Skip to main content

Correspondence and papers of Bill Jackson, Education Officer, and Jeffrey Archer, Education Department volunteer, relating to Development Education and Youth projects and events, 1964-1967

 File
MS. Oxfam DEV/4/3/1
Held in our offsite storage facility

  • Request
    this

Comprises:

  1. Bill Jackson's file: 'Gift Coupon Programme', 1964, relating to Oxfam production of classroom project folders to support a UNESCO gift coupon scheme, which allowed schools to donate books and equipment to schools in developing countries
  2. Jeffrey Archer's file: 'O[peration] O[asis] Educational Programme', 1964-1965, comprising correspondence with schools relating to the promotion of Operation Oasis
  3. Bill Jackson's file: 'Operation Oasis Algerian Correspondence', 1964-1966, including 'Visit to Algeria' by J.W. Jackson, Nov-Dec, 1965, and 'Report on visit to Algeria 5th October-14 November 1965'
  4. Bill Jackson's file: 'Operation Oasis. Education', 1965-1966, including a copy of the teaching pack used to prepare participants for the event and 'Report on nutritional aspects of Operation Oasis organised by Oxfam's Education Dept. March 22 to April 4 1966' by Frank Wokes, Vegetarian Nutritional Research Centre, May 1966
  5. Bill Jackson's file: 'Operation Oasis', 1966, including a list of participating schools, correspondence with participants and 'Operation Oasis in retrospect' by J.W. Jackson, Aug 1966
  6. Bill Jackson's file: 'Operation Oasis P.R. Photos etc.', 1966, including a promotional brochure and press cuttings relating to the trip
  7. Bill Jackson's file: 'Operation Oasis. Party Leaders' Comments and Criticisms', 1966
  8. Bill Jackson's file: 'Friends' School Lisburn. Land Rover Project 1968', 1967, relating to a school's project to fund, purchase and deliver two Land Rovers to Algeria to be used as ambulances.

Dates

  • Creation: 1964-1967

Extent

1 box (8 folders)

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MS. Oxfam DEV/4/3/1

Biographical / Historical

Novelist and politician Jeffrey Archer worked as an Oxfam volunteer while studying in Oxford in the early 1960s.

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

Contact:
Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom