IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 2603 NNAH/BARON
Held at: Goldsmiths College, University of London
Title: Baron Archive of Health Care Arts
Date(s): 1980-2000
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 linear metre
Name of creator(s): J. Hugh Baron (b.1931)
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
During his fifty years involvement with biomedical science has also been an innovator for incorporating the arts in hospitals. In the late 1970s he arranged for a beautification committee to be set up at one hospital in which he worked, St. Charles. He recognised the need for a central initiative, to advise on the National Health Service buildings. In August 1979, he approached the DHSS and the King Edward's Hospital Fund for a scheme with the Greater London Arts Association, to commission young artists to paint murals in hospitals in London. The scheme was outstandingly successful and dozens of projects were commissioned in the hospitals of Greater London with King's Fund support. In his other hospitals he arranged for arts comittees to be set up, at St. Mary's Hospial, St. Mary's Medical School, the Royal Postgraduate Medical School/MRC/Hammersmith/Acton/Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospitals. The Hammersmith Hospitals Trust's Arts Committee also covers Charing Cross Hospital and the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School. He conceived the national British Health Care Arts Centre, which opened in 1989 at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of art in Dundee. He has advocated these ideas in Britain and abroad and has served on, and Chaired many committees in this field. He has lectured and written extensively on this theme.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Archives of Dr. J. H. Baron's work in the field of health care arts, including records of the organisation 'Hospital Arts' (1980s).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Broadly arranged thematically.
Conditions governing access:
Available for consultation by appointment.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copying policy available in the library.
Physical characteristics:
Includes 35mm slides.
Finding aids:
Unlisted.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Has not been appraised.
Accruals:
Further accruals are possible.
Archival history:
Transferred to the NNAH c.2000
Immediate source of acquisition:
Given to Goldsmiths by the NNAH in 2008.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Description by Jacqueline Cooke, Research Support Librarian
Date(s) of descriptions: 2008