Summary Guide

Note: The item numbers represent a subset from ISAD(G) rules (General International Standard Archival Description) promulgated by the International Council on Archives to standardise archival description world-wide. Only item numbers relevant to our specific archive are included here.

3.1 IDENTITY STATEMENT

3.1.1 Reference code: GB99 KCLMA Denman

3.1.2 Title: DENMAN, Lady Gertrude Mary (1884-1954)

3.1.3 Dates of creation of material: 1939-1946

3.1.4 Level of description: collection level

3.1.5 Extent: 1½ boxes or 0.015m³

3.2 CONTEXT

3.2.2 Biographical history: Born 1884; educated privately; Member of Executive Committee, Woman's National Liberal Federation, 1909-1910; in Australia, 1911-1914; Director, S Pearson and Son Limited; Director, Westminster Press Limited; Chairman, sub-committee of the Agricultural Organisation Society, 1916; Chairman of National Federation of Women's Institutes, 1917-1946; awarded CBE, 1920; Chairman, Family Planning Association, 1930-1954; President of Ladies' Golf Union, 1932-1938; Chairman, Cowdray Club for Nurses and Professional Women, 1932-1953; created DBE, 1933; Member of Executive Committee of Land Settlement Association, 1934-1939; Life Trustee, Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, 1938-1954; Honorary Director of Women's Land Army, 1939-1945; appointed GBE, 1951; Chairman, Women's Land Army Benevolent Fund; died 1954.

3.2.5 Provenance/source of acquisition: Copies made by the Centre from originals lent by the family in 1982.

3.3 CONTENT AND STRUCTURE

3.3.1 Scope and content: Copies of correspondence and papers relating to the Women's Land Army, 1939-1946, covering clothes rationing and uniform, housing and billeting, conferences, wages, and related printed memoranda, circular letters and leaflets.

3.3.4 Arrangement: The collection is arranged in sections as above.

3.4 CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE

3.4.2 Access: Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

3.4.3 Copyright: Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the College Archivist.

3.4.4 Language: English

3.4.6 Finding aids: Summary guide entry on-line and due to be published in hard copy.

3.5 ALLIED MATERIALS

3.5.4 Associated material: The Denman family and estate papers are held by West Sussex County Record Office, Chichester.

3.6 NOTE AREA

3.6.1 Date of compilation: Sep 1998

3.6.2 Decorations: GBE

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