Identity area
Reference code
JCPP/Brittain/1/1961
Title
Frederick Brittain's Diary, 1961
Date(s)
- 1961 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 volume, paper
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
On the first page is a list of books read during the year.
Entries cover the weather, his health, his social life, Rooster meetings, church services attended and what he was working on.
17 May - Gave his last lecture as a University Lecturer [he had just reached the retirement age of 67].
19 May - Recorded a talk on May Week for the BBC broadcast on 28 May.
21 June - College Council re-elected him as Praelector and Keeper of the Records.
2 July - FB suffered a coronary thrombosis and was admitted to Potters Bar Hospital. He stayed in hospital until 13 August.
3-5, 8-13, 15-16, 19 July and 5-6, 8, 12 August - No diary entries.