Moray House College of Education (1959-1991)
Organization
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Material relating to Albert E. G. Pilliner
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1443
Scope and Contents
Letters relating to Pilliner's appointment, April 1949;
Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1965;
Publications authored by Pilliner, 1958-1978;
Publications collected by Pilliner, 1968-2003;
Report to UNESCO, 1961
Reports to the British Council, 1964-1983;
Material regarding the Godfrey Thomson unit,...
Dates:
1961-1983
Obituary of Thomson sent by W B Inglis, Director of Studies, Moray House, c Feb 1955
Item
Identifier: Coll-1310/1/1/26/1
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Contains letters from contemporaries, colleagues, friends, and former students including: Carlos Paton Blacker, David Glass, Prof John MacMurray, Sir Thomson Buston Robson, Sir James Learmonth, Sir Edward Appleton, Sir Edmund Whittaker, and Professor Edwin Bidwell Wilson. The letters recall Thomson's life and work, and what he meant to the sender. In many cases, the letters have annotations by Lady Thomson giving biographical information about the sender and their relationship to...
Dates:
c Feb 1955
Papers of Godfrey H. Thomson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1310
Scope and Contents
Biographical and personal papers, c mid 19th century-1972;
Publications authored and co-authored by Thomson, 1904-1954;
Unpublished materials by Thomson, 1897-1954;
Publications collected by Thomson regarding education, intelligence, psychology, and statistics, 1879-1971
Unpublished material collected by Thomson and authored by others, c mid 20th...
Dates:
c1890s-1978
Parchment with a short history of Moray House presented to Thomson on his retirement, 1951
Item
Identifier: Coll-1310/1/3/12
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Includes certificates from the University of Durham, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Swedish Psychological society.
Also includes a testimonial from Professor Karl Ferdinand Braun, which Thomson retained with his certificates.
Dates:
1951
The School as a Social Influence: Two Practical Examples, 1930
File
Identifier: Coll-1310/3/1/2/13
Scope and Contents
The lecture explores how schools could, and should, benefit the whole community by giving pupils a happy, clean environment which serves as a model for what the home should be, and by giving them the knowledge and skills in order to work towards solving practical and social problems in their communities. He illustrates this point with detailed descriptions of the Rachel MacMillan Nursery School in Deptford, London, and the Training School for Village Teachers at Chapra, Bengal....
Dates:
1930
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