Margaret Helen Read
| Prof. Margaret Helen Read PhD CBE MA | |||||||
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| 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 | ||||||
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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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