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Nation State versus National Identity: State and Inspectorate in Mid-Victorian Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

H. G. Williams
H. G. Williams*
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University of Wales, Bangor
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Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Schools in England and Wales was created in November 1839, a few months after the establishment of the Committee of Council on Education, itself a symbol of the concern then mounting about the people's education. Before that, their schooling had been conducted entirely under voluntary auspices, mainly in the schools connected with the National Society or the British and Foreign School Society established in 1811 and 1814 respectively, to provide a basic education in literacy and numeracy, either within an Anglican or a more broadly Christian framework. In 1833 the state had eventually intervened by granting £20,000 to assist those Societies in building their schools, though each pound of grant had to be matched with locally raised funds.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , Summer 2000 , pp. 145 - 168
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Copyright © 2000 by the History of Education Society 

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