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| AdminHistory | The United Kingdom Federation for Education in Home Management has its origins in the International Congress of the Federation Internationale de L'Enseignment Menager [International Federation of Domestic Education], held in Edinburgh in 1953, where it was realised that Great Britian had no representative on the permanent International Committee of that organisation.
Thus, the United Kingdom Federation for Education in Home Management was founded in 1954 in order to fill this void and to unite in one organisation all existing Associations which had an interest in education for home management. The first meeting was held in London on 21 July of that year.
In the early years much time was taken in drafting the Federation's constitution and setting out its aims, which were: to consider matters of common interest to organisations engaged in or interested in the teaching of home management, to secure that the United Kingdom is adequately represented on international organisations concerned with home management and at international congresses, conferences and meetings concerned with home management, and to take action as may be expedient to assist and strengthen the work of the constituent bodies and of the Federation.
The Federation held their first weekend conference (entitled 'Effective Co-operation in Education in Home Management') in March 1956, their first General Meeting was held in October 1957, and their first one day conference was held in June 1958. From 28 July to 2 August 1958, 120 representatives from the Federation attended the IXth International Congress on Home Economics, held in the University of Maryland, U.S.A., of which the theme was 'Education in Home Economics relative to the Social and Economic conditions of individual countries'.
It is not clear whether Brenda Francis was a member of the Federation, (she does not appear to be on the list of members), or if she was connected to it in any way, and it is not apparent as to why selected minutes and papers of its meetings were found within her collection of personal papers. |