Major accessions to repositories in 2021 relating to Law

Local

Archifau Ynys Mon / Anglesey Archives

• Carter Vincent & Co. solicitors, Bangor: sales catalogue: Bishop's Palace, Glyn Garth 1925 (WF/206)

Denbighshire Archives

• Wrexham Maelor Division Magistrates Court: Wrexham court registers 1990-1992 (PSD/O/2/332-361)

Gloucestershire Archives

• Prison minute book, incl Gloucestershire Committee of Nobility, Gentry and Clergy to consider reform of the gaols and bridewells of Gloucestershire 1783-85 (Q/AG)

Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

• Winchester County Court: minutes of cases heard at an unnamed Court held in Winchester, probably Winchester County Court (cases appear to be civil rather than criminal in nature) 1865-1871 (74A21)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

• Sydney Pearson Smith (1909-1989), police sergeant, Leicestershire Constabulary: notebook (1931) and photocopy of service record (c1930-1960) 1931-1960 (DE10121)

Northamptonshire Archives

• Northamptonshire Police, Wellingborough: punishment book 1863-1962 (2021/44)
• HM Prison, Wellingborough: plans 1961-2007 (2021/61)
• Northamptonshire Police: records of former Police Authority before its abolition 1994-2012 (NCPF)

Scottish Borders Archive and Local History Centre

• Stormonth Darling, legal practitioners, Kelso; also known as P & J Stormonth-Darling: records, incl letter books for Spottiswoode Estate, Springwood Estate, and Stichill Estat 19th cent (SBA/1280)
• George Craig (1783-1843); Writer to the Signet and law agent, of Galashiels: letters of George Craig baron bailie of Galashiels 1821-1840; cash book of Craig and Rutherford 1836-1841 1821-1841 (SBA/1303)

Teesside Archives

• Boddy, Thomas & Pacitto, solicitors, Middlesbrough: records 1700s-1990s (Acc/7811)

National

National Army Museum Templer Study Centre

• Photographs, papers and posters rel to Long Kesh Detention Centre / Maze Prison, Northern Ireland 1976 (2021-12-4)

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

• Prisons Memory Archive - a collaborative project between film-makers and participants who had an association with Armagh Gaol and the Maze and Long Kesh Prison during the Troubles: audio-visual recordings of participants nd (D4616/2/1)

Special

Bishopsgate Institute

• Peter Ashman (1950-2014) LGBT activist: papers, publications, campaign materials regarding the Campaign for Homosexual Equality and law reform 1957-2006 (PAMA)
• Defend Gay's The Word Campaign: papers and legal documents 1970-1986 (DGWC)

University

Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections

• Three volumes of student notes written by unidentified students, on David Hume's lectures as Professor of Scottish Law at the University of Edinburgh. The volumes do not have main titles, but have section headings throughout, incl feudal rights; charter; instrument of sasine; state of vassal's titles c1818-1819 (SC-Acc-2021-0042)

Oxford University: St Antony's College: Middle East Centre Archive

• Sir Owen Cecil Kirkpatrick Corrie MC (1882-1965) jurist: digital copies of papers and photographs from his service in Palestine, firstly as a soldier in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force and then his service as in the judiciary of Palestine 1917-1936 (GB165-0756)

Warwick University: Modern Records Centre

• Frances Crook (fl1986-2021), former Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform: board, executive and committee papers; records of campaigns and legal cases 1986-2021 (1428)