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CHANDLER, Olive


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 106 7OCH

Held at: Women's Library

Title: CHANDLER, Olive

Date(s): [1940-1949]

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.25 A box (1 folder)

Name of creator(s): Chandler | Olive | fl 1945

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Olive Chandler (fl 1945) appears to have had an interest in several women's groups in the period at the end of the Second World War. She apparently contacted both the National Council of Women and the National Federation of Women's Institutes to gain more information about their structures and their aims before collecting the material that they, in turn, sent her.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The archive consists of 1 folder containing:

1) Letter to Miss Chandler from the National Council of Women of Great Britain explaining their aims and enclosing a list of affiliated societies, 1944 (2 items)

2) Instructional leaflets from the National Federation of Women's Institutes, 1940s (6 items): What a Women's Institute is and what it does; Good programmes for hard times - a leaflet for programmes sub-committees; to the WI Chairman-President; to the WI Honorary Treasurer; to the WI Committee Member; to the WI Honorary Secretary.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Collection level description available on-line on the Women's Library website

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Miss Chandler donated the archive to The Fawcett Library in 1993.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The Women's Library also holds the records of the National Federation of Women's Institutes (5FWI). The National Council of Women of Great Britain archive is held by London Metropolitan Archives: City of London.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Finding aid created by export from CALM v7.2.14 Archives Hub EAD2002. Edited for AIM25 by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: 07/03/2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Women | Sex | Sex distribution
Womens organizations | Associations | Organizations

Personal names

Corporate names
National Council of Women of Great Britain
National Federation of Women's Institutes

Places