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ARNOLD, Roxane
GB 106 7RAR · Fonds · c 1993

The archive consists of papers relating to Roxane Arnold's work as Treasurer of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (UK section). The archive contains the following:

  • Subscription form for the International Federation of Women Lawyers (UK section), c 1993

  • Flyer for the International Federation of Women Lawyers (UK section), c 1993

  • List of participants at an International Federation of Women Lawyers conference held in Paris, 7-11 Sep 1989

  • Balance sheets for years ending 1968, 1990, 1991 and 1992

  • 2 letters in Italian

  • Two photographs of the Married Women's Association Tea Party, House of Lords, 23 Jun 1988.

Arnold , Roxane , fl 1950-1993 , feminist
GB 106 7ELB · Fonds · 1910-1977

The archive consists of diaries, photographs of work with Scottish Women's Hospitals, Bowerman's passport with portrait photograph, and personal correspondence (1909-1948), mainly with her mother during (1910-1911) and during her time with the Scottish Women's Hospitals unit in Romania and Russia (1916-1917) during the First World War.

Bowerman , Elsie Edith , 1889-1973 , feminist
GB 106 10/32-33 · Fonds · 1912-1929

These scrapbooks consist of press cuttings and ephemera.

One volume relates to Maud Crofts' education and legal career, including press cuttings and ephemera.

The other volume of press cuttings relates to reviews of Women under English Law by Maud I. Crofts published by the National Council of Women of Great Britain in 1925; and a few articles about the general position of women under the law.

Unknown
GB 0096 AL496 · Fonds · 1920

Telegram from George V of Sandringham, [Norfolk] to [Hardinge Stanley Giffard], Earl of Halsbury, 25 Jan 1920. Offering congratulations on the 70th anniversary of Halsbury being called to the Bar.

George V , 1865-1936 , King of Great Britain and Ireland
GB 106 10/07 · Fonds · 1914-1920

Two scrapbooks of presscuttings and printed ephemera documenting Miss Nettlefold's legal career and the campaigns relating to women's entry into the legal profession. It also includes legal documents relating to Bebb v. The Law Society, a ms paper [by Miss Nettlefold] entitled, 'Women and the Legal Profession'; and a ts paper entitled, 'History of the efforts to open the legal profession to women in England and Scotland', Mar 1920. Also included are articles on women lawyers in Britain and abroad and cuttings relating to the barrister Helena Normanton.

Nettlefold , Lucy Frances , 1891-1966 , lawyer
GB 106 7HLN · Fonds · 1905-1995

The archive consists of:

  • papers relating to Helena Normanton's career and legal work

  • papers relating to matrimonial law reform

  • publications and articles by Helena Normanton

  • correspondence with editors of publications

  • papers relating to Helena Normanton's other interests in history and to other organisations that she was involved with eg Union of Women Voters

  • photographs

  • press cuttings (eg Helena Normanton's career, articles and reviews, matrimonial law reform)

  • Barristers robe, barristers bands, badges

There are no personal papers.

Normanton , Helena Florence , 1883-1957 , barrister and feminist campaigner
GB 0096 AL360 · Fonds · 1859-1901

A collection of letters, printed circulars, etc, mainly addressed to William Blackwood, of Messrs Stuart and Blackwood, Peebles, Scotland, 1859-1901. The topics covered reflect the firm's business activities: requests for legal advice or legal action; requests to act as agents or trustees; and legal advice or legal action on insurance, assurance and debts. A signficant proportion of the letters concern the Symington extension of the Caledonian Railway Company (1861).

Stuart and Blackwood, legal writers and insurers, of Peebles, Scotland.