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Sources Guide: Health Education and Promotion

For health education/promotion specifically relating to mother and child welfare, see Mothers and Babies. For material relating to sex education, the promotion of contraception, and the prevention of venereal diseases, see the collections listed in Birth Control, and Sexually Transmitted Diseases. For matters of public awareness of nutritional issues, see Nutrition, and for health education around smoking, drinking and drug abuse see Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco.

General questions

Military aspects

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

General questions

BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SA/BMA
Various files to do with assorted aspects of health education; doctors giving lectures, and advice in newspapers, campaign to encourage wider use of health services, public education in health generally, BMA publications on Secret Remedies and Family meals and catering, etc, 1900s-1960s

ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH (1902-1974) SA/CMO
ASSOCIATION OF AREA MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH (1974-1982) SA/AMO
Material relating to health promotion responsibilities of Medical Officers of Health at this administrative level

CANCER RESEARCH CAMPAIGN (formerly BRITISH EMPIRE CANCER CAMPAIGN) SA/CRC
Material on cancer education, including correspondence files, publications, publicity films; papers of the Campaign's Cancer Education Committee, 1948-1950; papers re and of the British Cancer Council, 1967-1975

Herbert Davies CHALKE (1897-1979) GC/200
Papers of this MOH who worked in Wales and London, 1930-1963, include articles and publications re a broad range of issues associated with health education and promotion, including methods for the dissemination of information to the public, co-operation between different health professionals, and a survey of the effectiveness of health education amongst London school children, 1965

CHARTERED SOCIETY OF PHYSIOTHERAPY (f. 1894) SA/CSP
Some informational and educational material on correct methods of lifting etc, benefits of remedial gymnastics, 1920s-50s

Sidney CHAVE (1914-1985) GC/178
Papers include lecture notes on health education and reflect Chave’s interest in community health and its promotion, 1950s-70s

CHILD ACCIDENT PREVENTION TRUST (f.1979) SA/CAP
Health education material aimed at both specialists and the general public: occasional papers, fact sheets, booklets, leaflets, videos, posters, 1980-1991, n.d.

Sir (William) Allen DALEY (1887-1969) Medical Officer of Health PP/AWD
Besides involvement with issues of health education and promotion in his long career in public health, 1920s-60s, was President of the Central Council for Health Education, 1959-64

Sir Weldon DALRYMPLE-CHAMPNEYS (1892-1980) of the Ministry of Health GC/139
Talks and broadcasts on health questions, mainly 1940s-1950s

EUGENICS SOCIETY SA/EUG
Section `Promotion and Propaganda' in particular includes a good deal of material on the dissemination of ideas about eugenics, involvement in Health Weeks and Exhibitions, etc, 1920s-1950s
This collection is only available with the 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.

‘THE EXPANDING FIELD OF MENTAL HEALTH IN ENGLAND AND WALES, 50 YEARS OF PROGRESS, 1918-1968’ MS7913
58 papers by diverse hands on various bodies concerned with mental health during the period, including health education aspects

Sir George GODBER GCB (b.1908) GC/201
Chief Medical Officer, DHSS, DES and Home Office, 1960-73. Miscellaneous papers including draft and published lectures, articles and cartoons, 1940s-80s

HEALTH CONCERN (f.1984/1985) SA/HCN
Small collection of papers relating to this organisation whose aims included an educational programme on health care and treatment

HEALTH VISITORS' ASSOCIATION (founded 1896 as the WOMEN SANITARY INSPECTORS' ASSOCIATION) SA/HVA
Includes material on the health education aspect of the health visitor's job, 1900s-1980s

HISTORY OF THE CENTRAL COUNCIL FOR HEALTH EDUCATION (1927-68): interviews by Dr Max Blythe GC/196
Transcripts of recorded recollections, 1980s, of various individuals involved in the activities of the CCHE.
Access restricted

James Randal HUTCHINSON (c.1880-1955) and William Henry BRADLEY (1898-1975) Senior Medical Officers at the Ministry of Health PP/JRH
Material largely relating to infectious diseases, including public health campaigns to encourage good health practices in the population, such as take-up of immunisation, 1910s-1950s

Sir William Arbuthnot LANE (1856-1943) GC/127
Founder of the New Health Society to promote his theories on healthy diet, posture and exercise. Unpublished auto-biographical chapters, and published papers

Tim LANG (b.1948) PP/TLA
Material relating to nutrition, food safety and food health education and activities in which Tim Lang was involved via the London Food Commission, Parents for Safe Food and as Professor of Food Policy and Director of the Centre for Food Policy, Thames Valley University, 1980s to 2000

MEDICAL WOMEN'S FEDERATION (f.1916) SA/MWF
Material on women doctors and aspects of health education, in particular to do with girls and women, 1920s-1970s; includes papers of Dr A E Sanderson Clow (1875-1959) mostly concerning dysmenorrhoea and the hygiene of menstruation

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS (f. 1899) SA/NPT
Organisation did a lot of work in informing the public about tuberculosis, its prevention, management, and facilities for diagnosis and treatment, 1890s-1980s

PATIENTS’ ASSOCIATION SA/PAT
Material relating to educating patients in preventive medicine and preventive health, personal health, lifestyle and nutrition, as well as educating patients in their obligations towards their own health as well as what they can expect from the NHS, 1970s–90s: see section D and publications in section F

PIONEER HEALTH CENTRE PECKHAM SA/PHC
Experimental health centre active from the 1920s (initial pilot project) until closure in 1952, set up by George Scott WILLIAMSON (1883-1953) and Innes Hope PEARSE (1890-1979) to investigate the factors leading to positive health and to promote `health' instead of `illth'

POLITICS OF HEALTH GROUP (1977-1986) SA/PHG
Small group of papers from the 1980s of informal group concerned with the politics of health and the social and economic factors bearing upon ill-health

QUEEN’S NURSING INSTITUTE (Chartered in 1889 as Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Institute for Nurses) SA/QNI
Large archive of this body instituted to supply district nurses free or via provident schemes, involved in early campaigns for good midwifery and public health advice and services

RESEARCH BOARD FOR THE CORRELATION OF MEDICAL SCIENCE AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION (1942-1956) SA/RBC
Set up to study the interrelationship between health and physical education and to ensure wider recognition of need for physical education for health. Reports covered medical science and physical education in schools, colleges, industry and armed forces, and for maternity and child welfare

ROYAL SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH and predecessors SA/RSP
These included the Sanitary Institute. f. 1876, later Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, Royal Institute of Public Health, f. 1886, and the Institute of Hygiene, f. 1903, all of which were involved in training various groups of health professionals and educators and disseminating the message of public health and hygiene to a wider audience

SAVE A LIFE CAMPAIGN GC/164
Set up in 1986 to train members of the public in the techniques of first–aid in an emergency situation: correspondence, press cuttings and records of administration, 1985-8

SOCIETY OF MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH (f.1856) SA/SMO
Major archive relating to public health, which increasingly included a large component of involvement in health education; includes evidence of Society to committees and commissions, health education literature

SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL MEDICINE (f. 1956) SA/SSM
Concerned with various issues to do with health in the community, 1950s-1980s

Military aspects

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS MUNIMENT COLLECTION RAMC
Material on the work of Army doctors to ensure the continuing health of men in the forces, mainly nineteenth and twentieth centuries, can be found under HYGIENE in the subject index. There are also reports and handbooks of the Army Physical Development Centres, 1943-1945 (RAMC 1129)

Air Marshal Sir Harold WHITTINGHAM (1887-1983) PP/HEW
Handbooks on health preservation for British soldiers in tropical climates (including some original cartoons and illustrations by Whittingham), first aid for RAF personnel, survival in extreme conditions, e.g. desert, jungle, arctic, 1940s-1950s