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AMICABLE DEBATING SOCIETY

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/023

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: AMICABLE DEBATING SOCIETY

Date(s): 1843-1845

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 production unit.

Name of creator(s): Amicable Debating Society

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Amicable Debating Society was established on 25 August 1843. It met at the Poulterers Arms, Freemans Court, Cheapside.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Minute book of the Amicable Debating Society, 1843-45.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One volume catalogued as CLC/023/MS36000.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

This volume was donated to Guildhall Library in 2005, and was catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in the same year. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES 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: June to August 2010.

INDEX ENTRIES

Subjects

Debating | Group communication | Communication process

Debating societies | Societies | Associations | Organizations

Discussion groups | Groups

Learned societies | Associations | Organizations

Speeches | Literary forms and genres | Literature

Personal names

Corporate names

Amicable Debating Society

Places

City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe