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Picture: Leonard Barnett in 1947 (with kind permission of his family)

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YMCA and the development of informal and youth work education. [Updated May 2025]

Ellen Ranyard ("LNR"), Bible women, district nurses and informal education. [updated and extended April/May 2025]. A linked podcast is now available on The Red Heaven Oral History Archive

Maude Stanley, girls' clubs and district visiting [updated and extended April 2025]

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Organise! A guide to practical politics for youth groups and community groups [1981 - some occasional fuzziness in the text]

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