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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.

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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.

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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.

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...

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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.

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