Archive of evidence for the Royal Commission on Technical Instruction

Archive of evidence for the Royal Commission on Technical Education. It contains a wide range of items pertaining to technical education in Britain (18.6% of the collection), notably in London, Liverpool and in Yorkshire, and several other European states: the Austrian Empire (12.8%), Belgium (4.7%), France (11.1%), Germany (31.3%), Italy (5%), Switzerland (13.3) as well as the United States (3.1%). There are not only published reports from a variety of educational establishments, but syllabuses, statistics of courses, lists of students and prize winners, plans of facilities, lists of teaching equipment, and surveys of technical museums. Some are signed by the Commission’s secretary, Gilbert Redgrave. There is also archival material such as manuscript correspondence, handbills, newspaper pages and posters.