HARVEY, Audrey, 1912-1997, charity worker
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0097 HARVEY |
Held at | : British Library of Political and Economic Science Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/library › |
Full title | : HARVEY, Audrey, 1912-1997, charity worker |
Date(s) | : [1960]-1996 |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 12 boxes |
Name of creator(s) | : Harvey | Audrey | 1912-1997 | charity worker |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born 1912; educated at Oxford University; spent World War two in occupations consistent with her pacifist convictions, including voluntary work in one of the newly created Citizens Advice Bureaux; permanent worker at the Poplar Citizens Advice Bureaux, East London, 1955-1969; wrote a series of influential articles and pamphlets about housing, social security and homelessness; advised Jeremy Sandford on the TV drama-documentary Cathy come home, 1965; Founder Member, Child Poverty Action Group, [1965], with particular interest in the defects of the benefits system; First Director, Citizens' Rights Office, Child Poverty Action Group, 1970-1972; independent Lay Advocate for local authority tenants in county court eviction proceedings, [1972-]; died 1997. Publications: Tenants in Danger (Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1964); Remedies for rent arrears: a study in the London Borough of Camden (Shelter, London, 1979).
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Audrey Harvey, [1960]-1996, mainly comprising drafts of articles, offprints, correspondence and press cuttings relating to social welfare, housing, and homelessness.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
Unsorted.
Conditions governing access:
Closed until listed.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Most documents may be photocopied.
Finding aids:
Unlisted.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Given by the family in 1997.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Allied Materials
Related material:
The BLPES holds further material relating to Audrey Harvey in the papers of AEGIS (Ref: AEGIS/1/5) and the Fabian Society (Ref: Fabian Society/E28/5 and G54/1).
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Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Sources: British Library On-Line Public Access Catalogue 97. Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
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:
Oct 2000
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