Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- 1950–1989 (Création/Production)
Niveau de description
Étendue matérielle et support
74 files in 4 boxes (0.66 linear metres)
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
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.
Histoire archivistique
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Deposited as part of the Michael Hurst collection (HUR), these records formed a separate archive kept in five box files marked "Dr Ward".
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
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.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Envelopes bearing no relation to their contents have been disposed of; only fragments containing relevant information, where present, have been retained.
Accroissements
Dr Ward’s archive has been fully catalogued and no further deposits are expected.
Mode de classement
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
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
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.
Conditions de reproduction
Langue des documents
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Mostly English, some Dutch, German and French
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
Instruments de recherche
Générer l'instrument de recherche
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Unités de description associées
Zone des notes
Identifiant(s) alternatif(s)
Mots-clés
Mots-clés - Sujets
Mots-clés - Lieux
Mots-clés - Noms
Mots-clés - Genre
Zone du contrôle de la description
Identifiant de la description
Identifiant du service d'archives
Règles et/ou conventions utilisées
Statut
Niveau de détail
Dates de production, de révision, de suppression
Langue(s)
Écriture(s)
Sources
Note de l'archiviste
Catalogued in April 2024 by the AHS Archivist.