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Hitchin, Stevenage and District Women's Suffrage Society


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 106 2HWS

Held at: Women's Library

Title: Hitchin, Stevenage and District Women's Suffrage Society

Date(s): 1909-1919

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 A box

Name of creator(s): Hitchin Stevenage and District Women's Suffrage Society

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Hitchin, Stevenage and District Women's Suffrage Society (1909-1918) was originally established as the North Herts Women's Suffrage Association in 1909 with Lord Lytton as its president and with Lady Constance Lytton and Lady Betty Balfour as members. By 1911 the organisation had expanded to such an extent that it was necessary to split it into two separate bodies: the Hitchin, Stevenage and District Women's Suffrage Society and the Letchworth and District Women's Suffrage Society. Both were affiliated to the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. This remained the situation until 1918 when the HSDWSS became a Women's Citizenship Association.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The archive consists of minutes, attendance book, annual reports 1909-1919; Stevenage local committee minutes and reports.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Conditions governing access:

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

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Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Fawcett Library Catalogue

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown: the archive was listed c.1989, so the records must have been deposited prior to that date.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Finding aid created by export from CALM v7.2.14 Archives Hub EAD2002. 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: 08/01/2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Societies | Associations | Organizations
Women | Sex | Sex distribution
Womens organizations | Associations | Organizations
Womens suffrage | Electoral systems | Internal politics

Personal names

Corporate names
Hitchin Stevenage and District Women's Suffrage Society

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