IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0097 BEVERIDGE UNEMPLOYMENT
Held at: British Library of Political and Economic Science
Title: BEVERIDGE, William Henry, 1879-1963, 1st Baron Beveridge of Tuggal, economist: Unemployment Papers
Date(s): 1886-1914
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 20 volumes
Name of creator(s): Beveridge | William Henry | 1879-1963 | 1st Baron Beveridge of Tuggal | economist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
For a biography, see the Beveridge personal papers (Ref: Beveridge).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Central and Local Government reports and pamphlets collated by Sir William Henry Beveridge, 1886-1914, relating to the causes and incidence of unemployment and its possible cures, such as labour exchanges, benefits and relief, and including material created by the Charity Organisation Society, provincial Distress Committees (Birkenhead, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Burton-upon-Trent, Coventry, Dudley, East Ham, Edinburgh, Great Yarmouth, Halifax, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham, Plymouth, Reading, Sunderland, Warrington, West Ham, and Wolverhampton), various London boroughs (Bermondsey, Bethnal Green, Camberwell, Chelsea, Deptford, Finsbury, Fulham, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith, Hampstead, Holborn, Lambeth, Lewisham, Paddington, Poplar, Marylebone, Saint Pancras, Southwark, Stepney, Stoke Newington, Wandsworth, Westminster, and Woolwich), the Central (Unemployed) Body for London, and the government of Great Britain. Includes reports and pamphlets on unemployment written by individual authors, for which there is an index.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Arranged [by Beveridge] broadly by type of document.
Conditions governing access:
This collection has been microfilmed and the originals withdrawn from public use for preservation purposes. The microfilm must be used. Apply to Archivist for originals.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright held by British Library of Political and Economic Science. Microfilm copies only.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Printed handlist and on-line catalogue available.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Originally part of the Library pamphlet series, probably received by the Archives during the early 1930s. Formerly catalogued as Coll B.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Given by Beveridge in 1896.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Microfilm made available by Follet Preservation Microfilming Project, 1997. Films are held on open access in the Library (Archives MF 207-218).
Related material:
The BLPES holds the personal papers of William Henry Beveridge, which contain a section on unemployment and labour exchanges (Ref: Beveridge/3), and Beveridge papers concerning the Unemployment Insurance Committee (Ref: Coll Misc 0014).
For details of material in other institutions relating to Beveridge, see the Beveridge personal papers (Ref: Beveridge).
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 2000