IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 106 7DSB
Held at: Women's Library
Title: BROWN, Dorothy Shelagh
Date(s): 1942-1945
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.5 A box (1 folder)
Name of creator(s): Brown | Dorothy Shelagh | fl 1942-1945 | prisoner of war
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Dorothy Shelagh Brown (fl. 1942-1945) was held as a prisoner of war in a Japanese camp in the Far East during World War Two, 1942-1945. During this time, she wrote a diary of her daily experiences in this environment.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
The archive consists of a diary of experiences in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp 1942-1945 during the Second World War, plus a few notes on provenance (photocopied typescript only).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Finding aids:
Collection level description available on-line on the Women's Library website
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited by Anne Valery in 1990.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
The original diary is believed to still be held by the family of the creator.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
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: 14/02/2008