Printed sources with references to Lancaster and his work held at the British and Foreign School Society Archive Centre.

• A Century Of Education, 1808-1908 Binns, H.B. (1908)
• A History of Borough Road College Bartle, G.F. (1976)
• Teaching Extraordinary: Joseph Lancaster 1778-1838 Dickson, Mora (1986)
• Joseph Lancaster: The Poor Child’s Friend Taylor, Joyce (1996)
• Joseph Lancaster en Caracas, 1824-1827, Vol.1 & Vol.2. Vaughn, Sir Edgar (1986)
• The Practical Parts of Lancaster’s Improvements and Bell’s Experiment (1932)
• Reports of the Finance Committee of the Royal Lancasterian Institution Salmon, D. (editor) (1811-1813)
• Reports of the British and Foreign School Salmon, D. (editor)
• Society, May 1814-May 1839 Salmon, D. (editor)
• The Philantropist, Vols.1-7. Salmon, D. (1811-1816)