FISHER, Prof Charles Alfred (1916-1982)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0402 CAF
Held at	: Royal Geographical Society   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.rgs.org/OurWork/Collections/Collections.htm ›
Full title	: FISHER, Prof Charles Alfred (1916-1982)
Date(s)	: 1954-1980
Level of description	: Collection Level
Extent	: 3 folders
Name of creator(s)	: Fisher | Charles Alfred | 1916-1982 | Professor of Geography

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1916; wartime service in the Royal Engineers; lectured at University College Wales and Leicester; Professor of Geography at Sheffield and London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS); Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, 1941-1983; RGS Victoria Medal, 1974; died, 1982.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Professor Charles Alfred Fisher, 1954-1980, including lecture notes on South East Asia including the overseas Chinese, the Mekong River and his visit to Burma in 1974; Foreign Office Research Department paper entitled 'UK Interests in SE Asia', 1964; and six personal letters on academic subjects, 1954-1980.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Accessed via the Foyle Reading Room. Free of charge for Fellows, Members and those with valid academic identification. All other users pay a charge and must bring identification in order to register on arrival.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopying at Archivist's discretion, and subject to completion of 'application for copies' form. No reproduction or publication without permission of the RGS-IBG Archivist.

Finding aids:

The RGS archives: a handlist / compiled by Christine Kelly. London: RGS, 1977.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Papers came to the RGS with slides for picture collection, probably in 1989.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Revised by Sarah Drewery.

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:
Nov 2008