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Visnews relating to women


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 106 8VNS

Held at: Women's Library

Title: Visnews relating to women

Date(s): 1977-1987

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.5 A box (1 folder, 36 items)

Name of creator(s): Visnews

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Visnews (fl 1950-1985) was an international film and television news agency, operating from the 1950s until it was taken over by Reuters in 1985. It was later re-named Reuters Television.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The archive consists of a bundle of [Reuters] telexes, visual news-service production sheets from the News Research Unit of Visnews News Services and other papers, including press releases. All relate in some way to women's status, rights, actions and issues in different countries of the world, including France, Zimbabwe, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), United States of America (USA), South Africa, Italy, Ethiopia and Libya.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Visnews News Services.

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:

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Collection level description available on-line on the Women's Library website

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Exact provenance unknown - Fawcett Accession Registers to be checked.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Material relating to Visnews is held by ITN Archives. Reuters Ltd also maintains its own archive.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

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: 07/03/2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Maternal and child health | Health policy | Health
Television | Broadcasting
Women | Sex | Sex distribution
Womens status | Womens rights | Rights of special groups

Personal names

Corporate names
Visnews

Places
Bangladesh | South Asia
Ethiopia | East Africa
France | Western Europe | Europe
India | South Asia
Italy | Western Europe | Europe
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya | North Africa
Pakistan | South Asia
South Africa | Southern Africa
Sri Lanka | South Asia
USA | North America
USSR | Eastern Europe
Zimbabwe | Southern Africa
Libya x Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Soviet Union x USSR