Price papers
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 1060 DP003 Price |
Held at | : Royal Statistical Society Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.rss.org.uk/RSS/About/About_the_RSS/History/Archives/RSS/About_the_RSS/About_sub/History_sub/Archives.aspx › |
Full title | : Price papers |
Date(s) | : [1947] |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 2 files |
Name of creator(s) | : Price | Langford Lovell | 1862-1950 | economic historian x Price | L L |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Langford Price, born 1862; educated at Oxford Universty; Lecturer for the Toynbee Trust in Newcastle and Cornwall; Lecturer (1908) and Reader (1921) in Economic History, Oxford University; Fellow, 1887-1950, and member of Council, of Royal Statistical Society; Hon. Secretary of Economic Society from beginning in 1890; Secretary, Economic Science and Statistics Section, British Association; Member of International Statistical Institute.
Publications: A Short Historyof Political Economy in England, 15 editions, 1891-1937; Money and its Relation to Prices, 3 editions, 1896-1929.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Langford Price papers, [1947]: 'Part II: Memories and Notes on British Economists, 1881-1947' apparently unpublished: typescript draft, with numerous manuscript alterations and corrections, and clean typescript of Price's recollections of British economists and statisticians prefaced with a brief autobiographical account. The text comprises 4 chapters: Introduction; Cambridge; Economists; Oxford Economists and Others; Statisticians and Conclusion.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
As indicated in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
Access to annotated typescript may be closed because of fragile condition.
Conditions governing reproduction:
At the discretion of the Archives Consultant and subject to copyright.
Finding aids:
Summary list.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
No information has yet been found about the deposit of these papers with the Society.
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Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Compiled by Janet Foster, Archives Consultant, RSS.
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:
October, 2008
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