Teachers' Records

This topic crops up regularly.

This announcement from origins.net may be of interest (I
have no connection with that organisation)

The latest dataset to be added to British Origins
list of over 100,000 people who taught in England and Wales
between 1870 and 1947 - more than half of these are women.

From 1914, many teachers in England and Wales (and
elsewhere) registered with the Teachers Registration
Council. The original registration records for the period up
to 1947 (after which registration was abandoned) were
The Origins Network has now scanned and indexed these
records to make them publicly available for the first time,
on British Origins.

Although registration only started in 1914, since people who
were already teaching registered, the records cover teachers
who started their careers from the 1870s on.

The records provide the following information:
o teachers name (and for married women teachers often
their maiden name as well)
o Date of Registration
o Register Number
o (Professional) Address
o Attainments
o Training in Teaching
o Experience
For full details about this dataset, please visit:

Hugh Watkins...

TNA were weeding the archives and wanted to pulp these
SOG found space in their cellar and has this duplicate set

ask the volunteer there if you want to see them (last time I was there)

I looked for my mother and she was not registered
she was NUT but I have not looked at Trade Union History yet

Hugh W