Category: The people behind the story

To give freedom for creative expression to the artist, within the framework of a sound administration, calls for the highest of intellectual qualities and the deepest of human understanding. Chris had both.

David Lack's ‘The Life of the Robin’ was, and 60 years later still is, the most influential and comprehensive book written on the bird that has become one of Britain’s emblems.

The Pitman family came to Dartington in December 1945, with Bert working for Parsonage and Barton farms and his wife Edna asked to help out at Dartington Hall School nursery for two weeks. These two weeks lasted nearly 30 years...

For many years Elizabeth attended the Summer School, not as an organiser, an eminent teacher, or a performer but simply as a visitor finding something special at Dartington.

In the 1930s highly respected weaver Elizabeth Peacock was commissioned to produce wall hangings for the Great Hall to alleviate the acoustic problems.

Florence came to Dartington in her twenties, when she answered a job advertisement for a secretary for the general office in the newly formed Art Department, and became pivotal to the Dartington Playgoers.