'Programming for the F.P.C.I.', a course of 10 lectures delivered by Strachey at Northampton Polytechnic, 13 January to 17 March 1955 Includes Printed programme and synopses of the lectures. Manuscript synopses of the lectures. Manuscript draft of 1st lecture 'Introduction to Programming for Computers', 7 pages. Manuscript notes for lectures…

Strachey contributed lectures to courses on operational research, sponsored by the University of Birmingham Institute for Engineering Production, on several occasions in 1955 and 1957. He was invited to repeat his lecture on 'Electronic Digital Computers' in September 1957, but declined. 'Notes for a talk at Birmingham University Operational Research Course', 13-14 October 1955. Manuscript notes, 6 pages, and correspondence. 'Electronic Digital Computers', lecture for…

Folder of miscellaneous sets of manuscript notes; one is labelled 'Notes on Binary Floating Point'. Includes correspondence with M.V. Wilkes and E.N. Mutch regarding a Summer School on scientific applications of digital computers held in Cambridge in September 1957. Strachey's lectures were titled 'Review of Commercially Available Computers'. Folder also includes brief correspondence regarding a British Council Course on Digital Computers, November 1957, at which…

One page of manuscript notes for talk. Correspondence with organiser regarding arrangements for the talk which was originally scheduled for January 1958 but postponed because of Strachey's ill-health. The subject was 'Problems attendant upon installing a computer' with special reference to the N.R.D.C./Siemens project.

'Computer Techniques', 2 lectures for a course on Electronic Computers and Business Problems, Dundee Technical College. Includes: Printed programme and information regarding the course, with correspondence. Stencilled lecture notes, 3 pages, for Strachey's lecture. Carbon copies of lectures by S. Gill on programming, programming developments, information and…

'Some Commercially Available Computing Machines', a lecture at a Course on Applications of Computers, Faculty of Applied Science, University of Nottingham. Includes Programme of the course and correspondence regarding Strachey's lecture. Lecture notes prepared for distribution (typescript with manuscript annotations and printed copy). Manuscript notes…

'Some Aspects of the Logical Design of Very Fast Computers', a lecture to the Middlesbrough and District Branch of the British Computer Society. Includes Printed notice of the lecture. Manuscript notes and drafts for the lecture (10 pages and 6 pages). Typescript draft (3 pages). Transcript of the lecture and of ensuing discussion with manuscript corrections,…

'Notes on a Talk to a School', manuscript, 3 pages. The school is not identified, but the notes are very introductory, and the audience probably young.

Three-page manuscript, 30 October 1962. Programme announcing the lecture (to the Middlesbrough and District Branch of the British Computer Society) with a reproduction of Strachey's article in The Observer Weekend Review, 18 February 1962 'A New Tool of the Intellect' (see MS. Eng. misc. b. 289/F.22).

Lecture on the importance of computers, King Edward's School, Surrey, 10 October 1962. Correspondence with science master regarding arrangements (no notes or text of lecture).

Eight-page manuscript, 17 November 1962, for a meeting of the Oxford and District Branch of the Mathematical Association held at the University of Reading. Correspondence and programme.

Lecture to the Study Group of the Institution of Electrical Engineers on Computer Design, 24 April 1963. One-page manuscript notes for the talk and correspondence regarding arrangements.

Film made by the Central Office of Information (C.O.I.) for release on television in the Commonwealth by the British Information Services. Strachey introduced the programme, linked the sequences and provided the conclusion. Correspondence, C.O.I. research document, a script with Strachey's annotations, and a typescript of Strachey's contribution.

Seminar given at M.I.T., autumn 1965. Contains: Typescript synopses of the seminar with manuscript additions by Strachey and a list of topics for a term paper. Manuscript notes (1 page) for introduction to the seminar. This is a very interesting exposition of Strachey's approach to teaching: 'Not a carefully prepared logical sequence of arguments leading…

Notes for a talk at Southampton, July 1965, 7-page manuscript, 2-page typescript program. Probably for the Schools Mathematical Project.

Talk given at the Mathematics Seminar, Harwell, 13 October 1966: abstract and correspondence, 6-page manuscript draft of the talk.

Lecture for A.F.I.R.O. in Paris, 20 March 1967, 6-page manuscript and typescript of the abstract.

Lecture in Grenoble, 21 March 1967, 3-page manuscript. (See MS. Eng. misc. b. 298/H.19 for correspondence regarding this lecture.)

A lecture given to the Oxford Invariant Society, 14 November 1967. 7-page manuscript.

A lecture given at Birkbeck College, London, 28 November 1967. Includes a 9-page manuscript, the programme, and correspondence regarding arrangements for the talk.