Diary, 8 September 1961-1 April 1962
Scope and Contents
Subjects include Phyllis Willmott's family life with her husband and children at Linden Mansions in Highgate; socialising with friends, including Eddie Cooney, Ann Cartwright, Margot Jefferys, Graeme Shankland, Joan Young, Peter Townsend, Steve Schenk, Tilda Goldberg, and Keith and Helen Bolderson; work at the Institute of Community Studies in Bethnal Green, including their colleagues Eddie Cooney, Garry Runciman, Ann Cartwright, Peter Marris, Raphael Samuel, Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden; the anti-war protests of the Committee of 100 and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament [CND], including the demonstration in Trafalgar Square; Michael Young, including his wedding to Sasha Moorsom, a visit to their home in Cambridge, and recollections of their first meeting; a meeting of the Hornsey Association for the Advancement of State Education; dinner with Raphael Samuel, with guests including Marghanita Laski and a conversation about the popular press; visits to her family in Lee; an annual general meeting of the Consumers' Association; an evening at the theatre to see Arnold Wesker's play "The Kitchen"; a meeting of the Advisory Centre for Education; his work on a BBC television programme about his book on Dagenham, "The Evolution of a Community" ; her involvement with Jean Cox and Helen Curtis in running the Association of Part-time Social Workers; a chance meeting with Karel Reisz in the park; his lecture at an Architectural Association dinner and comments by Ruth Glass; his teaching at Cambridge University and their coordination of a student project to survey recipients of sickness benefit; an evening at the ballet to see Margot Fonteyn in "Sleeping Beauty"; a party given by Mavis and Geoff Nicolson, with guests including Kingsley and Hilly Amis; a seminar on the proposed New Town at Hook; and the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission's orbit of the Earth.
With a press cutting about Peter and Phyllis Willmotts' work at the Institute of Community Studies from the Hampstead and Highgate Express, 22 December 1961.
Marked 'O'.
Dates
- Creation: 8 September 1961-1 April 1962
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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