Major accessions to repositories in 2014 relating to Disability

Local

Bath Record Office

• Royal Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults (MENCAP): Bath: minutes 1950-1969 (1117)

Cornwall Record Office

• Cornwall Disability Association: minutes, reports, scrapbooks and photographs 1932-2013

East Sussex Record Office

• East Sussex Association of Blind and Partially Sighted People: additional records incl minutes 1924-2007 (Acc 11768)

Essex Record Office

• Chelmer Hard of Hearing Group: records incl minutes, corresp, diaries, corresp rel to courses and fundraising 1981-2012 (A14001)

Norfolk Record Office

• The Beacon, Hunstanton and District Talking Newspaper for the Blind: minutes, constitution, press cuttings, photographs and other papers 1986-2014 (SO 344)

Peterborough Archives

• Peterborough Association for the Blind: minutes, administrative papers, annual reports and ephemera 1913-2014 (Acc 2014/27)

National

Lothian Health Services Archive

• Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion: operation and anaesthetic books, with registers of the blind 1950-2009 (LHB1)

Manx National Heritage Library and Archive Service

• Isle of Man Cripples' Guild: records incl minutes and corresp 1979-2010 (MS 13560)

Special

Labour History Archive and Study Centre (People's History Museum/University of Central Lancashire)

• Tony Baldwinson (fl 1970-2015), disability rights campaigner: photographs and negatives for disability campaigns, with his research paper 'Unacknowledged Traces: exploring through photographic records the self-organisation of disabled people in England from the 1920s to the 1970s' c1930-1999 (Acc 1426)

University

Brunel University Library

• Allan Sutherland (fl 1980-2014), author and poet: poems, interviews and recordings rel to Sutherland's 'Neglected Voices', transcription poems rel to life stories of people with disabilities c2010-2011 (NEGV)