Records of the Department of Extra-Mural Studies

DEM/1 comprises the business records of the Department of Extra-Mural Studies and its predecessor bodies. The documents include annual reports of the Department (DEM/1/1), syllabuses and course notices (DEM/1/5) from the early 1920s to the demise of the Department, and promotional material concerning Holly Royde, the Department's residential college (DEM/1/4). Records of the earlier University Extension programme from the pre-1914 period can be found in DEM/1/2; these are registers of lectures 1895/6-1902/3, and financial records of payments to lecturers. The archive includes numerous departmental files (DEM/1/3), dating from the 1940s to the 1980s, which document the administration, staffing and finance of the Department, as well as correspondence with other adult education departments and files on special projects and courses undertaken by the Department. Published works by members of the Department on adult education and other subjects can be found in DEM/1/7, including a considerable number of articles by Ross Waller, the former director of the Department. There is an apparently complete set of the Roscoe Review (DEM/1/6), a departmental publication which ran from the late 1960s to the mid 1970s, and this includes copies of the annual Roscoe lecture delivered at the Department by various eminent figures. A set of cuttings books (DEM/1/8) documents the activities of the Department and broader aspects of adult education in the U.K. from the 1940s to the 1980s. A series of photographs and slides (DEM/9) record a variety of social and educational events at the Department and Holly Royde College.

There was no evidence of systematic classification of departmental material, although the main genres of record were identifiable.

DEM/1 comprises the following sub-series:

• /1 Annual Reports
• /2 Records relating to University Extension Lectures
• /3 Administrative Files
• /4 Holly Royde College
• /5 Notices and Syllabuses
• /6 Roscoe Review
• /7 Staff publications
• /8 Cuttings Books
• /9 Photographs
• /10 Departmental Board minutes
• /11 Extra Mural Students Association records
• /12 Miscellaneous