Compare and Contrast – a selection of Derbyshire Record Office documents regarding Regency children and education.
Derby Mercury, 18 November 1829 (pt1)
Derby Mercury, 18 November 1829 (pt2)
From ‘Sorrows, sacred to the memory of Penelope’, 1796 (published by Sir Brooke Boothby whose daughter Penelope died aged 5)
From ‘Sorrows, sacred to the memory of Penelope’, 1796 (published by Sir Brooke Boothby whose daughter Penelope died aged 5)
D2375 M/84/24 Printed orders to parents on the admission of their children into charity schools, 18th cent
D6948/15/2 Pages from Belper Mill Girls School admission register, 1820s
Dronfield Academy advert, Derby Mercury, 11 July 1811
D5410/17/6 Letter from Alleyne Fitzherbert (b.1815) at Tissington Hall (pt1)
D5410/17/6 Letter from Alleyne Fitzherbert (b.1815) at Tissington Hall (pt2)
D5410/17/5 Letter from William Fitzherbert (b.1808) at Charterhouse School, 1819 (pt1)
D5410/17/5 Letter from William Fitzherbert (b.1808) at Charterhouse School, 1819 (pt2)
D394 Z/Z 49 Apprenticeship indenture of William Smith alias Waterfall of Bakewell, 1812 (pt1)
D394 Z/Z 49 Apprenticeship indenture of William Smith alias Waterfall of Bakewell, 1812 (pt2)
D5459/1/35 Part of ‘Sunday Morning’, George M. Woodward. On the back is written:
‘GM Woodward sketches when a child. These are evident proofs of his natural Genius he used to draw before he could speak plain (W.W.)’ – the handwriting is that of his father, William Woodward.
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