Papers of the National Birthday Trust Fund (NBTF), 1928-1993, comprising minutes; committee papers; records of annual general meetings; accounts; administration including maintenance of the building; correspondence relating to members, other organisations and individuals; fundraising and publicity; records relating to analgesia; records of research projects funded by the NBTF; reports to outside bodies; surveys; records relating to the Perinatal Mortality Survey, 1958; records relating to the British Births Survey, 1970; press cuttings; miscellaneous papers; administrative records of the Joint Council On Midwifery; records relating to the Abortion Survey conducted by the Joint Council On Midwifery; records relating to the Nutrition Survey conducted by the Joint Council On Midwifery; personal papers of Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams DBE (1898-1964), founder member and Chairman for a period until her death; and records relating to non-NBTF organisations.
Sans titrePapers of the World Organisation of Gastroenterology, 1958-2000, comprising administrative records, 1958-1995; publications including congress reports, bulletins, newsletters and World Gastroenterology News, 1935, 1958-1995; photographs and long playing records.
Sans titrePapers of The Society of Medical Officers of Health, 1856-1998, comprising the constitution, 1892-1993; council records, 1856-1997; records of the general purpose committee, 1937-1981; records of the standing and temporary committees, and working parties and joint meetings, 1892-1996; general meeting records, 1856-1997; attendance books, 1872-1965; financial records, 1892-1996; members lists, 1895-1997; publications and official publicity, 1856-1997; historical material, 1866-1908; comments and evidence c 1879-1998; miscellaneous files, c 1879-1998; records of special interest groups, 1920-1997; papers, minutes and publications relating to the Society's Faculty of Community Health, 1988-1998; public health literature and sources, 1902-1997; files relating to the journal The Medical Officer, 1897-1973; non-Society records documenting public health measures, policies and issues in the first half of the 20th century; and minutes, files, transcripts of papers, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera relating to the regional Branches and Groups of the Society, 1875-1997.
Sans titreThe collection comprises two papers on obstetrical practice.
Sans titreAdministrative records relating to the foundation of the Society, its premises and individual members, 1906-1979, including correspondence, diaries, notebooks, obituaries and photographs.
Papers of members, formerly held by the Society, including Sir Patrick Manson (1844-1922), Sir David Bruce (1855-1931), and Sir Philip Manson-Bahr (1881-1966).
Sans titrePapers of Sir Leonard Rogers, early-mid 20th century, including diaries, diary notes, personal material, experimental notebooks, drafts of books and articles, correspondence, and notes on various (mainly tropical) diseases, particularly cholera, leprosy, and tuberculosis; reprints.
Sans titreSargant was an outspoken supporter and practitioner of what he termed the 'practical rather than philosophical approaches' to the treatment of mental illness, pioneering and publicising various physical treatments and vociferously opposing the use of psychoanalytic techniques. The majority of the collection consists of his writings, both published and unpublished, supplemented by a small quantity of correspondence and other material. In addition, the collection contains clinical records for about 500 cases from Sutton Emergency Hospital in the 1940s. As well as covering clinical subjects (in Sections D, E, and F) and Sargant's views on the practice of psychiatry in general (Section B), the collection also contains material relating to his interest in the related issues of religious conversion and brainwashing (Section G).
Sans titreThe records cover the period 1976-1993, although the majority of the records date from 1985-1993. Many sections of the archive are complete - minutes of the Executive Committee, 1985-1993; annual reports, 1986-1993 and newsletters, 1986-1993. The archive also contains a great deal of information relating to other cancer organisations, both in this country and abroad.
Sans titrePapers of the British Medical Association compring files [1915-1960], from the following subject series: Medico-Political, Science, Groups, Ethics, Public Health, Hospitals, Organisation. Also incomplete set of copy minutes of Council, Committees and of the Annual Representatives' Meetings and Special Representatives' Meetings, [1907-1982].
Sans titrePapers of the British Microcirculation Society including the files kept by the Secretary; signed minutes of Annual General Meetings and of committee meetings (1963-1990) together with accounts, correspondence files and copies of printed booklets about the Society and the scientific meetings which it organised. There are also copies of photographs and films about microcirculation, given by the former secretary.
Sans titreMinutes of Management Committee, Establishment Committee, Works Committee, Nursing Committee; Secretary's files.
Sans titreComprises: Dispensary; Alexandra Hospital School; Administrative records; Financial records; Estate and property records; Drawings and illustrations; Postcards; Nursing records; Medical records; Photographs; Staff records; Operating theatre records; Supplies Department; External publications.
Sans titrePapers of the Malaria Research Laboratory, 1939-1967, relate to the work of the laboratory and the collation of data concerning documented cases of malaria within Britain. The collection notably includes correspondence and other documentation between P G Shute and G Covell, Assistant Director and Director of the Laboratory, and various hospitals and other medical institutions regarding blood films examined by the Laboratory for malarial parasites, 1939-1963; Public Health Laboratory Service yearly reports of malaria cases, 1954-1966 and annual reports of the Malaria Research Laboratory, 1957-1967.
Sans titreOver 3,000 periodical titles are held dating from 1745, some in single issues, but many in complete or representative runs. The Periodicals Collection brings together academic, popular and campaigning women's journals in one location and gives a unique insight into periodicals published about, for and by women. Titles range from commercially-produced popular magazines (Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan), to academic quarterlies (Gender and History, Feminist Review), organisational journals (One Parent Families, National Association of Women Pharmacists), special interest publications (Executive Black Woman), and older titles such as the English Woman's Journal. Many of these titles are not held in other research collections. The non-commercial nature of many of these periodicals with limited self-published print runs, resulted in periodicals that were issued irregularly, on poor quality paper and often only selectively deposited with the main copyright libraries.
COMMERCIALLY PUBLISHED
The Library's collection of commercially published magazines, a key resource for research into social history and popular culture, begins with the Ladies' Almanack of the 1740s and documents women's fashion and domestic concerns from runs of the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, The Queen, Ladies' Magazine, Ladies Monthly Magazine and Lady, Gentlewoman, in the 19th century; Home Chat, Woman's Weekly, Woman, Woman's Own, Honey,, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire in the 20th century; Grazia, Glamour and Easy Living of more recent years. Also included are some magazines aimed at girls and young women such as The Girls' Own Paper, Petticoat, Just 17 and Jackie.
FEMINIST AND CAMPAIGNING
At the heart of the Periodical Collection are the women's campaigning journals and feminist periodicals. The collection of feminist periodicals at The Women's Library is unrivalled in its extent and breadth. It begins with the English Woman's Journal of the mid-19th century, and continues with titles such as The Young Women and includes complete runs of titles such as The Women's Penny Paper, the Woman's Herald, Victoria Magazine, the Woman's Signal, the Woman's Leader, Englishwoman's Review, Englishwoman, Freewoman, Time and Tide, Woman's Gazette, and Shafts all of which were key to the development of feminist theory and progressive ideas.
SUFFRAGE
The Library's extensive collection of suffrage periodicals is central to the study of women's rights in the 20th century, titles including Votes for Women, Common Cause, Woman's Dreadnought, The Vote, the Women's Suffrage Journal, Women's Franchise, the Suffragette Newssheet, the Independent Suffragette, Britannia, and the Suffragette as well as titles such as the Anti-Suffrage Review.
WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT
The collection of journals documenting 'second-wave' feminism in the UK includes complete runs of titles such as Spare Rib and Trouble and Strife and near complete runs of other liberation titles such as Red Rag, Shrew, WIRES, Outwrite and the London Women's Liberation Newsletter. Regional involvement was an integral part of the movement and this is charted through a number of regional titles including Brighton and Hove Women's Liberation Group, Edinburgh Women's Liberation newsletter, Leeds Women's Liberation newsletter, Leicester Women's Liberation newsletter, Manchester Women's Liberation newsletter and Norwich Women's Centre newsletter.
CONTEMPORARY FEMINISTS
The periodical holdings continue to document the development of contemporary feminism, sometimes referred to as 'third wave', with titles including Verve and Subtext. Additional contemporary feminist publications can be found within our 'zine' collection (dating from 2002).
WOMEN'S ORGANISATIONS
Periodicals created by women's organisations, networks and campaigns. These can include weekly or monthly newsletters and magazines aimed at members, quarterly and annual journals aimed at members and a wider academic audience, and annual reports aimed at a wider audience. Given the short life of many campaigning organisations, their newsletters and bulletins often provide the main record of their activities. Few of these publications are held elsewhere, and they are only selectively deposited with national collections, organisations include: the Fawcett Society, National Council of Women, The National Federation of Women's Institutes (Home and Country), Townswomen's Guilds (The Townswoman), UK Federation of Business and Professional Women, Girls' Friendly Society, Executive Black Woman, Catholic Citizen and National Association of Women Pharmacists document women's efforts to come together to improve the quality of their lives.
SPECIALIST INTEREST
Whilst retaining the collecting focus of women's lives in the UK, there are a number of subject specialist interest areas including:
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The Arts - titles such as Feminist Arts News, Heresies: a feminist publication on art and politics, n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, Vogue and Women's Art Magazine.
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Domestic Violence - titles such as Rights of Women Bulletin, Violence Against Women: an international interdisciplinary journal and Women at War: preventing gun violence, WAVAV - Women Against Violence Against Women.
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Education - titles such as Gender and Education, The Woman Teacher, Gen: an anti-Sexist Education Journal, British Federation of University Women, and The Parents' Review.
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Employment - titles such as Work and Leisure, Women's Union Journal, Labour Woman, Women's Trade Union Review, Equality Now: magazine of the Equal Opportunities Commission, Executive Woman, the Woman Worker, The Woman Engineer: journal of the Woman's Engineering Society and Double shift: working women's newsletter.
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Family and the home - titles such as Women's Weekly, Woman's Own, Family Planning Today and New Home economics.
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Feminist Theory - titles such as Feminist Studies, Feminist Economics, Feminist Theory, and the International Journal of Feminist Studies.
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Health - titles such as Women and Health, Top Sante, London Black Women's Health Action project newsletter and Mental Health.
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Law - titles such as ALRA newsletter: Campaigning for a Woman's Right to Choose on Abortion, Family Law, Individualist: monthly journal of personal rights, Lesbian Employment Rights, and Rights of Women Bulletin, National Abortion Campaign.
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Literature - titles such as Mslexia, Silver Moon Quarterly and Writing Women.
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Media - titles such as Feminist Media Studies, The Woman Journalist and Women's Media Action Bulletin.
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Medicine - titles such as Women in Medicine: newsletter of the Medical Women's Federation and National Association of Women Pharmacists newsletter.
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Motherhood - titles such as Home and Family: journal of the Mother's Union, Journal of Marriage and Family, Maternity Alliance, Gingerbread, One Parent Families, World Congress of Mothers News and Information.
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Sexuality - titles such as Sappho, Sex Roles: a journal of research, Journal of the history of sexuality, Chroma, Diva, Arena Three and Dykelife.
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Women and peace - titles such as Woman today, Greenham Newsletter, Peace and Freedom News: journal of the British Section of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Sellafield Women's Peace Camp Newsletter, Women for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Newsletter and WoMenwith Hill: Women's Peace Camp Newsletter.
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Politics - titles such as Equal Opportunities International, Gender and Society and the NAWO e-bulletin (National Alliance of Women's Organisations).
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Prostitution - titles such as The Shield: to promote the repeal of Contagious Diseases Act, Network: news from the English Collective of Prostitutes and WHISPER: Women hurt in systems of prostitution engaged in revolt.
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Ethnicity - titles such as Pride, Race Today and Manushi.
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Religion - titles such as Church Militant, Jewish Women's Review, Catholic Citizen, Newsheet/Women Living Under Muslim Laws International Solidarity Network, and Movement for the Ordination of Women.
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Science and Technology are The Woman Engineer, Science for People, Women Chemists Newsletter and Forum: Journal of the Association for Women in Science and Engineering.
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Sport - titles such as Poise: the Health and beauty magazine, Ladies' Alpine Club, The Dyke: Lesbian Walkers' Magazine, Women in Sport: the Voice of Women's Sport and Outdoor Women.
Papers of Melville William Hilton-Simpson including:
MS 65
Journals of the Congo expedition: containing narrative of the journey, [1907-1909]. 7 volumes.
MS 66
Manuscript and typescript drafts of Among the hill-folk of Algeria: Journeys among the Shawia of the Aurcs Mountains, by Hilton-Simpson. (London: T. Fisher Unwin. 192I), including 17 photographs and a map.
MS 66A
Annotated proofs of Algiers and beyond: by Hilton-Simpson (London, Hutchinson, 1906).
MS67
Notes by Hilton-Simpson taken in Algeria including on magic, arts and crafts, medical magic, villages, geography, buildings and textiles, 1913-1925.
MS 68
Ethnographical and bibliographical notes by Hilton-Simpson in Algeria, arranged by subject, c 1914-1926.
MS 69
Typescript and manuscript notes used for an article by Hilton-Simpson, 'Some Arab and Shawia Remedies and Notes on the Trepanning of the Skull in Algeria'
The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 43, (Jul. - Dec., 1913), pp. 706-721.
MS 70
Manuscript and typescript drafts of a paper on Berber and Arab surgery for the Royal Society of Medicine, Oct. 1919.
MS 71
Manuscript and typescript drafts for a book entitled 'The wandering Arabs of the Sahara: a sketch of life among the Nomads of the great African desert', by Hilton-Simpson. c 1921.
MS 72
Manuscript and typescript papers on material culture in Algeria including on the modern use of the 'water-clock' in Algerian irrigation, oil mills and the pole-lathe in Algeria and England.
MS 73
Manuscript, typescript and printed papers on the Congo by Hilton-Simpson, [c1910], including 'At the court of an African King', 'Sport at a Congo mission station', 'Two years among strange tribes', 'Buffalo shooting in the Belgian Congo', 'Loango to Kasai' and corrected proofs of introduction and index to Land and Peoples of the Kasai, (London, Constable, 1911-17) with copy of agreement with Constable.
MS 74
Manuscript and typescript papers and notes on North Africa, [1906-1920s] on topics including the cave dwellers of Southern Tunisia; a sandstorm in the Sahara; Algerian children's games and toys; some Algerian superstitions noted among the Shawia Berbers of the Aures Mts and their nomad neighbours; magical medicine; medicine among the Berbers of the Aures; purges and laxatives; charms and superstitions; Shawia festivals; folklore of the Algerian hills and deserts; big game and Tuareg warfare.
MS 75
Notebook containing sketches and notes on Shawia and Arabs.
MS 76
Manuscript and typescript notes on the material culture of the Shawia, [1920s], including on villages, habitations and dwellings; textiles; pottery; woodwork; basketry; leather work; agriculture; irrigation and time measurement; corn milling; olive oil; war and weapons.
Sans titrePapers and photographs of Mary Frances Lucas Keene, 1911-1994, comprising:
Personal papers, including diplomas and certificates awarded to Lucas Keene, 1904-1973; personal correspondence including letters from the RFHSM and the University of London, mainly concerning her retirement, and appointment as Emeritus Professor, 1950-1975; letters from Lucas keen to Prof John W S Harris and his wife, Sonia, 1971-1978; notes for speeches, mainly given at London (RFH) School of Mediicine for Women ceremonies, 1933-1954; papers on anatomy teaching and research, including notes, diagrams and photographs, 1921-1951; notebooks containing case notes on dissections of human embryos and foetuses, 1921-1951; Emphemera including Royal Free Hospital Pharmacopoeia and Journal of tje Medical Women;s Federation, July 1951, containing an appreciation of her work; photographs of Lucas Keene, her family and fiends, 1924-1974; group photographs of Anatomical Society meeting, Edinburgh, 1947 and Staff and Students of RFHSM, 1950; album of photographs of the medical school, staff and students, presented to Lucas Keene on her retirement as Professor of Anatomy, 1951
Records relating to the career of George Qvist, surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital (RFH), 1946-1975, and Surgical Tutor, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine (RFHSM), and and also his wife Dame Frances Violet Gardner, Consultant Physician, RFH, and Dean of the RFHSM, comprising:
Correspondence and papers of George Qvist, relating to his surgical and teaching career, including personal correspondence, photographs and press cuttings, 1952-1979; job applications and testimonials, 1933-1952; copies of articles, lectures and papers by Qvist, 1941-1979, on surgical subjects, and on the National Health Service, particularly the problems facing General Practitioners, 1964-1966; patient photographs from hospitals in the Royal Free Group, 1949-1974, illustrating a wide variety of medical conditions, used by Qvist for teaching and research, including chest photographs, slides and X-Rays acquired by Arthur Tudor Edwards FRCS (d 1946), Surgeon-in-Charge, Department of Thoracic Surgery, London Hospital; obituaries of Qvist, 1981; papers on memorials to Qvist, including the opening of George Qvist Ward in the Accident and Emergency Department at the RFH, and the George Qvist Lectures at RFH, 1986-1990;
Correspondence and papers of Dame Frances Violet Gardner, on her career as a cardiologist at the RFH and as a teacher and administrator at the RFHSM; including personal correspondence and photographs, 1946-c.1981; copies of articles by Gardner on cardiology; photographs and cuttings on Gardner's visit to Saudi Arabia, to advise on the establishment of a School of Medicine at the University of Riyadh, 1966; obituaries, 1989.
Sans titrePapers of Rachel Pinney on the technique of Creative Listening, correspondence, transcript of an article, press cuttings concerning her court appearance on a kidnap charge.
Sans titreThe archive consists of reading copies of tapes, summaries and transcriptions of fourteen individual interviews. The National Life Stories (formerly National Life Story Collection (NLSC)) was established at the British Library in 1987 to 'record first-hand experiences of as wide a cross-section of present-day society as possible'. This small collection focuses on the lives of pioneering career women, each of whom made their mark in traditionally male-dominated areas such as politics, the law and medicine. The project was supported by the Women's Library and the Friends of The Women's Library (formerly known as the Fawcett Society Library).
Sans titreCommittee and sub-committee minutes, annual reports and Secretary's files.
Sans titreAdministrative records.
Sans titreAdministrative records, financial records, patient records, nursing records, photographs, pharmacy records and miscellaneous records.
Sans titreAdministrative records, Chaplain's records, financial records, patient records, nursing records.
Sans titreAnnual reports and 'The History of a Hundred Years: East London Nursing Society 1868 - 1968' by Edith Ramsay, M.B.E. (missing).
Sans titreAdministrative records, deeds, financial records, patient records, nursing records, photographs, pharmacy records, surveyor's records and papers, photographs and paintings from unofficial sources.
Sans titreMinutes, constitutional and membership papers, meeting and agenda papers, secretary's papers, medical agency papers and miscellaneous papers.
Sans titrePapers of Lilli Segal, 1987-1995, comprise correspondence including letters to Professor Müller Hill regarding Nazi medical experiments (895/1-4); letter regarding numbers of Holocaust victims from Hans Mommsen (895/28); correspondence with the Nationale Mahn und Gedenkstätte Buchenwald regarding the memorialisation of the Holocaust (895/13-16) and copies of relevant newspaper cuttings, book extracts and photographs.
Sans titreCollection of pamphlets, journals and papers relating to nursing. Includes: Guild of Nurses Quarterly Review, 1940s; Recruitment of Nurses and Midwives to Training Institutions, 1945; The Association of Nurses, 1937; The Jewish Nurse in Palestine, 1947; Nurses Salaries Committee, 1940s; Government publications; International Labour Office Publications relating to employment and conditions; Queen's Nursing Institute annual reports. Also material relating to the Royal College of Nursing.
Sans titreRecords of the Röntgen Society comprising: minutes of general meetings, 1899-1927; minutes of Council, 1899-1926; microfilm copies of minutes of the Röntgen Society 1923-1927; letter book, 1913; Röntgen Society list of members, 1903-1917; printed copies of Röntgen Society Year Book and Lists of Members, 1917-1925.
Sans titrePapers of Iris Murdoch, 1993, comprising a letter of thanks to Ana Olos for her suggestion that Murdoch write her biography but turning her down: 'Alas I have very little time left and to tell your story well would take a lot of time, I am very sorry. I have little time to write my own work'. The collection also contains a copy of Ana Olos' (Psycho)analytical approach to a case of reading therapy, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 4.1-2 1998.
Sans titrePapers of Adolf Frankl, 1975-1990, relate to an art exhibition of Adolf Frankl's works and consist of correspondence, opening addresses, newspaper reviews and catalogues.
Sans titrePapers of Dr Richard Michels, 1889-1969, comprise correspondence and journals of Richard Michels, mostly whilst on board a variety of ships in his capacity as ship's doctor c 1900; some photographs; and typescript accounts of Kempen, Posen by a relative on his wife's side of the family.
Sans titrePapers, 1926-1984, of Alan James Juby, relating to the development of anaesthesia and anaesthetic apparatus.
Records relating to Juby's career comprise typescript lease of premises at no 34 Devonshire Street, St Marylebone, London, to Arthur Charles King, 1926; typescript financial accounts of A Charles King Ltd, 1942, 1946; printed catalogue with illustrations of anaesthetic apparatus produced by A Charles King Ltd, undated [mid-20th century]; typescript copy letter from I W Magill to the Editor of The Lancet, 1942, concerning A Charles King's inquiry in 1932 for rotameters for gas and oxygen rather than anaesthetic flowmeters then in use, and their subsequent adoption; records relating to patent specifications, including photographs of apparatus, for Juby's work for A Charles King and subsequently for the British Oxygen Company Ltd, for improvements in retaining devices for anaesthetic mouthpieces, 1929, a portable stand for gas cylinders, 1929, an instrument for introducing intra-tracheal catheters, 1929, improvements in endotracheal tubes, 1953, improvements in cuffed catheters, 1955, improvements in gas-administering apparatus, 1956, connectors for endotracheal tubes, 1959, and means for producing a spray of gas-entrained liquid, 1960.
Records relating to organisations comprise reports and notices of meetings, lectures and other events, 1937-1984, of organisations including the Royal Society of Medicine Section of Anaesthetists, the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, the Royal College of Surgeons Faculty of Anaesthetists, and the British Oxygen Company Ltd; dinner menus (some with collected signatures) and other ephemera, 1955-1971, including photographs including British Oxygen Company events, 1956-1957, and undated menu belonging to A Charles King.
Other records comprise printed booklets, articles, brochures, leaflets, diagrams and typescripts, 1939-1976, on subjects in anaesthetics including equipment (including apparatus produced by A Charles King Ltd and the British Oxygen Company Ltd), the development of anaesthetic techniques and drugs, and the history of anaesthesia and eminent anaesthetists including printed Inventory of the A Charles King Collection of early anaesthetic apparatus present to the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland by A Charles King March 6th 1953; copies of the K Bryn Thomas's article, 'The A Charles King Collection of early anaesthetic apparatus', Anaesthesia, vol xxv, no 4 (Oct 1970); and various British Standards, 1950-1970, on anaesthetic and other medical equipment.
Sans titreMiscellaneous papers, 1982-2001, of Dr David Wilkinson, relating to his interest in the history of anaesthesia, including ephemera such as programmes, posters and menus relating to conferences and other events, 1982-2001, letters inviting Wilkinson to deliver lectures, 1985, 2001, copy of article in BMA News reviewing a lecture he delivered, 2001, article by Wilkinson on 'Archives: What's the Point?', Anaesthesia News, 2001, and notes relating to coats of arms, 2001.
Sans titreSociety of Apothecaries of London: Galen Medal collection, 1925 to date, comprises papers relating to the Galen Medal awarded by the Society of Apothecaries. The papers include those concerning the history of the award, correspondence with the Royal Mint, reports of the Medal Committee, correspondence regarding nominations, correspondence with recipients who include Walter Ernest Dixon, Alexander Fleming, Howard Florey and Ernst Chain, autograph book of recipients, 1985 to date, and records of presentation dinners, 1990s.
Sans titreArchives of the Society of Radiographers (SOR) comprising:
minutes of the proceedings of Council of the Society of Radiographers 1920-1998; Reports to Council from various committees, 1960-1973; index to minutes of council and other meetings, 1920-1956; attendance book for SOR meetings, 1947-1956;
minutes of the Public Relations Committee, 1956-1975; minutes of the SOR Executive Committee/General Purposes Committee, 1991-1996; SOR Finance and General Purposes Committee minutes and agenda, 1956-1991; SOR Salaries and Services Committee minutes, Oct 1954-Apr 1981; minutes of the Radiotherapy Advisory Committee, 1968-1975; the Liaison Committee with the Faculty of Radiologists, Dec 1971, and the Liaison Committee with the Hospital Physicists Association, Sep 1971 (1 vol); minutes of the Isotopes and Nuclear Medicine Sub-committee, 1969-1974; minutes and papers of the Senior Management team minutes and papers 1999-2001; External Affairs Advisory Committee, 1998-2001; and Policy Resources Committee, 1998-2000;
minutes of the College of Radiogaphers, 1977-1997;
signed records of receipt of Diploma of Membership, 1936-1940; membership registers, 1921-1935, listing names and whether subscription paid; Printed membership lists, 1929-1930, 1933, 1934;
printed Branch Regulations, 1972, 1982; Memoranda and articles of association, 1988, amended 1990;
printed Annual Reports and accounts, 1971-2003;
Branch and Section records comprising:
South West Branch (inaugurated Jan 1937) - minutes of the Committee South West Branch of the Society of Radiographers, 1959-1985; minutes of the South West Branch, 1937-1949; minutes of the South West sub-section of the Branch , 1947-1974; South West Branch visitors book, 1960-1970;
South Wales sub-section (inaugurated Jun 1946) -minutes of the South Wales subsection of the Midland Branch of the SOR, 1946-1950, and Committee minutes, 1971-1981;
Wessex Sub-Section (inaugurated 26 Nov 1955) - minutes of the Wessex sub-section of the London and Home Counties Branch of the SOR, 1955-1973, including minutes of the Wessex Committee, 1964-1971;
North West Branch Sub-Section (inaugurated, Mar 1961) -Minutes of the North West branch sub-section, 1961-1972 ;
Devon and Cornwall Branch, (inaugurated May 1974) -minutes of the Devon and Cornwall Branch, 1974-1980 and Committee meeting, 1974-1978;
photographic collection including album containing photographs of the 29th annual conference of The Society of Radiographers, Sollihul, 4-6 Jun 1975; Album containing colour photographs of the 40th Annual conference of the College of Radiographers, Bournemouth, 4-6 Jun 1986;
SOR publications including Radiography, Journal of the Society of Radiographers, Vol 1 1935-present, with index; Synergy News, 1996-2002; Radiography News, 1979-1988;
papers of W H J Combes relating to the history of W C Röntgen, including notes for lecture and 2 slides;
miscellaneous papers relating to Röntgen, including copy of extract of printed article on Röntgen, 1901; copy of printed program for Röntgen Society Inaugural Meeting, St Martin's Town Hall, 5 Nov 1897; printed copy of 'Röntgen-Jubilaum 1970, 10 Oktober 1970, Stadttheater, Remscheid (in German); two first day covers (stamps) commemorating Röntgen, 1970; newspaper cutting concerning Archibald James Morey;
Journal of the Röntgen Society, 1919-1920;
and the Sheffield Chest Clinic Book, May 1921-Apr 1923.
Sans titreTwo volumes of notes on St Marylebone Infirmary (later St Marylebone Hospital and then St Charles' Hospital), relating to Hood's period as Medical Superindendent, 1910-1941, compiled by Dr Hood in the 1950s[?], with indexes by his daughter Mrs L Ross.
Sans titreGreat Ormond Street Hospital administrative records, comprising GOS/1, Annual Reports of the Committee of Management and Board of Management, 1852-1947 (containing many duplicates, and reports bound in year volumes throughout).
Minutes of Hospital Committees, comprising GOS/1/2 Minutes and associated papers of the Committee of Management and Board of Management, 1850-1948; GOS/1/3, Minutes of Board of Governors’ Meetings, 1869-2008; GOS/1/4 Administrative and Executive Committee Minutes, 1938-1952; GOS/1/5 House Committee Minutes, 1867-1938.
GOS/1/6 Medical Committee Minutes, 1852-1971; the Joint Medical Executive Committee Minutes, 1968-1982; the Medical Executive Committee Minute Book, 1981-1982; the Medical Advisory Committee, 1982-2010; Division of Physicians Minute Book, 1981-1990; Division of Surgeons Minute Book, 1971-1990; Division of Radiologists Minute Book. 1971-1989; Division of Anaesthetists Minute Book, 1971-1989; Division of Pathologists Minute Book, 1971-1989.
GOS/1/7, Joint Committee on Medical Appointments Minutes, 1894-1965 (from 1950, renamed the Medical Appointments Committee); GOS/1/8 Finance Committee Minutes, 1858-1982 (known from 1952 to 1982 as the Finance, Establishment and General Purposes Committee).
GOS/1/9 Building Committee Minutes, 1876-1981; GOS/1/10 Nursing Committee Minutes, 1922-1981; GOS/1/11 Policy and Development Committee Minutes, 1964-1977; GOS/1/12, Research Committee Minutes, 1946-1977; GOS/1/13 Medical Ethics Committee, 1969-1984; GOS/1/14, General Medical Staff Committee Minutes, 1971-1983; GOS/1/15 Establishment Committee Minutes, 1948-1951; GOS/1/16/1 Junior Staff Committee Minutes, 1930-1933; GOS/1/16/2 Junior Staff Training Committee Minute Book, 1972-1977; GOS/1/17 Doctors’ Clinical Club Minutes (membership not exclusively Great Ormond Street), 1875-1896.
GOS/1/18/1, Private Nursing Committee Minutes,1917; GOS/1/19/1 Private Wards Administrative Committee Minutes,1938-1947; GOS/1/20, Advisory Committee on Nursing Education Minutes,1970-1976.
GOS/1/21 Cross-Infection Sub-Committee and Group Infection Committee Minutes, 1964-1983; GOS/1 /22/1, Organ Transplant Sub-Committee Minutes,1964; GOS/1/23 Tumour Committee Minutes, 1965-1969; GOS/1 /24/1, In-Patients After-Care Trust Minutes, 1913-1938; GOS/1/25 Social Services Committee Minutes, 1949-1968; GOS/1 /26, Almoner’s Committee Minutes, 1918-1949.
GOS/1/27/1 Committee of Chairmen Minutes, 1951-52; GOS/1/28, Pensions Committee Minutes and Standing Orders, 1931-1945; GOS/1/29/1 Investment Sub-Committee Minutes, May 1958; GOS/1/30, Medical Workshop Committee Minutes, 1959-1968; GOS/1 /31, Catering Committee Minutes, 1945-1967; GOS/1/32, Laundry Committee Minutes, 1952.
GOS/1 /33, Fund Raising Managing Committee Minutes, October-December 1885; GOS/1/34 New South Wing Reception Committee Minutes, February 1892-June 1893; GOS/1 /35, Imperial Coronation Bazaar Committee Minutes, January – May 1902; GOS/1/36, Sub-Committee for the Management of Festival Dinners Minutes, 1857-1863; GOS/1/37 Appeal Committee Minutes, July 1908-June 1909; GOS/1/38 Appeals Council Minutes, 1935-1941.
GOS/1 /39, Peter Pan Sub-Committee Minutes, January 1954-June 1966; GOS/1 /40, Special Appeal Committee Minutes, 1930-1931; GOS/1/40/2, Special Appeal Committee Minute Book, 1932-1937; GOS/1/41, Centenary Sub-Committee Minutes, 1948-1952.
GOS/1/42, Local Government Committees on Hospital Reconstruction Minute Books, 1931-1934; GOS/1/43, 1939-1945; GOS/1/44, Law and Publicity Committee Minutes, 1931-1939; GOS/1/45, Minutes of the London School of Paediatrics, 1941-1945.
GOS/1 /46, League of Remembrance Minutes, 1946-1982 ; GOS/1/47 Institute of Child Health Staff Case Conference Minutes, October 1947-December 1962; GOS/1/47/2 ICH Case Conference papers and GOS/ICH Training prospectus, circa 1980 to circa 1990s (these records came from Professor Aynsley-Green’s office); GOS/1/48, Miscellaneous Sub-Committee Minutes, 1961-1963.
GOS/1/49 Minutes of the Select Committee on Metropolitan Hospitals, 1889.
GOS/1/50 Kampala (Assistance to hospitals in Uganda) Sub-Committee Minutes, 1957-1969; GOS/1/51 Committee Agenda Books and Membership Lists, 1908-1956; GOS/1/52, GOSH Health Records Committee Minutes/reports 1998-2000.
Sans titrePatient case notes of Great Ormond Street Hospital, comprising Medical Case-Notes for the following physicians and surgeons; GOS/10/1-14, Dr West’s Patients, 1857- 1873; GOS/10/15-21, Dr Hillier’s Patients, 1861-1868; GOS/10/22- 29, Dr Buchanan’s Patients, 1868-1882; GOS/10/30 – 37, Dr Gee’s Patients, 1874-1884.
Casenotes of the following doctors are arranged chronologically in the series; Dr Barlow, 1885-1899; Dr Abercrombie, 1886-1892; Dr Hadden, 1887-1893; Dr Sturges, 1889-1894; Dr Cheadle, 1889-1891; Dr Lees, 1891-1904; Dr Penrose, 1895-1905; Dr Batten, 1898-1918; Dr Garrod, 1899-1913; Dr Voelcker, 1900-1919; Dr Colman, 1905-1919; Dr Still, 1913-1926; Dr Poynton, 1918-1934; Dr Hutchison, 1919-1934; Dr Thursfield, 1920-1935; Dr Frew (including his Asthma Clinic patients), 1927-1938; Dr Cockayne, 1934-1938; Dr Pearson, 1934-1938; Dr Patterson, 1935-1937; Dr Wyllie, 1935-1937; also GOS/10/100, Chorea patients in Alice Ward, 1893-1899.
Surgical case notes, comprising registers for Mr Holmes, 1862-1867; Mr Owens, 1886-1898; Mr Arbuthnot Lane, 1890-1913; Mr Morgan, 1890-1899; Mr Hudson, 1893; Mr Pitt, 1893-1905; Mr Gunn, 1893-1900; Mr Ballance, 1902-1906; Mr Lister, 1903-1905; Mr Kellock, 1903-1913; Mr Collier, 1905-1911; Mr. Steward, 1906-1909; Mr. Fairbank, 1906-1911; MR Parsons (Ophthalmic), 1906-1911; Mr. Corner, 1909-1913; and Mr Waugh’s patients, 1911-1912. In addition, there are registers of surgical cases in Helena Ward, 1899-1902, Louise Ward, 1901-1903; dental surgery patients, 1904-1905 and a register of 'odd' surgical cases, 1934-1945* and a register of air raid casualties treated at Great Ormond Street, 1940-1944.
Other records comprise, GOS/10/514, Patient Record Cards for Dr. Pearson’s Out-Patient Clinic, 1923; and GOS/10/515-519, the Squint Clinic Patient Record Cards, 1932-1937.
Sans titrePapers of Alice Backes comprising St Giles Hospital certificate in Sick and Convalescent Cookery, 31 Mar 1930; London County Council St Giles Hospital certificate of training 1928-1931, 12 May 1931; General Nursing Council for England and Wales, certificate of registration, Oct 1931; Central Board of Midwives certificate 27 Feb 1932.
Also includes two lidded small silver trophy cups, of St Giles Hospital Nurses Tennis, engraved Consolation cup, 1932, A Backes', and1934, Consolation, won by A Backes'.
Papers of Evelyn Margaret Shaxson comprising manuscript volume of lecture notes, with diagrams on Anatomy and Physiology, Mar-Apr 1925, also including loose copies of examination question papers, 1925; notebook containing water colour paintings of flowers, each named with a note where seen [1920s].
Sans titrePapers of Thomas Dyke Acland comprising: letters relating to cases of actinomycosis, and the publication of research by Peverell S Hichins, 1905, including manuscript of thesis 'Actiniomycosis and allied disorders', Peverell Hichens, MA MD Oxon, MRCP London; reprint of 'Some remarks on a case of actinomycosis of the lungs' by P S Hichens, published in the British Medical Journal, Nov 4 1905; photograph of case of actinomycosis involving skin; letters from W K Treves, 1905; S G Shattock (1852-1924), 1895, 1906; W Stanley Melsome, 1895; H D Rolleston, 1906; J J Pringle (died 1922); Sir Alfred Pearce Gould (1852-1922), 1893; C J Cullingworth (1841-1908), 1902; and a number of anatomical illustrations; survey of published reports of actinomycosis; and table of English cases of actinomycosis, 1886-1906; letter from Dr Graham F Harford, Church Missionary Society, concerning one of Acland's patients, Feb 1910; bound volume containing offprint of 'Mitral Stenosis: a clinical lecture, delivered at the Hospital for consumption and diseases of the chest, 1889' by Thomas Dyke Acland, reprinted from The Lancet, Jul 1889; also contains extract of The Lancet, 26 Oct 1889, Acland's reply to criticism of his article; two manuscript letters to Acland from [N Bandner] relating to corrections in the article 7 Jul 1889, 17 Aug 1889. Also contains correspondence between St Thomas's Hospital Librarian F A Tubbs with Professor Philip Rhodes, concerning his research on Charles Cullingworth, Dec 1968-Jul 1970; also typescript transcript of letter from C J Cullingworth to Acland, 10 Jul 1902; and extract related to Cullingworth from the St Thomas's Hospital Gazette, No 49, 3 Feb 1951.
Sans titreRobinson's King's College Hospital certificate of nursing training 1908-1911.
Sans titreNotebook, [1923], containing manuscript essay entitled 'The physical characters and properties, mechanism, chemical composition, minute anatomy, development and growth of bone including the process of reparation in fractures and the use of the skeleton'. With postcard to Cowper from F von Hügel, relating to the assembling of a meeting, 5 Dec 1923.
Sans titreDulwich Hospital case notes, consisting of out-patient case notes, 1947-1951, for a named patient suffering from Addison's disease, who was treated at various hospitals and clinics.
Sans titreDulwich Hospital Nursing School registers, 1917-1967 comprising: Sisters' Register, 1920-1961; General Staff Registers, 1930-1967; Male Nurses Registers, 1940-1961; Part-time and Auxiliary Nurses' Register, 1947-1954; Assistant Nurses' Register, 1947-1959; Matron's Log Book, 1945-1948; Student Nurses' Examinations Register, 1938-1947; Student Nurses' Registers, 1943-1967; Probationer Nurses' Registers, 1917-1955; and photographs of the hospital buildings, [1940-1980].
Sans titreRoyal Herbert Hospital case notes, consisting of volume of notes on operations, 1904-1907, carried out by Maj Gen Sir Maurice Holt (then Major RAMC), a specialist on operative surgery.
Sans titreSt Francis Hospital nursing records including St Francis' Hospital - A complete Training School for Assistant Nurses [1958]; Record of [Nurses]Service Book, 1949-1956; Photographs of the hospital, [1960-1965].
Sans titreSt Giles Hospital School of Nursing register of Student Nurses particulars, 1944-1949; Student Nurses Register, 1944-1957; Lectures and Examination Particulars, 1952-1966; and photographs of nursing staff, 1931.
Sans titrePapers of Emma Durham comprising: diary containing description of her nursing experiences in Natal (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), 11 Jun 1879-Feb 1880, with notes on remedies for scorpion stings and tsetse fly; typescript transcript of the sting remedies; letter to Durham from [S Gorrel], Cairo, 18 Jun 1885; black and white photograph of Eliza Durham (sister of Emma) 1867; copy of Golden Gleanings from the thoughts of General Gordon, London, 1885, inscribed 'to Sister Emma from W H [Anderson] nee Gordon'; news cutting from Daily Sketch (undated) relating to Durham's experience nursing of Lord Tennyson during the time that he wrote the hymn 'Crossing the bar'; photocopied article by E Durham 'Nurse training in the Seventies' describing her nurse training; letters from E F J Chavasse to Miss Kenshole, relating to other papers and medals belonging to Durham, 1994; also draft letter to Chavasse [from Kenshole, 1994]; miscellaneous manuscript notes on life of Emma Durham (undated).
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