IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0402 CAF
Held at: Royal Geographical Society
Title: FISHER, Prof Charles Alfred (1916-1982)
Date(s): 1954-1980
Level of description: Collection Level
Extent: 3 folders
Name of creator(s): Fisher | Charles Alfred | 1916-1982 | Professor of Geography
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1916; wartime service in the Royal Engineers; lectured at University College Wales and Leicester; Professor of Geography at Sheffield and London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS); Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, 1941-1983; RGS Victoria Medal, 1974; died, 1982.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Professor Charles Alfred Fisher, 1954-1980, including lecture notes on South East Asia including the overseas Chinese, the Mekong River and his visit to Burma in 1974; Foreign Office Research Department paper entitled 'UK Interests in SE Asia', 1964; and six personal letters on academic subjects, 1954-1980.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
Accessed via the Foyle Reading Room. Free of charge for Fellows, Members and those with valid academic identification. All other users pay a charge and must bring identification in order to register on arrival.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopying at Archivist's discretion, and subject to completion of 'application for copies' form. No reproduction or publication without permission of the RGS-IBG Archivist.
Physical characteristics:
typescripts with hand-written drafts.
Finding aids:
The RGS archives: a handlist / compiled by Christine Kelly. London: RGS, 1977.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
None expected
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Papers came to the RGS with slides for picture collection, probably in 1989.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Revised by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Nov 2008