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| Description | Scrapbook of newspaper articles, correspondence and papers collated by Brian Simon regarding various subjects including:
Obituary for Friday Knight, musician and socialist, printed in The Guardian 4 October 1996
Letter to Robin Luxton, Principal Inspector of the Inspection and Advisory Service at London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, regarding a paper written by Luxton and Graham Last on 'Under-achievement and Pedagogy', with a copy of Luxton's reply. The original reply and a further letter from Simon is at SIM/7/5
Review of 'Affirming the Comprehensive Ideal' edited by Richard Pring and Geoffrey Walford
Obituary for Edward Blishen, printed in The Guardian 14 December 1996
Correspondence with Eddie Penning Rowsell
Obituary for Bryan Keith-Lucas, from The Independent 20 November 1996
Letter from Jacki Proctor, a member of BERA (British Educational Research Association), dated 25 March 1997, to wish Simon a happy birthday
Obituary for Patricia Llewelyn-Davies, printed in The Times, 10 November 1997
Obituary for Patrick Bailey, printed in The Independent 1 September 1998
Article in the Times Educational Supplement (TES) by Nicholas Tucker on Edward Blishen's final volume of memoirs
Book review of 'Education and the Labour Movement' from the TES, 17 September 1965
Letter from W O Lester Smith, Director of Education for the City of Manchester Education Committee to Shena Simon, dated 18 August 1947, regarding Brian Simon's employment
'NUS and the War' letter to the Editor of the Times Higher Educational Supplement regarding the role of the NUS before and during the Second World War in response to an article by Harriet Swain, printed 4 June 1997
Letter from Robert Burgess, dated 17 November 1998, regarding his appointment as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester
'A journal for comprehensive education' by Brian Simon, FORUM, Volume 40, No 3, 1998
Tribute by Robin Alexander, Director of the Centre for Research in Elementary and Primary Education, University of Warwick, to Brian Simon, delivered at the ceremony to confer Simon with an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters, reprinted in FORUM Volume 40 Number 3, 1998
Review by Simon of Martin Lawn's book 'Modern Times? Work, Professionalism and Citizenship in Teaching, printed in FORUM, Volume 40, Number 3
'Marxists regroup to snipe at Thatcherism in Trousers' article regarding a one-off issue of Marxism Today on the policies of Tony Blair, printed in The Independent, 20 October 1998
Letter from Fritz Ringer, dated 11 August 1998, regarding his views of American Schools of Education and his recent research
Letter from Michael Armstrong, dated 3 October 1998, regarding Simon's book 'In Search of a Grandfather' and Armstrong's imminent retirement
Obituaries for Michael McGahey, trade unionist |