StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
Description | Correspondence and papers concerning Woodcraft Folk organisation in wartime, 27 September 1938 - 23 December 1944. Includes; - circulars on organisation form head office. - circulars of the Shefstanthing (Sheffield Federation), including planning of camping, rambling. - letter to Silver Birch, probably from Basil Rawson, on the Sheffield 'Blitz', and the affects on members and the infrastructure of the city, January 1941 - correspondence re. camp, problem of finding camping ground not turned over to agriculture. - letter to Sheffield Corporation Estates Committee, Mr Rothwell, requesting land for camping in Greenbelt area, possibly Mayfield (Fulwood), April 1942. And other papers regarding the running of the Folk, and groups affected by the second world war, eg. evacuation of Pioneer aged members, proposals re. a National Co-operative Youth organisation. |