Milsom, Mary E.

A short history of Wereham school: The first hundred years, 1876-1976.
[1980]
Extracts from the school log book for 1876-1888.

These are lists of schools that are intended for parents, teachers and children. There are usually links to the schools' web sites, but they do not often have information about their history, buildings, past pupils, etc.

• Norfolk County Council: SchoolFinder
• Schools etc: Norfolk Schools
• Schoolsnet: Norfolk Schools and Colleges (this is a link to an archived copy from 2012)
• UK Schools and Colleges Database: Norfolk Schools and Colleges
• Wikipedia: Norfolk Schools and Colleges

See also the individual Towns and Parishes pages, where there may be more information about the history of schools.

There are several Research Guides from The National Archives giving an excellent overview of the history of education in this country. Also look under keywords 'educational history' and 'schools'.

• UK Schools & Colleges Database: provides information on more than 31,000 UK state and independent Schools and Colleges, and over 29,000 UK School, College and University websites (as of June 2016).
• MissingAncestors.com (archived copy) - contains information on staff and students at Industrial/Reformatory Schools & the like during the 19th and early 20th century.
• Anguline Research Archives (archived copy) produce CDs of a number of major public school registers.
• Universities: Brief biographical details of graduates of Cambridge or Oxford Universities are provided in either Alumni Cantabrigienses by JA Venn or  Alumni Oxonienses : the Members of the University of Oxford, by Joseph Foster, respectively, which are particularly useful for C of E ministers.  They are available in various forms:
  • Hard copies are held by many public libraries, including Reading Central Library.  
  • Cambridge Alumni Database free online from Cambridge University.  See also their research guide. 
  • Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714 and 1715-1886 free from Internet Archive.  
  • Online subscription access from Ancestry:  Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886  and  Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900.