Área de identidad
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Fecha(s)
- 1950–1989 (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Volumen y soporte
74 files in 4 boxes (0.66 linear metres)
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
Dr Frank Alan Burnett Ward (1905–1990) was a founder member of the Antiquarian Horological Society, its Treasurer, Programme Secretary, Vice-President, and the organiser of Continental tours for the Society.
Born in Stockport, Cheshire, he was educated at Highgate School, London, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he read physics and undertook research in nuclear physics with Lord Rutherford at Cavendish Laboratory, gaining a PhD (Cantab). His main career, which spanned nearly forty years starting in 1931, was at the Science Museum, London. As Keeper in the Department of Physics, Dr Ward was involved in managing the Time Measurement Collection, from sundials to quartz clocks. He also organised two major exhibitions there: ’The British Clockmaker's Heritage' (1952) and, in conjunction with the AHS, 'Collectors' Pieces, Clocks and Watches' (1964). During the Second World War he was seconded to the Air Ministry (Meteorological Office) and was later commissioned in the RAFVR (Meteorological Branch).
After his retirement in 1970, Dr Ward catalogued the British Museum's collection of European scientific instruments, as well as the clock and watch collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Waddesdon Manor. Between 1973 and 1985, he published fifteen articles in Antiquarian Horology.
Institución archivística
Historia archivística
Origen del ingreso o transferencia
Deposited as part of the Michael Hurst collection (HUR), these records formed a separate archive kept in five box files marked "Dr Ward".
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
This collection comprises Dr Ward's correspondence, reports, lecture notes as well as printed material and photographs. They mostly document various horological tours and exhibitions organised by him, and his cataloguing and consulting work.
Valorización, destrucción y programación
Envelopes bearing no relation to their contents have been disposed of; only fragments containing relevant information, where present, have been retained.
Acumulaciones
Dr Ward’s archive has been fully catalogued and no further deposits are expected.
Sistema de arreglo
Dr Ward kept his papers in envelopes, many of them repurposed and bearing no relation to the papers within. Most envelopes were annotated with brief descriptions of contents but were arranged in no discernible order. In this catalogue, the contents of each envelope constitue a file, and they have been arranged into the following series:
WAR/01: Minutes and reports
WAR/02: Correspondence
WAR/03: Lectures, notes and articles
WAR/04: Printed brochures
WAR/05: Photographs
Área de condiciones de acceso y uso
Condiciones de acceso
These records are mostly available for public access by prior appointment. Records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 2018.
Condiciones
Idioma del material
Escritura del material
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
Mostly English, some Dutch, German and French
Características físicas y requisitos técnicos
Instrumentos de descripción
instrumento de descripción generado
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Área de control de la descripción
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Nota del archivista
Catalogued in April 2024 by the AHS Archivist.