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| Title | Lord Taylor of Harlow |
| Author of Finding Aid | Thomas, Roberta
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| Scope and Content of Fonds | In 1985 Lord Taylor of Harlow offered his papers to Memorial University and the gift was welcomed - despite the fact that only a minor portion of the collection relates to his tenure as University President, - from 1967-1973. - - The significance of this collection rests in its integrity, spanning as it does a full life-time, and representing - all facets of Taylor's varied career, from his school days, through his medical training at St. Thomas's - Hospital, and his early clinical and psychiatric work. His wartime career with the Home Intelligence - Division of the Ministry of Information and the Wartime Social Survey generated two boxes of reports - which provide a wealth of material on conditions in wartime Britain. - - In political life he held advisory roles in the fields of health, housing, education and commonwealth - relations. - - Specifically these papers chronicle the life of a 'man and his times'. As a Labour M.P., an administrator - and a doctor, Taylor was in the fore-front of much of the social and political reform which took place in - post war Britain, and it is to the biographer and social historian of this era that the collection will prove its - value. - - Of particular interest are the Commonplace Books, a carefully annotated collection of medical, political - and social notes, and news cuttings including many of his Parliamentary speeches, in scrap-book form, - from 1954 to 1974. - - The collection includes personal papers from his career as Director of Home Intelligence and Wartime Social Survey in the British Ministry of Information (1940-1944), as Labour M.P. and policy advisor on National Health, as Medical Director of Harlow Industrial Health Service, as conciliator of the Saskatchewan Medicare debate (1962), and as President and Vice-Chancellor of Memorial University of Newfoundland (1967-1972). Manuscripts of his published writing, principally omedical subjects, and of his autobiography. Commonplace books, 1950-1976, personal correspondence. - |
| Date of Finding Aid | 1987 |
| Extent of Fonds | 10 m. 10.6 linear metres. 11 folio sheets (OMF-039). |
| Publisher | Memorial University of Newfoundland. Libraries |
| Resource Type | Finding Aid |
| Type | Text |
| Format | xml |
| Identifier | COLL-085 |
| Language | en |
| Collection | Archives and Special Collections - Finding Aids (EAD) |
| Sponsor | Memorial University of Newfoundland. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Division |
| Restrictions | There are no restrictions on access to or use of the material in this collection. Copyright regulations may apply. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 490.xml |
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