GB 0097 HARVEY - HARVEY, Audrey, 1912-1997, charity worker

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GB 0097 HARVEY

Title

HARVEY, Audrey, 1912-1997, charity worker

Date(s)

  • [1960]-1996 (Creation)

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12 boxes

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Biographical history

Born 1912; educated at Oxford University; spent World War two in occupations consistent with her pacifist convictions, including voluntary work in one of the newly created Citizens Advice Bureaux; permanent worker at the Poplar Citizens Advice Bureaux, East London, 1955-1969; wrote a series of influential articles and pamphlets about housing, social security and homelessness; advised Jeremy Sandford on the TV drama-documentary Cathy come home, 1965; Founder Member, Child Poverty Action Group, [1965], with particular interest in the defects of the benefits system; First Director, Citizens' Rights Office, Child Poverty Action Group, 1970-1972; independent Lay Advocate for local authority tenants in county court eviction proceedings, [1972-]; died 1997. Publications: Tenants in Danger (Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1964); Remedies for rent arrears: a study in the London Borough of Camden (Shelter, London, 1979).

Archival history

Given by the family in 1997.
GB 0097 HARVEY [1960]-1996 Collection (fonds) 12 boxes Harvey , Audrey , 1912-1997 , charity worker
Born 1912; educated at Oxford University; spent World War two in occupations consistent with her pacifist convictions, including voluntary work in one of the newly created Citizens Advice Bureaux; permanent worker at the Poplar Citizens Advice Bureaux, East London, 1955-1969; wrote a series of influential articles and pamphlets about housing, social security and homelessness; advised Jeremy Sandford on the TV drama-documentary Cathy come home, 1965; Founder Member, Child Poverty Action Group, [1965], with particular interest in the defects of the benefits system; First Director, Citizens' Rights Office, Child Poverty Action Group, 1970-1972; independent Lay Advocate for local authority tenants in county court eviction proceedings, [1972-]; died 1997. Publications: Tenants in Danger (Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1964); Remedies for rent arrears: a study in the London Borough of Camden (Shelter, London, 1979).

Given by the family in 1997.

Papers of Audrey Harvey, [1960]-1996, mainly comprising drafts of articles, offprints, correspondence and press cuttings relating to social welfare, housing, and homelessness.

Unsorted.

Closed until listed.

Most documents may be photocopied.
English

Unlisted.

The BLPES holds further material relating to Audrey Harvey in the papers of AEGIS (Ref: AEGIS/1/5) and the Fabian Society (Ref: Fabian Society/E28/5 and G54/1).

Sources: British Library On-Line Public Access Catalogue 97. Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. Oct 2000 Accommodation Building design Building standards Construction engineering Disadvantaged groups Harvey , Audrey , 1912-1997 , charity worker Homeless Housing Poor Poverty Social problems Social welfare

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Papers of Audrey Harvey, [1960]-1996, mainly comprising drafts of articles, offprints, correspondence and press cuttings relating to social welfare, housing, and homelessness.

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Accruals

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Unsorted.

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Closed until listed.

Conditions governing reproduction

Most documents may be photocopied.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

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English

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The BLPES holds further material relating to Audrey Harvey in the papers of AEGIS (Ref: AEGIS/1/5) and the Fabian Society (Ref: Fabian Society/E28/5 and G54/1).

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British Library of Political and Economic Science

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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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  • English

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