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Personal Papers of Margaret Evans
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Personal Papers of Margaret Evans |
| Reference |
GBR/0271/GCPP Evans |
| Creator |
Evans, Margaret Blacklock (b 1924), teacher |
| Covering Dates |
1938–2000 |
| Extent and Medium |
1 box; Paper |
| Repository |
Girton College Archive, Cambridge |
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Margaret Blacklock Evans was born in Dudley, the daughter of John Evans and Marjorie Withey. She was educated at Dudley Girls' High School and came up to Girton in 1942 to study Geography. She was captain of the Cambridge Women's Swimming team in 1944-45. She studied at the London Institute of Education 1945-46.
Margaret Evans was a Geography Mistress at Park School, Preston for a few years. She then taught mainly in the Black Country and Birmingham, including Dudley Girls' High School, until December 1965, when she went to Ilford in the London Borough of Redbridge as Headmistress of Beal Grammar School for Girls, in Ley Street. She was reappointed in September 1974 to lead the creation of Seven Kings High School by joining Beal Girls to Downshall (co-educational) Secondary School in Meads Lane.
She retired in August 1985 and was appointed OBE for services to education in the New Year Honours List, 1986. After retirement, she joined Redbridge Masters Swimming Club and broke a number of world records in the 60-75 age groups up to the year 2000. She then retired from competition but continued to support swimming. Her other interests included Ashurst Drive Baptist Church, interfaith organisations and racial and social equality. She also supported the campaign for biodiversity as a Friend of the Natural History Museum and volunteer Friend of Kew Gardens.
[This biography is compiled largely from notes supplied by Margaret Evans herself in September 2011.]
Personal diaries, undergraduate notes and Girton ephemera.
1011/37; 1112/04 - GCPP Evans 1-3 donated by Margaret Evans 9 July 2011. GCPP Evans 4 donated by Margaret Evans November 2011.
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Access and Use
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Copyright is held by Girton College.
Please cite as Girton College Archive, Cambridge, Personal Papers of Margaret Evans, GCPP Evans
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| Index Terms |
| Diaries |
| Evans, Margaret Blacklock (b 1924) teacher |
| Girton/GCPP Evans contains: |
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Personal diaries.
Creator: Evans, Margaret.
4 items; Paper. |
1941–1957 |
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2
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Undergraduate geography notes.
Creator: Evans, Margaret.
2 items; Paper. |
1938–1956 |
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Fiftieth anniversary of the admission of women to Cambridge degrees. File of Girton memorabilia and ephemera collected by Margaret Evans, chiefly relating to the fiftieth anniversary in 1998 of the admission of women to degrees. Fiftieth anniversary material includes:. 1) programme of events for OGs as at 5 January 1998;. 2) letter giving detailed instructions 13 May 1998, addressed to Miss Margaret Evans OBE;. 3) invitation from the Vice-Chancellor to the ceremony at the Senate House on 4 July 1998;. 4) M E's table and seat number in Old Hall, Girton;. 5) Order of proceedings in the Senate House, including speech by the Vice-Chancellor and responses on behalf of various cohorts of alumnae given by Baroness David of Ramsey, Baroness Platt of Writtle, and Dame Margaret Anstee, 4 July 1998;. 6) Felicity Hunt and Carol Barker, 'Women at Cambridge: A Brief History', 1998;. 7) CAM [Cambridge Alumni Magazine] Easter Term 1998, containing articles on the 50th anniversary, including Educating Eve, a photographic exhibition;. 8) press cuttings, 1998. The file also contains a page from a magazine showing a photograph of K T Butler in 1947.
Creator: Various.
1 file; Paper. |
1998-circa 2000 |
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Notes on wartime Girton. 4pp typescript notes arranged under the headings Preparing to Enter Girton; Life at Girton; and What I Owe to Girton. The notes describe Margaret Evans' last years at school in Dudley during World War II; her interviews at Girton and the offer a place; life at Girton during the latter years of World War II, chiefly from a domestic and social point of view; and thoughts on what she gained academically and socially from her time at Girton. . Also available as an electronic Word document - see details page.
Creator: Evans, Margaret.
1 file; Paper. |
2011 |
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