George Barton (G.B.) Thompson
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- FOL.THOM
- Level of description
- Fonds
- Title
- George Barton (G.B.) Thompson
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Dr George Barton Thompson OBE (6 August 1925 - 2 August 2021) was appointed as the first Director of the Ulster Folk Museum. He retired in 1986 and was awarded a Doctor of Science by Queen’s University, Belfast, and a Doctor of Letters by Ulster University.
The archive includes legislative papers, journal articles, lectures, Ulster Folk Museum leaflets and maps, ephemera from American tours, work diaries, correspondence, commissioned reports and articles relating to the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum and documentation of other organisations. - Contents
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- Academic Journals and Publications relating to topics such as Folk life and open air museums.
- Arts Council of Northern Ireland Documentation
- Documents relating directly to the UFTM with no other clear series link
- Documents relating to a developmental feasibility study and plan undertaken by the museum in 1975/6.
- Documents relating to agendas and minutes and various meetings attended by Thompson
- Educational Development Documentation, c.1980s
- Items owned by Thompson that relate to Irish arts, specifically music, poetry and language
- Items relating specifically to churches
- Miscellaneous Communications, 1980-2000s
- Miscellaneous items found in yellow folder
- Miscellaneous Letters Inc. Arts Council Correspondence with Michael Longley and Ciaran Carson
- Notes and invitations relating to conferences that G.B. Thompson was interested in and/or attended
- Notes relating to surveys and archaeology, upon further cataloguing of the collection there might be a better fit for these items
- Professional Correspondence
- Reports relating to the museum and folk history in general
- Transcripts of lectures and speeches given by G.B. Thompson and others during his time as director of the museum