Chapter 2 - PRO visits Comprises: Record of the visits made by Simon to the Public Record Office in January 1987 examining the economic cuts in education over the period 1949-1952 Newspaper cuttings from the 1940-1950s on education developments including technical schools and developments in London General notes taken by Simon Typescript of a conversation between Simon and John Firth in Spring 1979 regarding a 'witch-hunt' against members of the Communist Party in the Workers Educational Association during the 1940s and 1950s Marked by Simon as 'material definitely required for re-draft' 1945-1987