| Description | Records of the Arts Enquiry are divided into five subseries, general, visual arts, music, film and theatre.
General Arts Enquiry records include reports, memoranda, press cuttings, notes made during group discussions, and copies of correspondence, some of which has been obtained from the Public Record Office. There is also a copy of notes taken during a conversation between Christopher Martin and Miss Glasgow (CEMA), wherein the scope of the enquiry was discussed.
Visual arts records include drafts, reports, report summaries and conclusions and also include minutes, reports and memoranda on postwar industrial design, visual arts education, art teacher training, and museum studies. Also includes a report on postwar development of Art Schools by Clifford Ellis, and a report on art collections and museums in England and Wales.
Arts Enquiry music records include information on professional and amateur musicians and musical activity and training, including examples of union contracts, memoranda, area surveys (with a report by the Musician's Union), report on amateur musicians by Imogen Holst, discussions and secondary material.
Film records include group meeting minutes, an interim report on film, and memoranda.
Arts Enquiry theatre records include memoranda, publications, correspondence, reports and notes studying specific regional, provincial and national theatres; Labour Party Policy for Leisure; verbatim notes of the final plenary session of the British Theatre Conference, and a study of ownership and control of theatres; and a study of pre and postwar rents effecting theatres.
There are letters from a variety of individuals involved in the arts and education. Correspondents include: Peggy Ashcroft; J B Priestley; Tyrone Guthrie; Allardyce Nicholl; Christopher Lee; Lewis Casson; Basil Dean; Thomas Taig; Llewellyn Rees; Frederick Piffard; A Steward Cruikshank; Reginald Salberg; Bronson Albery; Hugh Beaumont; John Burrell, John Maynard Keynes, G D H Cole, Julian Huxley. |