Alice M Hawkins photographs and correspondence

Images of colleagues and patients at Medak, India, 1930s. Most images are identified but not all are dated. Images of Srinagar, Kashmir, India - mainly buildings and landscapes, 1920s-1930s. Most images are identified but not all are dated. Images of Hawkins trip to the 'Holy Land' including Jerusal...

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Order number: MMS/Special Series/Biographical/India/Box 627B
Date(s) of creation: 1920s-1930s
Level: Sub-series
Format: Archive           
Main author: Hawkins; Alice M (1882-1971); nurse, medical missionary

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title Alice M Hawkins photographs and correspondence
scb_date_creation 1920s-1930s
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author Hawkins; Alice M (1882-1971); nurse, medical missionary
author_facet Hawkins; Alice M (1882-1971); nurse, medical missionary
authorStr Hawkins; Alice M (1882-1971); nurse, medical missionary
author_letter Hawkins; Alice M (1882-1971); nurse, medical missionary
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scb_admin_history Alice Hawkins was born on 2nd April 1882. Her interest in missionary work stemmed from the period she was a class leader in Staunton near Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire. As early as 1909 she contacted the Ladies Auxiliary enquiring as to the requirements needed to be a medical missionary. During her certification period as a nurse at Guy's Hospital in London she was accepted by the Ladies' Auxiliary as a candidate but was unable to leave until her tenure was completed. Whilst at Guy's Hospital she gained experience of midwifery, theatre practice, dispensing and working on a surgical ward. She completed her certification in late 1913 and on 2nd January 1914 set sail for the Hyderabad District in India. She began her medical work in Nizamabad. Within a couple of years she had relocated to Karim Nagar where she worked in both the hospital (including midwifery and surgical work) and village dispensaries. After a short furlough in 1928 she returned to Nizamabad just before the outbreak of plague in 1929. From 1931 to 1932 she worked in the busy hospital in Medak until granted a furlough in 1933. Upon her return she recommenced work at Medak and remained there until her departure from India in 1936. She died on 20th April 1971.
description Images of colleagues and patients at Medak, India, 1930s. Most images are identified but not all are dated. Images of Srinagar, Kashmir, India - mainly buildings and landscapes, 1920s-1930s. Most images are identified but not all are dated. Images of Hawkins trip to the 'Holy Land' including Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Siloam and featuring Christian holy sites but also street scenes and local people, 1936-1937. Most images are identified but not dated. Letter from the private secretary to HM Queen Mary to Hawkins in Medak, India, thanking her for the photographs of the memorial service to King George V, 18 May 1936. With two copies of said images. Letter from F Deaville Walker, editor of the 'Kingdom Overseas' in Bishopgate, London, to Hawkins in Bournemouth, Dorset, returning images used in a recent article and suggesting they could be used as part of a lantern lecture on the 'Holy Land', 22 January 1938.
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scb_copyright Copyright probably held by Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
scb_use_restrictions For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
language English
language_search English
scb_related_material Also within the records of the (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society is the official correspondence for the Women's Work Hyderabad District where any extant correspondence by Alice Hawkins will be held (MMS/WW/India/Correspondence/Hyderabad/FBN 10-13). Her work may also be mentioned amongst the India reports (MMS/WW/Reports/India/FBN 1-2). A few articles by Hawkins appear in the 'Women's Work' magazine. An account of the time she spent in Palestine during Christmas 1936 and Easter 1937 appears in the 'Kingdom Overseas' for December 1937 & April 1938 and include a couple of the images from amongst her papers described above.
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