Treasury

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Employer Iris Murdoch
IM worked in London as a civil servant (Assistant Principal) at the Treasury .
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
134
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch: The Saint and the Artist. 2nd ed., Macmillan, 1989.
11
Material Conditions of Writing Iris Murdoch
While working exceptionally hard in a Treasury office during the war, when all food had to be queued for, she still found energy to write fiction and poems as well as letters.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
141-2
At this...
politics Josephine Butler
A letter dated 5 June 1885 is the only direct account left by JB of her involvement in the affair. She writes, I have been for 10 days in London helping several friends in a...

Timeline

1914: The Bank of England first began issuing,...

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1914

The Bank of England first began issuing, on instructions from the Treasury , bank notes in a ten-shilling denomination (worth, that is, half of a pound).
Boggan, Steven. “Paper Chase”. The Guardian, 24 June 2006, pp. Weekend 21 - 6.
Weekend 22

1919: The University Grants Committee (UGC) was...

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1919

The University Grants Committee (UGC) was established to oversee the small grant which the British government was now making to some institutions of higher education.
Mountford, Sir James Frederick. British Universities. Oxford University Press, 1966.
154
Gordon, Peter et al. Education and Policy in England in the Twentieth Century. Woburn, 1991.
322
Mountford, Sir James Frederick. British Universities. Oxford University Press, 1966.
152, 154
Collini, Stefan. “HiEdBiz”. London Review of Books, 6 Nov. 2003, pp. 3-9.
3-4
Collini, Stefan. “From Robbins to McKinsey”. London Review of Books, Vol.
33
, No. 16, 25 Aug. 2011, pp. 9-14.
9

9 March 1949: A National Theatre Act was passed by the...

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9 March 1949

A National Theatre Act was passed by the British Parliament , which allowed the Treasury to contribute towards national theatre costs.
Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin, 1991.
177-8
Woodward, Richard, and Isobel Grundy. Email about National Theatre Act of 1949 to Isobel Grundy. 22 Aug. 2003.

9 March 1949: A National Theatre Act was passed by the...

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9 March 1949

A National Theatre Act was passed by the British Parliament , which allowed the Treasury to contribute towards national theatre costs.
Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin, 1991.
177-8
Woodward, Richard, and Isobel Grundy. Email about National Theatre Act of 1949 to Isobel Grundy. 22 Aug. 2003.

Late 1951: Florence Horsbrugh was appointed Minister...

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Late 1951

Florence Horsbrugh was appointed Minister of Education without a seat in cabinet by Winston Churchill ; it was the first time an Education Minister . . . [had been] excluded from the Cabinet in twenty...

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