Society for Social Medicine

  • Society for Social Medicine
Date:
1956-2012
Reference:
SA/SSM
  • Archives and manuscripts

Collection contents

About this work

Description

This collection contains both catalogued and uncatalogued materials. A summary of the uncatalogued materials in this collection is provided under the 'Accruals' section.

Records of the Society, 1956-2005, including re internal organisation; meetings; evidence and opinions submitted by the Society; and relations with associated organisations.

Publication/Creation

1956-2012

Physical description

36 boxes, 15 digital items 92.9 MB (97446345 bytes) Uncatalogued: 11 digital files

Contributors

Arrangement

A. Internal Affairs of the Society, 1956-2003

- Setting up and early years

- Constitution and Membership

- Secretarial Services

- Correspondence of Officers

- Files on subjects of pertinence to the Society

- Occasional meetings of the Society

B. Annual General/Scientific Meetings, 1957-2007

C. External Relations, 1956-2003

- Evidence and opinions submitted by the Society

- Liaison with other bodies

- Joint Scientific Meetings with the École Nationale de la Santé Publique

D. Minutes, 1956-2003

- Executive Committee

- AGMs

E. Outreach and publications, 1987-2012

F. Digital filing system

Acquisition note

Accession 294 was received by the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in September 1988, from the Social, Paediatric and Research Unit of the University of Glasgow, where they had been in the custody of the former Secretary of the Society. Accession 464 and 599 were given in October 1993 and November 1995 by the then Secretary, Dr Ian Leck. Further material was received from the then-new Secretary, Dr Diana Kuh, in November 1997. In July 2005 Dr Aileen Clarke, then Treasurer of the Society, deposited 4 further boxes of papers including minutes, conference papers and files (Acc 1359). Further material including digital files was received from Dr Jennifer Mindell of the Society in January 2013. Accession 2684 was received from the Society's Secretary in August 2022.

Biographical note

Founded 1956.

Related material

Archived website

This organisation's website has been archived as part of the work of the UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC) and can be consulted here: http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/target/108210.

Terms of use

This collection has been partially catalogued and the catalogued part is available to library members. Requests to view uncatalogued material are considered on a case by case basis. Please contact collections@wellcomecollection.org for more details.

Accruals note

One addition (or 'accrual') to this collection has not yet been catalogued. A summary of this material is provided below. To request access, or to find out more about this material, please contact collections@wellcomecollection.org.

- Acc 2684: Digital AGM minutes and papers of the Society for the Social History of Medicine & Population Health, 2011-2021, and handbook for committee members, 2022. 11 digital files.

Notes

The catalogue is available on microfiche via the National Inventory of Documentary Sources (NIDS).

Subjects

Permanent link

Identifiers

Accession number

  • 294
  • 484
  • 599
  • 812
  • 1359
  • 1967
  • 2684