Papers of M H F Wilkins: accounts of Wilkins’ early years in Britain

  • Wilkins, Maurice, 1916-2004 Birmingham Museums and City Art Gallery
Date:
1991-2001
Reference:
K/PP178/6/3/4
Part of:
Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick (1916-2004)
  • Archives and manuscripts
  • Online

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Papers of M H F Wilkins: accounts of Wilkins’ early years in Britain. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The original material is held at King’s College London, Archives and Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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Typescript accounts of Maurice Wilkins’ early childhood in New Zealand, 1916-1923, move to UK, 1923, and childhood in Birmingham. Aspects of these accounts were used in chapter 1, ‘Distant shores’, The third man of the double helix (Oxford University Press, 2003) by Maurice Wilkins. Also published booklet, ‘A city at war: Birmingham, 1939-1945’ (Birmingham Museums and City Art Gallery, 1985), with a photograph of Wilkins’ parents during their service as Fire Guards, World War Two.

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1991-2001

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1 file

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King's College London; Birmingham Museums and City Art Gallery

Location of duplicates

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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Available at King’s College London, Archives and Special Collections, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

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Location of original

The original material is held at King’s College London, Archives and Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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