Henry Turtle: anti-vivisection movement papers

Henry Turtle was a campaigner against the use of animals in laboratories, with an active interest in the anti-vaccination movement. He was a translator and correspondent for animal rights organisations across Europe. Languages in the collection include: English, German, Finnish, French, Italian. The collection includes his correspondence (both sent and received) with other animal rights campaigners, with doctors, institutions, and researchers. Turtle collected ephemera around the anti-vivisection movement as well as material relating to hunting, animals used in make-up testing and the anti-vaccination movement. The collection also includes details of translation work for Pietro Croce, translations of Hans Ruesch's works and several books on vivisection with from his library. It covers subjects around the scope, viewpoint, development and influence of groups across Europe campaigning for the end of the use of animals in medical research. Please note that due to the subject matter of this collection many of the items contain images that some readers may find distressing.

1970s - 2000s

9 boxes

Some of the collection was already arranged into designated folders. Where this was the case that original order was retained. The rest of the material was preserved in plastic sleeves which were removed and the material was grouped in the order it was arranged in when it was packed which was a rough date order. The books were separated into the archival material and the rest was handed to the library. The archive is grouped into Published books and pamphlets which contains the material from Turtle's library; Vivisection publicity which contains the pamphlets, letters and ephemera as well as any correspondence that was stored with it; the final section is Correspondence which contains the letters to and from animal rights campaigners, doctors, institutions, and researchers

Donated in September 2017

Henry Turtle: campaigner against the use of animals in laboratories, with an active interest in the anti-vaccination movement. A translator and correspondent for animal rights organisations across Europe. His papers here represent some of his correspondence activism, including both sides of the correspondence to medical practitioners, medical research funders and bodies, his collecting around the anti-vivisection and anti-vaccination movements and his translation work, including the relationships with individuals and organisations.

A small but related book collection of Henry Turtle's has been donated to Wellcome Library, but is yet to be catalogued. British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection archive held at the University of Hull

Transferred to Wellcome

This collection has been catalogued and is available to library members. Some items have access restrictions which are explained in the item-level catalogue records.

Transferred to Wellcome by the late Henry Turtle's family.