Major accessions to repositories in 2021 relating to Disability

Local

Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies

• Mandeville Legacy Project: film of Stoke Mandeville Games at Stoke Mandeville Hospital 20th cent (AR 58/2021)

Greater Manchester County Record Office (with Manchester Archives)

• Rachel Hurst (b 1939), former director of Disability Awareness in Action: documents and books rel to Disability Awareness in Action (DAA) incl on British Council of Organisations of Disabled People 1980-2020

Norfolk Record Office

• Norfolk Deaf Association: minutes, correspondence, accounts and other papers 1928-1987 (ACC 2021/93)

Perth and Kinross Council Archive

• Dr Margaret Bennett: recordings, transcripts and consent forms for three oral history projects: Perthshire Memories - rural residents from Highland Perthshire and Perthshire glens; End of the Shift - industrial workers from Perth & Kinross and Fife; Blesma - interviews with residents of Blesma retirement home, Crieff, about their WW2 experiences; Blesma is a charity that supports veterans who have lost limbs c1980-2017 (21/12)

Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)

• Royal Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults (MENCAP) - Glastonbury and District: minutes, newsletters, befriending scheme, day services, project files, press-cuttings, year book and constitution 1963-2019 (A/EWE)

Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives

• Real, disability charity, Tower Hamlets: records of projects undertaken during the COVID-19 pandemic, incl poems, photos and drawing by participants 2020 (I/REA)