The College archives

College and University Archives: Readings in Theory and Practice

Optimum Access? Processing in College and University Archives

Optimum Access? Processing in College and University Archives Christopher J. Prom Processing is defined as “the arrangement, description, and housing of archival materials for storage and use by patrons.” It is at the heart of archival work. The steps that an archivist takes or fails to take will either facilitate or impede physical and intellectual control over the entirety of a repository’s c...

The Eugenics Society archives in the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre.

The Eugenics Society's archives were among the earliest collections acquired by the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre, in February 1980, just over a year after its inauguration. At that time the collection consisted only of correspondence and other files, the minutes and press-cuttings books being retained by the Society and consultable there by appointment with the General Secretary. In spi...

From the Archives

" medical brethren who have fallen on difficult times, and ... their widows and orphans, so often left without even the necessities of life ". Dr Hunter referred to the great financial depression and how it has affected the medical fraternity. The fund distributed grants of £2267 [approx. £140 400 today] to 69 widows, 17 orphans and 8 doctors in Northern Ireland in the previous year. Each count...

From the Archives

Thomas Buzzard (1831–1919) never attended medical school but was one of the last doctors to enter medicine through apprenticeship to a general practitioner. Appointed to the staff of the National Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epileptic in 1867, at the suggestion of Hughlings Jackson, Buzzard was one of that small group of physicians who helped ‘Queen Square’ acquire its international reputatio...