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Grant, Peter Dundas (b1924): reminiscences of work in Tanganyika


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 GC/232

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Grant, Peter Dundas (b1924): reminiscences of work in Tanganyika

Date(s): 1980s

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Grant | Peter Dundas | b 1924 | physician

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Peter Dundas Grant worked for the Government Medical Service, Tanganyika (Tanzania), 1954-1962.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Reminiscences of Peter Dundas Grant of his work in Tanganyika [Tanzania] whilst employed in the Government Medical Service, 1954-1962, entitled, 'Bwana Daktari, or far away and long ago' by 'Mganga was Nyika' [Peter Dundas Grant]: comprising 18 short chapters on individual cases or incidents, written 'about thirty years later'.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Single item

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

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.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

This item was given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in January 1998 by Peter Dundas Grant via his brother, Harry Grant.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

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: Jun 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Autobiographies | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Colonialism | Imperialism | Political doctrines
Health services

Personal names
Grant | Peter Dundas | b 1924 | physician

Corporate names

Places
Tanzania | Africa