Hadow (1928)

(page numbers in brackets)

Preliminary pages (i-xxi)
Membership, Analysis, Preface, Introduction

Chapter I (1-17)
Books in schools 1810 to 1928
Chapter II (18-56)
Place and function of books
Chapter III (57-67)
Provision of books by LEAs
Chapter IV (68-84)
School and public libraries
Chapter V (85-99)
Guidance for teachers, production of books
Chapter VI (100-106)
Cost and use of books
Chapter VII (107-120)
Conclusions and recommendations

Appendix I (121-129)
List of witnesses
Appendix II (130-142)
Practice of sample LEAs
Appendix III (143-146)
Provision of books in London
Appendix IV (147-148)
Expenditure on books
Appendix V (149-150)
Provision of books in Scotland
Appendix VI (151)
Publication of new books

Index (152-162)

Notes on the text

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

I have retained the original paragraphing and capitalisation, but I've modernised some of 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 one or two spellings (timetable instead of time-table, today instead of to-day etc).

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There is much in this report about expenditure on books. The figures quoted are, of course, in pre-decimal currency, so I've added the decimal equivalents. (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].

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