Childhood Society
- Date:
- 1896-1908
- Reference:
- PSY/BPS/3/2
- Part of:
- British Psychological Society Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Minute Books of the Society
Publication/Creation
1896-1908
Physical description
3 volumes
Acquisition note
Deposited in the library at Wellcome Collection by the British Psychological Society in September 2008.
Biographical note
The Childhood Society was initially proposed as the Society for Promoting the Hygiene of School Life, with special reference to the Welfare of the Feebleminded in April 1896 and formed as the Childhood Society for the Scientific Study of the Mental and Physical Conditions of Children in November 1896.
Sir Douglas Galton elected First Chairman, other officers included: Mr E. White Wallis, Drs. Langdon Down and Shuttleworth, Mrs. Findlay, and Dr. Francis Warner. The work of the Childhood Society was chiefly statistical. During the years 1898 to 1900 public lectures were delivered on such subjects as "Mental Abilities and Disabilities of Children", "Mental Hygiene as a Basis for Character Formation", "Juvenile Delinquents" and Prof. Sherrington's lecture on "Physiology for Teachers".
Amalgamated with the London branch of the British Child Study Association in 1905 and the British Child Study Association in 1907, forming the Child Study Society
Sir Douglas Galton elected First Chairman, other officers included: Mr E. White Wallis, Drs. Langdon Down and Shuttleworth, Mrs. Findlay, and Dr. Francis Warner. The work of the Childhood Society was chiefly statistical. During the years 1898 to 1900 public lectures were delivered on such subjects as "Mental Abilities and Disabilities of Children", "Mental Hygiene as a Basis for Character Formation", "Juvenile Delinquents" and Prof. Sherrington's lecture on "Physiology for Teachers".
Amalgamated with the London branch of the British Child Study Association in 1905 and the British Child Study Association in 1907, forming the Child Study Society
Notes
Compiled by the Cataloguing Project Archivist at the British Psychological Society History of Psychology Centre, with minor editing by Wellcome staff.