British Council

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Correspondents include Beatrix Collingham, MBE, 1971 (2); Gyula Kodolányi, 1970; and A. Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1969-1971 (8); and Alistair Darling MP, about travel grants, 1991. The file also includes a copy of the invitation to the lecture, entitled ‘Recent changes in British Parliamentary Theory and Institutions’ with a a guest list, and annotated programme of the visit; summer schools in Paris, 1966 (6); itinerary of visit to Switzerland, circa 1963; and a report of the visit of an adult education delegation to Bremen and Hanover, 1963; administrative information and correspondence about a tour and lecture in Hungary to study the state of political science and teaching of political subjects, 1970; itinerary, correspondence and report on lectures to Padagogische Hoschulen in Baden Wurtemburg, 1971 (3); copy of the British Council’s 50th Anniversary Lecture by Sir Anthony Parsons ‘Vultures and Philistines, British Attitudes to Culture and Cultural Diplomacy’, 1984; a copy of ‘notes for visitors to Hungary under the cultural exchange programme and a copy of the typed report of the tour; reports about conferences and meetings in Krakow, 1990; Hungary, circa 1989; Chile, 1986; a symposium on George Orwell in Barcelona, 1984; and South-Germany, including some newspaper cuttings,1984

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