NAF 7/2 House of Industry League Press Cuttings and Articles.
Date: 1931 -1938
Extent: 2 files
Scope and content: Articles published by leading members of the House of Industry League and press cuttings collected by members of the group.
NAF 7/2/1 House of Industry League Newspaper Articles.
Date: 1931 -1938
Extent: 4 sub-folders.
Scope and content: Series of newspaper articles bound in separate files: ‘Letters from a Banker to his Son’, by S.G. Hobson (Everyman 1931-1932); ‘Post War Socialism’, by Hobson (The Post 1932); ‘Workers’ Control’, by Stephen Smith (The Post 1933); ‘An Unauthorized programme’, by Hobson (Everyman, 1932).
Access conditions: Includes material with possible third party copyrights.
NAF 7/2/2 House of Industry League Press Cuttings.
Date: 1936 -1938
Extent: 1 volume
Scope and content: Press cuttings book, with notices of "Conference on Exploitation: A Challenge to the Churches", 1937.
Access conditions: Includes material with possible third party copyrights.
NAF 8. Papers of Anthropo-Femina of the New Atlantis and Related Women's Groups. Section description Reference code
GB 0532 NAF 8.
Title
Papers of Anthropo-Femina of the New Atlantis and Related Women's Groups.
Dates
1939- c1980s
Level of description
Section
Extent
0.21 linear metres; 0.022 cubic metres; 1.5 boxes
Scope and content
Records of the New Europe Group's sub-groups for women and successor organisations. Includes notes, letters, press cuttings, administrative documents, bulletins, records of lectures, meetings and discussions as well as material on women, feminism and gender roles.
Note
See also records of individual female members of Dimitrije Mitrinović's circle; men's group The Caractacus Club NAF 5/6/4 - 5/6/6; lectures, notes and other records concerning gender; NAF 8/2/2; NAF 8/2/3; NAF 5/6.
NAF 8/1 “Anthropo-Femina incl. V.M.D.’s [Violet MacDermot] Bulletins, Notes on ‘Woman, Man, & Child’”, Records of Women's Groups.
Date: 1941- c1980s
Extent: 9 files, 1 volume
Scope and content: Typescript and manuscript documents relating to the women's group Anthropo-Femina, with related material on women, men and the family. Includes letters, press cuttings, administrative documents, bulletins, records of lectures, meetings and discussions as well as material on gender roles.
Notes: See also NAF 5/5/8, attendance book for Anthropo-Femina.
NAF 8/1/1 Woman's Initiative for the New Order of Man, Bulletins.
Date: [c1960s -c1980s]
Extent: 2 subfolders
Scope and content: Typescript copies of a fortnightly bulletin produced by Violet MacDermot for private circulation. Each issue contains "[…] some material for the study of the works of [philosophers] whose contributions for the basis of our present culture", in the context of the teachings of Dimitrije Mitrinović.
NAF 8/1/2 File. "Lectures", Records of Lectures of Women's Groups.
Date: [1946 - 1950s]
Extent: 43 items
Scope and content: Typescript notices advertising lectures given to the British National Renaissance Movement, New Boadicea Club; Anthropo - Femina of the New Atlantis and "Personalist Group." Lecturers include David Shillan, Anthony M. Ludovici, Frederick Soddy and Dr. Lola Paulsen, amongst others. Includes manuscript lecture script entitled, "Recent experiences in Germany with Special Reference to the Woman's Problem" and a typescript article by Carl Jung, "Woman in Europe".
NAF 8/1/3 "Woman Cuttings", Press Cuttings and Extracts relating to Women.
Date: [1941 -1967]
Extent: 10 items
Scope and content: Typescript extracts, news cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch, National Historical Magazine, related to women and feminism. Includes an issue of International Women's News, June 1947, and a copy of the International Women's Day 1946 Souvenir Programme.
Access conditions: Third party copyrights.
NAF 8/1/4 "Anthropo-Femina - Correspondence Records", Letters and Other Records of Anthropo-Femina of the New Atlantis.
Date: ?1943 - 1951
Extent: 16 items
Scope and content: Typescript and manuscript documents from the women's group. Includes a prayer, lists of names and addresses, notes on suggested speakers/members. Also letters from Marjorie Porter to Winifred Gordon Fraser, to Miss Macaulay, from Bunty Wills, to Winifred Gordon Fraser from "M.M." [Dr. Margaret Murray?], all concerning lectures given by the group.
NAF 8/1/5 "Violet's Journal", Woman's Initiative for the New Order of Man, Bulletins by Violet MacDermot.
Date: [c1960s -c1980s]
Extent: 9 sub-sections
Scope and content: Manuscript drafts for the Bulletin, by Violet MacDermot.
NAF 8/1/6 File. "Anthropo-Femina - Duplicates."
Date: ?1943 - 1951
Extent: 33 items
Scope and content: Typescript notices advertising lectures given by the Anthropo - Femina of the New Atlantis group. Lecturers include Mrs. Hicklin, H.T.F. Rhodes, Professor Una Ellis Fermor, Dr. Margaret Murray, amongst others. Also includes a list of books available to borrow from the group and a talk entitled "Woman's World".
NAF 8/1/7 File. "Women. Personal Letters and Notes. Handwritten Documents."
Date: 1941 - 1947
Extent: 34 items
Scope and content: Manuscript and typescript documents concerning the Boadicea Club, members of the group, Astrology, International Affairs, Women, a Federal Union Conference, Swedenborg, Women and God, Women and War, and the philosophy of Dimitrije Mitrinović. Includes records of discussions and letters concerning the group. Correspondents include Dorothy Wrugh, Margaret Stammers, Winifred Gordon Fraser, Cecil Eastgate, Helen Soden, "Storky", Gladys [Gladys Bing?], Hilda Lane, Violet MacDermot et al.
NAF 8/1/8 File. "Typed Anthropo-Fem. Notes for Sorting", Records of Anthropo-Femina of the New Atlantis.
Date: 1941 - 1950
Extent: 31 items
Scope and content: Typescript and copy typescript documents. Includes document relating to the group's lending library; Committee Meeting Minutes; documents relating to the Senate of Woman Conference in 1941 (including list of members); a bundle of documents entitled "A Woman's Catechism to Herself"; statements of belief or philosophy and Religion; Statements on the role of women in the world; information on the New Boadicea group; the Second World War and Peace. Includes two letters to Eileen Ryan from Greta Playfair discussing a "Clock Letter" (Chain letter) system to exchange ideas within the group.
NAF 8/1/9 "Man Woman Child 1975", Notes on Women and the Family by Violet MacDermot [?].
Date: April 1975
Extent: 7 items
Scope and content: Typescript documents, some entitled "Woman, Man and Child" compiled by MacDermot [?] from the writings of Dimitrije Mitrinović, and Otto Weininger on gender roles, the family and related issues.
NAF 8/1/10 Notebook. "Anthropo-Femina Meeting".
Date: 1946 - 1947
Extent: 1 volume
Scope and content: Manuscript entries with the signatures (and often addresses) of those attending the group's events. Includes some rough manuscript meeting minutes.
Access conditions: Fragile. Handle with care. Access may be restricted.
Access status: Restricted.
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