Series List and Summary Descriptions


Series 1 Personal biographical

Lecture and laboratory notebooks from the University of Birmingham, personal correspondence including correspondence regarding EWT's knighthood, biographical notes and curricula vitae, personal files relating to the Department of Nuclear Physics and to colleagues and other organisations

Date Range: 1930 - 1987   Quantity: 107.2 cm, 132 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 2 Correspondence - subject files

Correspondence with individuals, including Members of Parliament, and organisations. There are some references for colleagues for jobs, promotions, etc.

Date Range: 1950 - 1987   Quantity: 134.6 cm, 130 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 3 Correspondence - chronological files

Correspondence with individuals, arranged in date order.

Date Range: 1972 - 1981   Quantity: 45.5 cm, 10 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 4 Publications and reports - E.W. Titterton

Drafts, typescripts, reprints and correspondence of books (in particular Uranuim - energy source of the future?, journal articles, lectures, reports and letters to newspapers.

Date Range: 1949 - 1986   Quantity: 132.4 cm, 115 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 5 Publications - scientific

Newspaper clippings, reprints and photocopies, mainly of journal articles.

Date Range: 1946 - 1987   Quantity: 127.2 cm, 164 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 6 Publications - general

Reprints, newspaper clippings and manuscript material, mainly relating to nuclear energy, but including other forms of energy such as solar.

Date Range: 1940? - 1988   Quantity: 245.5 cm, 296 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 7 Lectures

Notes for lectures given by EWT and others and other talks and addresses by EWT.

Date Range: 1946 - 1989   Quantity: 67.1 cm, 37 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 8 Overseas trips

Material relating to overseas trips on study leave, to attend conferences and for other official purposes.

Date Range: 1964 - 1986   Quantity: 28.7 cm, 24 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 9 Photographs

Photographs, largely unidentified, of EWT alone and with colleagues, scientific equipment, buildings, atomic explosions at Mururoa and Port de Papeete, and an album of the Department of Nuclear Physics given to EWT on his retirement.

Date Range: 1950 - 1987?   Quantity: 16 cm, 26 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 10 Austtralian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Correspondence, material relating to fellowships and grants and material relating to various AINSE conferences

Date Range: 1969 - 1987   Quantity: 31.5 cm, 25 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 11 Australian Ionising Radiation Advisory Council

Correspondence, transcript of tape of meeting of EWT with AIRAC on British nuclear weapons tests in Australia, various AIRAC reports.

Date Range: 1973 - 1985   Quantity: 10.1 cm, 10 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 12 National Radiation Advisory Committee

Correspondence, reports and meeting agendas and minutes.

Date Range: 1955 - 1977   Quantity: 23.5 cm, 19 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 13 Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee

Correspondence, agendas and minutes of meetings, material relating to Maralinga, reports.

Date Range: 1951 - 1973   Quantity: 62.5 cm, 34 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 14 ANZAAS

Miscellaneous material relating to various ANZAAS congresses.

Date Range: 1955 - 1987   Quantity: 12.4 cm, 11 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 15 Films

Film catalogues concerning nuclear research and related correspondence.

Date Range: 1955 - 1968   Quantity: 0.8 cm, 1 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 16 Research

Miscellaneous material, including photocopies, illustrations, loose photographs and photographic negatives and diagrams.

Date Range: 1949 - 1985   Quantity: 6 cm, 6 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 17 Australian Atomic Energy Commission

Correspondence, material for meetings, organisation chart, report, information papers, and journal issue.

Date Range: 1955 - 1987   Quantity: 12.3 cm, 9 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 18 Australian National University, Department of Nuclear Physics

Journal articles, proposals regarding tandem accelerator, construction and tank opening reports of 14 UD, correspondence, material concerning departmental visitors, minutes of meetings and lists of staff and students.

Date Range: 1953 - 1987   Quantity: 78.4 cm, 96 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 19 Australian National University, Research School of Physical Sciences

Administrative and budgetary material, correspondence, committee papers, lecture notes.

Date Range: 1960 - 1987   Quantity: 104 cm, 72 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 20 Australian National University, Faculty and general administration

Reports, administrative material, budgetary material, meeting minutes, correspondence, material regarding university visitors.

Date Range: 1954 - 1982   Quantity: 153.8 cm, 123 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 21 Australian National University, Other Departments

Material relating to astronomy, geophysics, earth sciences, engineering, applied mathematics, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre and Research School of Biological Sciences. Includes correspondence, reports, articles, handwritten notes, unpublished reports.

Date Range: 1959 - 1981   Quantity: 32.8 cm, 31 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 22 Royal Commission into British Nuclear Tests in Australia (McClelland Royal Commission)

Material relating to nuclear tests at Maralinga, Townsville, Bowen and the Pacific, and the Totem trials. Includes newspaper clippings, handwritten notes, unpublished reports.

Date Range: 1944 - 1986   Quantity: 49.9 cm, 44 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 23 Conferences and Seminars

Circulars and preliminary programmes, conference papers and proceedings, correspondence.

Date Range: 1946 - 1987   Quantity: 35.8 cm, 34 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 24 Other organisations

Material from institutions in Australia, New Zealand, USA, South Africa, UK, Canada, France, Kuwait and Malaysia as well as international organisations.

Date Range: 1940? - 1987   Quantity: 96.4 cm, 69 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 25 Professors' World Peace Academy

Correspondence, newsletters and material relating to conferences.

Date Range: 1970? - 1985   Quantity: 4.2 cm, 9 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 26 Ranger Uranuim Environmental Inquiry

Correspondence, reprints and photocopies.

Date Range: 1975 - 1976   Quantity: 3.7 cm, 2 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 27 Three Mile Island

Typescript material with handwritten corrections by EWT, newspaper clippings and correspondence

Date Range: 1979 - 1983?   Quantity: 2 cm, 4 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 28 United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Harwell (UKAEA)

Pamphlets, reports and correspondence.

Date Range: 1965 - 1981   Quantity: 2.4 cm, 5 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 29 United Kingdom Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE Harwell)

Laboratory notebook, pamphlets, information bulletins, technical publications and correspondence.

Date Range: 1947 - 1980   Quantity: 9.6 cm, 10 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 30 United Kingdom Atomic ENergy Authority, Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE)

Correspondence and technical reports.

Date Range: 1957 - 1981   Quantity: 5.2 cm, 8 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 31 Australian Broadcasting Commission

Correspondence and scripts of talks.

Date Range: 1956 - 1981   Quantity: 14.4 cm, 5 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Series 32 Australian Academy of Science

Correspondence, submissions, reprints and newspaper clippings.

Date Range: 1969 - 1981   Quantity: 1.9 cm, 4 files
Provenance: Titterton, William Ernest

 

Inventory not assigned to a series

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