IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 GC/253
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Wellcome Witness Seminars
Date(s): 1993-1997
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 6 boxes
Name of creator(s): Wellcome Witness Seminars
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers relating to the Wellcome Witness Seminars, 1993-1997, including original audio tapes of the seminars (in most cases, master plus copy); photographs of witnesses and other participants; correspondence, both administrative and between the Twentieth Century Group and witnesses; and programmes and lists of participants.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Arranged by seminar.
Conditions governing access:
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Finding aids:
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
All audio-visual materials (except for third and further copies of tapes), participant lists and programmes have been retained. Drafts with major or significant comments by contributors have also been kept. Routine administrative correspondence, duplicates and drafts with minor corrections have been weeded. Transcripts have only been retained for those seminars for which these were not eventually published in some form. Copyright assignment forms are held on file by the CMAC.
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
This material was given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in November 1998 by Dr Tilli Tansey of the Twentieth Century Group, Academic Unit, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Additional uncatalogued material relating to later Witness Seminars, acc 1046.
Publication note:
The proceedings of most of these seminars have been published, in two volumes, EM Tansey, PP Catterall, DA Christie, SV Willhoft, LA Reynolds (eds), Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine: Volume I: Witness Seminar Transcripts (1997) and EM Tansey, DA Christie, LA Reynolds (eds), Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine: Vol II: Witness Seminar Transcripts (1998), available from the Wellcome Library. The proceedings of Ashes to Ashes: The History of Smoking and Health, edited by Stephen Lock, were published by Rodopi in 1998.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 2008