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University of Leicester: Archives and Special Collections

Acc 2019/21 Five Year Diary of Helga Bejach recording the years 1944-1946.

Acc 2019/21 Letter from Mary Attenborough to Helga and Irene’s Uncle, October 22nd, 1946.

"A Leicester Woman's Diary", Leicester Evening Mail, January 27th 1933, University of Leicester: Archives and Special Collections, Press Cuttings Book June 1920-December 1946. ULA/PCB/2 p.165. 

‘An Arrest was Made in the Cause of Soroptimism’, Leicester Evening Mail, 13th May 1936, accessed ULA/PCB2, p.191

‘Astley Clarke’s Scrapbook on the foundation and early development of University College Leicester; letter of recommendation for F.L. Attenborough from F.F. Potter’. ULA/D2/1 p.78B. 

"Gay Scene at College Ball", Leicester Evening Mail, February 18th 1933, University of Leicester: Archives and Special Collections, Press Cuttings Book June 1920-December 1946. ULA/PCB/2 p.154.

"Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Attenborough photographed at the College House, Leicester University", Leicester Mercury, October 1931, University of Leicester: Archives and Special Collections, Press Cuttings Book June 1920-December 1946. ULA/PCB/2 p.143.

‘Mrs Attenborough Killed in Crash’, Leicester Mercury, 13th July 1961, accessed ULA/PCB10, p.71

Obituary of Mary Attenborough, Leicester Evening Mail, 13th July 1961, accessed ULA/PCB10, p.70

"Recital, 1937", Leicester Evening Mail, February 6th 1937, Univeristy of Leicester: Archives and Special Collections. ULA/FG9/2/36.

“Students’ First Dance: Happy Social Event in Leicester”, Leicester Mercury, February 18th 1933, University of Leicester: Archives and Special Collections,  Press Cuttings Book June 1920-December 1946.  ULA/PCB/2 p.154.

"University College: Guests Received by Sir J. North at Annual Dance", Leicester Mercury, January 27th 1934, University of Leicester: Archives and Special Collections, Press Cuttings Book June 1920-December 1946. ULA/PCB/2 p.164.

‘Values of University to Industry’, Leicester Evening Mail, May 28th, 1936, accessed ULA/PCB 2, p.193

Secondary Sources

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An Edwardian Autograph Album, Available at: https://www.ilkestonhistory.org.uk/history/treasures/album/tralbum.htm# (Accessed: 8 September 2020)

Attenborough, Richard, and Diana Hawkins, Entirely Up to You, Darling (Hutchison: Great Britain, 2008), p.99

‘Children in Leicester’, International Brigade Memorial Trust, Issue 10, February 2005, pp.3-6

Frederick L Attenborough 1939-46, Available at: https://www.leicesterlitandphil.org.uk/1945-frederick-l-attenborough-1945-46/  (Accessed: 27 August 2020).

Funeral programme for the Lord Attenborough, Westminster Abbey, 2015, Available at :<https://d34cc07d-abbe-4a99-95aa-217f03e1836c.filesusr.com/ugd/03606a_dabad762fc0c467dad6e69452b24b095.pdf> [accessed 8 September 2020]

Graduates List, Available at: https://archives.libraries.london.ac.uk/resources/graduates2ocr.pdf (Accessed: 8 September 2020)

Graham, John, Before My Time: The Story of the Leicester Drama Society (Leicester: Leicester Drama Society, 1983).

Graves, Richard, 'From Berlin to New York via Leicester: The Long Journey of the Attenboroughs' 'Adopted Sisters' (Part 2)', Leicestershire Historian (2015), pp.36-42 (p.38).

Graves, Richard, ‘Leicester’s Refuge for Basque Children from the Spanish Civil War (Part 1)’, Leicestershire Historian, no.52 (2016), pp.3-10.

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