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Diary, 7 January-10 April 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WLMT 1/20

Scope and Contents

Subjects include Phyllis Willmott's family life with her husband and children in Dartmouth Park Road in Highgate, where they shared a house with their friends Peggy and Johnny Sparrow; socialising with friends, including Ann Cartwright, Steve Schenk, Richard Rose, Margot Jefferys, Graeme Shankland, Eddie Cooney, Raphael Samuel, Edna Baldwin, and Joan Young; Michael Young and Sasha Moorsom, including their move to Cambridge; her involvement with Jean Cox and Helen Curtis in the Association of Part-time Social Workers, including meetings with Kit Russell and Janet Kidd at the London School of Economics and Political Science [LSE]; work at the Institute of Community Studies in Bethnal Green, including the first draft of "The Evolution of a Community", their colleagues Peter Marris, Brian Jackson and Raphael Samuel, and a meeting to discuss future projects; visits to her family in Lee; moving to a new flat at Linden Mansions in Highgate and their neighbours, Margot Jefferys and Mavis and Geoff Nicholson; Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament [CND] marches from Aldermaston and Wethersfield; and a concert given by Mahalia Jackson at the Royal Albert Hall.

With a press cutting of hostile comments about Michael Young by Katharine Whitehorn in The Spectator, February 1961; a press cutting of a letter from Phyllis Willmott about children's teeth, [March 1961]; and a copy of the "Linden Mansions' Gazette", [March-April 1961].

Marked 'L'.

Dates

  • Creation: 7 January-10 April 1961

Conditions Governing Access

Open.

Extent

1 volume(s)

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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