Minutes of the College of Nursing Council meetings

• Reference:GB 1199 RCN2/1/1924
• Dates of Creation:1924
• Name of Creator:
  Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom (1916-2018) Nursing organisation
• Physical Description:
  0.01m

• Scope and Content

  Meetings were held roughly every month and started with the location of the meeting, attendees and apologies, resolutions from previous meetings, financial reports and correspondence received. At the end of each meeting numbers of members were reported.

  Topics discussed by Council during 1924 included:

  Loss of a college badge

  College library and the Carnegie Trust

  Sir Edwin Cooper, architect, and the large hall

  Training schools

  Cowdray Club entry price

  Publication of a College register

  Register of Health Visitors

  College representatives in hospitals

  British Empire exhibition

  This record relates to two separate sets of minutes: the original set is signed, and is split into two volumes - one which runs from 1 Apr 1923 to 31 Mar 1924 and one which runs from 1 Apr 1924 to 31 Mar 1925. These volumes are kept in Store B.

  The other set is a typed copy of the original and is in a volume which runs from 19 April 1923 to 18 Mar 1926. This volume is kept in Store A.

• Access Information

  This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact the RCN Archives in advance of their first visit.

• Other Finding Aids

  Most recent online Royal College of Nursing Archives Catalogue is available at http://www.rcn.org.uk/development/library_and_heritage_services.

• Conditions Governing Use

  Royal College of Nursing

• Custodial History

  The main bulk of volumes came from London library historical collection to Edinburgh with the Archives' collections in 1992. Library maintained a copy set. From 1992 up until 2009 the papers were transferred directly by Council and Committee Admin (previously 'General Secretariat', or 'General Secretary's Office') One copy went to RCN Library for binding and the original to Archives, unbound. In January 2017 the two sets were brought together to create one full run of papers and an additional run, with copies of most years. The more complete set is held in Store A and the less complete set in Store B.