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These personal papers were collected by Henry Tennant as part of his role with York School Board. They include correspondence, annual reports and pamphlets, as well as some material on temperance.

Includes:
Rules to be observed in planning and fitting up Public Elementary Schools, February 1893,
Attendance returns, May 1901-1902,
Papers relating to additional accommodation for science,
Costs of board schools, including evening schools, 1893-1901,
Papers relating to the salaries of pupil-teachers, 1890s-1900s,
Scheme of religious instruction approved by the board, September 1894,
Papers relating to the York School Board election, 1898,
Minutes of the proceedings of York School Board, 1900 and 1902,
Correspondence, 1900-1901,
Numbers of scholars in the upper standards, February 1902,
Papers relating to a Diocesan inspection, 1902,
Report on elementary education, May 1903,
Statement of the duties of school caretakers, 1903,
Scheme constituting the City of York Education Committee, 1903 (2 copies) and 1904,
Information for the managers of Voluntary Schools, February 1904,
Final order made under the Education Act, February 1904,
Printed notice from William Ingham to the Members of the Education Committee of the York City Council, February 1904,
Minutes and resolutions of the City of York Education Committee, November 1904,
General report of the organising superintendant, 1904,
Salaries of teachers in Voluntary Schools, 1904,
Summary of the duties of the Organising Superintendant, 1904,
Analysis of return of staff of candidates and pupil-teachers, c.1906

Marked 'York School Board, Volume 1.'

Marked 'York School Board, Volume 1.'

Marked 'York School Board, Volume 2.'

Includes papers relating to York Quarterly Meeting's Girls School, York Quarterly Meeting Boys School, York Technical School, Park Grove, Scarcroft Board School, The Mount School, Haxby Road School and Archbishop Holgate's School.

Includes annual reports from 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898 and 1899. Also includes papers for the Association for Promoting the Training of Women Teachers for the same period, as well as additional papers about the York Friends' Girls' School.

Syllabus for the period October - December 1899.

Includes annual reports from 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898 and 1899. Also includes information on the Bootham School entrance scholarship and income and expenditure for the school over the same period, as well as a published statement of finance for the year 1829-1893 and papers relating to the York Friends' Boys' School.

Prospectus for the Schools of Science and Art, which commenced classes for the 1904/5 session on 19 September 1904.

Letter concerning the temporary use of the Groves Wesleyan School and details of science classes.

Includes papers relating to science classes and papers relating to accommodation in the St Paul's Foundry District.

Includes one letter regarding borrowing £2,500, details relating to the history of the school and Report of the Mount School Scholarship, 18986.

Letter and plan relating to estimates for work at Haxby Road School.

Includes one letter, notes from a conference between representatives of the Board of Education, the Higher Education Sub-committee and the school governors, 19 July 1904, and papers relating to the Charity Commission.

First Annual report of the Council of the Evangelical Free Churches in York.

Includes five copies of Henry Tennant's bill regarding licensing laws, and one notice regarding the York Anti-Gambling League.

Pamphlets retained by Henry Tennant. Includes:
Proceedings of the Ackworth Old Scholars' Association, Part XI, 1892,
Report of the York Deputation of representative working men appointed to visit the Board Schools of Huddersfield, Leeds and Scarborough, 1892,
The Westminster Review, April 1893,
The development of Railway and Steam Communication, 1893,
The Eduation Bill: its effect and probable consequences, 1896,
The first annual report of the Walmgate Lad's Club, 1896,
Bread in the wilderness, 1897,
Juvenile offenders: a report, 1898,
Flaxton Rural District Council, statement with reference to the Agricultural Rates Act 1896, 1898,
York Chamber of Commerce: A paper on American Industrial Operations, 1899,
22nd Annual Meetings of the National Liberal Federation, 1900,
The school system of the United States: features worthy of English imitation, by J Hirst Hollowell, December 1900,
United States diplomatic and consular reports: Education in Chicago, December 1900,
Schools and scholars in 1900, by J T Macnamara,
Aeacus: a judge of the underworld, by W M L Hutchinson, 1901
What the Archbishop of York has to say about the Romanizing practices at Micklefield Parish Church, undated,
A word about War addressed to professing Christians, undated,
Labour Leaders and the war, undated,
The Gambling Mania, by Fred Kent, undated,
Self-supporting Native Missionaries, undated
The Tzar's rescript: The European Disease of Militarism, undated,
The Tzar's rescript: Armed Peace, by W Evans Darby, undated.

Newspaper cuttings relating to Henry Tennant and his work on the York School Board.

Two letters received by Henry Tennant.

Includes an obituary of Henry Tennant and an account of his Golden Wedding anniversary in 1897.