Hadow (1928)

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Preliminary pages Membership, Analysis, Preface, Introduction
Chapter 1 Books in schools 1810 to 1928
Chapter 2 Place and function of books
Chapter 3 Provision of books by LEAs
Chapter 4 School and public libraries
Chapter 5 Guidance for teachers, production of books
Chapter 6 Cost and use of books
Chapter 7 Conclusions and recommendations
Appendix I List of witnesses
Appendix II Practice of sample LEAs
Appendix III Provision of books in London
Appendix IV Expenditure on books
Appendix V Provision of books in Scotland
Appendix VI Publication of new books
Index

Notes on the text

The full text of the report (including the Appendices) is online.

Since there aren't pages as such in this web version, footnotes have been collected together (and renumbered) at the end of each chapter.

I've modernised the punctuation (so that, for example, " secondary " is shown as 'secondary' and Mr. W.H. Webbe C.B.E. appears as Mr WH Webbe CBE) and I've updated a handful of spellings (timetable instead of time-table, today instead of to-day etc). I've reduced the frequent - and often erratic - use of capital letters and corrected a couple of misprints.

There is much in this report about expenditure on books and the figures quoted are, of course, in pre-decimal currency. I've added the decimal equivalents - if you spot an error in my maths, do please let me know! (Until 1971 the UK's currency consisted of pounds, shillings (20 to the pound, represented by 's') and pence (12 to the shilling, represented by 'd'). In February 1971 the currency was decimalised, with 100 new pence (p) to the pound. Each new penny was thus worth 2.4d).

Anything added by way of explanation is shown [in square brackets].

Every web page includes chapter links (as in the left hand column on this page) and there are links to the next and previous chapters at the bottom of each page.

I have proof-read and spell-checked the text, but if you spot any errors I'd be grateful if you'd email me.

Other than the above, what you see here is what appeared in the original print version of the report.

For a summary of this report, see my article The Hadow Reports: an introduction.