Fonds GB 106 10/23 - ANDERSON, Dame Adelaide Anderson (1863-1936): Scrapbooks

3 A boxes (3 volumes)

GB 106 10/23 1914-1915 fonds 3 A boxes (3 volumes) Anderson , Dame , Adelaide Mary , 1863-1936 , HM Chief Lady Inspector of Factories

Adelaide Mary Anderson (1863-1936) was the daughter of Alexander Gavin Anderson, a Scottish ship-owner, and Blanche Emily Campbell. She was born in Melbourne, Australia but her family returned to Europe when she was a child. She was educated by a governess at home and then at a school in Dresden, at Queen's College in Harley Street and Girton College, Cambridge where she studied for the Moral Sciences Tripos. She was a lecturer for the Women's Co-operative Guild and was offering private tuition when, in 1892, she joined the staff of the Royal Commission on Labour and became a civil servant. This subsequently led to her appointment in 1894 as one of the first women factory inspectors in the Home Office. She was HM Chief Lady Inspector of Factories from 1897-1921, where her work encompassed many aspects of the employment of women and young persons, including industrial health and safety, the dangerous trades, working hours and conditions and welfare. After her retirement from the Home Office, she continued her interest in working conditions for women and children, becoming particularly interested in conditions in China. She visited China three times. In 1923-1924 she became a member of the Commission on Child Labour under the auspices of the Municipal Council of the International Settlement of Shanghai. In 1926 she was a member of the Advisory Committee China Indemnity of the Foreign Office (Willingdon Mission) and of the delegation to China, and in 1931 served on a mission for the International Labour Office to Nanking, regarding a factory inspectorate for China. She worked for the Foreign Office on the Boxer Indemnity Fund. She was also a member of the Universities China Committee in London, 1932-1937. In 1930 she also visited Egypt to enquire into conditions of child labour. In addition, she travelled to South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Anderson wrote and lectured widely and her publications include Women in the Factory: An Administrative Adventure, 1893-1921 (1922) and Humanity and Labour in China: An Industrial Visit and its Sequel, 1923-1926 (1928).

Inscribed in the flyleaf: [these volumes] 'were presented by her [Dame Adelaide Anderson] to the Women's Service Library on 7 Oct 1935'.

This scrapbook consists of press cuttings, mainly from the national press, concerning the events of the First World War.

Inscribed on the flyleaf: 'These press cuttings were collected by Dame Adelaide Anderson during the early years of the Great War, 1914-18.'

This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.

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Collection level description available on-line on the Women's Library website

Finding aid created by export from CALM v7.2.14 Archives Hub EAD2002. Edited for AIM25 by Sarah Drewery.

In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Inscribed in the flyleaf: [these volumes] 'were presented by her [Dame Adelaide Anderson] to the Women's Service Library on 7 Oct 1935'.

This scrapbook consists of press cuttings, mainly from the national press, concerning the events of the First World War.

Inscribed on the flyleaf: 'These press cuttings were collected by Dame Adelaide Anderson during the early years of the Great War, 1914-18.'

This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.

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English

Collection level description available on-line on the Women's Library website

In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• anglais