| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | UWT/F/53 |
| Title | [NUWT Hants & Dorset County Association records] |
| Date | 1927 - 1960 |
| Description | Correspondence between Ethel Froud and A. Muriel Pierotti (General Secretaries NUWT) and members of the Hampshire & Dorset County Association including Nina Althouse and Evelyn Penfold regarding the organisation and management of the County Association.
The correspondence covers:
Request from Nina Althouse for more detailed information on the early history of the NUWT for a meeting she is addressing [this may have been a meeting of NUWT members, or could have been a meeting of women who had been part of the suffragette movement]
Recollections from Nina Althouse of the early days of the NUWT
Reports of campaign and fund-raising activities undertaken by the County Association
Reports of visits from NUWT Organisers and Central Council members detailing how they felt the branch was being run and how the branch meetings were conducted
Reports of branch meetings and lists of elected officers for the branch
Letters sent to members retiring from the teaching profession, wishing them well and encouraging them to retain association with the NUWT
Membership applications and renewals
Update of news from individual members, for example news on illness in their family, retirement from the teaching profession, resignation from the union, and other changes of circumstances
Request for Central Council members to come and speak at County Association meetings
Requests for NUWT stationery
Congratulations sent from Muriel Pierotti to Nina Althouse on her co-option to the Executive of the Women's Liberal Federation
Suggestions from the General Secretary regarding financial difficulties of a member
Enquiries regarding pensions
Subscriptions to 'The Woman Teacher'
Donations to the equal pay film by Jill Craigie 'To Be a Woman' (including a donation of a handbag by a member who could not afford to give a monetary donation)
Discussion of the power of managers in schools
Organisers reports detailing visits to various schools in the Essex area and reporting on the reactions of women teachers to the NUWT
List of Bournemouth members (retired and life members), 1950 and list of members in Hampshire, 1943
Notification of changes of address
Newsletter of the Fareham Business and Professional Women's Club, February 1950 (Evelyn Penfold was the President)
Letters sent to members considering resigning from the NUWT, trying to discourage them from doing so
Arrangements, agendas and reports of County Association meetings
Decision to disband the Winchester branch and move members to the Hants and Dorset County Association
Arrangements for branch members attending annual conference
Ideas for holding public equal pay meetings to stir up support for the NUWT
Changes to school holidays due to Second World War
Reports from teachers of the strain and worry caused by the frequency of German planes flying over the coastline, 1940
Reports of County Association meetings
Expressions of thanks from the General Secretary to those undertaking posts for the branch and those retiring from posts in the branch
Reconstruction schemes in education
Headships - the effect of amalgamation on promotional opportunities for women teachers
Formation of the County Association, 1928
Design for a hammock suitable for infants, designed by Nina Althouse (includes a drawing of the design)
Organisers reports detailing visits to various schools in the Hampshire and Dorset area and reporting on the reactions of women teachers to the NUWT
Press cuttings regarding:
Report of protests within the Dorset Housing Committee over priority being given to two single women (teachers) on the waiting list
Reports of meetings and Garden Party's organised by the County Association
Rural education |
| Extent | folders |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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