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Diary, 8 October 1962-3 February 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WLMT 1/25

Scope and Contents

Subjects include Phyllis Willmott's family life with her husband and children at Linden Mansions in Highgate; work at the Institute of Community Studies in Bethnal Green, including their colleagues Peter Marris and Ann Cartwright, and discussion of future projects; an annual general meeting of the Consumers' Association; socialising with friends, including Eddie Cooney, Jean and Oliver Cox, Margot Jefferys, Ann Cartwright, Dudley and Lil Gyngell, Helen Bolderson, Graeme Shankland, Bob and Hannah Gavron, and Joan Young; Phyllis' idea for a guide to social services; his BBC radio broadcast about Dagenham and final editing of his book, "The Evolution of a Community; the Cuban Missile Crisis; her involvement with Jean Cox and Helen Curtis in running the Association of Part-Time Social Workers and meeting Viola Klein; visits to her family in Lee; Michael Young and Sasha Moorsom Young; heavy snowfall during the winter; and the death of Hugh Gaitskell.

With a press cutting about "Forty Years Old", a BBC radio broadcast by Peter Willmott for the fortieth anniversary of the Dagenham housing estate, from the Radio Times, 11 October 1962; a letter from Mary Stott [Women's Editor of The Guardian], 7 November 1962; a press cutting of a letter from Phyllis Willmott, about a North-South divide in education, published in The Guardian [November 1962]; copies of the "Tollington Gazette" newsletter, November-December 1962 (2); a thank you note from Sasha Moorsom Young, [December 1962]; a black-and-white photograph of Phyllis' brother, Wally Noble, in the uniform of the Seaforth Highlanders during the Second World War, [1940-5]; press cuttings about the Association of Part-time Social Workers, from the Hampstead and Highgate Express, 11 January 1963, and from the New Statesman, 24 January 1963; a press cutting of an article by Richard Crossman, about sickness benefit, published in The Guardian, 18 January 1963; a copy of a letter from Phyllis, about child minders, sent to The Times, 2 February 1963; and a press cutting of a book review by Phyllis about women's rights published in Socialist Commentary, February 1963.

Marked 'Q'.

Dates

  • Creation: 8 October 1962-3 February 1963

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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