Title:
Minutes of Annual General Meeting and of committee
Level: Category
Miscellaneous archives; Societies' and Organisations' records
Level: Fonds
HALSTEAD LITERARY AND MECHANICS' INSTITUTE
Scope and Content:
Includes printed ballot papers with names of members, 1908, 1910, 1914-1916, and printed lists of members [from ballot papers], 1911-1913 (all pasted in); annual reports for calendar years 1907-1915, 1918 (all except those for 1908 and 1918 comprising or including newscuttings, pasted in); report on weeding of library, December 1909; refusal of request from Miss Dorothy Courtauld to display notices re Natural Service League, January 1911, but eventual acceptance of donation by Miss K.M. Courtauld of women's suffrage periodical The Common Cause, June, August, September 1911; report on membership and subscriptions, May 1913; resolutions admitting adult Belgian [refugees], November 1914, but excluding soldiers billetted in town, February 1915.
Pasted at back: rules of Halstead Literary and Mechanics' Institution, c.(1855-1875); handbill for Council School Entertainment [1910].
[These rules were printed after the introduction of family tickets in January 1855 and before the raising of subscriptions in February 1875. They probably also postdate the book-burning controversy of 1858.]
Dates of Creation:
January 1908 - January 1916
Extent:
1 volume
Admin History:
Dorothy Sophia Courtauld (1874-1956) and her half-sister Katherine Mina Courtauld (1856-1935) were daughters of George Courtauld (1830-1920), President of the Institute 1876-1910 and nephew of Samuel Courtauld, its founder.
Physical Characteristics:
Cover of spine coming loose.

Key terms

TypeKey termsDescription
Subjects Education Minutes of Halstead Literary and Mechanics' Institute, 1908-1916
Subjects First World War Halstead Literary and Mechanics' Institution admits refugees but excludes soldiers, 1914-1915
Subjects First World War Halstead Literary and Mechanics' Institution admits refugees but excludes soldiers, 1914-1915
Subjects Libraries Minutes of Halstead Literary and Mechanics' Institute, 1908-1916
Subjects Literature Minutes of Halstead Literary and Mechanics' Institute, 1908-1916
Subjects Military forces Halstead Literary and Mechanics' Institution excludes soldiers billetted in town, 1915
Subjects Recreation Minutes of Halstead Literary and Mechanics' Institute, 1908-1916
Subjects Suffragette Halstead Literary and Mechanics' Institution accepts gift of women's suffrage periodical, 1911
Personal Names Dorothy Sophia
Courtauld 		Halstead, 1911
Personal Names Katherine Mina
Courtauld 		Halstead, 1911
Place Names Europe, Belgium Refugees at Halstead, 1914
Place Names Halstead Minutes of Literary and Mechanics' Institute, 1908-1916
Document Types Annual report Halstead Literary and Mechanics' Institute, 1907-1915, 1918
Document Types Ballot paper Halstead Literary and Mechanics' Institution, 1908, 1910, 1914-1916
Document Types Handbill Council School Entertainment at Halstead Literary and Mechanics' Institute, 1910
Document Types Minutes Halstead Literary and Mechanics' Institute, 1908-1916
Document Types Newscutting Reports of annual meetings of Halstead Literary and Mechanics' Institute, 1907, 1909-1915
Document Types Rules Halstead Literary and Mechanics' Institution, c.(1855-1875)
Institutions Halstead Council School Handbill for entertainment at Halstead Literary and Mechanics' Institute, 1910
Institutions Halstead Literary and Mechanics' Institute Minutes, 1908-1916
Institutions Natural Service League Halstead, 1911