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Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to school health, 1944-1965, including general files relating to: juvenile delinquency, physically disabled pupils, special schools, blind and partially sighted pupils, education of the deaf, residential schools, epilepsy, mentally deficient pupils, medical inspections, ear, nose and throat clinics, dermatological survey of schoolchildren, provision of medicines and vitamins, child guidance centres, holiday camps for diabetic and epileptic children, speech therapy, first aid equipment, accidents, employment of children, 'latch-key' children, school canteens, head lice, ophthalmic treatment, colour vision testing, orthopaedic treatment, physiotherapy, surveys of the health and development of children, precautions against tuberculosis, vaccination, maladjusted children, dyslexia, control of infectious diseases and school meals.

Adult Education VHS videos: "Teaching English as a second language in the Post School Sector", 1985 and "Teaching adult literacy Unit A: A mixed ability class", 1980s.

Papers relating to the National Network for Teaching and Learning Anthropology, 1997-1999 comprise: 1. General papers and correspondence, 1997-1999; 2. Conference: Anthropological reflections on pedagogic culture and its institutional organisation, 14-15 November 1997, Sussex University; 3. Workshop: Higher education policy and the implications for pedagogic practice in anthropology, 24-25 April 1998, Manchester University; 4. Conference: Quality controls? Anthropology and pedagogy and Higher Education, 12-13 November 1999; 5. Publications, occasional paper, 1999; 6. 'Report on Teaching and Learning Social Anthropology in the United Kingdom' by Stella Macarenhas-Keyes and Susan Wright for the Social Anthropology Teaching and Learning Network.

The collection consists mainly of minutes, financial records, manuscripts of unpublished texts and correspondence. It provides interesting detail on what one section of society thought would provide education for another. There is much useful information on the reading preferences of the public, and on the growth and development of Mechanics' Institutes. Most of those concerned with the founding of the Society as a project in self-education were also involved in the founding of the new University of London (now University College London) and some, like Augustus De Morgan and George Long, actually taught there. There is also considerable information on the work of publishers, illustrators, engravers and booksellers and on writers, whether already established authorities in their field or young hopefuls, like G H Lewes, who sought to establish themselves through the Society's patronage.