Major accessions to repositories in 2008 relating to Publishing

Local

Bath and North East Somerset Record Office

• Bath Chronicle Ltd, newspaper publishers: minutes and accounts incl records of predecessor companies 20th cent (Acc 764)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

• Grapevine, newspaper, Syston: editorial panel minutes, notes and financial papers and scrap book of newspaper cuttings 1976-1999 (DE7525)

London Metropolitan Archives: City of London

• Samuel Chinque, publisher and revolutionary: personal papers incl letters and photographs 1913-2005 (B08/103 and B08/104)
• Pollinger Ltd, authors agents, London: papers incl corresp, accounts, permissions and authors' contracts 1935-2004 (B08/076)

Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

• Westbury Book Group: papers rel to production and publication of 'Westbury and Westbury Leigh: A Celebration of the Town and its People' 1999-2001 (3650)

National

British Library, Manuscript Collections

• Douglas Cockerell & Son, bookbinders: papers 1745-1989 (Add. 84127-84857)

National Library of Ireland

• Field Day, theatre and publishing company: corresp, publication proofs, theatre scripts, design material and photographs c1980-2008 (Acc 6764)
• TownHouse, publishers, Dublin: administrative papers and corresp late 20th cent (Acc 6836)

National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections

• John Murray, publishers, London: further book files and ledgers c1920-1950 (Acc.12927)

Special

Bishopsgate Institute

• History Workshop Journal, Oxford: papers incl minutes, accounts and editorial log files 1997-2008 (HWJ)

University

Bristol University Information Services: Special Collections

• Penguin Books Ltd, publishers: additional books and papers (DM2129, DM2141)

Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

• Sir Sydney Castle Roberts, publisher, biographer and bibliographer: letters received c1906-56 (MS Add. 9784)
• Harley Books, publishers, Cambridge: records c1980-2008 (MS Add. 9804)

Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts

• Clutag Press, Thame: records 2000-2008

Reading University Library: Special Collections

• Troika Publishers, London: business corresp and promotional material c1980-2007 (MS5366)
• Westerham Press, London: business corresp and artwork c1950-2008 (MS5347)