Archival Resources

The Education Heritage Museum

a project digitizing samples of artifacts and teaching materials used by teachers in classrooms across Canada.  The digitizing project is ongoing and contains a great variety of artifacts in the collection.  Eventually it will contain an audio component of interviews...

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The Thames Valley Museum School

Houses the archives for the Oxford County Board of Education in Ontario Canada up to 1969, when the board was amalgamated with the Thames Valley District School Board, and holds records back to mid 1800’s. www.museumschool.ca The Archives Association of Ontario may...

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Toronto District School Board Archives

The TDSB's collection is very impressive: there some real gems in the collection, including student record cards and the complete records of the Home and School Association. There are, however, few finding aids. One was published in 1977 that is actually pretty good....

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The Library for History of Education

Bibliothek fuer Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung, Berlin, Germany, a fine library for scholars working on the history of education in Germany. The library has over 700,000 volumes, and offers comfortable workspaces for visiting scholars. I would add that the library...

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Japanese Language Sites

Kyoto Municipal Museum of School History http://kyo-gakurehaku.jp/Default.htm has a collection of Edo period through WWII era materials on schooling in the city of Kyoto. Tottori Prefectural Archives Several years ago archivists there made copies of the historical...

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Institute of Education, University of London

[Becky Webster. Deputy Archivist, Information Services, Institute of Education, University of London]: --Institute’s papers which cover the period from our establishment as the London Day Training College in 1902 to the present --100 deposited collections that cover...

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