GB 0120 SA/FTC - The 1942 Club

6 boxes

GB 0120 SA/FTC 1942-1993 Collection (fonds) 6 boxes The 1942 Club

At an informal dinner held in January 1942 a group of eminent professors decided to form a small club composed of those holding university chairs in medicine, surgery or obstetrics and who were interested in the future of clinical teaching and academic medicine, particularly in light of the inception of the NHS. The limited membership club thus founded began as a small group of 14, but membership steadily increased, reaching 184 in 1992. Originally membership was limited to heads of strictly clinical departments but has since been extended to professors of paraclinical disciplines. Each meeting of the Club is devoted, after general business has been dealt with, to the discussion of a particular topic of current medico-political or medico-academic importance, ranging from the foundation and operation of the National Health Service and the Royal Commission on Medical Education to issues in the funding of research, the undergraduate curriculum, examination procedures, postgraduate training, medicine and the media, etc. The Club has periodically made reports and recommendations, eg. to Royal Commissions, but has consistently avoided becoming involved in salary negotiations. Further details of the history of the Club can be found in Section A. of the collection.

The bulk of these papers were donated to the Wellcome Library in 1992 by the Harveian Librarian and member of the Club, Sir Christopher Booth, with a further deposit in the same year of minutes (1988-1991), from Professor T.M. Cox, Secretary of the Club. Prior to this, in 1977, they had been deposited with the Barnes Library at the University of Birmingham by the then Secretary, O.L. Wade, and remained there until 1992 when they were transferred to the Royal College of Physicians. The later minutes are mostly unsigned and the location of the signed copies is unknown.

Minutes and papers of the 1942 Club, 1942-1993.

The collection is divided into sections as follows: A: Background Material 1953-1993; B: Minutes of Meetings 1942-1991; C: Secretaries' Files 1971-1988; D: Presidents' Files 1978-1979; E: Other 1971-1985.

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. Copyright of these papers remains with the 1942 Club or, in the case of letters written to the Club, with the letter writer or his/her heirs. The Club does not object to its minutes being quoted in publications but suggests that when a living individual's correspondence is quoted, the researcher should contact the individual and obtain their permission. (The copyright position is set out in a letter on the archives department file relating to this collection, dated 18/08/1992.)

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The catalogue is available on microfiche via the National Inventory of Documentary Sources (NIDS).

In the Wellcome Library: Papers of the Royal Commission on Medical Education, 1968 (SA/CME), as well as papers of some of the individual members of the Club including: Sir Douglas Black (b.1913) (GC/45); Sir Richard Doll (b. 1912) (PP/DOL); Sir Harold Himsworth (1905-1993) (PP/HIM); Sir Thomas Lewis (1881-1945) (PP/LEW); Sir John McMichael (1904-1993) (PP/JMM); Sir George White Pickering (1904-1980) (PP/GWP); Sir Peter Tizard (b.1916) (PP/TIZ); and Sir Edward Wayne (1902-1991) (GC/171 ).

At other repositories: Further records, according to Prof. Stephen Tomlinson, are held by the Secretary, Prof Raymond Tallis, of Hope Hospital, Salford.

Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue 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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The bulk of these papers were donated to the Wellcome Library in 1992 by the Harveian Librarian and member of the Club, Sir Christopher Booth, with a further deposit in the same year of minutes (1988-1991), from Professor T.M. Cox, Secretary of the Club. Prior to this, in 1977, they had been deposited with the Barnes Library at the University of Birmingham by the then Secretary, O.L. Wade, and remained there until 1992 when they were transferred to the Royal College of Physicians. The later minutes are mostly unsigned and the location of the signed copies is unknown.

Minutes and papers of the 1942 Club, 1942-1993.

The collection is divided into sections as follows: A: Background Material 1953-1993; B: Minutes of Meetings 1942-1991; C: Secretaries' Files 1971-1988; D: Presidents' Files 1978-1979; E: Other 1971-1985.

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. Copyright of these papers remains with the 1942 Club or, in the case of letters written to the Club, with the letter writer or his/her heirs. The Club does not object to its minutes being quoted in publications but suggests that when a living individual's correspondence is quoted, the researcher should contact the individual and obtain their permission. (The copyright position is set out in a letter on the archives department file relating to this collection, dated 18/08/1992.)

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In the Wellcome Library: Papers of the Royal Commission on Medical Education, 1968 (SA/CME), as well as papers of some of the individual members of the Club including: Sir Douglas Black (b.1913) (GC/45); Sir Richard Doll (b. 1912) (PP/DOL); Sir Harold Himsworth (1905-1993) (PP/HIM); Sir Thomas Lewis (1881-1945) (PP/LEW); Sir John McMichael (1904-1993) (PP/JMM); Sir George White Pickering (1904-1980) (PP/GWP); Sir Peter Tizard (b.1916) (PP/TIZ); and Sir Edward Wayne (1902-1991) (GC/171 ).

The catalogue is available on microfiche via the National Inventory of Documentary Sources (NIDS).

At other repositories: Further records, according to Prof. Stephen Tomlinson, are held by the Secretary, Prof Raymond Tallis, of Hope Hospital, Salford.

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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