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Adult education

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

 Fonds

Archives of the Board of Extra-Mural Studies, 1850 - 2007

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/BEMS
Scope and Contents

The archives comprise the full range of institutional operational records, together with the personal papers of several individuals - James Stuart, Helen C. Colman, Richard G. Moulton, D.H.S. Cranage and G.F. Hickson - closely associated with the organisation.

Dates: 1850 - 2007
Conditions Governing Access: BEMS 56 may only be consulted with the permission of the Director of the Institute of Continuing Education. Across the archive, personal records are closed to scholars for 80 years from the date of creation under data protection legislation. Specific restrictions, if any, are indicated within each catalogue entry.
 Fonds

Archives of the Wellingborough University Extension Society, 1893 - 1974

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/WUES
Scope and Contents

The records of the Wellingborough University Extension Society cover the organisation and management of the society, its membership, financial affairs and running of its courses.

Dates: 1893 - 1974
Conditions Governing Access: Personal records are closed to scholars for 80 years from the date of creation under data protection legislation.
 File

File titled 'Miscellaneous Committee minutes', 1949 - 1954

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/BEMS 9/1
Scope and Contents

Comprises signed minutes of meetings of the following: Education in H.M. Forces Committee, 1949-52; Madingley Hall Sub-Committee, 1951-4; Vacation Courses Committee, 1949-51.

Dates: 1949 - 1954
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: BEMS 56 may only be consulted with the permission of the Director of the Institute of Continuing Education. Across the archive, personal records are closed to scholars for 80 years from the date of creation under data protection legislation. Specific restrictions, if any, are indicated within each catalogue entry.
 Fonds

Fortescue: The Papers of Hugh Fortescue

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3243/FOR
Scope and Contents Letters written by Third Earl Hugh Fortescue to Joseph Lloyd Brereton concerning educational proposals/activities, political and rural issues and personal matters. The pair had a life-long friendship having met as neighbours in West Buckland where they opened a proprietory boarding school for farmer's sons. Fortescue was a considerable landowner, concerned with the welfare of rural England and sympathetic to the unsectarian religious views of Brereton. He became Brereton's first convert...
Dates: 1856 - 1901
 Series

Higher education, 1889 - 1911

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 4
Scope and Contents

Mainly papers relating to the University Extension movement of adult education outside the universities, and local lectures and examinations run by the University of Cambridge.

Dates: 1889 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Fonds

Homerton College Archive

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3243/HOM
Dates: 1761 - 2020
Conditions Governing Access: Access to some of these records are restricted under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018, as they contain personal and / or medical data about living individuals. Some of the records in this collection are CLOSED.
Please see individual descriptions for further details or contact the College archivist at archives@homerton.cam.ac.uk.
 Sub-Fonds

Personal papers of James Stuart, 1867 - 1909

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/BEMS 1
Scope and Contents

These papers relate to Stuart's University Extension work only.

Dates: 1867 - 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: BEMS 56 may only be consulted with the permission of the Director of the Institute of Continuing Education. Across the archive, personal records are closed to scholars for 80 years from the date of creation under data protection legislation. Specific restrictions, if any, are indicated within each catalogue entry.