Archives of the Shaftesbury Society: Part 1, Minutes of the Ragged School Union and Shaftesbury Society, 1844-1944 (inclusive), [microform].

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Archives of the Shaftesbury Society: Part 1, Minutes of the Ragged School Union and Shaftesbury Society, 1844-1944 (inclusive), [microform].

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The records consist of twenty volumes of the minutes of the Shaftesbury Society and Ragged School Union.

8 reels.

Yale University Library

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Shaftesbury Society and Ragged School Union

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Ragged schools were a 19th-century English and Scottish institution maintained through charity. The schools fostered various educational and other services for poor children, such as elementary schooling, industrial training, and religious instruction. The schools were allied in 1844 with the founding of the Ragged School Union. The 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, a well-known social and industrial reformer, served as the Union's president for forty years. The ragged schools rapidly died out after 1870...

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1801-1885

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British philanthropist and politician. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Cyrus W. Field, 1862 Nov. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 540725639 Biographical note: Social reformer and philanthropist. From the description of Anthony Ashley Cooper letters, 1877-1884. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122599354 English philanthropist, previously Lord Ashley. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to [Ag...