Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [1960] (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 box
Scope and content
Black and white photographs of rare pamphlets and typescript drafts and preparatory notes, [1960], for the production of Denis Leigh's Historical Development of British Psychiatry Vol. 1 (1961), (Vol. 2 was never published).
System of arrangement
Arranged in the original order.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1915; Consultant Psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital and Bethlem Royal Hospital, based primarily at the Maudsley; last Physician to the Bethlem; characterized Leigh disease, also called sub-acute necrotizing encephalopathy Leigh syndrome, 1951; Secretary General of the World Psychiatric Association, [1977]; died, 1998. Publications: The Historical Development of British Psychiatry: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century , Volume I (New York, Pergamon Press, 1961).
Repository
Archival history
Transferred from the Neurology Department to the Institute of Psychiatry Library, 1997.
Custodial history
Received from the Institute of Psychiatry, 2006
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Bethlem Royal Hospital (Subject)
- Maudsley Hospital (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.
Script(s)
Archivist's note
Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery as part of the VCDF upgrade programme.