Papers of Louis Arnaud Reid

Drafts of published material, unpublished papers and lectures with some correspondence, notes and working papers. Some earlier material from Romford County High School for Girls was also present among Reid's papers, which likely belonged to Frances Bardsley at some point.

Louis Arnaud Reid (1895-1986) studied philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and from 1919 to 1926 lectured in Aberystwyth and Liverpool. From 1932 to 1947 he was Professor at Armstrong College, Newcastle and then, in 1947, became the first Professor of the Philosophy of Education in Britain, at the University of London Institute of Education, a post which he held until his retirement in 1962. After his retirement, among other activities, he continued to teach students in the Art and Design Department of the Institute of Education. He was closely involved with the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain and wrote and lectured widely on aesthetics and the arts.

No discernable order was present, so the archivist has sorted the material and imposed an order. Where material had been collated together in a folder, that material has been kept together in a folder.

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Donated to the Art and Design Department at the Institute by the family in 1986 . Transferred to the Institute Library in July 1993.

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Duplicates were removed and destoyed.

Papers had been accumulated and kept by Reid over the course of his life.