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Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts: Correspondence: Central

Catalogue reference: EL 2

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This record is about the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts: Correspondence: Central dating from 1939-1960.

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Reference
EL 2
Title
Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts: Correspondence: Central
Date
1939-1960
Description

This series contains the correspondence of the Secretariat of the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA); from 1945 the Arts Council of Great Britain. It includes correspondence of John Maynard Keynes, chairman from 1942-1946; also correspondence of the Scottish and Welsh Committees and with the National Council of Music for Wales.

Held by
Victoria & Albert Museum, Archive of Art and Design
Legal status
Not Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical description
95 file(s)
Access conditions
No records held at The National Archives for this series
Subjects
Topics
Art, architecture and design
Custodial history
Transferred to Victoria and Albert Museum in 1997
Administrative / biographical background

John Meynard Keynes (1883-1946) was an economist who built and financed Arts Theatre, Cambridge and was chairman of the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts from 1942-1946.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7110/

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