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| Description | A file of material for festivities and contests that would be held at Romford County School for Girls on Empire Day, a celebration that used to be held on 24 May. The festival day was referred to at the school as 'Eisteddfod', a Welsh term referring to a festival of literature, music, and performance. The school may have adopted this Welsh term due to Frances Bardsley's time working at a school near Swansea, earlier in her career before founding the school at Romford.
This file mainly consists of programmes for the Empire Day Eisteddfod. These programmes include festivities such as drama, tableaux, choir singing, 'moving pictures', recitations, written articles, band performances, cooking, drawing, flower pressing, and dress making. Prizes were given in each category, and guests were sometimes invited, for example Elizabeth Hughes (Bardsley's former mentor at the Cambridge Training College) and Sophie Bryant (the first woman in Britain to earn a science doctorate). The file also contains written essays and poems, and two letters addressed to Frances Bardsley. |