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Miscellaneous news cuttings concerning girls’ education, education generally, travel in Italy etc, 1945 - 1984

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Brookes 1/10

Scope and Contents

File includes:
‘50 to 1 against a State girl getting to ‘Oxbridge’, 4 July 1963;
‘Which girls’ schools lead to Oxford and Cambridge?’, 3pp article, source unknown [1963];
Exhibiting of Stanley Spencer portrait of Mary Cartwright in ‘Treasures from Cambridge’ exhibition at Goldsmiths’ Hall, 1959;
‘Girton has fewest restrictions’, concerning rules and regulations for women undergraduates, Daily Telegraph [1960?];
E Winifred Parsons, ‘Teaching and Teaching Methods’, reprinted from ‘Physiotherapy’ August 1967, inscribed ‘from the author’;
Miss G O Lack (headmistress of Rosebery County Grammar School for Girls, Epsom), ‘General Studies - a Second Experiment’ from the TES 18 March 1966;
Profile by Deryck Harvey of Alderman Mrs Winifred Parsons [Emily Winifred Picking, Girton 1913, chairman of governors of Cambridgeshire High School for Girls] on her retirement as chairman of the United Cambridge Hospitals, circa 1968?
‘Perse School play a full part says head’ - cutting re Perse School for Girls speech day, reporting the speech of Miss M A Scott, headmistress (no date - 1960s?);
‘Pioneer of Village Colleges Praised at Ceremony’ concerning a ceremony at Sawston Village College held to remember Henry Morris, founder of the Village Colleges in Cambridgeshire, 1962;
Restoration of the doors of Florence Cathedral 1947;
Voluntary work with the peasants of Italy’s deep south, 1953;
Easter in Rome 1953;
‘The forbidden fruit is still as tempting as ever - - -’ concerning apple orchards at Girton College, with photograph of Stephen Beasley, Head Gardener, Cambridge Evening News 6 November 1984.












Dates

  • Creation: 1945 - 1984

Creator

Extent

1 file(s) : Paper

Language of Materials

English

Originator(s)

Various

Finding aid date

2014-09-16 09:44:18+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Girton College Archive Repository

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