| Description | SubFonds contains minute books and printed material concerning the British Child Study Association, Child Study Association, Childhood Society and Child Study Society.
Series are available as follows:
BPS/003/1 British-Child Study Association 1897-1907
BPS/003/2 Child Study Association 1912-1923
BPS/003/3 Childhood Society 1896-1908
BPS/003/4 Child Study Society 1907-1919
BPS/003/5 Child Study Society London 1907-1928
BPS/003/6 Committee on the Mental and Physical Condition of Children 1891-1896
BPS/003/7 Pamphlets 1901-1936
BPS/003/8 Report on the Scientific Study of the Mental and Physical Conditions of Childhood 1895
For more information on the early structure of Child Study Societies see, 'Child Study Fifty Years Ago', A.G.Caws, Bulletin of the BPS,Vol.1, Number 3 (1949). |
| AdminHistory | British Child Study Association founded 1893 amalgamated with the Childhood Society 1907.
Childhood Society formed in 1896. Sir Douglas Galton elected First Chairman.
Amalgamated with the London Branch of the British Child Study Association 1907.
Child Study Society London founded (James Sully one of the founders) 1894. Child Study Society started many branches. It spread to Edinburgh, Dundee, Birmingham, Manchester, Halifax, Exeter and other places, but its stronghold has always been in London.
In 1899 it started an organ of its own, The Paidologist, which was continued under that title until 1906, when it became known as Child Study.
In 1914 The Society became the Child Study Association, an amalgamation of several different societies for the scientific investigation of childhood.
Before this it was reconstituted with the Childhood Society and The British Child Study Association London Branch in 1907.
Child Study Society ended its existence in December 1947 and its remaining active members were elected to membership of the British Psychological Society and its Education Section. The Child Study Society made a donation to the BPS and entrusted it with the minutes and other records of the Child Study Society. (see min.944 BPS Council meeting 8th November 1947). |
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