Resources: Popular Education
Files are Microsoft Word documents unless noted otherwise.
- Report from the Select Committee on the Education of the Lower Orders, 3 June 1818
- Reading Matter for the Masses, The History of Ben the Soldier, published by the Religious Tract Society, c. 1816
- Henry Brougham on the Mechanics Institutes, 1825
- The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1829
- William Cotton on the work of the National Society in popular education, 1834
- Education under the Factory Act: reports of inspectors of factories. 1839
- Endowed Schools and Popular Education, Select Committee on Charities, 1835
- The Creation of a Committee of Council for Education, 1839
- Instructions to school inspectors, Council of Education, 1840
- Sir James Graham's speech announcing his education proposals for his Factory Bill, 28 February, 1843
- Lord Ashley's speech on the failure of the education proposals in Sir James Graham's Factory Bill, 19 June 1843
- Edward Baines, The Social Educational and Religious State of the Manufacturing Districts, 1843
- Joseph Lawson, The Education of The People, 1887
- The Newcastle Report on popular education , 1861
- W. E. Forster's speech on the motion for leave to introduce the Education Bill, 17 February 1870