Child Study Society London and associated bodies

Date:
1891-1946
Reference:
PSY/BPS/3
Part of:
British Psychological Society Archive
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Minute books and printed materials of the Child Study Society and associated bodies (surviving records do not necessarily cover the entire lifetime of the organisations or reflect all their activities).

Publication/Creation

1891-1946

Physical description

5 boxes

Arrangement

PSY/BPS/3/1 Committee on The Mental & Physical Condition of Children, 1891-1896

PSY/BPS/3/2 The Childhood Society, 1896-1908

PSY/BPS/3/3 British Child Study Association, 1897-1907

PSY/BPS/3/4 Child Study Society later Child Study Association, 1907-1923

PSY/BPS/3/5 Child Study Society (London), 1907-1946

Acquisition note

Deposited in the library at Wellcome Collection by the British Psychological Society in September 2008.

Biographical note

This series contains the records of the Child Study Society (London) and those of several other bodies studying children in similar ways, which were eventually incorporated into it.

Committee on The Mental & Physical Condition of Children, 1891-1896, which led to the setting up of
The Childhood Society, initially proposed as the Society for Promoting the Hygiene of School life, with special reference to the Welfare of the Feebleminded and eventually formed as the Childhood Society for the Scientific Study of the Mental and Physical Conditions of Children in November 1896

British Child Study Association, founded in 1893

In 1907 the British Child Study Association amalgamated with the Childhood Society to form the Child Study Society, later Association

Child Study Society (London), founded 1894: in 1923 the Child Study Association, q.v. decided to dissolve itself and hand over its property and effects to the Child Study Society, London

Following negotiations with the British Psychological Society in 1947, early in 1948 the Child Study Society was wound up, and its members joined the BPS, with the Education Section taking over the Society's functions, and its records were transferred to the care of the BPS

Notes

Compiled by the Cataloguing Project Archivist at the British Psychological Society History of Psychology Centre, with minor editing by Wellcome staff.

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Identifiers

Accession number

  • 1611