Tag Archives: National Union of Women Teachers
‘Life at School: Then & Now’ Archive Workshops
This post was initially featured on our Archive Education blog, found here. When we initially started education outreach within the archives, we expected to work primarily with Key Stage 2 to 4 pupils. However, we’ve had a fair bit of … Continue reading
Appeal to London teachers – Interested in using primary sources in the classroom?
Are you interested in using primary sources in the classroom but not sure where to start? Our plan to develop one of our collections as a teaching resource for Key Stages 3 and 4 could be the place to start. … Continue reading
National Union of Women Teachers – exhibition in Institute of Education foyer
If you’re visiting the Institute of Education, University of London anytime soon you’ll get to see the exhibition I’ve put up in the foyer space outside the library. The exhibition is to highlight my work cataloguing the records of the National … Continue reading
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Campaign! Make an impact
On Tuesday 20th March a training and networking day was held at the library about Campaign! Make an impact. The day was facilitated by Jan Pimblett, Principal Development Officer at the London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) and was attended by a wide … Continue reading
Tantalising glimpses
I’m currently working through folders relating to some very clever NUWT campaigns for equal pay. The National Union of Teachers at this time never took a stand on equal pay, alluding to it in round-about ways but never in those exact … Continue reading
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NUWT cataloguing highlights
All images ©Institute of Education Archive As I’ve been writing up all my cataloguing finds over at the new home of the NUWT blog I thought I’d share photos of some of my cataloguing highlights of the past few weeks … Continue reading
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New home for NUWT posts
I’m having so much fun, and finding so much interesting material whilst cataloguing the NUWT Collection that I thought I would start a blog specifically for the project! I keep noticing related material in other archives, events, television programmes, films etc … Continue reading
Memory Lane
I’m just back from a wee trip down memory lane, thanks to a folder of correspondence between the NUWT and the International Bureau of Education. Where did I go? Back to fond memories of childhood reading. It was fun … Continue reading
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Angles of research using Archive Collections
Yesterday, in-between moving office (yay!), I catalogued a folder of correspondence which reminded me of all the different types of research archives can be used for. The correspondence was between the NUWT and the National Institute of Houseworkers (NIH). The … Continue reading
A ‘Travelling Caravan Kitchen’
Call me nostalgic but there is something just so wonderful about a letter – and by that I mean a real, honest to goodness handwritten, hand addressed letter. I’ve had many a conversation with archivists and other paper enthusiasts who’ve … Continue reading
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