A substantial collection of lectures, papers, letters, articles, memoranda, press cuttings, memorabilia, etc., almost entirely relating to education or art; together with writings on these subjects by others, collected by Sadler. Accompanying the archive are materials on Sadler and his writings assembled variously by J.H. Higginson and O.S. Pickering in the course of preparing publications about him.
Papers of Sir Michael Sadler, and related material
Archive Collection
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- ReferenceGB 206 MS 1314
- Dates of Creation1864-ca.1945
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical Description25 boxes, comprising manuscript, typescript and printed material
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The educationalist Sir Michael Sadler (1861-1943) was successively Secretary of the Oxford University Extension Delegacy, 1885-95; Director of the Office of Special Enquiries and Reports (Board of Education), 1895-1903; part-time professor of the history and administration of education at Manchester University, 1903-11; Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds, 1911-23; and Master of University College, Oxford, 1923-34. See the biographies by Michael Sadleir Michael Ernest Sadler (Sir Michael Sadler, K.C.S.I.),1861-1943: a memoir by his son, 1949, and by Lynda Grier Achievement in education: the work of Michael Ernest Sadler, 1885-1935 (1952).
Access Information
Access is unrestricted
Acquisition Information
Mainly the gift of Dr J.H. Higginson, of Canterbury, during the 1980s and 1990s
Note
In English
Other Finding Aids
There is as yet no detailed handlist of this material, but the letters are indexed in the Letters database. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/letters/letintro.htm
Bibliography
See Selections from Michael Sadler: Studies in World Citizenship, compiled by J.H. Higginson (Liverpool, 1979), and O.S. Pickering, Sir Michael Sadler, a bibliography of his published works (Leeds studies in adult and continuing education, 1982).