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Congresses and Conventions

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = PJM

Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:

A photograph of medical students graduation, and a photograph of the International Physiological Congress at Edinburgh, 1920s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/19-0157
Scope and Contents

One framed photograph of the International Physiological Congress held in Edinburgh in 1923, showing the c. 300 delegates in the Quadrangle of the Old Medical School of the University. Names are given around the photo.


The second photograph has no caption whatsoever, but probably is a graduation photograph. The group includes E. Scharpey-Schafer, Professor of Physiology at the University of Edinburgh from 1899 to 1933. It was taken by E. R. Yerbury and Son.

Dates: 1920s

Association of Building Technicians: membership information, c1940-1958

 Series
Identifier: PJM/ABT/D
Scope and Contents information regarding membership of the Association of Architects, Surveyors and Technical Assistants (AASTA) (later the Association of Building Technicians (ABT)) and an application form an AASTA Housing Committee report entitled Report on re-housing the homeless and evacuation ( c1940) ABT...
Dates: c1940-1958

Assortment of items from bound volume, 1940-1948, 1940-1948

 File
Identifier: Coll-1057/3/5/2
Scope and Contents

Contains: letter from F.A.E Crew to Greenwood handing over control of the Institute of Animal Genetics due to the Second World War (February 1940); newspaper clippings (1942-1946); certificate and photographs relating to Greenwood's Home Guard service (1940-1944); report listing poultry research centres in America, material relating to the 8th World's Poultry Congress, Copenhagen (August 1948); various correspondence, photographs newspaper clippings and articles.

Dates: 1940-1948

Assortment of items from bound volume, 1946-1960, 1946-1960

 File
Identifier: Coll-1057/3/5/4
Scope and Contents

Contains: bills and postcards from Alan Greenwood's trip to the USA (1946); programmes, invitations, menus and photographs from various events, including group photographs from the Chick Producers Association conference in Bournemouth (October 1950), official Ministry of Agriculture dinner, the World's Poultry Congress, Paris (August 1951), Pakistan Embassy Lunch, World's Poultry Science Association (August 1951); and various press cuttings (1959-1960).

Dates: 1946-1960

Assortment of items from bound volume,1954-1955, 1954-1955

 File
Identifier: Coll-1057/3/5/5
Scope and Contents

Contains: typescript of BBC script 'Science Review: Poultry Research' (June 1954); list of guests to be invited to a Conversazione at the Poultry Research Centre; programme and menus for the 10th World's Poultry Congress, Edinburgh (August 1954); typescripts titled 'Genetics and Animal Nutrition' and 'Control of Sex' (October 1954), and correspondence, photographs and various newspaper clippings, some relating to Alan Greenwood's CBE (1955).

Dates: 1954-1955

International Centre for Regional Planning and Development (ICRPD), 1955-1962

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: PJM/ICRPD
Scope and Contents The International Centre for Regional Planning and Development (ICRPD) consists of: papers, agenda minutes and correspondence for the Provisional Committee of the ICRPD, 1955 papers concerning a 'Regional plan for the Nile Delta', 1955 papers concerning the International Conference on Regional Planning and Development, 1955 papers concerning the...
Dates: 1955-1962

International Centre for Regional Planning and Development (ICRPD): mixed papers (1), 1955

 File
Identifier: PJM/ICRPD/1
Scope and Contents Papers, agenda minutes and correspondence relating to the Provisional Committee of the International Centre for Regional Planning and Development (ICRPD). These include "Rules of procedure" and papers concerning a "Regional plan for the Nile Delta" suggested by the United Nations Technical Assistance Administration. There are also papers and correspondence concerning the organisation for the International Conference on Regional Planning and Development held by the ICRPD...
Dates: 1955

International Centre for Regional Planning and Development (ICRPD): mixed papers (2), 1956

 File
Identifier: PJM/ICRPD/3
Scope and Contents Papers, minutes and correspondence for the International Centre for Regional Planning and Development (ICRPD) Provisional Committee. The file also contains papers relating to the ICRPD British Group (also called Association for Regional Planning) including minutes for their Management Sub-committee and Preparatory Committee. There is also a copy of an interim report on the International Conference on Regional Planning and Development which was held at Bedford College, London, in 1955....
Dates: 1956

International Centre for Regional Planning and Development (ICRPD): mixed papers (3), 1957

 File
Identifier: PJM/ICRPD/4
Scope and Contents Papers, minutes and correspondence for the International Centre for Regional Planning and Development (ICRPD) Provisional Committee. The file also contains papers relating to the ICRPD British Group (also called Association for Regional Planning) including minutes for their Management Sub-committee and Preparatory Committee. There is also a copy of an interim report on the International Conference on Regional Planning and Development which was held at Bedford College, London, in 1955....
Dates: 1957

International Centre for Regional Planning and Development (ICRPD) - mixed papers (4), 1954-1960

 File
Identifier: PJM/ICRPD/6
Scope and Contents Correspondence, papers and minutes for the Provisional Committee, General Council and British Group of the International Centre for Regional Planning and Development (ICRPD). The file includes: an agenda for a meeting considering setting up the Scottish Group, the report and list of participants on the British Group study day held at the London School of Economics on 21 November 1959 entitled "Economic forces leading to Urban Concentration", some hand-written notes, in Percy...
Dates: 1954-1960