Examination certificate
Category
Education objects
Date
1927 - 1937
Materials
Cardboard
Measurements
Each certificate - 330 mm (width); 280 mm (height)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671104
Summary
A set of twenty six card certificates. They all have a black and white leaf and berry border with 'East Midland Educational Union' in red. There is also the year in red, from 1927-1937. They are for various subjects, e.g. bookkeeping, building construction etc. All are to different people and all are signed by the president and secretary. All have an embossed circular logo with 'East Midland Educational Union'. Total number of items is 26.
Provenance
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."