HOYFM.ACL2023.48
HOYFM.ACL2023.48
HOYFM.ACL2023.48
George Barton (G.B.) Thompson
- Reference code
- HOYFM.ACL2023.48
- Level of description
- Fonds
- Title
- George Barton (G.B.) Thompson
- Scope and content
- Dr. George Barton Thompson OBE (6 August 1925 - 2 August 2021) was appointed as the first Director of the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum. He retired in 1986 and was awarded two honorary degrees, Doctor of Science by Queen’s University, Belfast, and Doctor of Letters by Ulster University. The archive includes legislative act papers, journal articles, lectures, Ulster Folk Museum leaflets and maps, articles relating to UFTM, ephemera from American tours, work diaries, correspondence, commissioned reports about the UFTM and documentation of other organisations for example, Annaghmakerring.
- Contents
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- HOYFM.ACL2023.48/1 - Professional Correspondence
- HOYFM.ACL2023.48/2 - Documents relating to a developmental feasibility study and plan undertaken by the museum in 1975/6.
- HOYFM.ACL2023.48/3 - Transcripts of lectures and speeches given by G.B. Thompson and others during his time as director of the museum
- HOYFM.ACL2023.48/4 - Academic Journals and Publications relating to topics such as Folk life and open air museums.
- HOYFM.ACL2023.48/5 - Items owned by Thompson that relate to Irish arts, specifically music, poetry and language
- HOYFM.ACL2023.48/6 - Reports relating to the museum and folk history in general
- HOYFM.ACL2023.48/7 - Notes and invitations relating to conferences that G.B. Thompson was interested in and/or attended
- HOYFM.ACL2023.48/8 - Items relating specifically to churches
- HOYFM.ACL2023.48/9 - Documents relating to agendas and minutes and various meetings attended by Thompson
- HOYFM.ACL2023.48/10 - Documents relating directly to the UFTM with no other clear series link
- HOYFM.ACL2023.48/11 - Notes relating to surveys and archaeology, upon further cataloguing of the collection there might be a better fit for these items
- HOYFM.ACL2023.48/12 - Miscellaneous Communications, 1980-2000s
