Pahl and Thompson Collection

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0369 PAH
Held at	: School of Slavonic and East European Studies   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.ssees.ucl.ac.uk/archives/ ›
Full title	: Pahl and Thompson Collection
Date(s)	: 1991
Level of description	: Collection (Fonds)
Extent	: 7 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Pahl | Ray E | b 1936 | sociologist Thompson | Paul Richard | b 1935 | sociologist
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

"Families, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial values: Britain and Russia" was a project headed by Professors R E Pahl and P R Thompson and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The project involved life story interviews of adults from two different generations of the same family in order to investigate the connection between family and cultural sources of entrepreneurial values and entrepreneurship. The British section of the project was never undertaken.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Research material from the "Families, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial values" project comprising:
audio tapes of forty six Russian life story interviews with two and in one case three members of different generations of twenty two families in Moscow and Leningrad, 1991, there are transcipts and translations of most if the interviews; related papers including interview summary sheets, a draft interview guide for interviewers and the end of project report

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English and Russian

System of arrangement:

The collection is divided into two classes, audio tapes (PAH/1) and transcripts, translations and related papers (PAH/2).

Conditions governing access:

Access unrestricted but an undertaking must be given not to identify individual interviewees in any published work produced as a result of using this collection. Researchers wishing to consult the archives or seeking further information should contact UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) Library, 16 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Librarian.

Finding aids:

Online catalogue available on the UCL Archives website.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Revised by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description ISAD(G), 2nd edition 2000 and National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997

Date(s) of descriptions:
Revised Jan 2003