Hugh
Many thanks. There are Adult Education files at Caversham which I looked at a couple of years ago in connection with Trenaman. Christoph may wish to consult them. The name of Jean Rowntree looms large there in the post-war period. Briggs refers to Adult Education as a Cinderella service at the BBC that regularly comes into favour and goes out during BBC history. Before and immediately after the war it was in a parlous state, but I get the impression that educational ventures with the Forces Service (in particular Forces Educational Broadcasting) had led people to believe that Adult Education could be revitalised in peace time. From what I saw at the archive, Joan Rowntree was largely responsible for revitalising Adult Education around 1948/9. I'm pretty sure she brought Trenaman into her department.
Joan Rowntree was a member of the famous Rowntree Quaker family of social researchers and activists. I would think there must be a Rowntree archive somewhere.
Regards
Allan
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Subject: [BBC-HISTORY] BBC staff questions from Germany
Christoph Hilgert, a German scholar completing his PhD thesis has asked me these questions. Can anyone help?
- Joseph Trenaman, who after 1945 worked for a while as Further Education Liasion Officer at BBC's Further Education Programmes and its "Younger Generation Programmes"; he left the BBC 1959.
Can you find out the year of his birth? And is there a chance to get to know, what time he exactly joined the BBC and what positions he assumed there afterwards?
- Robert (Bob) Gunnell (1926/1927?-2014), who was producer/editor in BBC's Talks Department and also was busy with the Younger Generation Programmes after 1945; Do you know his exact birth year (1926/1927)? And is there a chance to get to know, what time he exactly joined the BBC and what positions he assumed there afterwards
- Is there any good biographical note about Jean (Wilhelma) Rowntree (1905-2003), besides the Guardian's and Telegraph's respective obituary? Relevant for my study are the late 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s; I know that since the 1930s she had been working in different editorial functions for the Educational Programmes, assumed leading positions there, and in the late 1950s finally became the Head of Further Education.
Thanks, Hugh
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