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00021 - Jack Simmons collection
1 - Administrative Papers
1 - Development
2 - Diploma in Social Studies: course planning; lists of students
3 - Library: accounts; departmental grants; staffing (including note of Larkin’s duties); Library Regulations 1949, 1952
4 - Proposed Layout of University Buildings
5 - Museum Studies: proposals for diploma; correspondence; minutes and papers of the Board of Museum Studies
6 - Archaeology: appointments, accommodation; grants; courses
7 - B.Ed Degree: proposals
8 - Pro Vice Chancellor: Simmons’s correspondence as Acting and Pro Vice Chancellor. Includes notes for farewell speech for Charles Wilson; printed programme for the civic visit from Strasbourg 2-5 April 1962, and civic dinner 2 April
9 - University Archives: appointment of Simmons as Honorary Archivist; replies on archive provision by other universities; storage accommodation and equipment; classification.
10 - University History: miscellaneous papers relating to early professorial appointments, development of university etc
11 - Miscellaneous Papers: includes miscellaneous correspondence 1956; photographic facilities 1961; proposals for Faculty of Medicine 1964; naming of Chairs 1964; Boards 1965; notes for retirement speech for Prof Tibbie 1966; building fabric Fielding Johnson Building 1974 etc.
12 - Registers
13 - Classical County Histories
1 - General correspondence about the project to reprint a number of county histories in facsimile with modern introductions. Jack Simmons was general editor of the series. Includes photograph of launch of Hasted’s Kent.
2 - Correspondence with EP Publishers and volume editors for Shaw’s History of Staffordshire
3 - Galley proof for Simmons’s introduction for Nichols’s History of the County of Leicester (published 1971 by S.R.Publishers)
4 - General order leaflets for the Classical County Histories series and pre-publication leaflets for individual Histories. These include sample illustrations and text: Leics (Nichols), Notts (Thoroton), Durham (Surtees), Herts (Cussans), Dorset (Hutchins), Cornwall (Polsue), Cumberland (Hutchinson), Gloucestershire (Atkyns), South Yorkshire (Hunter), Isle of Wight (Worsley), Wiltshire (Hoare), Stafforsdhire (Shaw).
5 - Printed Introductions to: Herts; Wright’s Rutland (including History of Rutland County Council by Simmons); S Yorks; Cumberland; Durham; Manning’s Surrey
2 - Leicester Local Broadcasting Council BBC Radio
3 - Research Papers
4 - Photographs and Albums
5 - Miscellaneous Material
6 - Published Works of Jack Simmons
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