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Papers of Sybil W White
Catalogue reference: 7SWW
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This record is about the Papers of Sybil W White dating from 1911-1989.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- 7SWW
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Title (The name of the record)
- Papers of Sybil W White
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1911-1989
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Description (What the record is about)
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The archive consists of two letters (one from Emily Wilding Davison) relating to Hart's work, a press cutting about Davison's death and two photographs of Sybil Hart.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The following items were removed from the archive as duplicates are held in The Women's Library Printed Collections:
* The suffragette : the official organ of the Women's Social and Political Union, No. 35, Vol. 1, 13 Jun 1913
* 'Quick, thy tablets, memory!' : Sybil W White, lifelong Quaker, pacifist and internationalist : her reminiscences / edited by Phyllis M. Wells. Available at WL Biographies, classmark: 941.0820924 WHI (as at Mar 2007).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- London University: London School of Economics, The Women's Library
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- 7/XX33; 7/XXX33
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- <persname>White, Sybil W, nee Hart, 1887-1985, suffragist</persname>
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 0.25 A box
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Donated by Sybil White's daughter in 1996.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Sybil W Hart was born in 1887, the daughter of William Herbert Hart and Ellen Louisa Barritt, both of whom were Quakers. Sybil was educated in London and at the Friends school in Saffron Walden from the age of 11. In 1913 Sybil married Andrew EC White and moved to Kilmarnock, both of them were ardent pacifists and Sybil also supported anti-vivisection societies. During the First World War, Sybil served on the Friends Emergency Committee and the War Victims Relief Committee. She died in 1985.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/66e3ad18-4b1a-4b56-8d7f-748f8400d44d/
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This record is held at London University: London School of Economics, The Women's Library
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Papers of Sybil W White