The collection includes a thesis submitted to the Teacher Training Department of Kumasi College of Technology, recollections of Wilkinson's resisidence in Sawston, Cambridgeshire, and an autobiographical audio recording.
Dorothy Grace Wilkinson Collection
This material is held atRoyal Commonwealth Society Library
- Reference
- GB 115 RCS/RCMS 350
- Dates of Creation
- 1957-1989
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English .
- Physical Description
- 3 volume(s) paper/photograph/audio tape1 cassette(s) 1 cassette1 sheet(s) 1 sheet
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Dorothy Grace Wilkinson (née Stubbing) was born in 1904 and trained to be a teacher. During the early 1930s, she taught for the Church Missionary Society for four years at Kings College, Budo, Uganda. She returned to England in the late 1930s, during which time she married. From 1941 Wilkinson taught in several schools in Ghana including Achimota College (1941-1946), Achimota Training College (1946-1951), Kumasi College of Technology (1951-1957), and Winneba Training College (1958-1965). She was active in the Girl Guides both in England and in Africa. Her contributions to teaching and Guiding were recognised by the award of the MBE in 1959. She retired from teaching in 1965 and returned to England.
Access Information
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Acquisition Information
Donated by Rosemary Mathew, niece of Mrs Wilkinson, in 2007.
Note
Includes index.
Other Finding Aids
A catalogue of the collection can be found on ArchiveSearch.
Additional Information
This collection level description was created by MJC.
Wilkinson, Dorothy Grace, 1904-1994, née Stubbings, teacher