Save the Children Fund Archives *

The archive of the Save the Children Fund (known as Save the Children) comprises an almost complete set of its minutes and of its publications from 1920; the papers of Eglantyne Jebb as secretary of the SCF and relating to the early history of the Fund in the 1920s; extensive papers of the SCF administration and its officers, including papers of Director Generals - principally of Sir Colin Thornley (1965-1974) and of John A. Cumber (1976-1984), papers of its Finance Department, Publicity Department, Overseas Relief and Welfare Department, Commonwealth and Foreign Department and Home Welfare Department and substantial material relating to its overseas programmes, particularly from the 1960s. The archive also includes records of some of its UK children's homes including Hill House, the Esther Lawrence International Holiday Home in Essex, Fairfield House Residential Open-Air School for Girls in Broadstairs, Harmeny School in Scotland and Warren's Wood Children's Home in London.

Save the Children Fund Archives *