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CONTENTS of Newsletter 3: December 1998
Front Page
Construction to begin in February 1999 Oh no it's not! See: UPDATES!
One Year On
October 1999 Opening?
News
Imminent Relief But, see UPDATES!
Our Web-Site
New Archive and Study Centre Fellow
New Growth at the Trust
Site Plans
New archive extension
New accommodation building
Site plan
Additions to the Collections
1. Archives
2. Oral History
3. Library
This third annual Archive and Study Centre Newsletter appears almost two years after the second annual Newsletter; which came out in January 1997, about a year and a half after the first annual Newsletter in 1996.
We missed the due-date for the second annual Newsletter in part because we are a small facility, and the birth of a son can have dramatic knock-on effects. We missed the due-date for this third annual Newsletter in part because of a different birthing process. Since the beginning of the year we have been continuously on the verge of being able to announce the start of construction on our new archive, study and conference facilities. It might just have begun at the end of January. It could very well have begun in February. At one point we thought June was a certainty.
Work has now been set to begin in February 1999, and all of the pieces really do seem to be in place this time. Once begun we are told it will take six to seven months to complete.
We have put the various delays this year to good use. We have radically altered the designs for the new archive storage extension, for example. Originally a simple strong-room, with the usual environmental and security controls, we have now doubled its size, and included both a dedicated film and magnetic media store, and a much needed extension to our "quarantine" store for newly arrived materials.
After a great deal of work, especially by the architect and the Chairman of the Trust, these changes were finally approved by the local planning authority in November. Hence, along with Christmas, the timing of this Newsletter.
Once it begins, construction will be going on all over the place. Apart from the additions to the archive facility (which includes a new dark room), there will be a new twelve-room accommodation block just beyond the swimming pool, a new dining room and expanded kitchen, a series of new seminar/meeting rooms, outbuildings and roads. The Trust offices and existing bedrooms will also be refurbished, along with the beautiful Common Room.
There will be a stone sculpture by local sculptor Tom Lal near the entrance, but the final approval for the site is so recent that the overall question of landscaping is still up in the air. Tentative plans are to formally open the new facilities in October 1999.
The beginning of 1997 was shadowed by the loss of Jenny Blackmore, our extremely energetic, talented, and committed part-time assistant archivist, who decided to go to Africa, and ultimately to become a teacher specialising in special educational needs. With the demands of the new construction looming, as well as the Trust's other commitments, it was not felt financially possible to replace her then (even if she could have been replaced), although it did make it possible to extend for a time the hours available for our specialist curator for democratic/ alternative/ progressive education, Albert Lamb.
Over the past twenty months or so we have therefore been working flat out as a much reduced staff - a full time archivist and a part-time archive assistant, Maureen Ward, with Albert Lamb giving far more of his time than one could hope for - to try to achieve all that needs to be done in a very active facility which is also trying to meet the very highest possible standards for the people and the materials we serve. The feedback we get - for example from visiting archivists - indicates that in some areas at least we are being successful.
But there are consequences, one of which has been a profusion of apologies. There can have been very few people involved in some way with the Centre to whom we have not had to apologise at some point, for some form of delay. The patience and kindness we have been shown has been remarkable, and we are extremely grateful for it.
However, the Trust has recognised for some time that this is not a satisfactory situation and in its new business plan has allocated funds for the appointment in the first quarter of 1999 of a full time, qualified assistant archivist. This will be the first additional full-time appointment in the Centre, and we are excited!
This full time help should mean that we can at last pick up several important projects that have been in abeyance or simply not begun.
At the time of the last Newsletter the web-site was more or less just a gleam in the archivist's eye. It is now fully up and active, and has had over 1600 visitors since the beginning of July.
A recent paper in The American Archivist suggests that small specialist repositories like this one "will surely follow the town band into oblivion" if they are not able to make full use of the Web [Elizabeth H. Dow, "EAD and the Small Repository", The American Archivist, 60:4 (1997), 446-455] - and given the way that researchers and other users increasingly turn to the Internet as their primary source for information that may be true.
One of the exciting stars on the archives horizon is something called Encoded Archival Description, or EAD, a mark-up language through which archives will increasingly be able to put their catalogues onto the Internet in a standard, browser-readable and searchable form. With the help of the new assistant archivist we hope to be able to develop our own use of EAD over the next two years, although visitors to the site will already have discovered that we have the catalogues for several collections - the David Wills Collection, the Jonathan Croall/A.S.Neill Collection, and the Q-Camps/Hawkspur Camps Archives - available in HTML.
One limit is that so much of the material we hold, and elements of the catalogues themselves, are confidential or restricted. This means that a significant proportion of the material we hold won't be available to students or researchers in the first place. But even a great deal of material which a bona fide researcher could perhaps study here could never be placed on the Internet. Taking that on board, however, we have an active programme of placing photographs, oral history transcripts and other documents on the web-site, accessible through http://www.pettarchiv.org.uk/faindex.htm. Among other things we are currently translating the massive Q-Camps correspondence onto the web-site. These are mainly letters from Marjorie Franklin to David Wills containing a wealth of clinical and practical details, and insights into the personal, social and professional milieu of an active British mental health professional in the late 1930s. They are voluminous: Seven of the nineteen files are now on the site, and we are still only in 1936!
Early in the New Year we will begin to put up the diary that David Wills kept of his life as a student in the School of Social Work in New York City in 1929-1930. This is an excitingly detailed social document, written for the benefit of his mentor/friend Stuart Payne and his fiancee Ruth in England, and is fascinating.
The web-site also has PAiDEiA, a distinct sub-site for our Progressive/ Alternative/ Democratic Education Collections (at /paideia.htm). It also has a series of popular link pages (at /linkpage.htm).
We are currently also hosting and maintaining the web-sites of theAssociation of Therapeutic Communities, the Cassel Hospital, and the Society of Archivists Film and Sound Group.
The Planned Environment Therapy Trust has awarded £2,000 to Professor Lawrence Friedman of Indiana University to support his research into the "connections between psychological/clinical theory on the one hand and social/emotional life on the other in wartime and immediate postwar Britain". According to Prof. Friedman, "the group-therapeutic community framework is central to what I see as a "revolutionary" theoretical perspective that emerged in rather developed form from the war..."
He has been in touch with the previous Archive Fellow, Dr. Lesley Caldwell, whose grant from the Trust enabled her to take a sabbatical and to dive into the Cassel Hospital archives, which Dr. Friedman also wishes to consult. His research should take him to all parts of Britain, and will involve oral history as well conventional archive research here and in the archives, for example, of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and the Tavistock Institute.
As an Archive Fellow Prof. Friedman, author of a recent major study of the Menningers and their Clinic, and of a biography of Erik Erikson currently in press, will also be able to contribute to the ongoing life and work of the Trust, and it is anticipated that we will be able to host an appropriate seminar or lecture at the Centre during the course of his fellowship year.
The past two years have seen considerable development in the Trust itself, as the Archive and Study Centre have continued to grow, and as the Trust, under the Chairmanship of John Cross, has prepared itself to take on the major responsibility of a new conference centre, with expanded residential as well as day facilities. We have recently hosted a day conference with the Association of Therapeutic Communities, and been used as a staging post in a team-building exercise for his community psychiatric team by Birmingham psychiatrist Dr. Tom Harrison. By October of next year, however, the expanded facilities will have come on-line, and the Trust's daily work in this area will have increased significantly. The Trust feels it is important to find ways to make the facilities available to the local community, and it also intends to maintain its other grant-giving activities (and, if possible, to expand them as well).
The Management Committee of Trustees formed originally to manage the development of the Archive and Study Centre has therefore become a Management Committee for the site and its projects as a whole. A fortunate appeal last year to REACH - a charitable organisation which matches retired executives to charities seeking their expertise - resulted in retired Magnox Electric Financial Director Stephen Ogle joining the Trust as Business Advisor. His energy and enthusiasm have significantly helped to develop the business plan through which the Trust's development over the next five years will be guided (and in which funds for an assistant archivist were found), as well as helping to redesign the Trust's accounts and accounting procedures to meet the challenges ahead.
It has been a busy and a fortunate year.
The new addition on right, seen from Church Lane side of the
existing archive and study facility.
View from existing pool and new residential building. Archive
extension on left, new dining room on right.
View looking towards the entrance to the Centre. The left
half is archive extension.
New accommodation building as seen from the Archive and Study
Centre
From the side...
... and From the Field
Architect: Amanda Taylor
Batterton Tyack Architects, Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire
The Planned Environment Therapy Trust has created a tool in the Archive and Study Centre to serve the work and those who do it, but it is largely through the generosity of others that it has grown and thrived as it has. The belief in the past, and the even stronger belief in the future implicit when the record of a work or of a life is given to an archive must translate itself into the people who come to use it, and then into Society as a whole. Needless to say, we are grateful to everyone who has helped the collections grow.
The Archive and Study Centre is made up of three co-equal core elements. The most equal of these are the archives proper - the manuscripts, reports, documents, correspondence, photographs, films, videos and other forms of concrete social and personal memory which are fundamental to the history and understanding of people, places, and organisations generally.
In this field, where so much has been lost and where so much of the work has not been documented in the first place, any records that remain are precious. Extensive archives, where they exist, are obviously invaluable, and more so to the extent that they remain whole and intact. But in the context of so much loss even the smallest and most ephemeral of items can become extremely important. A poster or a child's drawing can tell us as much, at times, as a complete file, especially where that file no longer exists. A single letter may be all that verifies that a certain piece of work took place. A photograph album can open up a whole world of enquiry.
No matter what its extent, all of this material needs to be taken care of to the highest possible standards - listed and catalogued, so we know what is there; placed into appropriate archival sleeves, folders, and boxes and stored in secure and environmentally-controlled conditions, so that they will survive as long as possible; and then made available, if not confidential, with care. Whatever else we have to do, this is the primary task of the Archive and Study Centre.
During the course of the past two years the Archive has taken in over 90 collections, large and small.
We are proud to have become the home for the archives of the Highdene Association, the Messenger House Trust, and Hengrove School near Tring (from which we were given, by Alexander Gobell, her desk which Margaret Lowenfeld had given to him many years ago, and which now has a prominent position in the User's Room). We are holding the archives of Wennington School, and more recently have welcomed the papers of its founding head, Kenneth Barnes. LibEd has agreed to deposit its archives here, and elements of Dr. Josephine Lomax-Simpson's personal archives have continued to come in.
Maurice Bridgeland gave us a draft typescript of his monumental work, Pioneer Work With Maladjusted Children. David Gribble, formerly of Dartington Hall and co-founder of the Sands Small School - whose book Real Education was published this year by LibEd - gave us a box of correspondence, tapes, photographs and other materials relating to small and democratic schools used in writing the book. Dr. Breda O'Sullivan gave a box of materials related to her doctoral research on therapeutic communities, and to the Maxwell Jones memorial gathering held at Heronbrook House Therapeutic Community in 1990. John Hopton gave us transcripts for his oral history of Prestwich Hospital, 1922-1975.
Dr. Malcolm Pines gave us a file of material on the Association of Therapeutic Communities. Helen Frye gave a file which included a cyclostyled course prospectus for "The Withymead Centre. Summer course to be held on...1958", and Mary Jannaway gave a box of materials largely related to the Reading University Therapeutic Child Care course. John Whitwell of the Cotswold Community gave a copy of the paper he read at the conference in celebration of Isabel Menzies Lyth's 80th birthday, as well as a programme of the event. Rex Haigh ensured that we had a set of the 1998 Windsor Conference papers, and Claudia Remmert sent copies of articles and correspondence on A.S. Neill and Summerhill which had appeared in German newspapers.
Mike Nellis gave copies of a letter and questionnaire response relating to his research on "Six Quakers Look at Crime and Punishment". Ted Barron gave two postcards with photographs of the office building at Hawkspur Camp. Paul Harring gave a copy of "The Gables Hostel - Practice Handbook", and Robert Laslett gave fifteen pamphlets and books, including "Q-Camps for Boys" (1944), and the Q-Camps First Annual Report (1936-1937), which become archival in part because many of them contain his personal annotations.
Further non-clinical materials relating to Peper Harow therapeutic community have come in; and material from former members of the team, children, and friends of New Barns School. The archives of Chaigeley School - written about by Howard Jones in Reluctant Rebels - were temporarily here as an emergency storage measure with imminent construction at Chaigeley, and we were subsequently given a video of the school by its Director, Andy Grey.
We have also been lent irreplaceable material for copying. Ruby Mungovan lent a folder of material relating to Fulbourn Hospital, including newspaper cuttings and photographs, and David Clark lent copies of two films with which he was involved, "The Journey Back" and "Hei Jo Shin". Janet Grieves' daughter Lys Rolls lent material relating primarily to her mother and to Naemoor School, including a small scrapbook of newspaper cuttings, photographs, and correspondence. Ruth Barling gave two sheets of hand-written notes concerning her sister Elizabeth Wills, and Howard Jones gave a set of photographs relating to Bodenham, Barns and Chaigeley Manor Schools for copying.
We also had an anonymous donation of four gramophone disks of D.W. Winnicott giving his B.B.C. lectures on "The Child and the Family".
Oral history has formed one of the Archive and Study Centre's core elements since the Centre's founding in 1989. It arose out of necessity. This field is characterised by an intensity and way of working in which the creation of records is not always possible, nor is always a priority; by a massive loss of records; and by the fact that so much that is essential to the work itself simply can't be written down. Oral history helps with the silence.
There is another dimension, however. Oral history gathers and conveys a tremendous amount, often quite subtle and often quietly profound. You can not do it or use it without growing. We continue in part because of the immense amount it gives us, and which we feel it will and does give to others.
We attempt to do as much oral history as we can from within the Archive itself, but we are also anxious to encourage and support as fully as we can the work of others. With this in mind, over the past two years we have bought several additional sets of high-quality tape recorders and microphones, and it is pleasing to say that most of the time these are all out on loan, some coming and going and some out more or less permanently.
We have lent equipment to, or transcribed, or provided support in other ways to a number of people, whose work has generously added forty four tape recordings to the collections. David Glenister recorded David Clark with particular reference to therapeutic community and nursing history; Sheila Gatiss is researching Glebe House; Gillian Connan was researching New Barns; Lucy Jaff? compiled a series of interviews for the 50th anniversary of Forest School Camps; Malcolm Pines borrowed a Sony Walkman Professional to record a discussion with Richard Crocket and David Millard; John Hopton recorded an interview with David Clark and another with Michael Conran, and is conducting a further series of interviews with nurses who had been involved with therapeutic community wards at Prestwich Hospital; and Tom Harrison continues his research around Northfield Hospital, recording another former patient, and John Rickman's daughter.
We have also been given thirty-four tapes which arose independently of any kind of Archive involvement. John Hopton, for example, gave us a set of the twenty-two audiocassettes he made while carrying out his earlier oral history work on Prestwich Hospital. Breda O'Sullivan gave us a copy of the recording made of the 1990 memorial gathering at Heronbrook House for Maxwell Jones. David Gribble has given the set of ten recordings he made as part of his research for Real Education: Varieties of Freedom (LibEd, 1998). And John Potter gave a copy of an interview he did with his son Akira concerning Kinokuni School in Japan.
We have also been busy in the Archive. The archivist, Craig Fees, who recently became the Gloucestershire representative for the Oral History Society Regional Network, carried out thirty-one interviews, for a total of fifty tapes. The specialist curator, Albert Lamb, conducted three interviews for a total of five tapes.
Craig and Albert both supported Lucy Jaffe's research on Forest School Camps, interviewing six people (and parts of the 50th anniversary celebrations on audio and video tape), with some memories reaching back to the original Forest School itself.
Craig continued the project on Josephine Lomax-Simpson and the Messenger House Trust of which she was the founder, interviewing six of the former residents as well as Audrey Beaton and Dr. Lomax-Simpson. Through Dr. Lomax-Simpson he also interviewed Paul and Pauline Harring of the Gables Hostel, and Lys Rolls, the daughter of Janet and John Grieve, who discussed her parents as well as the pioneering Naemoor School and Lendrick Muir School in Scotland.
Craig interviewed Sheila Gatiss, as well as Margaret Meade and David Clark, about Glebe House Therapeutic Community. He also recorded a wide-ranging weekend session between David Clark and David Kennard, and spent another weekend discussing his life and career with Dr. Clark, who established the therapeutic community era at Fulbourn. He interviewed Ruby Mungovan about her life and work at Fulbourn, and recorded a further interview between Mrs. Mungovan and David Glenister. He interviewed Dr. Isobel Hunter Brown, who was a psychiatrist at the Henderson Hospital in the critical period 1957-1960. More recently he has conducted a series of interviews with Dr. Richard Crocket, who oversaw the development of the therapeutic community programme at the Ingrebourne Centre in Hornchurch.
Craig interviewed Pauline Weinstein, who had been a member of David Wills' staff at Bodenham Manor. So too had Howard and Bess Jones, who also discussed Barns Hostel School and Chaigeley School, and matters such as the creation of the Leicester Conferences in which Dr. Jones had been involved. Ruth Barling recorded an interview about David, but more especially about Elizabeth Wills, her sister, who had been an art therapist at Withymead. Craig also spent a winter day video-taping Chris Beedell and Ted Barron, who had both worked with Arthur Barron at Hawkspur Camp for Boys (though at different times), as they walked the old Hawkspur site and talked about the experiences.
He also took the opportunity of their visits to the Archive to record both John Potter and Keith Burnett, practitioner/researchers who were able to take advantage of the Centre's over-night accommodation.
Albert Lamb recorded an interview with Mary Leue on her life and work, including the Free School of Albany, New York. He also made the last recorded interview with the late John Aitkenhead of Kilquhanity School, and with his wife Morag.
The Centre recorded a number of conferences, seminars and lectures, including "Attachment and Loss", at the Arbours Association; "Last Chance? First Opportunity", a joint Charterhouse Group/Lancaster University Conference, held at the Institute of Education; the 1997 David Wills Lecture by Robert Laslett, and the 1998 David Wills Lecture, by Paul Greenhalgh; Chris Beedell addressing a Policy Studies Association seminar on "Therapeutic residential care for children and young people"; "Mother Baby Work 1948-1998. Tribute to Tom Main" at the Cassel Hospital; "Raising the Roof", an ATC day conference held at the Centre; and the 1997 Education Now Conference in Nottingham. We feel these are part of the ongoing work and history of the field, and where possible need to be recorded.
The third of the core elements in the Archive and Study Centre's structure is, of course, the Research Library. Our aim here is to create as diverse and comprehensive a collection as possible in the two main focal areas of the Archive and Study Centre's work - therapeutic community and progressive/democratic education - and to support these as fully as possible in the related areas of psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and group therapy; childhood, family and education; youth work and social services; criminology and delinquency; and so on. Although there is still a great deal to do, the impression we get from visitors and researchers is that it really has become an exciting resource, and a sufficient reason in itself to visit the Centre. Indeed, research student Keith Burnett recently spent two days with it. There are about four thousand volumes in the collection at present.
A great deal of the depth and richness of the Library is due to the generosity of people like Roy Prideaux, a retired Further Education H.M.I., who has given us over a hundred books from his personal library, or the continuing generosity of Josephine Lomax-Simpson, who has given us several hundred books, pamphlets, journals and papers. Alexander Gobell has given us his professional library, much of it gathered while a senior lecturer in Education at the University of Cardiff before taking responsibility for Hengrove School; we are still processing it, but it contains well over a thousand volumes.
Trustee Caroline Whitehead gave us her copy of Broken Canes, a novel about a British progressive school just before the last war by Peter Vansittart; and Mike Nellis of Birmingham University has given us a copy of David Wills' hard-to-find Commonsense About Young Offenders and Lawrence Friedman's Menninger - the Family and the Clinic, the latter being our introduction to the work of Prof. Friedman, who has recently become an Archive Fellow. David Clark gave us the family-oriented book he helped to produce, A Memoir of Our Mother: Beatrice Powell Clark, which has already been cited in a journal article. John and Midori Potter have given us two books about Kinokuni School in Japan, in Japanese, which almost certainly would not otherwise have found their way onto our shelves, and one of which we have already been able to make available to a visiting Japanese teacher.
It is particularly exciting when a gift to the Library almost immediately gives us the tools to help someone else. The copies of New Era given to us by Jeremy Harvey, though not a complete set, have helped us to tackle a number of queries over the past year. A set of articles and other materials from Dr. Harry Wilmer of the Institute for the Humanities in Salado, Texas, made it possible to respond quickly to a query from a television production company putting together a documentary on military psychiatry in the 20th century. A set of the Association of Therapeutic Communities' 1998 Windsor Conference papers given by Rex Haigh immediately came in handy both in answering several queries and in the archivist's role as a member of the editorial group of the journal Therapeutic Communities. The set of Asylum Magazines (1992-1995) given by John Hopton already has been used for research.
Their editor, David Gribble, gave us seven editions of the Hadera (Democratic Schools) Conference journals, 1993-1996. Bob Hinshelwood has given us a further set of papers from past Windsor Conferences. Howard Jones has given us a set of his papers. And Isobel Hunter-Brown gave a cyclostyled typescript of a paper she gave to the National Association of Probation Officers in 1960, based on her Henderson Hospital experience, entitled "The Individual and the Group: The Anti-Social Person and the Therapeutic Community". The potential for students and researchers in this kind of material grows tremendously.
The Library also contains audio-visual material. Much of it is equally if not more difficult to find than the print materials above, certainly gathered together and in a facility which is available to the public. And again it is the thoughtfulness and generosity of others which helps to make it as strong as it is. David Gribble has given three pre-recorded audiocassettes featuring talks by Daniel Greenberg of Sudbury Valley School in the United States, recorded in 1991. He has also given four pre-recorded audiocassettes produced by Sarah McCrum, one entitled "Looking for Peace" produced in 1994, and others concerning The Global Children's Hearing in Rio, 1992. Josephine Lomax-Simpson has given a series of four pre-recorded audiocassettes of Bowlby Lectures, and three pre-recorded audiocassettes published in 1972 featuring S.H. Foulkes talking about "Group Analytic Psychotherapy". Sally Lindsay of Blakeway Productions ensured that we received video copies of their Channel 4 television series on military psychiatry entitled "Shell Shock", broadcast earlier this year. And Rich Rollinson kindly made sure that we got a copy of the video "Making the Difference: The Work of the Mulberry Bush", also produced this year.
| TEMPORARY CLOSURE We don't yet know when , but at different stages between February and September 1999 the new construction is going to require us to close the Centre for (hopefully) brief periods of time. We may not get a great deal of notice, and will keep our latest information posted on the web-site. We obviously apologise, but hope that people will bear with us. |
BOOKS FOR SALE Maurice Bridgeland, PIONEER WORK WITH MALADJUSTED CHILDREN; David Clark, THE STORY OF A MENTAL HOSPITAL: Fulbourn 1858-1983; David Wills, THE HAWKSPUR EXPERIMENT .... And more. See the full list on the web-site, at /bookstall.htm, or get in touch with us here. |
| HOUSE OF COMMONS Trustees, including Chairman John Cross, were invited to the Members' Dining Room of the House of Commons on December 10 to help launch the Voice for the Child in Care's new book, SHOUT TO BE HEARD: Stories from Young People in Care, published with support from the P.E.T.T. |
VOLUNTEERS Our work over the past year has been helped considerably by volunteer help in the Archive, particularly from trustees Robert Laslett and Helen Frye, to whom we owe a great vote of thanks. NEXT NEWSLETTER April? We hope to go quarterly. |
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The Planned Environment Therapy Trust was founded by Dr. Marjorie Franklin in 1966. The Archive and Study Centre was created in 1989 after trustee Robert Laslett could not find an archive interested in taking the papers of David Wills, a major pioneering figure in residential therapeutic work with children and young people. The Trust took the decision to establish a specialist repository itself, dedicated to the practice and practitioners of planned environment therapy/therapeutic community, and supported with substantial library and study facilities, educational programmes, and research grants and bursaries.
March 1999: Construction due to begin in February has still not begun, and there is again no firm date for starting. Negotiations are proceeding with the developers, Crosby Homes.
Knock-on effects: The costs of the on-going delay, and the uncertainty involved in not knowing when we are going tobe able to start moving into and using the new archive work and storage facilities, has delayed the hiring of an assistant archivist; and, indeed, has raised the question of whether, in the first instance, we will be able to make a full-time appointment. We may have to aim for a part-time appointment, at least for the short term.
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