IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Denman
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: DENMAN, Lady Gertrude Mary (1884-1954)
Date(s): Created 1939-1946
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1.5 boxes or 0.015 cubic metres
Name of creator(s):
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born 1884; educated privately; Member of Executive Committee, Woman's National Liberal Federation, 1909-1910; in Australia, 1911-1914; Director, S Pearson and Son Limited; Director, Westminster Press Limited; Chairman, sub-committee of the Agricultural Organisation Society, 1916; Chairman of National Federation of Women's Institutes, 1917-1946; awarded CBE, 1920; Chairman, Family Planning Association, 1930-1954; President of Ladies' Golf Union, 1932-1938; Chairman, Cowdray Club for Nurses and Professional Women, 1932-1953; created DBE, 1933; Member of Executive Committee of Land Settlement Association, 1934-1939; Life Trustee, Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, 1938-1954; Honorary Director of Women's Land Army, 1939-1945; appointed GBE, 1951; Chairman, Women's Land Army Benevolent Fund; died 1954.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Copies of correspondence and papers relating to the Women's Land Army, 1939-1946, covering clothes rationing and uniform, housing and billeting, conferences, wages, and related printed memoranda, circular letters and leaflets.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The collection is arranged in sections as above.
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Copies made by the Centre from originals loaned by the family in 1982.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
The Denman family and estate papers are held by West Sussex County Record Office, Chichester.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Decorations: GBE
Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 1998