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Haggis, Alec William James (1889-1946)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.5328-5355, 8280-8282, 8285-8287 & 8662-8663

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Haggis, Alec William James (1889-1946)

Date(s): c 1937-1946

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 27 volumes

Name of creator(s): Haggis | Alec William James | 1889-1946 | museum staff

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Alec Haggis was a staff member of Wellcome Historical Medical Museum.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers and research notes of Alec Haggis relating to medical history. Many relate to Haggis's research into medical licensing in England and Wales prior to the Act of 1858.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Described in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999) and typescript supplements by Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Formerly in the archives of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, of which Haggis was a member of staff.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Ancient civilizations | Ancient history | Historical periods
Apprenticeship | Training methods
Faith healing | Spiritual therapies | Complementary therapies | Therapeutics
Health policy | Health
Historical research | History
History of medicine | History
Licensure, medical | Licensure | Credentialing | Social control, formal | Sociology
Medieval period | Historical periods
Midwifery | Nursing | Medical sciences
Milk | Dairy products | Animal products | Agricultural products
Miracles | Religious experience | Religion
Religion and medicine | Religion
Saints | Religious groups
Therapy | Medical sciences
Therapeutics x Therapy
Chemistry
Christian church
Museums
Women in medicine

Personal names
Haggis | Alec William James | 1889-1946 | museum staff

Corporate names
Wellcome Historical Medical Museum

Places