Child Study Society London and associated bodies
- Date:
- 1891-1946
- Reference:
- PSY/BPS/3
- Part of:
- British Psychological Society Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
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PSY/BPS/3/1 Committee on The Mental & Physical Condition of Children, 1891-1896
PSY/BPS/3/2 The Childhood Society, 1896-1908
PSY/BPS/3/3 British Child Study Association, 1897-1907
PSY/BPS/3/4 Child Study Society later Child Study Association, 1907-1923
PSY/BPS/3/5 Child Study Society (London), 1907-1946
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Committee on The Mental & Physical Condition of Children, 1891-1896, which led to the setting up of
The Childhood Society, initially proposed as the Society for Promoting the Hygiene of School life, with special reference to the Welfare of the Feebleminded and eventually formed as the Childhood Society for the Scientific Study of the Mental and Physical Conditions of Children in November 1896
British Child Study Association, founded in 1893
In 1907 the British Child Study Association amalgamated with the Childhood Society to form the Child Study Society, later Association
Child Study Society (London), founded 1894: in 1923 the Child Study Association, q.v. decided to dissolve itself and hand over its property and effects to the Child Study Society, London
Following negotiations with the British Psychological Society in 1947, early in 1948 the Child Study Society was wound up, and its members joined the BPS, with the Education Section taking over the Society's functions, and its records were transferred to the care of the BPS
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- 1611