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Youth Services, 1947-1951

 File — Box: JS1
Identifier: Coll-1966/1/1/2

Scope and Contents

Papers from a file entitled "Mixed Clubs" and dating from Spencer's time at the London School of Economics. Consists of: Handwritten lecture notes on group work, leisure and community centres, youth services, mixed clubs, social disorganisation; typed notes on a visit to the Outward Bound Sea School and junk playgrounds; material relating to a Senior Boys course run by the London Federation of Boys Clubs on which Spencer was a tutor, including programme, play scripts and photograph of Woodrow High House. Printed material: Programme for a Week of Conferences on Junk Play-grounds held at Cambridge House University Settlement; "Community Integration and The Community Centres by Paul Halmos from The Sociological Review, 1948; newspaper cuttings relating to youth work.

Dates

  • Creation: 1947-1951

Creator

Full Extent

1 folder

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository

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