| Description | Correspondence received and sent by Max Hamilton from Charlotte Banks, Cyril Burt, Peter McKellar, Alastair Heron, H Maule, in his function as BPS British Journal of Statistical Psychology (BJSP) Committee member as well as minutes of the Committee, editors report and paper for the BPS Council.
Issues discussed include responsibilities and demarcation between the British Psychological Society and the Editors, meetings with the BPS on the future of the Journal, profits, calls for reductions in costs, papers submitted, editorial policy, role of the editor and the managing editor; resignation of Harold Maule as managing editor; number of issues per year, disagreements over choosing new printers and publishers, advertising, typeface, candidates for election [for Society President]; responsibilities for appointing editors and their length of tenure; relations between medical and non-medical elements of the Society; election to the Publications Committee and as editors of particular journals e.g. British Journal of Educational Psychology;
Proceeding of an informal meeting to discuss 'The Production of The Statistical Journal of Society 5 February 1955 (chaired by L S Hearnshaw President of the Society)
Minutes of the British Journal of Statistical Psychology Journal Committee (1st) 9 July 1954; (2nd) 9th September 1954 agenda only; (3rd) 15 January 1955; (4th) 24 June 1955, (5th) 20 January 1956; (7th) meeting 25 October 1957.
Includes also letter from Max Hamilton (1912-1988) to Peter McKellar (1921-2003) in 1967 stating that he had found this file and asking whether it should be kept 'Answer - Do not Throw Away', and letter from Hamilton to Sandy Lovie, British Psychological Society Archivist, 21 September 1981 donating the file to the BPS Archives. |
| AdminHistory | The British Journal of Psychology Statistical Section was established in 1947, with Cyril Burt and Professor Godfrey H Thomson as Editors and Professor Harding as Managing Editor, Harding was succeeded by Dr Maule and after Thomson's death in 1955, Burt was sole editor with Charlotte Banks as assistant editor. It was renamed British Journal of Statistical Psychology in 1954 and the The British Journal of Mathematical & Statistical Psychology in 1965. The Society recommended in 1954 that each of its Journals set up a Committee which would report to the Journals Committee and the Standing Committee on Publications but only the British Journal of Statistical Psychology agreed to do this appointing J W Whitfield Chair, members were Cyril Burt, Brian Foss, Alastair Heron, S Small, J Sutherland, F Warburton, Max Hamilton, and Charlotte Banks (who was the Secretary). |
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