There are other collections of school exercise books around, but this one is fully online and looks to be vast, with hundreds of children’s exercise books from across the globe, from the 1700s to 2000s.
Exercise Book Archive
The Exercise Book Archive is an ever-growing collection of old exercise books from all over the world. Everybody is invited to discover the history, education, and daily life of the children and young people of the past through this unique material.
The Boeing. France, March 31, 1973
3rd year of school 1943-44. Austria, September 1943
My Friend. United Kingdom, March 7, 1936
The blizzard at Honey Brook. United States of America, February 1899
That’s a lot of social history sitting in those books.
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Yes, the ones from the war years are especially poignant.
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I bet they are.
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