Zuckerman Archive: United Nations World Population Conference, Rome 1954

There is no correspondence in this series; it is possible that some related correspondence is to be found in series SZ/ACSP, Advisory Council on Scientific Policy, 1947-1964, SZ/NRTC, Natural Resources (Technical) Committee, 1950-1965, SZ/BU, Birmingham University, 1938-1993, and SZ/GEN, General Correspondence, 1909-1994.

File SZ/WPC/1, Programme etc., and Miscellaneous Documents, 1953-54, includes a typescript of the paper that Zuckerman gave at the Conference, Population in Relation to Creatable Non-Biological Resources. This file also contains a copy of Hansard (Lords), vol. 187, no. 63, 28 April 1954, which records a debate on World Population and Resources initiated by Viscount Samuel.

File SZ/PEP/2 of Series SZ/PEP, PEP (Political and Economic Planning), 1939-1985 is complementary to this series.

Copies of the published Summary Report and the 6-volume Proceedings of the Conference, both issued in 1955, are to be found in that part of Lord Zuckerman's personal library bequeathed to UEA and now joined with his Archive.

A proposal that the United Nations should call a world conference on population was first put to the UN Population Commission in 1948, by the Director-General of UNESCO. This was followed by a similar call from the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population in 1951, and in 1952 the UN Economic and Social Council approved the calling of a conference, and accepted an offer by the Italian Government to host it. It was held in Rome from 31st August to 10th September, 1954. Solly Zuckerman was a member of the UK delegation.

• SZ/WPC/1 Programme etc., and Miscellaneous Documents, 1953-54
• SZ/WPC/2 Documents E.CONF.13.1-397 (incomplete), 1954 [in four sub-files]
• SZ/WPC/3 Documents E.CONF.13/PSR. 2-23 (incomplete), 1954
• SZ/WPC/4 Documents E.CONF.13/PL. 1, 3, 1954

Please refer to the fonds-level description for GB 1187 SZ.

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Please refer to the fonds-level description for GB 1187 SZ.