IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 GC/39
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Woodside, Moya
Date(s): 1938-1989
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1/2 box
Name of creator(s): Woodside | Moya | b 1907
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Moya Woodside was born in 1907. She was Honorary Secretary of the Belfast Branch of the Society for Constructive Birth Control when it was established in 1938, which she wrote a pamphlet on the history of family planning for the Edinburgh Brook Centre in 1984. Mrs Woodside is also noted for the collaboration with Dr Eliot Slater which resulted in the publication of Patterns of Marriage (Cassell and Co, London, 1951).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Moya Woodside including leaflets of the Society for Constructive Birth Control, Belfast, with some National Birth Control Association material, c 1937-1942, reminiscences of work in birth control, 1981, 1984, and histories of the Edinburgh Brook Centre.
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.
Physical characteristics:
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Items 1-5 were given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in 1981 and 1985 by Mrs Woodside. In 1995 Dr June Bedford, who had worked with Mrs Woodside at the Edinburgh Brook Clinic, presented the CMAC with a number of further items associated with Moya Woodside and this Clinic.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Records of her collaborative survey with Dr Eliot Slater, Patterns of Marriage (1951), said to have been sent to the Genetics Section, Institute of Psychiatry, to join Slater's other papers.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 2009.