I am placing this request for Hilary Williams, Archivist to the Dartington
Hall Trust, and therefore Dartington School. She is not on e-mail, but if
you reply to me I will send replies over to her. Alternatively you can
write to her at High Cross House, Dartington, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6ED. Thanks
for your assistance.
"A substantial part of the Dartington Hall Trust Archive is composed of
school students' records. We do allow people to read their own records, but
I would like to know whether we are obliged to do that? Similarly no-one is
allowed access to anybody else's records unless the matter has been
discussed and written confirmation has been received. Does that seem right?
Recently two ex-pupils have written for me to copy their records and send
them to London, and I don't really want to do that. Am I obliged to? I
certainly don't want to open a floodgate! I have also been asked by one
pupil if he can withdraw his record - what about that!
I should say that Dartington school records often contain very sensitive
and personal assessments of individual pupils, including health and other
matters. They contain much more than just academic comments of the 'could
do better' type.
I would be grateful for any guidance on all this.
Hilary Williams, Dartington Hall Trust"
J C Thackray
Archivist, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD
Tel: 0171-938-9238; Fax: 0171-938-9290; E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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