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A Cambridge Alumni Database

This database is planned to contain biographical details of everyone who has been identified as being academically associated with the University of Cambridge, covering the period from 1200 onwards. In addition to the standard printed sources of information by Venn and Emden, which cover men only, we have added information from Newnham and Girton Colleges so that women are also included. All the men's biographies (up to matriculation in 1900) as listed in Venn and Emden are included. Emden's information largely supersedes the information in Venn for everyone at Cambridge before 1500. Women's data has been added from the registers of Newnham and Girton colleges; full details are shown only for women no longer living (either we know their death dates, or a latest possible death date can be inferred from their birth dates). From time to time blocks of data will be added from various college records. Again, only data for non-living people will be included.

Askern College

West Riding, Yorkshire, England. Genealogical and historical information about the College.
[The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

Bow Creek School, Orchard Place, Leamouth, Poplar, London E14 - Pupil Admission Register

Online index to the pupil registers. Includes general history of the lost village of Bow Creek.

Cambridge Alumni Database

England. Online searchable database based on the Alumni Cantabrigienses. List of all known students, graduates, and officers at the University of Cambridge offers information from the university's earliest records which date from around 1261 through 1921.

Cotton College - Religioni Ac Bonis Artibus

Information site on Cotton College in North Staffordshire detailing the history of the school, its head masters, its teachers and its pupils. A useful site for people with ancestors who attended the school. Cotton College was the Diocese of Birmingham's most important Roman Catholic school, which, together with Sedgley Park its predecessor, supplied over 1000 priests to the Midlands and beyond. It also educated thousands of Catholic Gentlemen. Cotton College closed in 1987.

De Aston School

School history web site, includes indexed photographs of pupils from 1890s onwards. Located in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire.

Eton School Lists 1791 to 1850

CD-ROM of the 1864 printed edition.

Genhound Family History Factsheet - The British Education System $

A useful history of schooling in Britain for family historians, with a section on locating school records and a list of education records available on the Genhound website. Genhound is a pay per view site with a free search that offers a value for money alternative to subscription sites or CDs.

Glasgow Guardian Digital Archive

The Glasgow Guardian Digital Archive website makes available high-resolution scans of every student newspaper produced at the University from 1932 to 1935 and 1955 to 2007. Initially known as the Gilmorehill Globe, then the Gilmorehill Guardian, the newspaper acquired its current name, the Glasgow University Guardian, in 1959.

Goldings

Former Dr Barnardo Home Hertford England 1922-1967 Old Boys Reunion Site, including boys who emigrated to Canada and Great Britain's Dominions. William Baker Technical School.

Greenock & District School Photographs

A large collection of school photographs from Greenock, Gourock, Port Glasgow, Inverkip, Wemyss Bay, dating back to 1900.
[The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

Jeff Knaggs - Genealogy - 1901 Institutions

Index to Institutions in the 1901 census of England & Wales.

Loxton School Admissions

Somerset, England.

National Archives of Ireland - Guide to sources on education

Old Scottish Genealogy & Family History - School Leaving Certificate Examination Results

​The index currently covers 1908 to 1917 (volumes ED36/1 to ED36/94), and contains over 130,000 entries.

Oxford University Archives - Past members of the University: A Guide

The following is a brief guide to the sources of information available concerning past members of the University at various points in time.

Ragged School Museum

United Kingdom. The museum resides in three canal-side warehouses in Copperfield Road, East London. These buildings were previously used by Dr Barnardo to house the largest ragged school in London.

Rossbret UK Institutions

Information on asylums, almshouses, prisons, hospitals, orphanages, workhouses & the Poor Law.
[The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

Rugby School Collection

Warwickshire, England. 3 CDs for sale: Rugby School List Winter 1904, Rugby School List Summer 1905, Rugby School Lists Summer & Winter 1904.

School Records in the Corporation of London Records Office