Robert Campbell Hewson papers

• Reference:GB 254 UR-SF 84
• Dates of Creation:1966-1970
• Name of Creator:
  Robert Campbell Hewson
• Physical Description:
  4 folders

• Scope and Content

  Handwritten notes by Hewson, and a typed draft academic study on the industrial development of Dundee 1930-1939. 4 folders of notes relating to interviews, letters and a newspaper cutting, with people employed in local Dundee industry. Detailed numbers and figures are provided. Discusses population, employment figures, working conditions, industrial structures by year, breakdown percenatages of types of Dundee industry such as jute, shipbuilding, and factory/warehouse work., insured workers figures.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Campbell Hewson was born on 23 May 1929. He and his wife moved to Dundee and took up residence in Monifieth in 1965. He was senior lecturer in the Education Department in the University. He started his research into Dundee with a view to taking a degree but in 1969 was offered a senior position with Kirkcaldy College of Technology, which he took which meant that he could not continue with his studies. He died after an accident in 2007.

• Arrangement

  Usually chronological within series.

• Access Information

  Open for consultation subject to preservation requirements. Access must also conform to the restrictions of the Data Protection Act (2018), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, 2018) and any other relevant legislation or restrictions. Clinical information is closed for 100 years.

• Acquisition Information

  Deposited by his wife, Helen Campbell Wilson as she was preparing to move home

• Note

  Campbell Hewson was born on 23 May 1929. He and his wife moved to Dundee and took up residence in Monifieth in 1965. He was senior lecturer in the Education Department in the University. He started his research into Dundee with a view to taking a degree but in 1969 was offered a senior position with Kirkcaldy College of Technology, which he took which meant that he could not continue with his studies. He died after an accident in 2007.

• Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

  Light blue/grey folder

• Archivist's Note

  Description compiled by Euan Derrick, 07/2018

• Conditions Governing Use

  Reproduction is available subject to preservation requirements. Charges may be made for this service, and copyright and other restrictions may apply; please check with the Duty Archivist.

• Custodial History

  Sent to the principal who passed the material on to us

• Accruals

  Not expected

• Additional Information

  Published

  Catalogued

  UR-SF 84