Education & Schooling Archives

Exemption from School Attendance …. to help with the harvest

19/03/23

Elsewhere on the website can be found information about what life was like for children growing up at Hoar Oak...

08/07/18

The Barbrook school registers have given us a valuable insight into the lives of North Devon children including some that...

17/06/18

In an earlier post we learnt through a report in the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette of 1876 how the school...

23/03/18

Sometimes, when doing archival research, a snippet of information which is a bit fun and seemingly not terribly relevant pops...