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London Metropolitan Archives

HAMMERSMITH LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 DD/0392

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: HAMMERSMITH LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY

Date(s): 1892-1896

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.07 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Hammersmith Literary and Scientific Society

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Hammersmith Literary and Scientific Society was founded in November 1887. Meetings were held in the Vestry Hall Broadway. Its first President was Major General Goldsworth.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Hammersmith Literary and Scientific Society including annual report, printed list of members, list of subscribers and printed programme.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

4 items.

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright is held by the City of London.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred to Hammersmith and Fulham Archives and Local Studies from Hammersmith Local Collection in 1974.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

See also DD/0293.

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

Date(s) of descriptions: Added July 2015.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Cultural organizations | Cultural administration
Literary societies | Societies | Associations | Organizations
Scientific interest | Cultural interest

Personal names

Corporate names
Hammersmith Literary and Scientific Society

Places
Hammersmith | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Hammersmith and Fulham