a separate department for Wales was created within the Board of Education. Nonconformists were bitterly upset by the failure of the Liberal Party to carry through on its most important promise to them. Support for Liberal candidates fell away. They eventually closed nearly all of their schools. American historian Bentley Gilbert evaluates the political wisdom of Liberal dependence on Nonconformist support: See also Education (Provision of Meals) Act 1906, a noncontroversial welfare law References Notes Further reading Armytage, W. H. G. "Issue at Stake: the Biosocial Background of the 1902 Education Act." History of education 10.3 (1981): 183-194. Daglish, Neil D. "Lloyd George's Education Bill? Planning the 1906 Education Bill." History of Education 23.4 (1994): 375-384. Daglish, N. D. "A ‘difficult and somewhat thankless task’: politics, religion and the Education Bill of 1908." Journal of educational administration and history 31.1 (1999): 19-35. Dugdate, Blanche E. C. Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour (1937) vol 1 pp 236–46 onlline Gullifer, N. R. "Opposition to the 1902 Education Act," Oxford Review of Education (1982) 8#1 pp. 83–98 in JSTOR Halévy, Élie History of the English People in the 19th Century: Imperialism & Rise of Labour. Vol 5 (1932) 139–210. online Hanssen, Susan E. "“English in Spirit”: GK Chesterton, Church and State, and the 1906 Education Act Debate." Catholic Social Science Review 13 (2008): 47-76. Online free Munson, J.E. B. 'The Unionist Coalition and Education, 1895-1902.' Historical Journal 20#3 (1977), pp. 607–645. Ottewill, Roger. "'Education, education, education': researching the 1902 Education Act," Local Historian, (2007) 37#4 pp 258–272 online Pattison, R. "The Birrell Education Bill of 1906" Journal of Educational Administration & History (1973) 5#12 pp 34–41. Pugh, D. R. "The 1902 Education Act: The Search for a Compromise," British Journal of Educational Studies, (1968) 16#2 pp 164–178 Pugh, D. R. "The Church and Education: Anglican Attitudes 1902" Journal of Ecclesiastical History (1972) 23#3: 219-232. Pugh, D. R. "English Nonconformity, education and passive resistance 1903–6." History of Education 19#4 (1990): 355-373. Pugh, D. R. "Wesleyan Methodism and the Education crisis of 1902." British Journal of Educational Studies 36.3 (1988): 232-249. Richards, Noel J. "The Education Bill of 1906 and the Decline of Political Nonconformity" Journal of Ecclesiastical History (1972) 23#1 pp 49–63 Simon, Brian. Education and the Labour Movement 1870-1920 (Lawrence & Wishart, 1965) pp 165–295. Taylor, Tony. "Arthur Balfour and educational change: The myth revisited," British Journal of Educational Studies, (1994)