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Study Leave in United Kingdom and Europe - July 1966 to January 1967

Archive Collections / Graeme Lloyd Pretty / Series AA 255/14 / Study Leave in United Kingdom and Europe - July 1966 to January 1967

A series of six notebooks covering study leave in the United Kingdom and Europe, undertaken between July 1966 and January 1967.
The pages of the first five notebooks are consecutively numbered from 1 to 680.
The sixth notebook is numbered from page 1 to page 70 and contains notes towards a report on the study leave.

The photographs taken on this study leave are documented at AA 255/15/5/1-10.

  1. Study leave in United Kingdom and Europe daily log book - Volume 1:
    29/7/1966 - 18/8/1966; pages numbered 1 - 143.
    The entries start in London, preparing for a trip to the archaeological excavations at Wallingford (near Oxford).
    Worked at the Wallingford site from 11/8/1966 to 28/8/1966.
    List of personnel at the site on pages 21 and 22.
    Most of the entries on pages 18 - 88 are details of the photos taken. These are interspersed with notes about what people are doing, things to be done, letters to be sent etc.

    29/8/1966 - 3/9/1966; pages numbered 89 - 94. Back in London. Notes about various visits and people.

    The rest of volume 1 (pages 95 - 143) contains notes and drawings of objects seen at various museums and book references. Some of the museum locations are unclear but on 6/9/1966 he visited the Tropen [Tropical] Museum in Amsterdam (page 103).
    Groningen on 7/9/1966 to meet various people.
    Leiden on 8/9/1966 to visit Museum voor Volkskinde [Museum of Foreign Ethnology].

  2. Study leave in United Kingdom and Europe daily log book - Volume 2:
    8/9/1966 - 5/10/1966; pages numbered 144 - 292.
    Pages 146 - 161 contain references to various people, publications and museums.
    Page 162 continues with the visit to Leiden. Pages 163 - 218 is mainly descriptions and sketches of objects in the museum.

    12/9/1966 - 5/10/1966; pages numbered 219 - 292. Back in London. Notes about people, places, book references, letters sent, general observations and details of photographs.

  3. Study leave in United Kingdom and Europe daily log book - Volume 3:
    10/10/1966 - 18/12/1966; pages numbered 293 - 483.

    Pages 293 - 456: In Cambridge, London, conference at Debden House, Essex, Birmingham, Oxford. Notes about people, places, book references, letters sent, general observations and details of photographs taken in un-named museum in Cambridge as well as notes about various displays.

    Pages 468 - 483: Various notes and business cards stapled into notebook as well as sundry hand-written notes.

  4. Study leave in United Kingdom and Europe daily log book - Volume 4:
    19/12/1966 - 5/1/1967; pages numbered 484 - 632.

    19/12/1966 - 27/12/1966; Pages 484 - 540: In London and Birmingham.
    Notes about people, places, general observations and details of photographs taken.
    Visited Webber Gallery (Charing Cross), Horniman Museum (Forest Hill) and British Museum.

    28/12/1966 - London to Wien (Vienna). In Vienna 28/12/1966 - 30/12/1966; pages 541 - 575.
    Visited various museums - details of exhibits and photographs.

    30/12/1966 - 1/1/1967; pages 575 - 586 - flew from Vienna to Kuala Lumpur; overnighted at Bangkok on the way.

    2/1/1967 - 5/1/1967; pages 587 - 632.
    In Kuala Lumpur and then Djakarta
    Visited museums in Kuala Lumpur (Museum Negara) and Djakarta (Museum Pusat) - details of exhibits and photographs.

  5. Study leave in United Kingdom and Europe daily log book - Volume 5:
    6/1/1967 - 8/1/1967; pages numbered 633 - 680.

    In Djakarta until 7/1/1967. Flew from Djakarta to Singapore on 7/1/1967 where he visited the Raffles Museum.
    Then back to Adelaide on 8/1/1967.

  6. Study leave in United Kingdom and Europe - Volume 6. Notes toward a report on six months study leave in United Kingdom and Europe:
    Pages numbered 1 - 70.
    General notes about overseas travel experience, a list of cities visited and museums in those cities and lectures attended.
    Pages 11 - 33 contain a list of headings for future documentation of this study leave trip.
    Pages 34 - 38 contain some general thoughts.
    Pages 39 - 70 have no entries.
    The back of the notebook has various entries related to the trip.

Creator: Graeme Lloyd Pretty
Control: AA 255/14/43/1-6
Date Range:  29 July, 1966  -  08 January, 1967
Quantity:    6  
Formats: Notebooks
Series:  AA 255/14