| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| AdminHistory | James Nimmo Britton, educationalist: born Scarborough, Yorkshire 5 May 1908; teacher, Harrow Weald County Grammar School 1933-38; Educational Editor, John Murray 1938-53; Senior Lecturer / Head of English Department, Institute of Education, London University 1954-70, Goldsmiths' Professor of Education 1970-75; Director, Schools Council Project on Writing 11-18 1966-72; member, Committee of Inquiry into Reading and the Use of English 1972-74; books include Language and Learning 1972, Prospect and Retrospect 1982, Literature in its Place 1993; married 1938 Muriel Robertson (two daughters); died London 28 February 1994. |
| CustodialHistory | The papers were delivered to the Institute by the family, following the death of Jimmy Britton in 1994. They were later assessed and found to contain the personal archive of Jimmy Britton and the papers of two research projects on English across the curriculum. The two collections have been appraised and sorted into the two distinct collections. The papers were transferred to the IOE Archives in 2012.
Other collections found in the same location were the papers of Nancy Martin (Acc No DC/07/11; Ref No NM) and the records of the Schools Council project 'The Development of Writing Abilities, 11-18' and the 'Writing Across the Curriculum' (Acc No DC/09/11 Ref WRI). |