General Correspondence

File consists of papers and general correspondence related to the symposium (not seminar) on, "Ashes to Ashes: The History of Smoking and Health", which was held at the Wellcome Institute on 26 & 27 April 1995. The symposium was notionally part of the Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine meetings also known as the Witness Seminars. However, unlike any of the other published seminars in that series, the transcripts were published in the Wellcome Institute's History of Medicine series. The published work was, S.P. Lock, L.A. Reynolds, and E.M. Tansey (editors), Ashes to Ashes: The History of Smoking and Health, (London: Wellcome Trust, 1998).

Details of the symposium correspondence, primarily between Dr Stephen Lock, Historian of Twentieth Century Medical Science (meeting organiser and joint editor of the book on the symposium), and others include:

Typed list of speakers, witnesses and guest attendees.

Correspondence with speakers and witnesses confirming their willingness to participate in the symposium or providing material. Including; typed sheet showing the history of the Norwegian advertising ban (provided by Dr Kjell Bjartveit); and typed note about Austin Bradford Hill & the Nobel Prize (provided by Sir John Crofton).

Correspondence with non-attendees and guest attendees including; Sir George Godber; Sir Patrick Nairne; T.E. Nodder; Rt Hon. Sir Kenneth Robinson; Dr C. Everett Koop; and Dr Keith Ball.

1994-1996

1 file

Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.