IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0505 PP1
Held at: Royal Holloway, University of London
Title: BUSK, Henrietta (1845-1936)
Date(s): 1891-1936, 1967
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 box or 0.01 cubic metres
Name of creator(s): Busk | Henrietta | 1845-1936 | educationalist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born 1845; educated Bedford College School, 1854-1861, and Bedford College, London, 1861-1864; Member of Council, Bedford College, University of London, 1882-1885 and 1889-1936; founded the Students' Loan Fund for the Training Department, 1892; founded the Bedford College Students Association, 1894; instrumental in obtaining for the College a Parliamentary Grant as a University College, 1894, whence followed recognition by the University of London; represented Bedford College on the Council of Teachers' Guild, 1887-1925; Founder and Honorary Organising Secretary of Conference of Educational Associations since 1913; Honorary Secretary, Bedford College Building and Endowment Fund, [1903-1911]; Chairman of Secondary Technical and University Teachers Health Insurance Society; President, Bedford College Old Students Association, 1926-1928; Chairman of Governors of Amersham Grammar School, Buckinghamshire, 1928; Member of Amersham Rural District Council, 1911-1931; Chairman of Amersham Board of Guardians, 1928; died 1936.
Publications: Geography as a school subject (Teachers' Guild of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1895): Original calendars of Bedford College (London, 1888); 'Glimpses of College life' for the Bedford College Magazine, 1914-1920.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Correspondence and reports, 1891-1892, relating to a proposal to include Bedford College as one of the Schools of the University of London, including drafts and printed copy of a petition sent to the House of Commons and the House of Lords, 1891. Correspondence and reports, 1891-1898, relating to the establishment of the teaching University of London, notably resolutions and reports, 1892, by the Council and Staff of Bedford College giving their opinions on the proposed teaching University; copy of a speech by J Spencer Hill, Honorary Treasurer of the Chelsea Centre of the London University Extension Society, entitled 'A few words concerning the draft charter for the new teaching University for London', given at Gresham College, London, Nov 1891; letters and reports from the Committee for Opposing the Grant of the Albert University Charter, outlining the Committee's objections, Jan-Mar 1892; a printed copy of 'London University Commission Bill: arrangement of clauses' (1897); a pamphlet by members of the Convocation of the University of London, entitled Note on the occasion, effect and expediency of the compromise embodied in the London University Commission Bill, 1898. Correspondence, 1894-1895, comprising letters from William Bruce, Secretary of the Royal Commission on Secondary Education, to Henrietta Busk, thanking her for help given to the Commission. Text of lecture on 'The position of women in the University of London, the provincial universities and the University of Wales', [1910], given by Professor Beatrice Edgell, Head of Philosophy at Bedford College, to the Council of the National Union of Women Workers. Papers, 1903-[1911] and 1967, relating to Busk's post as Honorary Secretary of the Bedford College Building and Endowment Fund, notably reports, 1903-1906, relating to proposals for a new site for Bedford College, including recommendations for fundraising and outlines of accommodation needs; two plans, [1908-1911], relating to the Regent's Park site and showing the proposed and actual development of the site by the architect Basil Champneys; correspondence, programmes and financial records, 1906-1911, relating to the performances of Greek plays by students and staff to raise money for the move of Bedford College to Regent's Park, including correspondence, 1967, between Doris Bains, Bedford College Librarian, and Kathleen Spears, Secretary of Bedford College, concerning material for use in the Granville Bantock Centenary Exhibition at the Barber Institute, Birmingham. Letter, Dec 1923, from Ethel Hurlbatt, Principal of the Royal Victoria College for Women, Canada, to Henrietta Busk, mainly concerning Canadian views of the League of Nations, and the Canadian Federation of University Women. Correspondence and notes, 1908-1936, relating to the history of Bedford College, mainly comprising accounts by Busk, [1934-1936], of the origins and early history of the College, notable early students, the roles of the Honorary Secretary of Bedford College Council, the Lady Resident and the Committee of Management in the running of the College, courses offered by the College in the 1850s, and reminiscences of Busk's mother concerning the early days of Bedford College; notes, [1933-1936], made by and for Dame Margaret Janson Tuke during her research for A History of Bedford College for Women, 1849-1937 (Oxford University Press, London, 1939), including handwritten notes of informal interviews with Busk.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Placed in folders according to subject during the compilation of the 'Catalogue of the Archives of Bedford College, University of London, 1849-1985' (1987) by Elizabeth Bennett and Claire Gobbi Daunton, and arranged chronologically within those folders.
Conditions governing access:
Open to all registered users of the Royal Holloway, University of London Archives.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies may be supplied, subject to the condition of the original. Requests to publish original material should be directed to the College Archivist.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Handlist available in the Royal Holloway, University of London Archives reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
The papers were transferred from the Bedford College Archives when the College merged with Royal Holloway in 1985.
Immediate source of acquisition:
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Further information relating to Henrietta Busk held at the Royal Holloway, University of London Archives includes her obituary and other press cuttings relating to Bedford College (BC RF129); Bedford College Council Minute Books (BC GB110); a series of six articles on 'Glimpses of College life', written by Busk for the Bedford College Magazine, 1914-1920 (BC AS200); material relating to her work as Honorary Secretary of the Bedford College Building and Endowment Fund in the Bedford College Endowment Fund Committee Minute Books (BC AR500/1-5); an article written by Busk for the Jubilee in 1899 entitled 'Short history of Bedford College' (BC RF121/1/2); papers created during Dame Margaret Janson Tuke's research for for A History of Bedford College for Women, 1849-1937 (Oxford University Press, London, 1939) (BC RF130).
Publication note:
Dame Margaret Janson Tuke interviewed Henrietta Busk for A History of Bedford College for Women, 1849-1937 (Oxford University Press, London, 1939), and her interview notes were placed in the collection; Life of an educational worker, Henrietta Busk (Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1934), by Ruth Young, used papers contained within the collection.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the AIM25 project.
Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 2000