| Description | Documents re award of OBE, including correspondence and photos 1932, plus actual OBE.
Correspondence:
Two letters from JG Milne, British classical archaeologist, numismatist, and historian, concerning ‘articles of antiquity’.
Two letters (one original, one photocopy – first page only) sent by Miss Mercier to a student, Maud Eason, after her diagnosis and isolation with diphtheria, with accompanying, explanatory letter from the student (now Maud Smith). She donated these letters to the college in 1991 [Accesssion 1235].
Photos:
Including various formal and informal images of Miss Mercier; photos with staff members; images of portrait; photos of Miss Mercier with Miss Luard, Henry Acland, Edward Lyttleton.
Publications:
Time and Tide article on Miss Mercier ‘Personalities and Powers’, 1925
Reprint from The Forum of Education, Feb 1928 ‘The Training College Curriculum
Article by Miss Mercier in Child Education, February 1931 ‘The all-important early years’
Reprint of ‘The Training College Curriculum’ by Miss Mercier, from The Forum of Education 1928.
College generic publications:
Including building and chapel fund appeals; ‘A Student’s Reading Guide to the Books of the Old Testament’.
Reference:
Copies of obituaries
Mss tribute and tribute in The Teachers World 1934
Memorial service sheets
Winifred Mercier Memorial Lecture papers
BSc dissertation by Catherine Mellos, 1986 ‘The Life of Winifred Mercier’ [endorsed ‘from the Malcolm Cole Archive, accession 1790);
Photos of Hilda Haig Brown
Carnegie Faculty of Sport and Education, Leeds Metropolitan University 2007 conference leaflet ‘Winifred Mercier & first-wave feminist contributions to teacher education – their legacy’
Yorkshire Evening Post article 8/3/2007 ‘Feminist issues under spotlight’ discussing the conference and other events to mark International Women’s Day.
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