IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0505 PP49
Held at: Royal Holloway, University of London
Title: SIMPSON, Una Mary (born 1910)
Date(s): 1930-1942
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 4 boxes or 0.04m3
Name of creator(s): Simpson | Una Mary | born 1910 | nee Roberts
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Una Mary Simpson (nee Roberts), born on June 1st 1910; educated at All Saints School, Maidstone and Maidstone Grammar School; joined Royal Holloway College in 1929; began an Intermediate Arts course before graduating with a 2:II in History in 1932; Secretary of the Historical Society at Royal Holloway; held a post at Grayford Girls Central School, 1934, October 1935 sailed to Bombay to take up a position as Assistant Mistress at Queen Mary High School, Girgaum, Bombay; returned to England, October 1938; back in Bombay by October 1939.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Correspondence, photographs and collected material of Una Mary Simpson (nee Roberts), relating specifically to her life in Bombay in the late 1930s, first as a teacher and later as wife and mother.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Arranged in sections as noted in the Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
Open to all registered users of the Royal Holloway, University of London Archives.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies may be supplied, subject to the condition of the original. Requests to publish original material should be directed to the Archivist.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Detailed listing available via online catalogue at http://calm.rhul.ac.uk
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
None expected
Archival history:
Presented to Royal Holloway University of London Archives in 2003 by Royal Holloway Library.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Royal Holloway University of London Library
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Jane on behalf of the RSLP AIM25 Project.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with general International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.
Date(s) of descriptions: July 2004