NA 1933 H 1
Miss Burstall's Appointment
Report of the appointment of Miss Burstall to the governing body of the Institute of Education.
NA 1933 H 2
7 July 1933, Manchester Guardian
Education and Marriage. The Case of Women. Miss Sara Burstall's Address
Report of a speech entitled "How women have justified their education, 1871 - 1933" given by Miss Burstall at the luncheon of the Soroptimist Club in Manchester. She commented on the value of education to a married woman, she criticised the practice of sacking women when they married and commented on the contribution which woman had made to the legal profession.
University Women
Report on the forthcoming celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the admission of women students to Manchester University at which the following will receive honorary degrees: Sara Burstall, Eileen Power, Harriette Chick.
NA 1933 H 4
8 July 1933, Manchester Guardian
A Manchester Jubilee. University Women. Association's Celebration
Description of a dinner organised by the British Federation of University Women [Manchester Association] to celebrate the jubilee of the admission of women students to Manchester University. Includes comment on the forthcoming conferment of honorary degrees on Sara Burstall, Eileen Power, Barriette [recte Harriette] Chick.
References made to Miss Jenkyn Jones, Mrs Hope Hogg, Mrs J Stocks, Mrs J Davidson Peattie.
NA 1933 H 5
Celebrations of University Women
Description of a dinner organised by the British Federation of University Women [Manchester Association] to celebrate the jubilee of the admission of women students to Manchester University.
Includes references to Sara Burstall, Eileen Power, Barriette [recte Harriette] Chick, Mrs Hope Hogg, Mrs J Davidson Peattie.
NA 1933 H 6
10 July 1933, Manchester Guardian
The Admission of Women to Manchester University. Jubilee Reception and Honorary Degrees. Miss Burstall's Criticism of a "Dusty Prejudice."
Description of the ceremony organised to celebrate the jubilee of the admission of women students to Manchester University and the conferment of honorary degrees on Sara Burstall, Eileen Power, Barriette [recte Harriette] Chick.
Sara Burstall commented on the debt which schools owed to Frances Mary Buss and to the school's links with Manchester University.
Includes summaries of the speeches of Eileen Power and Harriette Chick.
NA 1933 H 7
8 July 1933, Manchester Guardian
Three Distinguished Women
Photographs of Sara A Burstall, Dr Harriette Chick and Dr Eileen Power on the occasion of the conferment on them of honorary degrees by Manchester University.
NA 1933 H 8
30 November 1933, Manchester Evening News
Doctor Sara Burstall Hustles and Laughs at 74. She Admires the Young. Lipstick - Ugh!
Report on Miss Burstall's activities since her retirement from the school. Includes comments on the Old Girls' Federation, her attitudes to career opportunities for women and to the young. Includes a photograph of Miss Burstall with Miss M G Clarke.
NA 1933 H 9
19 October 1933, Daily Dispatch
Dr Sara Burstall's Memories. Educating the Girls of Manchester
Review of Retrospect and Prospect. Sixty Years of Women's Education written by Dr Sara Burstall. Includes a description of her early life, her attitude to Manchester and to universities and her disapproval of sport. Includes a photograph of Sara Burstall.
NA 1933 H 10
21 October 1933, The Manchester City News
Miss Burstall's Tribute to Manchester. The Struggle for Women's Education
Review of Retrospect and Prospect. Sixty Years of Women's Education by Dr Sara Burstall. Includes a description of the changes she made in the curriculum at the school, her attitude to Manchester and to women's participation in civic life and her criticisms of the current system of education. Includes a reference to Mary Buss. Includes a photograph of Sara Burstall.
NA 1933 H 11
New Books
Review of Retrospect and Prospect. Sixty Years of Women's Education by Sara Burstall. Includes her criticisms of the current system of education including making maths compulsory.
Includes references to Mary Buss, Sophie Bryant, Prof Tout.
NA 1933 H 12
[Two dates are written on this article: 2 November 1933 and 9 December 1933]
Miss Burstall�s Book
Review of Retrospect and Prospect. Sixty Years of Women's Education by Sara Burstall. Includes a description of her early life and comments generally on her contribution to the school and to education.
Includes references to Miss Buss and Dr Bryant
NA 1933 H 13
The Merchant Maidens
Description of the annual dinner of the Edinburgh Ladies' College Former Pupils' Guild. The guest of honour was Miss Clarke. During her speech she told a joke about the "Hitler herring."
NA 1933 H 14
5 August 1933
Choosing a Career for the Girl of To-day. She is full of the pioneering spirit - fathers should be less conservative
Comments by Miss M G Clarke on girls' education. She commented that parents were more conservative in outlook than their daughters and of career opportunities for educated girls. Includes a photograph of Miss Clarke with girls and another teacher.
Misc 1933 H 1
10 May 1933
University of Manchester
The agenda of a forthcoming meeting of the Court of Manchester University at which honorary degrees will be conferred on Sara Burstall, Eileen Power, Harriette Chick.
Misc 1933 H 2
About October 1933 [this is hand written], The Girton Review
What Manchester Thinks Today
Description of the ceremony organised to celebrate the jubilee of the admission of women students to Manchester University and the conferment of honorary degrees on Sara Burstall, Eileen Power, Harriette Chick.
Includes verbatim accounts of the speeches made in their honour in which reference was made to Francis [sic] Mary Buss and of Sara Burstall's speech of thanks. She commented on the value of the new universities.
NA 1933 St 1
Summary of the career of Mrs Charlotte Caldersmith [nee Whitlock] on the occasion of her golden wedding anniversary.
NA 1933 St 2
Golden Wedding. Colonel and Mrs Caldersmith
Announcement [incomplete] of the golden wedding anniversary of Mrs Charlotte Caldersmith [nee Whitlock].
NA 1933 St 3
Announcement of the golden wedding anniversary of Mrs Charlotte Caldersmith [nee Whitlock] Includes brief comments on her career and that of her husband.
NA 1933 St 4
Photograph of Mrs Charlotte Caldersmith [nee Whitlock] and Colonel Caldersmith on the occasion of their golden wedding anniversary.
Extract from Mr George Caldersmith, J. P.'s Letter
Extract from a letter sent by George Caldersmith, notifying the school that Miss C E Whitlock had celebrated her golden wedding anniversary. Includes note that she had been Head Mistress of the Prep Department in the 1870s.
NA 1933 G 1
8 July 1933, Manchester Guardian
Examination Results
Names of students who have graduated from Manchester University.
NA 1933 G 2
Work and Play
Summary of the report on the school by Miss Clarke. She commented on the appointment of modern language assistants, the plan to adopt a house system and the schools successes in sport.
NA 1933 G 3
20 May 1933, Evening News
For the "Old Girls." She Remembered them - and Sent £100 to Help Them
Report that Beatrice Holme gave £100 to the Old Girls' Federation Benevolent Fund in thanks for the scholarship place which she had had at the school.
Misc 1933 G 1
Manchester High School for Girls. Draft Report on Vertical Classification
Report on the plan to introduce a house system and the effects this would have on sport and form monitors.
Misc 1933 G 2
Manchester Education Committee - Juvenile Employment Bureau.
Dates and subjects of five "talks on employment for girls."
Misc 1933 G 3
Manchester High School for Girls. Scholarship Examination, 1933
The comprehension passage for the scholarship exam.
Misc 1933 G 4
9 January 1933
The League of Nations Withington Branch
Ticket for a meeting to discuss "Slavery: The League and World Abolition." The main speaker was John Harris. Miss M Clarke was the chairman.
Misc 1933 G 5
12 April 1933
School report of Gwen Strange for the Spring term.
Misc 1933 G 6
28 July 1933
School report of Gwen Strange for the Summer term.
Misc 1933 G 7
Manchester High School for Girls
Note that Gwen Strange would be leaving the school.
Misc 1933 G 8
3 July 1933
Universities of Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield and Birmingham
School Certificate and Matriculation Examinations
English Composition, Essay Paper.
Misc 1933 G 9
3 July 1933
Universities of Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield and Birmingham
School Certificate and Matriculation Examinations
English Composition, Precis Paper
Misc 1933 G 10
3 July 1933
Universities of Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield and Birmingham
School Certificate and Matriculation Examinations
English Literature
Misc 1933 G 11
4 July 1933
Universities of Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield and Birmingham
School Certificate and Matriculation Examinations
History
Misc 1933 G 12
6 July 1933
Universities of Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield and Birmingham
School Certificate and Matriculation Examinations
Arithmetic
Misc 1933 G 13
7 July 1933
Universities of Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield and Birmingham
School Certificate and Matriculation Examinations
French Composition
Misc 1933 G 14
7 July 1933
Universities of Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield and Birmingham
School Certificate and Matriculation Examinations
French Unprepared Translation
Misc 1933 G 15
11 July 1933
Universities of Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield and Birmingham
School Certificate and Matriculation Examinations
Latin Composition
Misc 1933 G 16
11 July 1933
Universities of Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield and Birmingham
School Certificate and Matriculation Examinations
Latin Grammar, Syntax and Set Books
Misc 1933 G 17
21 December 1933
School report of Brenda Burkill
Misc 1933 G 18
Notice to parents about increases in school fees
NA 1933 D 1
April 1933, Evening Chronicle
Review of the following three plays performed at the school: The Shepherd in the Distance, Lonesome Like, Michael.
NA 1933 D 2
6 April 1933, Manchester Guardian
Manchester High School Plays
Review of the following plays and sketches performed at the school: What Men Live By, Mozart and the Grey Steward, Lonesome Like and an unnamed pantomime. References made to the performances of Helen Marshall, Maud Gregory, Sylvia Roditi, Marjorie Pear.
NA 1933 D 3
6 April 1933, Evening Chronicle
Schoolgirls in Little Plays
Review of the following plays performed at the school: The Shepherd in the Distance, Lonesome Like, Michael which was an adaptation of Tolstoy's What Men Live By. References made to the performances of Dorothy Beavan, Vivien Snow, Hilda Bristow.
NA 1933 D 4
22 August 1933, Evening Chronicle
Ready for the Repertory Season
Photograph of the following members of the Manchester Repertory Company: Jean Winstanley, June Wenner, Kathleen Hynes, Margaret Mather, Clifford Marle, Beatrice Varley, Olga Murgatoyd, Violet Johnston, Corinne Bouchier.
NA 1933 Sp 1
29 July 1933, The Daily Dispatch
Photograph of Sunny Lowry swimming and comment that she had abandoned an attempt to swim the Channel.
NA 1933 Sp 2
The Channel Swum Again. Girl Crosses in 5 Hours. First Time since 1930
Description of the Channel swim of Sunny Lowry. Includes details of her previous success in swimming and her previous two attempts to swim the Channel. Notes that she was the eighteenth swimmer and the eighth woman to swim the Channel. Includes a photograph of Sunny Lowry.
Includes references to Peggy Duncan, Jabez Wolffe, Miss Sharp, Captain Courtez, Mr Dajin, Gertrude Ederle.
NA 1933 Sp 3
30 August 1933, The Times
Channel Swum. Manchester Girl's Success. From France to North Foreland
Description of the Channel swim of Sunny Lowry. Includes details of her previous success in swimming and her previous two attempts to swim the Channel. Notes that she was the eighteenth swimmer and the eighth woman to swim the Channel.
Includes references to the channel swims of Mercedes Gleitze, E Temme, Charles Zibleman [sic], Charles Kanaar, Peggy Duncan.
NA 1933 Sp 4
30 August 1933, Manchester Guardian
The Channel Swum by Manchester Girl. Last Mile Robs her of Record
Description of the Channel swim of Sunny Lowry. Notes that she was the eighth woman to swim the Channel. Includes details of her previous success in swimming, her previous two attempts to swim the Channel and saving two women from drowning in Wales. Also describes the channel swims of Mercedes Gleitze, E Temme, Charles Zibelman [sic], Charles Kanaar, George Morris.
NA 1933 Sp 5
Report that Sunny Lowry and her parents were invited to tea by the Mayor of Manchester and the Mayoress, Mrs Davidson Peattie.
NA 1933 Sp 6
30 August 1933, the Courier and Advertiser
Channel Conquered
Photograph of Sunny Lowry swimming the Channel.
NA 1933 Sp 7
Photograph of Sunny Lowry.
NA 1933 Sp 8
Photograph of Sunny Lowry.
NA 1933 Sp 9
19 October 1933, Evening Chronicle
Sport is Good for Girls. Healthy Offset to Study - School Views. Overstrain Fears. Schools Aware of the Danger
Report on the place of sport in education. Comments given by Sara Burstall criticising sport in schools and by the following who approved of sport: Miss Clarke, Lady Stockton, Councillor Wright Robinson, Mrs Westcott.
NA 1933 E 1
Manchester High School for Girls
Description of Founders' Day. The guest speaker was P E Meadon, Director of Education for Lancashire. He commented on the early history of education
NA 1933 E 2
A Dover Street Anniversary
Description of Founders' Day. Includes an outline of the foundation of the school and the early curriculum including details about callisthenics [ie gymnastics].
Includes references to Mrs C P Scott, Miss Day, Miss Burstall, Miss F W Harrison, Miss B Harrison, Mme Lamb, Miss Woodhead, Miss Turnbull, Lady Donner, Dame Louisa Lumsden.
NA 1933 E 3
29 July 1933, Daily Dispatch
Talk to Girls on Life. Lady Mayoress on Lonely Wives
Description of Speech Day. The guest speaker Mrs J D Peattie, Lady Mayoress of Manchester. She commented on the need for outside interests after marriage. Miss Clarke criticised Dr Norwood�s view that the curriculum in girls' schools was too academic and narrow.
Girls Who Wanted to Learn Ju-Jitsu but was Forbidden by her Headmistress. Woman Replies to Dr Norwood
Description of Speech Day. Miss Clarke criticised Dr Norwood's view that the curriculum in girls' schools was too academic and copied too much from boy's schools. She commented that she had refused to allow a girl to learn ju-jitsu although the girl [unnamed] had later learnt this at university.
Description of Speech Day. The guest speaker Mrs J D Peattie, Lady Mayoress of Manchester. She commented on the need for women to remain independent and on the influence which women had on the world. F Padmore commented on the government's request to reduce staffing levels in schools. Miss Clarke criticised Dr Norwood's view that the curriculum in girls' schools was too academic and copied too much from boy's schools. She commented on the successes in employment of former pupils, on the changes in the sixth form curriculum and the importance of education in the face of the "dangers of dictatorship."
NA 1933 E 6
29 July 1933, The Times
Manchester High for Girls
Description of Speech Day. Miss Clarke commented on the school's broad curriculum and out of school activities.
NA 1933 E 7
Daily Dispatch
School Prize Day
Photograph of Speech Day.
NA 1933 E 8
29 July 1933, News Chronicle
Manchester Girls' High School Speech Day
Photograph of Speech Day.
NA 1933 E 9
28 July 1933
Manchester High for Girls
Photograph of Speech Day.
NA 1933 E 10
All - Round Celebrations
Description of a forthcoming reunion. Includes an itinerary included a gym display at which the Dixon Gymnastic Cup and the Conway Gymnastic Cup will be awarded.
Includes references to Miss Wilcock, Mrs J Davidson Peattie, Lady Russell, Lady Bryce, Margaret Ashton, Miss M Clarke, Philippa Esdaile, Miss Burstall.
NA 1933 E 11
8 May 1933, Manchester Guardian
Women and Work as Citizens. Manchester High School Old Girls' Federation
Description of a reunion. Includes comments by Miss Clarke on the "troubles of the world" and the role of women in helping to resolve them. Includes references to Miss Burstall
NA 1933 E 12
6 May 1933, Manchester Guardian
High School Old Girls. Lady Mayoress's Memories
Description of a reunion. Includes the reminiscences of school life of Mrs J Davidson Peattie and comments on her role as Mayoress of Manchester. Miss Clarke commented that money had been left to the school by the sister of Lena Peacock for scholarships.
Includes references to Joan Wilcock, Miss Burstall, Philippa Esdaile, Lady Russell.
NA 1933 E 13
May 1933
A Family Affair
Description of a reunion. Includes the report that the daughter and grand daughter of Mrs McNicol were pupils at the school and that Mrs G Caldersmith [nee Whitlock] had celebrated her golden wedding anniversary
NA 1933 O 1
6 January 1933, Town and County News
One of England's Leading Day Schools for Girls. The Manchester High School and its Work
Description of the foundation of the school, the aims of the school, entry to the school, exams, curriculum, health, school societies and general comments on the school's success and the author's views on the reasons for this.
Includes references to Miss Day, Miss Burstall, Miss M G Clarke, Dr Catherine Chisholm, Philippa Esdaile.
NA 1933 O 2
He Made History Just in Writing
Comments on the achievements of the historian, C H K Marten and his comments on exams. Includes a reference to Townsend Warner.
NA 1933 O 3
Photograph of Sir Robert Jones, a Liverpool surgeon, watching a boy at work after opening the Crippled Children�s Training Centre at Grangethorpe, Manchester.
Misc 1933 O 4
Peace
Poem on the subject of peace by Henry Vaughan and Arthur Somervell.