First, it's great to have the list back. Let's hope it stays that way. Second, commiserations to our friends in Exeter about the loss of heritage buildings in that awful fire. Third, here is a duplicate of a message I posted on 7 October just as the list was going down. It did get into the Archive but I'm led to believe it never got circulated at that time. -------------------------------------- In 1867 Parliament became concerned about the variability and frequently inadequate standard of secondary education available to the fee-paying middle classes and commissioned a nation-wide inquiry into the status and performance of all such schools. The Schools Inquiry Commission (just google it) published its report in many volumes, of which Volume XIV covers the counties of Devon, Cornwall, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, and is online at. https://archive.org/stream/cu31924032401162#page/n5/mode/2up This was a Victorian equivalent of the present-day Ofsted reports. The Devon section has detailed reviews of 23 boys schools and 2 girls schools, and tabulated data for many more. This is perhaps social history rather than genealogy but typically identifies headmasters and governors. I looked for a person at Allhallows School in Honiton and read it was much improved after he ceased to be headmaster. And if you really want social history, the Commission reported on girls' education, as reprinted at http://www.educationengland.org.uk/documents/sicr/sicr1-06.html Martin Beavis
Hi Martin: Your 7 October message to Devon-L did in fact reach me, so I added a link to the report that you’d found to the main GENUKI/Devon page under Schools. Cheers Brian > On 14 Nov 2016, at 12:18, Martin Beavis <[email protected]> wrote: > > First, it's great to have the list back. Let's hope it stays that way. > > Second, commiserations to our friends in Exeter about the loss of heritage buildings in that awful fire. > > Third, here is a duplicate of a message I posted on 7 October just as the list was going down. It did get into the Archive but I'm led to believe it never got circulated at that time. > -------------------------------------- > > In 1867 Parliament became concerned about the variability and frequently inadequate standard of secondary education available to the fee-paying middle classes and commissioned a nation-wide inquiry into the status and performance of all such schools. The Schools Inquiry Commission (just google it) published its report in many volumes, of which Volume XIV covers the counties of Devon, Cornwall, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, and is online at. > https://archive.org/stream/cu31924032401162#page/n5/mode/2up > This was a Victorian equivalent of the present-day Ofsted reports. The Devon section has detailed reviews of 23 boys schools and 2 girls schools, and tabulated data for many more. This is perhaps social history rather than genealogy but typically identifies headmasters and governors. I looked for a person at Allhallows School in Honiton and read it was much improved after he ceased to be headmaster. > > And if you really want social history, the Commission reported on girls' education, as reprinted at > http://www.educationengland.org.uk/documents/sicr/sicr1-06.html > > Martin Beavis > > > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL = [email protected] PHONE = +44 191 208 7923 FAX = +44 191 208 8232 URL = http://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/people/profile/brianrandell.html