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Edinburgh -- Scotland

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to Hector Thomson from Marian Cooke, secretary, Moray House College of Education, 5 Feb 1970

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Identifier: Coll-1310/1/1/27/3
Scope and Contents

Cooke offers Hector Thomson slides and photographs she has discovered on packing up to leave Moray House.

Dates: 5 Feb 1970

Obituary of Thomson sent by W B Inglis, Director of Studies, Moray House, c Feb 1955

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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

The School as a Social Influence: Two Practical Examples, 1930

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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