Major accessions to repositories in 2021 relating to Publishing

Local

East Sussex Record Office

• Springbok - Brighton Bulletin: magazine of South African troops billeted in Brighton and Hove 1945 (13736)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

• Dennis Arthur Calow (1926-2020), architect, Leicestershire historian, writer and photographer: architectural plans and specifications, drawings, photographs, negatives, memoirs c1950-2020 (DE10141)
• Ladybird Books Ltd (formerly Wills & Hepworth Ltd), publishers, Loughborough: correspondence, typescript texts, design notes of director Percy Roberts and his son James (Jack) Roberts c1950-1979 (DE10198)
• M John Stretton (fl1960-1999), photographer: slides of Leicester streets and buildings, views of Birstall, Foxton (locks), Loughborough, Market Harborough and Wigston, some for his Past & Present Leicestershire & Rutland book c1960-1999 (DE10160)

Nottinghamshire Archives

• Ruth Isabella Johns, (b1934), writer, social campaigner and creator of "Ruth's Archive": correspondence and papers, documents relating to Plowright Press 20th-21st cent (Acc 9980)

Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)

• Glastonbury and Street Talking Newspaper: accounts, correspondence and minutes 1979-2020 (A/EVN)

National

Jersey Archive

• Jersey Evening Post: digital copies of the Jersey Evening Post 1976-1995 (JA/3789)

National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections

• Scottish Print Employers Federation, Edinburgh: minutes of the Central Counties Branch 1919-1994 (Acc.14290)

Special

Bishopsgate Institute

• Boyz, gay magazine: photographic archive and magazine 1991-2021 (BPA)
• QX Magazine: photographic archive and magazine 1996-2021 (QX)

University

Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre

• Samuel Brittan (1933-2020), Knight, journalist: papers 20th-21st cent (BRIN, accession 2172)

Leicester University Library: Special Collections

• Sue Townsend (1946-2014), author: signed hardback copy of 'The Adrian Mole Diaries' (Methuen) inscribed: 'My first signing of the double volume, November 1st 1985, Sue Townsend' 1985 (ACC 2021/23)

Newcastle University: Special Collections

• Pig Press Ltd, poetry publisher: archive, incl typescripts, admin and correspondence 1974-2000 (PIG)