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Lectures, addresses, conference papers, 1949 - 1980

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Wootton 3/1/1

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Item 1: Report of a Symposium on Society and its General Practitioners held in Harrogate 21 May 1967, published Feb 1969 as a supplement to The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners;
Item 2: 'Fair Pay, Relativities and a Policy for Incomes', being the Twentieth Fawley Foundation Lecture, given by BW at the University of Southampton 28 November 1974;
Item 3: Sentencing Problems: typescript of papers given at a meeting held by the Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency in the Lord Chief Justice's Court, including BW on 'The Role of the Sentencing court', no date [early 1960s?];
Item 4: 'Remuneration in a Welfare State', being the Eleanor Rathbone Memorial Lecture delivered by BW at the University of Liverpool, 1961, published by Liverpool University Press 1961;
Item 5: 'Aubrey Lewis' Paper on Health as a Social Concept Reconsidered in the Light of Today' by BW - offprint from the British Journal of Psychiatry 1977;
Item 6: 'Psychiatry, Ethics and the Criminal Law', being the 53rd Maudsley Lecture, delivered by BW to the Royal College of Psychiatrists 16 November 1979, offprint from the British Journal of Psychiatry [June] 1980;
Item 7: 'Contemporary Trends in Crime and its Treatment', being the 19th Clarke Hall Lecture, delivered by BW in 1959;
Item 8: 'The State of the Nation', being the Tawney House Lecture 1970, delivered by BW at Tawney House, Matlock, 15 May 1970, for the Tawney House Management Committee and the University of Nottingham Dept of Adult Education;
Item 9: 'The Future of the Social Sciences', being the second annual lecture of the Research Students' Association, delivered by BW at Canberra on 18 October 1961, published by the Australian National University 1961;
Item 10: 'In Pursuit of Equality', being the Blanche Colebrook Memorial Lecture given by BW in London in November 1975, published as Fabian Trust 443 by the Fabian Society July 1976;
Item 11: 'The Place of Psychiatry and Medical Concepts in the Treatment of Offenders: a Layman's View', being an Academic Lecture delivered by BW at a joint meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, The Canadian Psychiatric Association, and the Quebec Psychiatric Association, Montreal, June 1972, offprint of the Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal Volume 17 [October] 1972;
Item 12: 'A Philosophy for the Social Services', being the 3rd Rita Hinden Memorial Lecture, delivered by BW at Bedford College, London, 17 November 1974, photocopy of an offprint published by the Rita Hinden Memorial Fund [1974?];
Items 13 and 14: Opening of conference and concluding address, respectively, as delivered by BW at the Annual Conference of the National Park Authorities, chaired by BW (also Chairman of the Countryside Commission), held in Aviemore 1969;
Item 15: 'Expert and Layman in Contemporary Society: problems of Communications and Functions', being the 3rd Aslib Annual Lecture, delivered by BW at the Senate House, London, 23 April 1969, from Aslib Proceedings Volume 21 no: 6, published by Aslib [1969];
Item 16: 'Universities and their Problems in the Contemporary World', being the 6th Richard Feetham Lecture, delivered by BW at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2 October 1969, published [1969?] by the University of the Witwatersrand, together with a press cutting from the Daily Telegraph, 19 September 1969, re the same;
Item 17: 'Changing Concepts of Criminal Responsibility', being pp 15-26 in UNAFEI Newsletter no: 10, May 1970 (Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders, Tokyo (text of a lecture given under the auspices of the Ministry of Justice and the United Nations Institute);
Item 18: 'The Role of the RPA Today', being 4 speeches from a Rationalist Press Association dinner, 1 of which was delivered by BW, published in Humanist Magazine September 1968;
Item 19: Concluding address given by BW (Chairman of the Countryside Commission) at the Annual Conference of the National Park Authorities held at Country Hall, Brecon September 1968;
Item 20: 'Crime and the British Penal System: Reflections of a Long-Service Magistrate', being the Lloyd Roberts Lecture delivered by BW at the Royal Society of Medicine, 30 November 1967, published as Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine Volume 61 March 1968;
Item 21: Address given by BW on 'The Future Role of the National Parks Commission and the Countryside Commission' at the Annual Conference of the National Park Authorities, held at Gosforth Park Hotel, Northumberland 29 September - 1 October 1967;
Item 22: Concluding address given by BW (Chair of the National Parks Commission) at the Annual Conference of the National Park Planning Authorities, held at the Valley of Rocks Hotel, Lynton, Devon, 27-28 September 1966;
Item 23: 'Some Problems of communication', being a lecture delivered by BW to Aslib at the time of being invited to become their President, published as Aslib Proceedings Volume 5 no: 4, November 1953;
Item 24: 'Further Problems in Communication: The Language of the Social Sciences', being a lecture delivered by BW to Aslib, reprinted from Aslib Proceedings Volume 6 no: 4 [November 1954];
Item 25: Violence and the Mental Health Services: proceedings of a conference held by the National Association for Mental Health in London 8-9 March 1962, pp 12-30 being BW on 'Sickness or Sin?' re dealing with cases of violence and other crimes as mental problems;
Item 26: Mental Health (journal of the National Association for Mental Health) April 1962, pp 8-12 being 'Sickness or Sin' as above;
Item 27: 'Diminished Responsibility: A Layman's View', being the 7th Biennial Lecture in Criminal Science, delivered by BW at Cambridge on 12 February 1960 under the auspices of the Institute of Criminology, photocopy of lecture as published in the Law Quarterly Review Volume 76 no: 302, April 1962;
Item 28: UNESCO/Enq/R:C:/Eval: Paris 3 September 1954, being a Working Paper on Lacunae in Social Science Research compiled for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, typescript;
Item 29: Press cutting [c: 1975?] and related letter, 1988, re BW's Barney Spivack Memorial Lecture to the Slough and Eton Workers' Educational Association on 'Reflections on the English Penal System';
Items 30 to 32: 'Deviance: Criminal and Other', being the Voltaire Lecture delivered by BW [1970?], printed in New Society 5 November 1970, together with related press cutting, 7 November 1970 and 'Wootton Attacks Greed' - cutting re same from Humanist News, journal of the British Humanist Association;
Item 33: Report on the RPA [Rationalist Press Association] Dinner and Reunion, including speeches by and about BW, being pp 137-144 of The Literary Guide and Rationalist View Volume LXV no: 7, July 1950;
Item 34: 'Evidence that women are the superior sex, says Baroness Wootton', being a press cutting re a speech given by BW at the senior prizegiving of Mayfield School for Girls, Putney, 1958;
Item 35: 'The Changing Social Pattern', being a report on a talk given by BW to a refresher course for sister tutors at the Royal College of Nursing, printed in the Nursing Times 9 July 1949.






























Dates

  • Creation: 1949 - 1980

Creator

Extent

3 file(s) : Paper

Language of Materials

English

Former / Other Reference

56

Originator(s)

Wootton, Barbara

Finding aid date

2004-11-15 10:32:02+00:00

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