File

Correspondence and papers relating to: the first three Black Papers; the Education Correspondents' Group set up by Roy Nash of the Daily Mail [which was dominated by those in favour of progressive education]; the education controversy in the late 1960s and early 1970s; invitations to potential contributors and plans for Black Paper 1977. Includes letters from a small number of journalists and concerned teachers, as well as 20 pieces of correspondence with Jacques Barzun. Other significant figures or Black Paper correspondents represented include: Rebecca West (copy letter from West only); Cara Mandeville; Renhe Soskin; and R.T. Allen. Also includes: a carbon typescript of 'Viewpoint' (about the attack on the first Black Paper by Teachers World) written by Cox (/6); an annotated offprint of Jacques Barzun's article 'The Centrality of Reading', from Michigan Quarterly Review (Jan 1970), subsequently used in Black Paper Three (/26); photocopies of two articles by R.T. Allen entitled 'Education as Initiation into Cosmology and Way', and 'Neutral Against Faith' (/47); a news cutting of an article by Cox entitled 'We are all (or nearly all) Black Paper-ers now' (/50); and a copy of the original circular advertising Fight for Education (/51).

This material came from one of Cox's miscellaneous files labelled Various items in muddle. The other papers from this original file can be found at COX3/11 and COX4/10.