Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1939 (Creation)
Level of description
Subseries
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
The collection comprises a copy of a diary compiled by the surgeon Harold Edwards in 1939, specifically describing the emergency arrangements undertaken at King's College Hospital with the outbreak of war. Edwards was in charge of implementing these plans and the diary outlines these and the reactions and opinions of staff between September and October 1939.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1899; educated at University College, Cardiff, and King's College Hospital London from which he was awarded his MB BS in 1923; Sambrooke Surgical Registrar, 1924; Senior Surgical Tutor, 1927; Assistant Surgeon, 1928; Surgeon, 1934; Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons, 1934; Royal Army Medical Corps, 1941-1946; Dean of the King's Medical School, 1948; Emeritus Professor and Director of the Department of Surgery in the Medical School, 1956-1970; Consulting Surgeon to King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, 1956-1970; President of the British Society of Gastroenterology, 1961; died 1989. Publications: Diverticula and diverticulitis of the intestine. Their pathology, diagnosis, and treatment (Bristol, 1939); Surgical emergencies in children (1936); Recent advances in surgery (London, 1948).
Repository
Custodial history
Edwards' son, Professor A W F Edwards, transferred the diary to King's College London Archives in December 2001.
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
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Wars (events)
- Diaries
- Documents
- Health services
- Hospital management
- Hospitals
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- Literary forms and genres
- Literature
- Medical institutions
- Nonfiction
- Phoney War, Sep 1939-May 1940
- Primary documents
- Prose
- Social sciences
- Social welfare
- War
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- King's College Hospital, London, 1840- (Subject)
Genre access points
Script(s)
Archivist's note
Sources: Who's Who; H Willoughby Lyle, An addendum to King's and some King's men (Oxford, 1950). Entry compiled by Geoff Browell.