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Sources Guide: Eastern Europe

Societies and Associations

Personal papers

RAMC

Wellcome archives

Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue

In some cases the full detailed catalogues of archive collections are not yet in this online database: hard copy versions are available in the Rare Materials Room of the Library and on request to archs+mss@wellcome.ac.uk

Societies and Associations

ABORTION LAW REFORM ASSOCIATION (f. 1936) SA/ALR/E.2
Scrapbook of presscuttings compiled by Janet Chance on 'Abortion Laws Russia', 1930-1937

BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY (f.1911) SA/BIO/E.4
Files on International Biochemical Congresses in Vienna 1958, Moscow 1961, Prague 1988

BRITISH SOCIETY FOR IMMUNOLOGY (f. 1955) SA/BSI/K.3/1
File relating to Polish Exchange Fellowship (part of wider Reciprocal Exchange Fellowships scheme with Russia, Poland, the Czech and Slovakian Republics), 1995

EUGENICS SOCIETY (FORMERLY EUGENICS EDUCATION SOCIETY) (f.1907) SA/EUG
Correspondence file on British Committee for Aiding Men of Letters and Science in Russia, 1921
Access only with permission of the Galton Institute
PLEASE NOTE: this collection is being digitised and parts of it will be unavailable during the process. Check the schedule for further information.

FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION (f.1930) SA/FPA
Correspondence with family planning organisations and reports from clinics in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Russia, USSR and Yugoslavia, 1950s-1960s

INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF MIDWIVES SA/ICM
Correspondence with Czechslovakia (member country), 1970-80, and Hungary (non-member), 1977; ICM/WHO/UNICEF pre-Congress Workshop Midwifery Practice - Measuring, Developing and Mobilising Quality Care, Romania, 1995

MEDICAL PILGRIMS (f. 1928) SA/PIL
Papers on 'pilgrimages' overseas, including Budapest, 1972 and USSR, 1965 (see also entry for Dr Donald Hunter below)

MEDICAL WOMEN'S FEDERATION (f.1917) SA/MWF
Papers of Committee on Medical Women and War Service re British Hospital at Stalingrad, 1942-1944

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY (f.1953) SA/MSS
International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies files on Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Roumania, 1960s-1970s

THE PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY (f.1876) SA/PHY
Small amount of papers re physiological societies in Romania, 1964 and USSR, 1943, plus photographs of foreign colleagues, 1920s-1960s (including photographs of Ivan Pavlov's laboratory in Petrograd, 1922). For foreign members in general see foreign membership files and personal names index to photograph collection

QUEEN’S NURSING INSTITUTE: District Nursing Overseas files include Poland and Yugoslavia, 1959-69 SA/QNI/U.3

SIGERIST SOCIETY (f.1947) SA/SIG
Proceedings of meetings, particularly papers on medical theory and practice in the USSR, 1940s-1950s

TRAVELLING SURGICAL SOCIETY (f.1924) SA/TSS
Annual reports of visits to Budapest, May 1975 and Warsaw and Krakow, 1967

Personal Papers

Sir William Maddock BAYLISS (1860-1924) GC/223
A few letters from international colleagues in inter alia Hungary and USSR, [1880s]-1920s, including Ivan Pavlov, 1905

Henry Victor DICKS (1900-1977) PP/HVD
Materials relating to his study of the psychology of totalitarianism in Soviet Russia, 1952-71

Sir George GODBER (b.1908) GC/201
Unpublished papers on USSR health services, 1967, and a few photographs of the World Health Assembly, Budapest, 1969

Dr Donald HUNTER (1898-1977) PP/HUN
Correspondence, photographs etc. on travel overseas re industrial medicine to 2nd Czechoslovakian Congress of Industrial Medicine, 1947, Hungary, 1948, Zagreb, 1950s, Belgrade, 1959; notebook and photographs of visit by the Medical Pilgrims to Moscow, 1965 (see also entry for Medical Pilgrims above)

Sir Robert MACINTOSH (1897-1989) PP/RRM
Correspondence from colleagues in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, USSR, Yugoslavia, 1940s-1980s; travel diaries for Poland and Russia, 1956, Moscow, 1959, East Germany, 1966, Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1967; travel notes on Russia, 1954-1960; lectures on Russia and USSR, 1950s-1960s; negatives and lecture slides of Russia and USSR, 1959-1960

Sir Peter Brian MEDAWAR (1915-1987) PP/PBM
Report to British Council on 1966 visit to USSR

Sir Edward MELLANBY (1884-1955) and Lady May MELLANBY (1882-1978) PP/MEL
Lady Mellanby's holiday diary for Russia and Eastern Europe, 1896; photographs of South Russian oilfields, [late 19th century]; holiday photographs and postcards of Russia, [1896] and Budapest, n.d.; correspondence concerning the Russian Red Cross Mission and dental research in Russia, 1945-1947

Charles McMoran Wilson, Lord MORAN (1882-1977) PP/CMW
Correspondence, papers and photographs re USSR, 1940s-1960s, in particular Lord Moran's visit as advisor to Russian Medical Mission, 1941-1942

Sir Edward Albert SHARPEY-SCHAFER (1850-1935) PP/ESS
Correspondence with colleagues in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland, Romania, USSR, 1870s-1920s, including Ivan Pavlov, 1914; correspondence with Russian scientists re position of scientists in post-revolution Russia, 1918-1921; a few photographs of unidentified Russian individuals, [late 19th century]

Alice Mary STEWART (1906-2002) PP/AMS
A little material on visits to Russia and Finland, 1954, 1955, correspondence with colleagues in various Eastern European countries, 1970s-90s

Robert Henry Stewart THOMPSON (1912-1998) PP/RHT/A.3/4, 6-7
Travel diaries of visits to Moscow, 1956, 1960, 1961

Marthe VOGT (1903-2003) PP/MLV
Correspondence with colleagues in the USSR, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, East Germany and Romania, mainly regarding research topics, lecture and conference visits and working in the UK, also some material re suppression of scientific freedom in Eastern Bloc countries, 1940s-80s

Helena Rosa WRIGHT (1887-1982) PP/HRW
Papers and photographs re visits to East Germany and Poland, 1957-1958; and see also research material for her biography by Dr Barbara Evans, PP/PRE/J

RAMC

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS MUNIMENT COLLECTION RAMC
Reports on public health services in Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1900s; photographs and papers re the Balkan Wars (particularly service by the British Red Cross), 1912-1913; reports, diaries, photographs etc. re the Balkan Front, First World War; case notes re contamination of workers at nuclear reactor, Belgrade, 1958; correspondence, memoirs, photographs etc. re the Crimean War, 1850s-1860s, including papers of Sir John Hall, Principal Medical Officer, and correspondence of Florence Nightingale; publications and scrapbook re Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871; papers of Dr Frederick Barker re Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878; diaries, souvenirs, publications etc. re USSR, 1918-1954. For additional material see place name and subject indexes

Wellcome archives

WELLCOME HISTORICAL MEDICAL MUSEUM WA/HMM
Archives, 1899-1985, include material on Eastern Europe, including records of collecting and research trips in Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, 1930s.

WELLCOME FOUNDATION
Material relating to its activities in marketing pharmaceutical products in Eastern Europe and Russia, c. 1880s-1990s