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Joan Yeo Archive

Catalogue reference: 5FWI/E/2/07A-D

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This record is a file about the Joan Yeo Archive dating from 1930s-1960s.

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Reference
5FWI/E/2/07A-D
Title
Joan Yeo Archive
Date
1930s-1960s
Arrangement

The documents in this archive are in four sections (A-B are in Box 191, C-D are in Box 192).

BOX 191

Folder A - Joan Yeo Archive 1930s-1950s

Folder A1 - Living and learning 1954

Folder A2 - Education through the WI Movment 1952

Folder A3 - Elizabethan England 1953

Folder A4 - Course Programmes c.1940s-c.1950s

B. Those that relate to NFWI

Folder B1 - National Executive Committee election 1947-1955

Folder B2 - Notes for talks 1939-1953

Folder B3 - Visits to Federations (Counties) on behalf of NFWI 1942-1954

Folder B4 - 'Methods on teaching Appreciation and History of Art' 1954

Folder B5 - Day Conference Radbrook 1941

Box 192

C. Those that relate to Berkshire Federation

D. Miscellaneous - pamphlets on Gourdston School.

Held by
London University: London School of Economics, The Women's Library
Language
English
Physical description
1 folder
Custodial history

The papers in this section of the Denman Archives were given to the College by Stephen Yeo, Joan Yeo's son, in 1998 after his Mother's death.

Administrative / biographical background

Joan Yeo was a member of the Berkshire Federation and on the National Executive committee in the 1940s. She was Chairman of the Education sub-committee at the time that the College was founded, and thus an influence on the early College programmes. She was an Oxford graduate with a degree in History, which is reflected in some of the talks she gave and courses she chaired at Denman.

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