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Research Article

‘A City’s Paradise’: preserving the remainder of Box Hill, voluntary social action and Country Life, 1919–1936

primary sources

  • Country Life (consulted at its Picture library, formerly at Southwark, and the Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading)
  • The Times Digital Archive (Surrey County Council Libraries)
  • DM, Dorking Museum
  • SC267 Newspaper cuttings collection SC.R 16 Box Hill Preservation
  • MERL, Museum of English Rural Life Collections, University of Reading
  • CPRE correspondence files with affiliated societies National Trust and Friends of Box Hill
  • Box Hill Management Committee (BHMC) minute books
  • BHMC newspaper cuttings books
  • SHC. Surrey History Centre
  • Ac 1358/1/23 Dorking Urban District Council minute book
  • CC90/40 Deepdene Estate sale particulars, 1921 398/56 High Ashurst sale poster [October 1918] 815/7 High Ashurst sale particulars, 1921
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  • The Manchester Guardian The Observer
  • The Saturday Review
  • TNA The National Archives
  • TNA WO 339/50356 Capt. O.E. Warburg
  • UN, University of Nottingham Manuscripts and Special Collections
  • Newcastle Collection, 6th Deposit

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