Janus: Dorothy Grace Wilkinson Collection

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RCMS 345	Historical paintings of the Hudson's Bay Company
RCMS 346	Colonial reformers as an imperial factor, 1815-1855
RCMS 347	Jaggers
RCMS 348	Northern Rhodesia papers
RCMS 349	Papers on W.A.I.T.R. service
RCMS 350	Dorothy Grace Wilkinson Collection
RCMS 351	Sir John Spry collection
RCMS 353	Empire Settlement Tour
RCMS 354	Jamaican ants
RCMS 355	Papers of A.B. Brewster
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Dorothy Grace Wilkinson Collection

Title	Dorothy Grace Wilkinson Collection
Reference	GBR/0115/RCMS 350
Creator	Wilkinson, Dorothy Grace, 1904-1994, née Stubbings, teacher
Covering Dates	1957–1989
Extent and Medium	3 volumes, 1 cassette, 1 sheet; paper/photograph/audio tape; Mixed scripts
Repository	Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library

Content and context

Dorothy Grace Wilkinson (née Stubbing) was born in 1904 and trained to be a teacher. During the early 1930s, she taught for the Church Missionary Society for four years at Kings College, Budo, Uganda. She returned to England in the late 1930s, during which time she married. From 1941 Wilkinson taught in several schools in Ghana including Achimota College (1941-1946), Achimota Training College (1946-1951), Kumasi College of Technology (1951-1957), and Winneba Training College (1958-1965). She was active in the Girl Guides both in England and in Africa. Her contributions to teaching and Guiding were recognised by the award of the MBE in 1959. She retired from teaching in 1965 and returned to England.

The collection includes a thesis submitted to the Teacher Training Department of Kumasi College of Technology, recollections of Wilkinson's resisidence in Sawston, Cambridgeshire, and an autobiographical audio recording.

Donated by Rosemary Mathew, niece of Mrs Wilkinson, in 2007.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Dorothy Grace Wilkinson Collection, RCMS 350

Further information

See RCS Y3011R/36 for a photograph of students at Kumasi College of Technology.

Indexed

This collection level description was created by MJC.

Index Terms

Wilkinson, Dorothy Grace (1904-1992) née Stubbings, teacher

RCS/RCMS 350 contains:

A thesis on experimental evaluation of teaching aid needs in Ghana schools. The thesis, submitted to the Teacher Training Department of Kumasi College of Technology, 1957, comprises one volume of text (123 pages), and two volumes containing c. 70 photographs. It is accompanied by the text of a play, 'A claim to the title' which was produced by a second year student on his Final Teaching Practice with Form Three boys in Kumasi.
4 volumes; paper/photograph; Typewritten.

1957

Ashanti jewels. Audio cassette of a recoding made by Wilkinson.
1 cassette; audio tape.

1980–1989

Sawston memories. A transcript (10 leaves) of a recording made by Wilkinson describing her familiy's residence in Sawston, Cambridgeshire.
1 file; paper; Manuscript.

Aug. 1985

Testimonial. One page testimonial describing Dorothy Wilkinson's career in teaching and the Girl Guides.
Creator: Bannerman, C J, fl 1965.
1 sheet; paper; Photocopy.

12 May 1965