Saturday 8 May 2010

More items listed in virtual catalogue

Some more has gone into the virtual catalouge  at http://www.virtualcelibrary.blogspot.com/

Items on Conductive Education and politics and Conductive Education and developement have now been posted.

Please let me know if there are other items you have found. I know that there will be more about questions asked in the UK parliament, and I am working on it.

2 comments:

Andrew said...

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1999/may/19/conductive-education:

This was the last big one in the UK Parliament

A better version:

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199899/ldhansrd/vo990519/text/90519-13.htm#90519-13_spnew3

This more recent debate, on cerebral palsy, touched upon CE:

http://services.parliament.uk/hansard/Lords/ByDate/20091104/grandcommittees/part002.html

Here's a relati8vely early mention in the Lords:

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1989/jul/26/the-peto-institute-for-handicapped

There is an awful lot more from the Lords! Good luck with it all. And after the Lords then of course there is the Commons, and the records of the regional assembies/ parliaments in the UK, and the Hansard for Commonwealth countries (some smashing stuff from Australia, I recall, during the doctored CE reserch scandal), that's before you get to the United States legislatures, and to the lands where they speak other languages...

I would wish you, sardonically, a happy retirement with this lot, but I am fairly sure that the great bulk of such stuff comes from the Westminster Parliament. I doubt that any country will have had such a furore over Conductive Education as the United Kingdom did when there was a concerted lobby and PR campaign to help it along.

So, it should ]n't take you too long. Just to help ypuon t=your way, can I remind you that there is a bit of a bibilogtrapgy ogf such stuff already on line, on the Internet, on 'Conductive Education Online'. This includes Parliaments not just of the UK and not just the English-speaking countries. The compiler won't mind your mining this.

So it shouln't take you all that long...!

Never volunteer if you can't take a joke',


Andrew.

Gillian Maguire said...

Thankyou, Andrew. I did realise what a lot there might be and it may take some time. I will definitely follow up on your suggestions and hope others may send me more.