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ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL SCHOOL OF MEDICINE


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): LMA/4068

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Date(s): 1989-1998

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.33 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Royal Free Hospital was founded in 1828 to provide free hospital care to those who could not afford treatment. The title 'Royal' was granted by Queen Victoria in 1837 in recognition of the hospital's work with cholera victims.

For many years the Royal Free was the only hospital in London to offer facilities for clinical instruction to women. This began a close association with the London School of Medicine for Women, later renamed the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine.

The Royal Free moved to its present site in the mid 1970s, bringing together the old Royal Free Hospital in Gray's Inn Road with the Lawn Road, New End and Hampstead General hospitals.

In April 1991 the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust became one of the first trusts established under the provisions of the NHS and Community Care Act 1990.

Source: http://www.royalfree.nhs.uk

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to the merger of the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine with University College London, 1989-1998, including minutes of annual general meetings; papers of Dame Sheila Sherlock's Working Party to consider the memorandum of intent; private Bills; draft of Bill for merger; correspondence; articles and views on the merger; news brief and Royal Free Hospital Medical School appeal.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

In sections: Committees and Councils; Bills and Acts; Correspondence and Printed Material.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: City of London

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

B98/169. The files were transferred to the London Metropolitan Archives in September 1998 by Dr Jean Laurie who was herself a member of the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The archives of the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, are in the care of the Royal Free Hospital Archives Centre, The Hoo, 17 Lyndhurst Gardens, London, NW3 5NU.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Rules or conventions: 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.

Date(s) of descriptions: January 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Hospitals | Health services
Medical education | Higher science education
Mergers | Industrial policy | Industrial economics
Women | Sex | Sex distribution
Education
Medical institutions

Personal names
Sherlock | Dame | Sheila (Patricia Violet) | 1918-2001 | Professor of Medicine

Corporate names
Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine x London School of Medicine for Women
Royal Free Hospital x London General Institution for the Gratuitous Cure of Malignant Diseases | 1828-1835 x The Free Hospital | 1835-1837
University College London

Places
Hampstead | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Camden