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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the following, without whose help this work would not have been possible

The Staff of the University of Keele Library, in particular Dr Ian Fraser and Margaret Morris of the Library Archives and Stanley Stewart, former Chief Librarian
Others at Keele University and at Lindsay Hall who made my time there so agreeable
Geoff Nelson, Pete Tetley, Ron Vanelli, Dave Cox, Lee Harvey and others at the former Birmingham Polytechnic (now the University of Central England) for their help and encouragement during five years
The Seminar Group at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at Oxford University, for inviting me to present a paper in October 1983, which forms the basis for the current thesis
My father, T F Evans for his constant advice and encouragement, and in particular for reading the final draft
Alan Bosworth for invaluable help more recently (2001) in transferring old BBC Word files to PC format

Finally, to all those former members of the Institute of Sociology and the Le Play Society whom I was able to interview
for their interest and enthusiasm, which in many cases far exceeded what I could reasonably have expected

Stanley Beaver - former Professor of Geography at Keele, and member of the Le Play Society from the early 1930s
William Campbell-Stewart - former Professor of Education at Keele, and member of the Institute of Sociology Executive from 1953 to 1955
Joy Copner - niece of Dorothea Farquharson, who worked at Le Play House during 1949 and 1950
Walter Freeman - former Professor of Geography at Manchester, and member of the Le Play Society from the 1930s
Lorna Hill - niece of Dorothea Farquharson, who worked at Le Play House from 1948 to early 1949
Marie Jahoda - active member of the Institute of Sociology from 1937 until the early years of the War
Ethel John Lindgren - member of the Council of the Institute of Sociology from 1942 until the early 1950s
Donald MacRae - Professor of Sociology at the LSE, who was peripherally involved with the Institute of Sociology during the 1940s