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Margaret Helen Read


Prof.
Margaret Helen Read
PhD CBE MA
File:Read, Margaret Helen.jpg
Born 1889
Died 1991
Residence c/o Barclay's Bank, Fort Jameson, Northern Rhodesia, South Africa [1935]
56 Temple Fortune Lane, NW11 [1937]
Chequers Farm, Crowborough Hill, Crowborough, Sussex [1949]
Occupation academic
anthropologist
Society Membership
membership ordinary fellow
elected_AI

1935

1936.02.25
societies Royal Empire Society
Royal Institute of International Affairs
International Institute of African Languages and Culture



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Office Notes

RAI Council 1940-41 Member
RAI Council 1941-42 Member
RAI Council 1942-43 Member
RAI Council 1944-45 Member
RAI Council 1945-46 Member
RAI Council 1946-47 Member
RAI Council 1948-49 Member
RAI Council 1949-50 Member
RAI Council 1950-51 Member
RAI Council 1953-54 Member
RAI Council 1954-55 Member

House Notes

1936.02.04 nominated
1949 list has 1936 start, assuming same person (just has initials M.H.)

Notes From Elsewhere

Margaret Helen Read, CBE (1889–1991) was a British social anthropologist and academic, who specialised in colonial education. From 1940 to 1955, she was head of the Colonial Department of the Institute of Education, University of London.[1] She was also associated with the Colonial Office of the British Government: she acted as an advisor on education policy in the colonies, and she was the British delegate to the UNESCO General Conferences of 1946 and 1947.[2]

Publications

External Publications

Read, Margaret (1931). The Indian peasant uprooted: a study of the human machine. London: Longmans, Green & Co.

Read, Margaret (1953). Africans and Their Schools. London: Longmans, Green & Co.

House Publications

1936.04.07 read Tradition and prestige in Ngoni society
1941.05.27 Dr. Margaret Read read her paper on " The Basis of Nutrition in Tribal Society."

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