Personal Papers of Beryl Power 1927-1951

Power Beryl Millicent Le Poer 1891-1974

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Beryl Millicent Le Poer Power was born in 1891. She read History at Girton College 1910-1913. On leaving College, she became an organiser and speaker for the women's suffrage movement, work which was terminated by the outbreak of the First World War. She went on to become a senior civil servant, first as an inspector in the Board of Trade, later Ministry of Labour, then working to set up the Juvenile Transference Scheme and ultimately in charge of housing and welfare for the Ministry of Supply. ...

Power, Rhoda

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Power, Eileen

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After study at the London School of Economics, she returned to Girton as a Pfeiffer Research Fellow 1915-1918. She was Director of Studies in History at Girton 1913-1921, Lecturer 1921-1924, Reader 1924-1931. She was appointed Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics in 1931, a position she held until her death in 1940. She lectured and published widely. In 1937, she married Michael (Munia) Postan, Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge. From th...

Power Beryl Millicent Le Poer 1891-1974

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Beryl Millicent Le Poer Power was born in 1891. She read History at Girton College 1910-1913. On leaving College, she became an organiser and speaker for the women's suffrage movement, work which was terminated by the outbreak of the First World War. She went on to become a senior civil servant, first as an inspector in the Board of Trade, later Ministry of Labour, then working to set up the Juvenile Transference Scheme and ultimately in charge of housing and welfare for the Ministry of Supply. ...

Howard Donald fl 1945

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