Northampton College of Education, 1969-1975 | University of Northampton Archive

The collection has been arranged in to eleven series:

Series 1 contains the committee minutes of the College and these have been further divided in to two sub-series:

Sub-series 1 consists of two boxes

Box 1 contains the minutes of the Governing Body meetings, the meeting paper and related correspondence 1970-1975.

Box 2 contains the Principals Reports to the Governing Body 1971-1975

Sub-series 2 consists of one box containing the minutes of the Bar Management Committee 1972-1977.

Series 2 contains items relating to the history of the Northampton College of Education and has been further divided in to two sub-series:

Sub-series 1 consists of one box containing items relating to the building of the College.

Sub-series 2 consists of one box containing items relating to the transfer of Kirkby Fields College of Education to Northampton.

Series 3 consists of one box containing items relating to the staffing of the Northampton College of Education.

Series 4 consists of one box containing items relating to College events.

Series 5 consists of one box containing the publications of the College

Series 6 consists of one box containing the prospectuses of the Northampton College of Education.

Series 7 consists of one box containing the admission register for the Northampton College of Education.

Series 8 consists of one box containing items relating to the Social Club.

Series 9 consists of one box containing photographs relating to the Northampton College of Education.

Series 10 consists of one box containing articles and newspaper clippings that relate to the College.

Series 11 consists of two boxes containing ephemera relating to the Northampton College of Education.

Northampton College of Education was founded in 1972, located on a new campus in Moulton Park, Northampton. It brought together two institutions. One was the Kirkby Fields Teacher Training College which was relocated from its former home in Liverpool. The second was an outpost of the City of Leicester Training College, which had opened in 1966 at the John Clare School in Northampton specifically to cater for mature students.

The college ceased to function as an independent unit in 1975, when it was amalgamated with the Northampton School of Art and College of Technology to form Nene College. At this time a second outpost of the City of Leicester Training College, based at Corby since 1966, was also incorporated.