GB 0120 MS.8096 - Oral History of Workhouse Management

10 tapes, 6 photographs

GB 0120 MS.8096 1985-1990 Collection (fonds) 10 tapes, 6 photographs Adams , John , fl 1985-1990

Materials created during an oral history project on the workhouse.

This material was given to the Wellcome Library in August 2003 by John Adams.

10 tapes of interviews, conducted by John Adams, with former masters of workhouses with photographs, including John Adams,
Lionel Lewis,

Ray Livesey,

Frank Hinchliffe,

Clare Hinchliffe,

Edwin Berry,

John Dawber,

Sid Blackman,

A D Malcolm,

Clifford Beddis and
Don Ernsting.

/1 Tapes /2 Photographs

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

English

SA/AHR records of the Association of Health Care and Residential Workers; GC/251 D Ernsting: papers on Poor Law/Public Assistance Institutions.

John Adams, 'Caring for the casual poor' Oral history Vol. 17 (1989) , pp 29-35; 'Master and matron : work and marriage in the Public Assistance Institution', History of Nursing Society Journal, Vol. 4 (1992-93), pp 125-130; 'The last years of the workhouse, 1930-1965' in J Bornat et al (eds), Oral history, health and welfare (London : Routledge, 2000), pp. 75-97.

Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

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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This material was given to the Wellcome Library in August 2003 by John Adams.

10 tapes of interviews, conducted by John Adams, with former masters of workhouses with photographs, including John Adams,
Lionel Lewis,

Ray Livesey,

Frank Hinchliffe,

Clare Hinchliffe,

Edwin Berry,

John Dawber,

Sid Blackman,

A D Malcolm,

Clifford Beddis and
Don Ernsting.

/1 Tapes /2 Photographs

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

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English

SA/AHR records of the Association of Health Care and Residential Workers; GC/251 D Ernsting: papers on Poor Law/Public Assistance Institutions.

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.

• anglais