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MS 466 - Cadbury Collection - 16th cent. - 20th cent.
- 1 - Family papers - 1727 - 1977
  - 1 - Papers relating to Dame Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury (1858-1951) - 1842 - 1960
    - 10 - Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury's public addresses, broadcasts, reminiscences, publications and related correspondence - 1885 - 1958
      - 1 - Public Addresses - 1890 - 1949

Ref No	MS 466/1/1/10/1/25
Finding Number	MS 466/152/25b
Title	Annotated account of a Meeting of Ex-Day Continuation School Girls including an address entitled 'Leisure' by Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury
Level	Item
Date	[n.d. c.1925]
Description	This printed account provides a report of the fourth annual meeting of girls who had recently left the Day Continuation School in Bournville. The meeting included a tea and featured an address by Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury. This copy of the account includes a section relating to Taylor Cadbury's address which was entitled 'Leisure'. This is annotated with ink alterations, suggesting that Taylor Cadbury proof-read the account before it was distributed or published. The account offers an overview of Taylor Cadbury's public achievements, including her presidency of the Young Women's Christian Association (Y.W.C.A.) in Birmingham and her appointment as the first female President of the National Free Church Council (Federal Council of the Free Churches). The annotated report of Taylor Cadbury's address summarises her comments concerning the importance of continued education. Taylor Cadbury also remarked on the freedom open to girls in terms of their recreation, encouraging her female audience to make their lives 'strong and active' and to 'spend some of it in service for others'. Taylor Cadbury suggested that her husband George Cadbury had inspired her and many other people into public service, adding that her own happiness came from the feeling that she had been able to help others.
Extent	1
Format	Item
Related Material	Information about Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury, continuation schools and the National Free Church Council taken from Richenda Scott, 'Elizabeth Cadbury: 1858-1951' (London: Harrap, 1955) p. 110 and p. 156.
Access Status	Open
AdminHistory	An annotation in the top right hand corner of this account suggests that it was written in 1919. However, references to Taylor Cadbury's appointment as the first female President of the National Free Church Council (Federal Council of the Free Churches) which occurred in 1925 suggest that the account was written during this year. Following the implementation of educational schemes for workers at the Cadbury factory in Bournville, a Day Continuation School was opened in the village in 1913. Richenda Scott remarks on Taylor Cadbury's keen interest in the school which was maintained by Birmingham Education Authority and later renamed the Day Continuation College.
Language	English

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