Box 1
Diaries 1961-1971
Box 2
Diaries 1972-1981
Box 3
Diaries 1947-1960
Box 4
Diaries 1939-1943. Also two other wartime diaries, undated
Diary February-June 1939, red diary "Solihull", undated but probably also 1939
Blue notebook, "At Pitman Road School, City of Birmingham Education Committee" - teaching practice notes, 1938
Diary of first term at Cambridge (loose paper bundle)
Diary of a visit to Dresden as a schoolboy, 1933
After a short teaching career Thornton moved on the become an education adviser across the UK and internationally. He worked as a lecturer for a short time in the Department of Education in Developing Countries at the IOE (1978-1979).
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