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Trades Union Congress (TUC) Library Collections at London Metropolitan University

Women - Public Health


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1924 HD 6661 Z12

Held at: Trades Union Congress (TUC) Library Collections at London Metropolitan University

Title: Women - Public Health

Date(s): 1922-1957

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 15 boxes

Name of creator(s): Various: collected by TUC Library

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The TUC Library was established in 1922 and was based on the integrated collections of the TUC Parliamentary Committee, the Labour Party Information Bureau, and the Womens Trade Union League. It was run as a joint library with the Labour Party until the TUC moved to Congress House in 1956. The collection was developed for the use of the TUC and affiliated unions, but its specialisation has led to its parallel development as a major research library in the social sciences. In September 1996, the Collections moved to their new home in the London Metropolitan University. The Library includes several archives. The majority of these were held in the TUC Museum Collection and transferred to the University in 1998.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Collection includes: Periodicals 1925- , annual reports 1923-1957, rules, pamphlets etc of the Women Sanitary Inspector's and Health Visitors Association (founded 1896) renamed Women Public Health Officers' Association and later renamed again Health Visitors' Association. News sheet, 1925-1946, (incomplete) Women Public Health Officers' Association journal 'The Woman Health Officer' 1928, 1936-1937; Health Visitors' Association rules; Woman Health Officer: official organ of the Health Visitors' Association; pamphlets and annual report; A History in Health 1896-1996 by Jennifer Smith, 1996. Association for Moral and Social Hygiene founded by Josephine Butler in 1870, annual reports 1922-1934 (incomplete).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Chronological

Conditions governing access:

Open to bona fide researchers by appointment, at the discretion of the TUC Librarian.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopying is permitted within the terms of copyright legislation, although copying of some items including fragile material is at the discretion of the librarian.

Finding aids:

A card index is available in the library, some material is catalogued in the online Library catalogue catalogue.londonmet.ac.uk

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited with the TUC at an unknown date.

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: Live Jan 2010


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Hygiene | Health
Maternal welfare | Social welfare
Women | Sex | Sex distribution
Women workers | Workers | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Womens health | Health

Personal names
Butler | Josephine Elizabeth | 1828-1906 | social reformer and women's activist

Corporate names
Association for Moral and Social Hygiene
Health Visitors Association
Women Public Health Officers Association
Women Sanitary Inspectors and Health Visitors Association

Places