Caygill, Marjorie L

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Reference code(s): ICS 9

Title: Caygill, Marjorie L

Date(s): c. 1974 - c. 1974

Level of description: Fond

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 1 file

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Name of creator(s): Caygill, Marjorie L , fl 1974-1997, museum curator

Administrative/Biographical history: Marjorie L Caygill had an extensive career at the British Museum, and is the author of several books on the Museum and its collections.

Archival history: The papers were presented to ICS by Marjorie Caygill in 1983.

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Scope and content: Typescript of paper by Marjorie Caygill 'The British Medical Association and its Overseas Branches: A Short History' on the development of medical links within the Empire and Commonwealth, and variations between the UK pattern and its overseas offshoots. The paper covers the establishment of the BMA in the UK and in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, India and the Colonies; the development of the medical education and General Medical Council recognition; and the establishment of the Commonwealth Medical Conference and the Commonwealth Medical Association. It is a working paper prepared in the 1970s as part of Terry Johnson's project on the Nature and Significance of Professional Links within the Commonwealth.

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Language/scripts of material: English

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Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: February 2002

Interest: Caribbean, Black, Asian

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Colonial countries

Medical sciences

Medical profession

Higher science education

Medical education

Political systems

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Caygill, Marjorie L, fl 1974-199

British Medical Association

Commonwealth Medical Association

Commonwealth Medical Conference

General Medical Council

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Southern Africa

South Africa

South Asia

India

Asia