I Primary Sources

 

(a) Manuscript

 

London Metropolitan Archives, School Board for London, references SBL/0001 to 1435

London Metropolitan Archives, plans of demolished schools, references LCC/AR/SCH/1 to 167

National Archives, Education 14/1

National Archives, Education 14/43

National Archives, Education 14/44

RIBA library Biography file on E R Robson

 

(b) Printed

 

Bailey, Thomas Jerram, ‘On the planning and construction of Board Schools’ in The Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects 3rd June 1899

Barnard, Henry, Practical Illustrations of the Principles of School Architecture (Hartford, Connecticut: Case, Tiffany and Co, 1851)

Barnard, Henry, School architecture; or, contributions to the improvement of school-houses in the United States (Cincinnati: Derby, 1855)

Booth, Charles, Labour and Life of the People of London (London: Williams and Norgate, 1889-1893)

The Builder, 11th October 1884

The Builder, 1st December 1888

The Builder, 20th April 1889

The Builder, 22nd November 1884

The Builder, 23rd December 1882

The Builder, 23rd July 1892

The Builder, 24th September 1881

The Builder, 27th December 1884

The Builder, 2nd February 1917

Clay, Sir Felix, Modern School Buildings (London: Batsford, 1902)

Committee of Council for Education, model school plans, published 1840, modified 1845, and again, 1851

Committee of Council for Education, Rules to be observed in planning and fitting-up schools (1863), reprinted as Appendix B in Robson’s, School Architecture

London School Board versus Wall Brothers (1890) transcript in LMA (reference SBL 1535)

Philpott, Hugh B, London at School (London: T Fisher Unwin, 1904)

Rigg, Reverend Doctor James Harrison, National Education...and Public Elementary School education, English and foreign (London: Hamilton, Adams and Co, 1873)

Robson, Edward Robert, ‘School Planning by Mr E R Robson, architect to the Central School Board. Read at a meeting of the Architectural Association on the 28th June 1872’ reported in The Builder, 6th July 1872

Robson, Edward Robert, School Architecture: being Practical Remarks on the Planning, Designing, Building and Furnishing of School Houses (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1972; facsimile of London: John Murray, 1874)

Robson, Edward Robert, ‘The Foundation of Art in Architecture’, address to the Leeds Architectural Association on 4th December 1882, reported in The Builder, 23rd December 1882

Robson, Edward Robert, ‘Art as Applied to Town Schools’, Art Journal 1881 pages 137 to 140

Robson, Edward Robert, ‘The Planning of Schools’, The Builder, 11th February 1888

Robson, Edward Robert and Robson, Philip Appleby, paper presented to the Congress of the Royal Institute of Public Health, reported in The Builder, 29th July 1905

Robson, Philip Appleby, ‘Edward Robert Robson, FSA: A Memoir by His Son’, Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, February 1917

Robson, Philip Appleby, School planning: being a practical treatise on the planning of British training colleges and schools (London: Nicholson-Smith, 1911)

School Board for London, Regulations of the School Board for London, for the Management of its Schools (1871), reprinted as Appendix C in Robson’s School Architecture

School Board for London, Minutes, 12th July 1888

School Board for London, Minutes, 14th June 1888

School Board for London, Minutes, XXXIX pages 1265 to 1277

School Board for London, Minutes, 5th February 1891

School Board for London, Final Report for the School for London 1870-1904

Spalding, Thomas Alfred, The work of the London School Board (London: P S King and Son, 1900)

Stevenson, John James, House Architecture (London: Macmillan, 1880)

Stow, David, The Training System adopted in the Model Schools of the Glasgow Educational Society etc (Glasgow: printed, 1836)

Thorne, James, ‘Architecture and Public Improvements’, in British Almanac and Companion 1874 page 193

 

II Secondary Sources

 

(a) Books

Black, Adam and Charles, Who was who Volume II 1916-1928 (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1967)

Gautrey, Thomas, Lux Mihi Laus: School Board Memories (London: Link House Publications, 1937)

Girouard, Mark, Sweetness and Light: The Queen Anne Movement 1860-1900 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1977)

Goodhart-Rendel, Harry Stuart, English Architecture since the Regency (London: Constable, 1953)

Kelsall, Frank, ‘The Board Schools: School Building 1870-1914’ in Ron Ringshall et al (ed), The Urban School: Buildings for Education in London 1870-1980 (London: GLC/Architectural Press, 1983) pages 15 to 28

Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Lancashire (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969) pages 161 and 205

RIBA, Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 (London: RIBA, 2001)

Seaborne, Malcolm and Lowe, Roy, The English School: its architecture and organisation. Volume II 1870-1970 (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977)

Seaborne, Malcolm, introduction to Robson, Edward Robert, School Architecture: being Practical Remarks on the Planning, Designing, Building and Furnishing of School Houses (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1972)

Weiner, Deborah Elaine Blacker, Architecture and Social Reform in late Victorian London (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994)

(b) Articles

Betts, Robin, ‘”One of Mr Bodley’s Most Successful Buildings”: The London School Board Offices 1874-1929’, History of Education Society Bulletin, Number 64, November 1999

Girouard, Mark, ‘The Queen Anne style of architecture’, The Listener, 22nd April 1971 page 504

Gregory-Jones, D, ‘Towers of learning’, The Architectural Review, June 1958 page 395

Jones, Christopher J M, ‘"Doer of the Hard Dull Duty": Rosamond Davenport-Hill at the London School Board, 1879-97' in History of Education Society Bulletin, Number 54, Autumn 1994 pages 8 to 21

Seaborne, Malcolm, ‘E R Robson and the London Board Schools’, in History of Education Society, Local studies and the history of education, 1972

Seaborne, Malcolm, ‘London Schools Designed by E R Robson and T J Bailey, 1874-1910’ in History of Education Society Bulletin, Number 22, Autumn 1978

(c) Reports, Lectures, Dissertations and Theses

Greater London Council, Historic Buildings Board, The schools of the London School Board (1872-1904) and the London County Council Education Department (1904-1910) – Investigation for Preservation (London: unpublished, 27th September 1972)

Saint, Professor Andrew, University of Cambridge, Fresh Light on the Nineteenth Century Board School, unpublished lecture to the Ancient Monuments Society at the Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2 on 27th October 2003.

Weiner, Deborah Elaine Blacker, The Institution of Popular Education: Architectural Form and Social Policy in the London School Board schools 1870-1904 PhD thesis for Princeton University, 1984.

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