Wall chart
Category
Education objects
Date
1 May 1805
Materials
Paper
Measurements
990 mm (length); 765 mm (width)
Place of origin
Leeds
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 668066
Summary
A large wall chart entitled 'a new history'. It has been devised by Joseph Priestley LLB FRS and dedicated to Benjamin Franklin LLB FRS. This is an enlarged and reprinted edition (May 1805) of a chart originally printed in April 1769. Along the horizontal axis, the time runs from 1200BC to 1800 AD. On the vertical axis are marked several European countries, India, China, Africa, and America. The body of the chart indicates the people and races who lived in the various places. Some blocks are coloured pink, green and yellow. Across the top, on the right, is a large heading 'A New chart of History'.
Provenance
'Derbyshire Museum Service History of Education Collection' - a collection established by Derbyshire Museum Service (through gifts from individuals, Derbyshire schools and purchases) in the 1940s and stored at Sudbury Hall from the early 1970s to 2012. The National Trust managed the collection between 1991 and 2012 when legal ownership was transferred from Derbyshire County Council to the National Trust. Archival records information - "The collection was established as a result of isolated gifts in the 1940's, and the 'savings' of certain school records (now passed to County Records) during wartime paper salvage." "During the 1950s it was L.E.A. practice to hold an Easter Course for teachers, and the County (Derbyshire) Museum arranged a special exhibition for teach course. As by the mid 1950s quite a collection had already accumulated, it was decided to produce an exhibition on the history of education with special reference to Derbyshire. Consequently, further material was purchased, from which items were selected. The exhibition was subsequently shown at a number of centres, and after disbandment, additions continued to be made with the aim of eventually producing a reconstructed classroom as a base for research. The Derby Bishop Lonsdale College of Education has frequently made use of the collection in various ways."