The Guides provide an overview of all collections at the Historical Papers Research Archive. The descriptions are provided on Fonds level.

The collections housed at Historical Papers include diaries, letters, memoranda, reports, minute-books, press clippings, pamphlets, photographs, drawings, maps, oral interviews, trial transcripts and financial, legal and personal documents. They are contained in various formats such as paper based records, microfiche, microfilm, photographs, slides, negative and positive film, tapes, DVD and CDs, audiovisual formats and digital formats.

Superseded Children’s Fiction in Other Languages. The collection includes only fiction that would have been kept in school and public libraries. (Graded readers are kept in Part 4 of this archive).

Rationale for collecting superseded children’s fiction. Once children, teachers and parents lose interest in children’s fiction books their working life is over. They are usually withdrawn and discarded. Once researchers need them as primary sources examples are notoriously hard to find. Examples of children’s fiction therefore ought to be preserved in archives.

Superseded English Children’s fiction. The collection includes only fiction that would have been kept in school and public libraries. (Graded readers are kept in Part 3 of this archive).

Rationale for collecting superseded children’s fiction. Once children, teachers and parents lose interest in children’s fiction books their working life is over. They are usually withdrawn and discarded. Once researchers need them as primary sources examples are notoriously hard to find. Examples of children’s fiction therefore ought to be preserved in archives.

Superseded Books for Teaching and Learning (English). The collection includes
• graded readers, which are targeted to neo-literates of particular ages;
• books targeting learners in particular grades or standards: school textbooks; tests with answers; exam guides; pupils’ workbooks; vocabularies;
• teachers’ guides to particular textbooks;
• books published for teachers on how to teach particular subjects, containing tips, theoretical underpinnings, or ideological underpinnings.

Once books published for teaching and learning become superseded their working life is over. They cease being current secondary sources for teachers and learners. Instead they become primary sources for researchers tracing patterns in the past. They therefore become archival in nature.

Superseded Books for Teaching and Learning (English). The collection includes
• graded readers, which are targeted to neo-literates of particular ages;
• books targeting learners in particular grades or standards: school textbooks; tests with answers; exam guides; pupils’ workbooks; vocabularies;
• teachers’ guides to particular textbooks;
• books published for teachers on how to teach particular subjects, containing tips, theoretical underpinnings, or ideological underpinnings.

Rationale for collecting superseded books. Once books published for teaching and learning become superseded their working life is over. They cease being current secondary sources for teachers and learners. Instead they become primary sources for researchers tracing patterns in the past. They therefore become archival in nature.

This part contains amendments to existing syllabuses post-1994, study guides and interim core syllabuses.