Margaret Crabtree papers and photographs relating to David Hill Girls' School, Hanyang

The papers and photographic material primarily relate to Margaret Crabtree's service at the David Hill Girls' School. The papers comprise: correspondence to Crabtree (1932-1948) and other correspondence, primarily relating to the school (1928-1950). Personal material relating to Crabtree, including...

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Date(s) of creation: 1900-1970
Level: Sub-series
Format: Archive           
Main author: Crabtree; Margaret (1897-1978); educationalist, educational missionary

Summary: The papers and photographic material primarily relate to Margaret Crabtree's service at the David Hill Girls' School. The papers comprise: correspondence to Crabtree (1932-1948) and other correspondence, primarily relating to the school (1928-1950). Personal material relating to Crabtree, including photostat copies of her teaching certificates (1918-1928). Published material, in English and Chinese, including items relating directly to the David Hill Girls' School (1920s-1950). Visual material, including two photograph albums and eleven files of photographs, primarily depicting the school buildings, school staff and students and surrounding areas (1900-1970); postcards, slides and illustrations.
Main author: Crabtree; Margaret (1897-1978); educationalist, educational missionary
Extent: 3 boxes
Admin history: Margaret Crabtree was born in 1897. She began working as a student teacher at Bedford Elementary School in 1914. In 1915 Crabtree began a course in Education at the University of Leeds, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts Degree and a Board of Education Certificate in 1918. Subsequently Crabtree worked from 1918 to 1921 as an Assistant Mistress at Doncaster High School. A lifelong Wesleyan Methodist, Crabtree applied to serve as a missionary in January 1921, specifying a preference to be posted to the China field. She was appointed to David Hill Gir ... View more
Custodial history: Given to the Methodist Church by Mr J Byatt of Bradford, before 24 April 1980
Acquisition: Deposited by William Leary, Connexional Archivist of the Methodist Church Archives and History Committee, April 1980
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright mostly held by Methodist Church
User restrictions: For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
Language: English
Chinese
Copies: Not available on microfiche
Related material: The School of Oriental and African Studies holds the records of (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society (MMS) which includes the surviving records of the Women's Work department. Any surviving letters written by Margaret Crabtree to the Women's Work department from China should be contained within the Hupeh District correspondence (MMS/WW/Correspondence/ China/Hupeh/FBN 4-6). Correspondence relating to the David Hill Girls' School may also be found in the (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society correspodnence for Wuchang and l ... View more
Format: Archive