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| Description | Correspondence between A. Muriel Pierotti (NUWT), various educational book publishers, and the National Book League regarding:
NUWT representation on the Council of the National Book League (the NUWT representative 1957 - 1958 was Miss J. M. Collins)
Details of a conference on children's reading 'From Comics to Classics'
Children's book lists - lists and pamphlets from various educational publishers
Information on newly published books, mostly educational but also relating to the women's movement, women's history, and industrial relations
NUWT requests to publishers for review copies of books and leaflets to review for 'The Woman Teacher'
NUWT requests for news on publication dates of books which would be of relevance to NUWT members
Letter of warning from a woman, Faith Sheppard, that a new book 'Chalk in my Hair', by an author called Balaam, is defamatory towards women teachers and is written under a pseudonym with the author's real name being Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad
Pamphlets from publishers advertising their new publications - usually educational books
Concerns over the rising cost of publishing books and implications of this on the number of books purchased for schools
Request for NUWT involvement in evaluating comics for children as part of the Comics Campaign Committee
Publications:
'Recitations for Little Children', by Grace M. Tuffley, published by the NUWT
'The Young Reader - National Home-Reading Union Introductory Course Magazine', 1926
'A Catalogue of Educational Books', Cambridge University press, 1928
Complete catalogue for the publishers George Allen & Unwin Limited
'West Ham Poems', West Ham Educational Advisory Board, 1922
'The Reader', National Home-Reading Union, 1926
'Oxford Books for Secondary Schools', Oxford University Press, 1930
'Exhibition of Children's Books of Long Ago', Fulham Public Libraries
'A Survey of Children's Books', Education Committee of the NUWT, 1929
'Enquiry into expenditure by Local Education Authorities on class books for schools', National Book League, 1951
'Books on the League of Nations for Children and Teachers', 1929 and 1930
'Psychological Tests - a subject list of the books, pamphlets, papers and periodicals dealing with Psychological Tests contained in the Library of the Board of Education', 1927
Black notebook containing hand-written lists of books (the books are a mixture of history, philosophy, political, women's movement, industrial relations and other educational books) [notebook probably written by Muriel Pierotti)
Press cuttings:
Reports of claims that the London Labour Party tried to influence the content of books for use in schools to put forward their party political views
News of publication of new books |