IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0102 MS 322057
Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies
Title: Newham, Helen Maxwell
Date(s): Created 1929-1936
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 box
Name of creator(s): Newham | Helen Maxwell | 1896-1974 | teacher
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Helen Maxwell Newham was born in 1896, daughter of Rev. W. G. Newham. After being educated at Godolphin School, Salisbury she trained as a teacher at Salisbury Training College and Shoreditch College. Helen Newham worked as a teacher in South West Africa between 1929 and 1933. On her return to England she became headmistress at Bayham, Suffolk and then from 1948 in Campsea Ashe. She died on 6 Feb 1974.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers, 1929-1936, of Helen Maxwell Newham, comprising correspondence and other material relating to her time in Ovamboland and Zululand, South West Africa.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The correspondence is arranged in chronological order.
Conditions governing access:
Unrestricted.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Unpublished handlist.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Donated in 1974.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Date(s) of descriptions: 15 May 2000