Archives of the Wellingborough University Extension Society

An off-shoot of Cambridge University Board of Extra-Mural Studies, the Society was established in or around 1925, when a continuous series of courses began. Responsibility for University extension in Northamptonshire was transferred to Leicester University in 1962. The Society dissolved in 1972.

The records cover the organisation and management of the society, its membership, financial affairs and running of its courses.

The archives were in the possession of the last secretary, Miss Alvies M. Platt, until her death in 1976 when they were given to the University Archives.

A large number of duplicates and an incomplete set of reports of the Board of Extra-Mural Studies were transferred to the Northamptonshire Records Office, 1977.

Sections 1-7 contain the Society's own records; section 8 contains the records of the Cambridge Local Centres Union meetings; sections 9-10 contain Miss Platt's own papers.

Personal records are closed to scholars for 80 years from the date of creation under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.

Requests to publish text should be addressed to the Keeper of Manuscripts and University Archives, photographs to the Deputy Librarian. Both at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR.

Please cite as Cambridge University Archives, Archives of the Wellingborough University Extension Society, WUES

Further references to the Society are among the records of the Board of Extra-Mural Studies in the University Archives (reference: UA BEMS)

The original paper catalogue was prepared by Edwin Welch in June 1977. It was converted to digital form in 2000.

A detailed paper list is available for consultation in the Reading Room of the Department of Manuscripts and University Archives (ref.: UA In.20).

This online catalogue for Janus was completed in 2002.