"Landmarks / Documents of historical interest": early NCT correspondence and papers

Folder 1: Includes early correspondence and papers regarding the establishment, aims and organisation of the Natural Childbirth Association (later National Childbirth Trust, NCT).

Papers include notes for lectures and speeches; summary of National Childbirth Trust seminar, 1961, "Report on the Training and Preparation of Mothers under the Auspices of the Trust", ?1958; notes for a normal labour; notices of lectures and seminars; Chairman's Report, 1958; membership application forms; NCA newsletters, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1962, 1963; Prunella Briance's notes on review articles; speeches from the official opening of headquarters, Dec 1964; papers by Sheila Kitzinger on research possibilities and the future of the NCT; notes on a visit by NCT to the MoH, 1966; papers relating to a seminar for Medical Officers of Health on Education for Motherhood, including annotated programme and information for participants, 1957; minutes of a General meeting, Nov 1958; notes for press conference held prior to inaugural meeting, 29 Jan 1957; notices for lectures by Grantly Dick-Read, including an introduction by Prunella Briance to a lecture by GDR; and other papers of historical importance to the NCT. Also includes Parents' Group Bulletin, Vol 11 no 3 (1956); Central Council for Health Education, Better Health, Vol XXX no 3 (1957).

Folder 2: Journal articles by Grantly Dick-Read. Includes a "Service of Blessing before Childbirth and Thanksgiving after Childbirth", with introduction by GDR.

Folder 3: "Natural CT". Leaflets and promotional material produced by the Natural Childbirth Association, including Aims leaflet, notice of inaugural meeting, and notices of lectures by Grantly Dick-Read. Also includes newspaper cuttings relevant to NCT, including obituaries for Dick-Read.

This folder of papers was originally filed as "Documents of historic interest, PB." Annotation on the file states that the title was later "augmented to be "Landmarks" file, Oct 1977".

1952-1966

1 file (in 3 parts)