| Description | Description: Archival records of an independent, progressive boarding school at Dartington Hall. Record media include Senate and Moot minutes, scrapbooks and photographs, films and videos, and student publications. There are extensive files of press cuttings about the school.
Many unpublished, critical evaluations of the school have been preserved. There are also records of educational survey research by school administrators and staff, and records of exchange programs with schools in other communities. The correspondence of headmasters including William B Curry, Hubert and Lois Child, and Dr Royston Lambert, has also been saved. Owing to the lengthy notice time given by most headmasters, there is considerable overlap of records from one subseries to the next.
Most School administrative records dating prior to 1974 are currently open for research and are listed in the online catalogue. This material includes letters of Marjorie Wise and Wyatt Rawson, Bill Curry's letters and reports to the Trust, letters and reports from advisors including Eduard Lindeman, H N Brailsford, Ruth Morgan, and Dr F G Bonser of Teachers College, Columbia, and extensive correspondence with others interested in alternative education including A S Neill, and Dora and Bertrand Russell.
The Papers of Dorothy Elmhirst held by the Dartington Hall Trust Archive also include School records.
Detailed administrative histories and descriptions will be found at the subseries level in the online catalogue. The most recent 30 years of records are closed. Data protection guidelines regulate access to individual student and personnel information. Follow this link for further information on accessing pupil records. Former students and staff may be interested in the website of the Dartington Hall School.
The series is divided into 11 subseries as follows:
A) The Early School, 1926-1931; search T/DHS/A
B) William Burnlee Curry Papers, 1931-1957; T/DHS/B
C) Hu and Lois Child, 1957-1968; T/DHS/C
D) Royston Lambert, 1968-1973; T/DHS/D
E) John Wightwick, 1973-1983; T/DHS/E
F) Lyn Blackshaw, 1983; T/DHS/F
G) Eric Adams and Roger Tilbury, 1983-1985; T/DHS/G
H) Brian Nicholson, 1985-1987; T/DHS/H
I) Additions, 1927-1987; T/DHS/I
J) Postern Programme, 1957-1980; T/DHS/J
K) School Publications and Printed Material, 1927-1987; T/DHS/K. |