Scope and Contents Subjects include Mary Agnes Hamilton's work for the Reconstruction Secretariat and the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS); a meeting with Mary Glasgow to discuss the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA); her experiences of air-raids and bomb damage near her flat in Chelsea; Ministry of Information Planning Committee meetings; Myra Curtis and the principalship of Newnham College; a visit to Eton College; reflections on the role of economists in wartime; the departure of...

Scope and Contents Subjects include Mary Agnes Hamilton's work at the Reconstruction Secretariat; her work on salvage, refugees, and rationing for the Women's Voluntary Service; Ministry of Information Planning Committee meetings and a discussion on 'American Understanding (publicity)'; a lunch with Storm Jameson; bomb damage in central London; the emotional and psychological impact of the war and her fear of invasion; writing, including the impact of war on the modern novel; her move to Richmond Terrace; a...

Scope and Contents Subjects include an uncomfortable dinner with Lord Reith; Mary Agnes Hamilton's work for the Ministry of Information Planning and Women's International Advisory committees; her work on the Barlow Committee, with comments on training for women and a row over family allowances; the Foreign Research and Press Service (FRPS); her writing, with comments on the progress of her memoirs; home decorating; her reflection on selfhood and war work, following a broadcast speech by Winston Churchill;...

Scope and Contents Subjects include Mary Agnes Hamilton's participation in the Brains Trust, including with Florence Horsburgh; Mary Agnes Hamilton's work for the Reconstruction Secretariat, including on child welfare, USA-UK cooperation, and demobilisation, and her comments on the new minister, Sir William Jowitt; the Beveridge Committee, including discussion of 'spinsters' and means tests; her writing, including revisions to a novel and her journalism; a visit to a London County Council hospital to see...

Scope and Contents Subjects include Mary Agnes Hamilton's return following her USA tour; her work for the Reconstruction Secretariat, including writing a brief for a minister's speech on women; her work for the Women's Voluntary Service; a lunch with Herbert Morrison and discussion of relationships between individuals in the war coalition; her writing, including for broadcasts, Ministry of Information pamphlets on democracy and reconstruction, and the progress of her memoirs; home decorating; news of internal...

Scope and Contents Subjects include Mary Agnes Hamilton's work at the Ministry of Reconstruction and her dissatisfaction and possibility of a transfer; the death of George Ridley; news of Hugh Dalton's work at the Board of Trade and his separation from Ruth Dalton; her writing, including preparing her memoirs for publication as 'Remembering My Good Friends', and reflections on the purpose of autobiography; discussions with Erwin Schuller about Mary Craig McGeachy and the work of the UNRRA Welfare Division;...

Scope and Contents Comprising: with Ed Shils, "The Meaning of the Coronation", 1953; "The Planners and the Planned. The Family", 1954; "The Role of the Extended Family in a Disaster", 1954; "Kinship and Family in East London", 1954; with Peter Willmott, "Seven Million Bathrooms", 1955; "Challenge to Labour" or "Secret Social Services", 1955; with Ed Shils, "What is Living and What is Dead in Socialism", 1956; with Peter Willmott, "Mothers and Daughters: a discussion of some family research in London", 1959;...

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Dartington Institute carried out practical research to inform political and social policy. Its predecessor bodies were Dartington Amenity Research Trust and Dartington Institute of Community Studies.

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Known as Political and Economic Planning (PEP), 1931-78.