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Scrapbook of press cuttings relating to Careers and Vocational Training


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 106 10/42

Held at: Women's Library

Title: Scrapbook of press cuttings relating to Careers and Vocational Training

Date(s): 1909-1941

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 volume

Name of creator(s): Provenance uncertain

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Women's Employment Publishing Company Ltd was established by the Central Employment Bureau for Women around 1913/14 in order to deal with its publications. The Central Bureau had been issuing the twice-monthly journal 'Women's Employment' since 1899 and other occasional publications in connection with their work and it was this that the Women's Employment Publishing Company continued from the parent organisation's offices in Russell Square. In addition to the main periodical, the press was also responsible for the publication of numerous editions of 'Careers [later, 'and Vocational Training']: A Guide to the Professions and Occupations of Educated Women and Girls', 'The Finger Post', 'Hints on how to find work' and 'Open Doors for Women Workers'. The directors just before the outbreak of the Second World War were H John Faulk (Chairman), Miss E R Unmack (Managing Director) and Miss A E Hignell (secretary). Despite problems cause by this disruption and a decline in the number of readers in this period, the company survived and continued publishing 'Women's Employment' until 1974.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Scrapbook of press cuttings, 1909-1941, concerning the activities of the Women's Employment Publishing Company, including the publications 'The Fingerpost', 'Careers and Vocational Training'.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

This collection is available for consultation. Intending readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Finding aids:

Collection level description available on-line on the Women's Library website

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Provenance uncertain, although the link with the Women's Employment Publishing Company indicates that this volume, along with GB 106 10/41 and GB 106 10/43, may have once formed part of the records of the Women's Employment Publishing Company and/or the Central Employment Bureau for Women.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown [Fawcett Library Accession Registers to be checked].

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

The Women's Library also holds the records of The Women's Employment Publishing Company (GB 106 6/WEP) and two further scrapbooks relating to its work (GB 106 10/41 and GB 106 10/43).

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: This document was generated by Javascript from an HTML form which structured the input according to the elements of ISAD(G) Version 2. Collection description by Jennifer Haynes, Head of Special Collections, The Women's Library, Aug 2002. Fawcett Library Catalogue by Penny Baker [and VD] 28 Jan 1992. Edited for AIM25 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: Dec 2008.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Publishers | Communication personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Scrapbooks | Albums (documents) | Books | Publications | Communications media | Information sciences
Women | Sex | Sex distribution
Womens employment | Employment

Personal names

Corporate names
Central Employment Bureau for Women
Women's Employment Publishing Company Ltd

Places