Monday, February 26, 2018

Educational Visits (1935)

Party News from the November 1935 issue of the Socialist Standard
1st and 3rd Saturdays each month (3 p.m., sharp). 
Nov. 2nd          British Museum         - Gilmac
                          Real Relics
Nov. 16th  S. Kensington         - Lestor
                          From Stone to Steel
Educational Visits continue to be well attended. Comrade Lestor attracted a big party to hear history about Westminster Abbey not given by vergers and official guides. Two hours passed quickly at South Kensington when some features of Evolution bearing on Socialism were objectively-illustrated. At the Victoria and Albert Museum, Comrade Devereux interested a big party (including many non-members of the S.P.) by her brilliant illumination of odd corners of the M.C.H. from such apparently intractable objects as wooden chairs and the Great Bed of Ware.

The Organiser will be grateful for comments, criticisms, etc., from those attending Visits.
Reginald

1 comment:

Imposs1904 said...

Some notes:

'Gilmac' was the pen-name of Gilbert McClatchie.

'Lestor' was Charles Lestor.

Cde Devereux was Kathleen Devereux of Bloomsbury Branch.

'Reginald' was the pen-name of Augustus Snellgrove.