Franklin left King's College London in mid-March 1953 for Birkbeck College, in a move that had been planned for some time and that she described (in a letter to Adrienne Weill in Paris) as "moving from a palace to the slums .. but pleasanter all the same."[REF]
In 1957 her research grant from ARC had expired, and was given a one-year extension ending in March 1958.