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Add MS 89161/6/33
- Record Id:
- 040-003317469
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003252088
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100034093044.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89161/6/33
- Title:
- Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed (background material about Cambridge academics)
- Scope & Content:
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Background material about academic figures associated with Cambridge, and with Newnham College in particular. Assembled by Bakewell during the course of writing her autobiography. Includes other figures of the period and some general material on the 1950s.
The file comprises:
- Arthur Cecil Pigou 1877-1959. Fellow and Professor of Political Economy. Memoir by John Saltmarsh and Patrick Wilkinson (King's College, Cambridge, 1960), 26 pp. Unmarked.
- Henry Sidgwick 1838-1900. Founder of Newnham College. Address by Prof. John Skidelsky (University of Warwick) on 31 May 1988 at Dinner to mark 150th anniversary of Sidgwick's birth. Newnham College (1988), 15 pp. Unmarked.
- Betty Behrens 1904-1989. Bakewell's supervisor in European History. Memorial Lecture by Dr Jonathan Steinberg, Fellow of Trinity Hall, given in Newnham College, 16 March 1989. Newnham College (1989), 45 pp. Some passages marked in red ink.
- Newspaper cuttings (2001-02) about: Eric Hobsbawm; Sir Nikolaus Pevsner; Frank Auerbach; Lucian Freud.
- Photocopied pages from unidentified book, chapter headed 'Women Dons in Cambridge' with passages marked about Betty Behrens.
- Profile of the economist Joan Robinson, printed from internet source.
- Obituary for Ruth Cohen (Bakewell's economics supervisor, elected Principal of Newnham College in 1954). Word processed document (revised version, 22 August 2001) by Gillian Sutherland.
- Photocopied excerpt from Anthony Powell, The Strangers All Are Gone (1982), pp. 5-10, about the author Julian Maclaren-Ross.
- Programme for 'Spirit of '51: The Festival of Britain and Its Influence on Fifties Style and Design'. City Museum & Records Office, Museum Road, Portsmouth (8 August - 22 November 1998).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003252088
036-003316936
040-003317469 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89161 : Joan Bakewell: Personal, Professional and Literary Papers
Add MS 89161/6 : Joan Bakewell: Journalism and Literary Papers
Add MS 89161/6/33 : Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed (background material about Cambridge academics) - Hierarchy:
- 032-003252088[0006]/036-003316936[0033]/040-003317469
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89161
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1960
- End Date:
- 2001
- Date Range:
- 1960-2001
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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