WOMEN, POLITICS AND WELFARE

The Papers of Nancy Astor, 1879-1964, from Reading University Library

Part 1: Autobiography, Political Diaries, Speeches, Articles and Newscuttings

Part 2: Subject Files - Children and the Family

Contents of Reels - Part 2

REEL 21

Adoption

MS 1416/1/1/1-3               General Correspondence, 1927-1930

MS 1416/1/1/4-7               Information & Letters to Societies, 1924-1930

MS 1416/1/1/1139            Correspondence & Papers, 1936

MS 1416/1/1/1445            Correspondence & Papers, 1937

MS 1416/1/1/1567            Correspondence & Papers, 1944

Baby Week

MS 1416/1/1/54                 Baby Week Council, 1920

Child Welfare

MS 1416/1/1/63-67           General Correspondence, 1923-1929

MS 1416/1/168                 McMillan Training School, 1929

MS 1416/1/1/69                General Correspondence, 1930

MS 1416/1/1/70                Canal Boats Bill, 1930

MS 1416/1/1/71                Nursery Schools; General

MS 1416/1/1/72-74           Nursery Schools, 1925-1927

REEL 22

Child Welfare

MS 1416/1/1/75                Nursery Schools, 1928

MS 1416/1/1/76                Nursery Schools, 1929

MS 1416/1/1/77                Nursery Schools, 1930

MS 1416/1/1/78                Provision of Footwear, 1930

MS 1416/1/1/79                Rachel McMillan Nursery School, 1927

MS 1416/1/1/80                Rachel McMillan School and College, Deptford, 1930

Child Welfare

MS 1416/1/1/81                International Congress, Geneva

REEL 23

Child Welfare

MS 1416/1/1/963              General Correspondence, 1931 - 1933

MS 1416/1/1/964              General Information, 1933

MS 1416/1/1/965              Nursery Schools, 1931

MS 1416/1/1/966              Nursery Schools, 1932

MS 1416/1/1/967              Nursery Schools, 1933

MS 1416/1/1/968              Rachel McMillan Centre, 1931-1933

MS 1416/1/1/969              The Founding Site, 1932

MS 1416/1/1/970              Lipton Trustees, 1931

MS 1416/1/1/1161-62       General Correspondence, 1935-1936

MS 1416/1/1/1163-65       General Information, 1934-1936

REEL 24

Child Welfare

MS 1416/1/1/1166-67       The Foundling Site 1935 - 1936

MS 1416/1/1/1168-69       Nursery Schools, 1934-1935

MS 1416/1/1/1170            Nursery Schools, 1936

MS 1416/1/1/1171            Rachel McMillan Centre, 1935

MS 1416/1/1/1172-73       Margaret McMillan Home, Wrotham, 1934-1935

MS 1416/1/1/1174            The Foundling Site, 1933

MS 1416/1/1/1175            Nursery Schools. Superintendent Reports

REEL 25

Child Welfare

MS 1416/1/1/1459             General Correspondence

MS 1416/1/1/1460             General Information, 1937

MS 1416/1/1/1461             Nursery Schools, 1937

MS 1416/1/1/1462             The Foundling Site, 1933

Education

MS 1416/1/1/198               General Correspondence to December 1924

MS 1416/1/1/199               General Correspondence, January – December 1925

MS 1416/1/1/200-04          General Correspondence, 1926 - 1930

MS 1416/1/1/205               Special Schools, 1925 - 1927

MS 1416/1/1/206-07          Special Schools, 1928 - 1929

MS 1416/1/1/208               School Leaving Age to 1927

MS 1416/1/1/209-10          School Leaving Age, 1929 – 1930

REEL 26

Education

MS 1416/1/1/211               School Leaving Age, Plymouth, 1930

MS 1416/1/1/212               Non-Provided schools, 1928-1929

MS 1416/1/1/213               Teachers’ Pay to 1929

MS 1416/1/1/214               Women Teachers’ Grievances

MS 1416/1/1/215               Women Teachers to 1927

MS 1416/1/1/216-17          Women Teachers, 1929 - 1931

MS 1416/1/1/218               Women’s Colleges, 1923

MS 1416/1/1/219               Women’s Colleges, 1925

MS 1416/1/1/220               Women’s Colleges, 1926-1927

MS 1416/1/1/221               Women’s’ Colleges, 1930

MS 1416/1/1/222               Statistics to 1922

MS 1416/1/1/223               Circular 1371

MS 1416/1/1/224               Information, 1923-1924

REEL 27

Education

MS 1416/1/1/225               Information, 1925

MS 1416/1/1/226               Information and Statistics, 1926

MS 1416/1/1/227               Information and Cuttings, 1927

MS 1416/1/1/228-29          Information and Statistics, 1928-1929

MS 1416/1/1/230               Information and Statistics, 1930

MS 1416/1/1/991               General Correspondence, 1933

MS 1416/1/1/992               School Leaving Age, 1931

MS 1416/1/1/993               Teachers’ Pay, 1931-1933

MS 1416/1/1/994               General Statistics and Cuttings 1931-1933 & Circular 1421

MS 1416/1/1/1201-02        General Correspondence, 1935-1936

REEL 28

Education

MS 1416/1/1/1203            General Correspondence, November 1933-1934

MS 1416/1/1/1204            Approved Schools, 1936

MS 1416/1/1/1205-07       School Leaving Age, 1934 -1936

MS 1416/1/1/1208            School Leaving Age, Plymouth, 1936

MS 1416/1/1/1209-10       Teacher’s Pay, 1935 - 1936

MS 1416/1/1/1211            General Statistics, 1935

MS 1416/1/1/1212            Information, 1936

MS 1416/1/1/1213            Ten Year Plan

MS 1416/1/1/1214            Juvenile Unemployment

REEL 29

Education

MS 1416/1/1/1215             School Leaving Age, 1934

MS 1416/1/1/1474             General Correspondence, 1937

MS 1416/1/1/1475             Ten Year Plan, 1937

MS 1416/1/1/1612             General Information 1941

MS 1416/1/1/1613             Post War Conservative Plans

REEL 30

Family Endowment

MS 1416/1/1/250-51          General Correspondence, 1927-1928

MS 1416/1/1/252               General Correspondence, 1929

MS 1416/1/1/253               General Correspondence, 1930

MS 1416/1/1/254               General Information, 1927

MS 1416/1/1/998               General Information, 1931 – 1933

Guardianship

MS 1416/1/1/273               General Information, 1925

MS 1416/1/1/274               General Information, 1926-1927

MS 1416/1/1/275-76          Correspondence with Societies, 1922-1924

MS 1416/1/1/277               Correspondence with Societies, 1925

REEL 31

Guardianship

MS 1416/1/1/277(cont)     Correspondence with Societies, 1925

MS 1416/1/1/278              Correspondence with Societies, 1926

Headmistresses

MS 1416 /1/1/279             Headmistresses, 1925

Hong Kong Slavery

MS 1416/1/1/312              Housing, 1923

REEL 32

Infant Welfare and Maternity

MS 1416/1/1/397              General Correspondence, 1923

MS 1416/1/1/398              General Correspondence, 1924-1925

MS 1416/1/1/399              General Correspondence, 1926-1927

MS 1416/1/1/400-402       General Correspondence, 1928-1930

MS 1416/1/1/403              Washington Maternity Convention, 1923

MS 1416/1/1/1020            General Information, 1932

MS 1416/1/1/1262-63       General Correspondence, 1934-1935

MS 1416/1/1/1264            General Correspondence, 1936 & Midwives’ Bill

MS 1416/1/1/1265-66       General Information, 1935-1936

MS 1416/1/1/1490            General Correspondence & Information, 1937

REEL 33

Milk

MS 1416/1/1/498              Milk, 1923

MS 1416/1/1/499              Milk, 1924-1925

MS 1416/1/1/500-04         Milk, 1926-1930

MS 1416/1/1/1034            Milk, 1933

MS 1416/1/1/1305-07       Milk, 1934-1936

MS 1416/1/1/1308            Milk, 1934

MS 1416/1/1/1507-08       Milk, 1937

REEL 34

Playing Fields, 1925-1928

MS 1416/1/1/738-41         Playing Fields, 1925-1928

Prospective Legislation: Children’s Bills

MS 1416/1/1/738-41         Various Children’s Bills, 1901-1932 including:

• Children and Young Persons Bill 1932,
• A Bill on the Employment of Young Persons 1930,
• Employment of Children Act 1903,
• Children’s Bill 1930,
• Education Bill 1917,
• Report on the Employment of School Children 1901,
• Report on Exemption from School Attendance 1909 and Report on the Employment of Children 1903

MS 1416/1/1/1699             Protection of Children Bill: Correspondence, Case Reports

                                           & Conference Reports

MS 1416/1/1/1700             Children’s Bill 1932; Speech Material and Notes

REEL 35

Prospective Legislation: Children’s Bills

MS 1416/1/1/1701            Children’s Bill 1932: Government & other Reports

MS 1416/1/1/1702            Children’s Bill 1932: Correspondence concerning the Wage

                                       Earning Children Clause

MS 1416/1/1/1703            Children’s Bill: Wage Earning Children

MS 1416/1/1/1704            Children’s Bill: Summary; New Clause

MS 1416/1/1/1705            Children’s Bill: MP Support & Cabinet Letters

MS 1416/1/1/1706            Children’s Bill: Parliamentary Procedure Points

MS 1416/1/1/1707            Children’s Bill: Attitude of County Councils

MS 1416/1/1/1708            Children’s Bill: Organisations Supporting the Wage Earning Amendment

MS 1416/1/1/1709            Children’s Bill: Correspondence concerning miscellaneous Clauses

REEL 36

Prospective Legislation; Children’s Bills

MS 1416/1/1/1710            Children’s Bill: Resolutions from Societies concerning Miscellaneous Clauses;

                                       Reports and Official Documents concerning the International Attitude

Juveniles, Cruelty

MS 1416/1/1/1025             Juveniles, Cruelty, 1933

Juveniles

MS 1416/1/1/1026             Juveniles, General

MS 1416/1/1/1288-90        Juveniles, 1934-1936

MS 1416/1/1/1500             Juveniles, 1937

MS 1416/1/1/1623             Juvenile Delinquency, 1943

REEL 37

Juveniles

MS 1416/1/1/1623             Juvenile Delinquency, 1943 (cont)

Slavery

MS 1416/1/1/1087-89        Slavery, 1931-1933

MS 1416/1/1/1400             Slavery, 1935

Children in Institutions

MS 1416/1/1/1584             Children in Institutions: Times Correspondence, 1944

Nursery Schools

MS 1416/1/1/1807             Aberdeen, 1935-1937

MS 1416/1/1/1808             America, 1937-1939

MS 1416/1/1/1809             Letters of Appreciation, 1934

MS 1416/1/1/1810             Ashford Residential School, 1940

REEL 38

Nursery Schools

MS 1416/1/1/1811             Balham, 1934-1939

MS 1416/1/1/1812             Battersea, 1931

MS 1416/1/1/1813             Bebington, 1935-1936

MS 1416/1/1/1814             Belfast, 1936-1939

MS 1416/1/1/1815             Blaydon, 1936

MS 1416/1/1/1816             Bradford, 1931-1941

MS 1416/1/1/1817             Branspeth, 1936

MS 1416/1/1/1818             Brighton, 1932-1939

MS 1416/1/1/1819             Brynmawr, 1934-1935

REEL 39

Nursery Schools

MS 1416/1/1/1820             Byker (Newcastle upon Tyne), 1935-1939

MS 1416/1/1/1821             Cardiff, 1933-1938

MS 1416/1/1/1822             Chester, 1934-1937

MS 1416/1/1/1823             Cookham, 1940

MS 1416/1/1/1824             Coulsdon, 1931-1933

MS 1416/1/1/1825             Croydon, 1932-1938

MS 1417/1/1/1826             Commitments, Gifts etc, 1926-1939 (provides lists giving

                                        Overview of Nancy Astor’s involvement and activities)

MS 1416/1/1/1827             Darlington, 1933-1938

MS 1416/1/1/1828             Deptford, 1936-1939

MS 1416/1/1/1829             Derby, 1938-1939

MS 1416/1/1/1830             Deritend, 1938-1939

MS 1416/1/1/1831             Dropmoor, 1939

MS 1416/1/1/1832             Dudley, 1937-1938

MS 1416/1/1/1833             Dundee, 1933

MS 1416/1/1/1834             Emergency Open Air Nurseries, 1933-1934

MS 1416/1/1/1835             Falkirk, 1936

MS 1416/1/1/1836             Fulham

MS 1416/1/1/1837             Gainsborough, 1923

MS 1416/1/1/1838             Gateshead, 1931-1936

REEL 40

Nursery Schools

MS 1416/1/1/1839             Hadfield, 1937-1939

MS 1416/1/1/1840             Harrow, 1937

MS 1416/1/1/1841             Haydon Bridge Holiday Home, 1938

MS 1416/1/1/1842             Hebburn

MS 1416/1/1/1843             Hoxton, 1937-1938

MS 1416/1/1/1844             Information, General

MS 1416/1/1/1845             Jarrow, 1934-1940

MS 1416/1/1/1846             Kensal House, 1940

MS 1416/1/1/1847             North Kensington, 1932-1933

MS 1416/1/1/1848             Kentish Town, 1935

MS 1416/1/1/1849             Kettering 1933-1940

MS 1416/1/1/1850             Kidsgrove, 1936-1940

MS 1416/1/1/1851             Lantern Slides, 1932

REEL 41

Nursery Schools

MS 1416/1/1/1852             Leeds, 1934-1939

MS 1416/1/1/1853             Lincoln, 1931-1933

MS 1416/1/1/1854             Liverpool, 1936

MS 1416/1/1/1855             Margaret McMillan School, 1931

MS 1416/1/1/1856             Maryport, 1932-1933

MS 1416/1/1/1857             Merthyr Tydfil, 1933-1937

MS 1416/1/1/1858             Middlesborough, 1934-1935

MS 1416/1/1/1859             Miscellaneous, 1933-1938

MS 1416/1/1/1860             North Islington, 1932-1934

MS 1416/1/1/1861             North Shields, 1934, 1935-1938

MS 1416/1/1/1862             Tours in the North of England, 1938-1940

MS 1416/1/1/1863             Tours in South Wales, October 1938

REEL 42

Nursery Schools

MS 1416/1/1/1864             Peckham, 1935-1937

MS 1416/1/1/1865             Plans for Nursery Schools, 1932

MS 1416/1/1/1866             Plymouth, 1932-1934

MS 1416/1/1/1867             Plymouth, 1935

MS 1416/1/1/1868             Plymouth, 1936

MS 1416/1/1/1869             Plymouth, 1937-1938

MS 1416/1/1/1870             Plymouth, 1939

MS 1416/1/1/1871             Portsmouth, 1937

MS 1416/1/1/1872             Rachel McMillan Training College, 1939

MS 1416/1/1/1873             Ratcliffe, 1936-1937

MS 1416/1/1/1874             Rhondda Appeal, 1932

MS 1416/1/1/1875             Stonehouse, 1936-1937    

MS 1416/1/1/1876             Stonehouse, 1937

REEL 43

Nursery Schools

MS 1416/1/1/1877             Stonehouse, 1938

MS 1416/1/1/1878             War Time Nursery Schools, 1939-1945, Speeches &

                                        Information, 1939-1945, with supplementary file on the

                                        History of the Beginning of Nursery Schools

Reel 44

Nursery Schools

MS 1416/1/1/1879             Nursery Schools, General & Nursery Centres, 1940

MS 1416/1/1/1880             Nursery Schools, General & Nursery Centres, 1941-1942

MS 1416/1/1/1881             Nursery Schools, 1952-1954

MS 1416/1/1/1882             Nursery Schools, 1955-1957

MS 1416/1/1/1883             Nursery Schools, 1958-1964

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