Slates & Slate Pencils

If you have stumbled across this site because you were browsing historical topics, at some point you likely have come across references to school children using slates to perform their work. We all know (somehow, by osmosis perhaps) that a slate is a chalkboard. But, who exactly knows the how and they why of the…

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Year 5 - Ragged Museum

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Slate Pencil

Lara Maiklem FSA - The London Mudlark on X: Recently found broken Victorian school slate to go with my collection of slate pencils. If you or your children go to an old

Broken Slate pencils – Naturo India

Students visit Rehoboth's Hornbine one-room schoolhouse

Slate Pencils, circa 1875 - The Henry Ford