Howard League for Penal Reform. Records [manuscript]. - View Resource

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Howard League for Penal Reform. Records [manuscript].

Title

Records [manuscript]. 1923-1967.

Resource Link

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/223969838

Abstract

Includes minutes, correspondence, reports, members' lists, financial records,circulars, leaflets and publications. Also a petition to Victorian Premier, Henry Bolte against the death sentence passed on Ronald Ryan, 1967.

Extent

1.5 m.

Holding Repository

Libraries Australia

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7042669

Libraries Australia

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Howard League for Penal Reform.

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The League was formed by the Howard Association in 1866. It adopted its current title in 1921 following amalgamation with the Penal Reform League. The League exists to work for an improvement in prison conditions, mainly as a specialised library and information service for other parties interested in penal reform. The National Council for the Abolition of the Death Penalty was established in 1925; in 1948 it merged with the Howard League for Penal Reform. The Council's papers were d...

Ryan, Ronald, 1925-

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