Joan Bakewell: Cambridge Clubs, Societies and Balls
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Programmes, membership information, and invitations. Includes: Cambridge Film Society, English Club, Newnham College Balls, Labour Club, The Marshall Society, The Shirley Society, Musical Comedy Club, Cambridge Heretics, and the Amateur Dramatic Club.
Joan Bakewell: Programmes for Cambridge productions attended
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Programmes for various Cambridge productions attended, largely theatrical, some musical. Includes the programme for the production of Ben Jonson's Epicene (5-6 June, by the Lady Margaret Players), in which Joan Rowlands [Bakewell] played 'Dol Mavis'. The programme is signed and annotated by sev...
Prepared itinerary for private tour (Mr and Mrs J. Emery), departing 10 January 1997: Bombay, Goa, Delhi, Gwalior, Jhansi, Orchha, Khajuraho, Varanasi, Delhi. Includes leaflets and photocopied guidebook material. No journal.
Eighteen undated letters (most without envelopes) and one card, from Bakewell's parents (and Susan, sister), probably all addressed to her at Newnham College, Cambridge.
Letters received from various friends. The file includes 16 letters with envelopes and 1 postcard (1950-51) from Terry Flitcroft, together with a newspaper cutting [1979] reporting his death in the crash of a light aircraft into the sea near Nice airport. For background, see Bakewell, The Cent...
Joan Bakewell: Varsity (Undergraduate Newspaper, Cambridge)
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Copies of Varsity newspaper with the following dates: 1953: 9 May, 30 May, 10 October, 17 October, 24 October, 7 November, 21 November, 28 November. For 23 May 1953 (reporting on Mark Boxer), see Add MS 89161/1/45. 1954: 23 January, 6 February (including article on 'Red Hot Mummer' Jane Llewelly...