DWE Staff

DATE: 1925-1990

LEVEL: Series

Records relating to estate staff and servants, records of estate life during World War II, and staff activities including children's Christmas parties. Records also include policy and administrative materials; Estate Committee records and correspondence; lists of employees and children; estate housing; early household budget records; correspondence with estate employees and household staff; correspondence with alien internees employed by the Dartington Hall estate including Kurt Jooss, Hein Heckroth, Willi Soukop, and Hans Oppenheim. Information on wartime conditions includes documents distributed by the Ministry of Information and written recollections of estate staff and trustees including Dorothy Elmhirst. Other material includes examples of Dorothy Elmhirst's speeches used in promoting Anglo-American understanding. An important subseries includes much primary information on approximately 300 child evacuees billeted locally and at Aller Park from 1940 through 1945.

Information for Researchers

All papers belonging to The Dartington Hall Trust Archive (with the exclusion of Dartington Hall School pupils individual records) are held at the Devon Record Office. All enquiries relating to research should be made to Devon Records Office, Great Moor House, Bittern Road, Sowton, Exeter, Devon EX2 7NL
+44 (0)1392 384253
+44 (0)1392 384256
devrec@devon.gov.uk
www.devon.gov.uk/record_office

The following requests should be made direct to the Archives & Records at The Dartington Hall Trust as shown below:
Copies of images as seen on The Dartington Hall Trust online catalogue with appropriate reference number (Ref No.)
Permission to publish or quote from any document held in the Dartington Hall Trust Archive
Former pupils of Dartington Hall School wishing to view their records
Archives & Records
The Dartington Hall Trust
Dartington Hall
Totnes TQ9 6EL
01803 847200
yvonne.widger@dartington.org

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