Building nears completion
- Death of the Founder, Sir Winston
- Governing Body votes to rescind men-only clause in its Charter
- Bevin and Bracken Libraries and Wolfson Hall opened by the Lord Chancellor
- The Library includes an archives room
- Wolfson Flats completed
- Prime Minister Harold Wilson cancels visit owing to Rhodesia crisis
- Original West Court abandoned, leaving vista to playing fields open
- Wolfson Foundation provides £300,000 for (reduced) final residential court
- First Churchill Association annual dinner, in London
- Copy of William Orpen portrait of the Founder (hanging in Hall) gifted by the Trustees
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4 November: Arrival of the Barbara Hepworth sculpture “Squares with two Circles” and erection on the rear lawn.