCTION TO EDUCATIONAL & HEALTH RECORDS
Abbreviations
EDUCATION
History of Education System
Technical & Vocational Education
Adult Education
MODULE 2
EDUCATIONAL RECORDS
Lists of Pupils & Alumni
Minutes of Governors, Managers & Boards
Admission & Discharge Records
Achievement Certificates & Prizes
School Log Books
School Histories
MODULE 3
HEALTH
History
Hospitals
Poor Law Infirmaries
Army & Navy Hospitals
Children's Hospitals
Foundlings & Orphans
Isolation Hospitals
Lunatic Asylums
Lying-in (Maternity) Hospitals
20th Century Hospitals
MODULE 4
HOSPITALS RECORDS
Categories of Records
Location of Records
Finding Records in the FHLC
Diseases & Causes of Death
Occupational Diseases
Epidemics & Major Killers
Museums & Archives
MODULE 5
INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTS
Gateways to English Archives & Libraries
Britons Abroad
Church Records
Civil Registration
Passenger Lists
Passports
Other Overseas Records
Death-Related Records
Burial Customs and Records
Memorials
Probate Records
Finding Records Associated with Death
Personal Writings
Biography & Autobiography
Directories
MODULE 6
NEWSPAPERS
History of Newspapers
Contents of Newspapers
Finding Newspapers
MAGAZINES & JOURNALS
General Magazines & Journals
Religious Magazines & Journals
Occupational Magazines & Journals
Hobbies & Interests Magazines
Historical & Genealogical Journals
Indexes to Magazines & Journals
Finding Magazines & Journals
ILLUSTRATIONS
One-Off Items
Prints
Photographs
Photo Restoration
Identification of Photographs
Finding Illustrations
MODULE 7
TITLED & LANDED FAMILIES
College of Arms / Heralds
Directories of Noble Families
Awards & Certificates
Bookplates & Inscriptions
Ephemera
Immigrants & Aliens
Inscriptions on Household Items
Samplers
Society Minutes
Strays
Subscribers’ Lists
LOCAL TOPOGRAPHY & HISTORY
Historical & Record Societies
Victoria County Histories
20th Century County Topography
LIST OF ADDRESSES
REFERENCES