| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Description | Comprises 32 appointment diaries dated 1950-1977 (HMSO issue), 1985, 1989 (2 versions) and 1990 detailing her HMI work and social commitments including school and college visits, meetings, conferences, training courses and weekly expenses.
Also an album of photographs and biographical accounts compiled and written by a friend. Photographs are of herself throughout her life and of her immediate family.
Includes a local newspaper obituary. |
| AdminHistory | Joan Mary Bosdet (1916-1996), known as Mary, was an HMI from 1950-1978 and a specialist in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). Having worked her way through university attaining a BA (History) and BSc (Econ) she joined the WRNS during WWII where she trained as a meteorologist. Her interest in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) began after the Second World War when she taught English to refugee sailors before joining the British Council in Prague as a Registrar, where she again found herself teaching English much of the time. On her return to the UK she joined HMI and after retirement carried on in the role of assessor for the British Council Inspectorate and the Council for Independent Education. |