Guide to the Papers of the Hearnshaw Family (as filmed by the AJCP), 1939-1986

Summary

Collection number:

M2850 - M2853

Creator:

Hearnshaw Family

Extent:

13 items

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Available for reference.

Background

Content Summary:

Includes: Letters 1939-47 of Leslie and Gwenneth Hearnshaw to his parents in England; Letters, written from Perth, 1947-48 of Gwenneth Hearnshaw and her mother, Mrs Dickens, to Leslie Hearnshaw; 'An Englishman in War-time New Zealand', an account by Leslie Hearnshaw while living in New Zealand 1938-47, and on subsequent visits 1964-1986; Diaries 30 January-11 February 1940, kept by Leslie and Gwenneth Hearnshaw during a holiday at Mt Egmont, New Zealand.

Biographical / Historical:

Leslie Hearnshaw (1907-1991) was the son of Professor F.J.C.Hearnshaw, Professor of History, King's College, London University. He was educated at King's College School, Christ Church Oxford and King's College London. He graduated with first class honours in Psychology from London in 1932, and from 1933-38 was an investigator for the National Institute of Industrial Psychology. In 1937 he married Dr Gwenneth Dickens (d. 1993) of Perth, Western Australia. From 1939 to 1947 he was lecturer in Psychology at Victoria University College, Wellington and from 1942 Director of the Industrial Psychology Division of DSIR at Wellington. In 1947 he returned to England and was Professor of Psychology at Liverpool University until retirement in 1975. He was the author of Cyril Burt: Psychologist. Hodder and Stoughton, 1979.

Related

Existence and Location of Copies:

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn821782] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Existence and Location of Originals:

The private residence of Mrs S. Wall. Wirral, Merseyside, England

Conditions Governing Access:

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use:

Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

Contact:

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