International Fixed Calendar League Archives

Period  (1925) 1928-1939 (1949)
Total size   0.35 m.
Consultation Not restricted

History

IFCL founded in 1923 by Moses B. Cotsworth who became its director; its aim was to establish a fixed calendar of thirteen equal months of four complete weeks each and the last day of the year as the Year-day; the IFCL had its seat in London and helped to form national committees to propagate the so-called simplification of the calendar; the IFCL had initially the sympathy and some support of the League of Nations but in the late 1930s the League of Nations ended its activities on calendar reform because of lack of consensus; the IFCL died a slow death.

Content

Correspondence by Moses B. Cotsworth, director and L. Prins, secretary of the IFCL 1930-1937; files on contacts with J.L. Dik 1928-1937, Louis Fles 1930-1935 and other propagandists of calendar reform in Holland consisting of correspondence, lectures, press clippings etc.; files on contacts with members of the (Dutch) National Committee on Calendar Simplification 1928-1930; typed copies of press articles; pamphlets and other printed material 1925, 1928-1939 and 1949.

Processing information

List made by Alison Condra