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Major accessions to repositories in 2022 relating to Law

Local

Bath Record Office

  • Bath and Wansdyke Magistrates Courts: adult and juvenile court registers 1967-2002 (1409)

Derbyshire Record Office

  • Great and Little Barlow Association for the Prosecution of Felons: minutes and accounts (photocopies) c1818-1906 (D8410)
  • Derbyshire Constabulary: appointments diaries completed by PC13 Edward Parkin of the Chesterfield Borough Police Force, class photographs, negatives of bloods hounds at work, pocket notebooks of PC GT Kentesber & PC WLB Buswell, notebook of JT Brady, complaint books, disciplinary report books, and register of testimonials 20th cent (D3376)
  • Taylor, Simpson and Mosley of Derby, solicitors: client papers 18th-19th cent (D769)

Glasgow City Archives

  • Macfarlane & Co, solicitors, Glasgow: trust and executry papers of companies acquired by Macfarlane & Co: Cowan, Steuart & Taylor and Nicolson MacWilliam c1830-1980 (TD2179)

Lambeth Archives

  • Court papers for the surcharging of Cllr O'Malley and others for failing to set a legal rate 1985-1987 (ARC/2022/7)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

  • Court Of Common Pleas: deed relating to Jane, wife of John Groocock, regarding certificate for taking the acknowledgments of deeds by married women (certificate annexed) concerning property in Wellington Street, Leicester 1846 (DE10300)
  • Justices of the Borough of Leicester: arrest orders & warrants to Constables 1882-1954 (DE10421)
  • Rutland Magistrates' Court: adult and juvenile courts registers 1983-1988 (DE10323)
  • Melton & Belvoir Magistrates' Court: adult court registers 1983-1988 (DE10323)
  • Tanna & Co, solicitors, Leicester: deeds to properties in Leicester and Leicestershire and also Nuneaton, Coventry, Harlow and Liverpool c1880-1980 (DE10465)
  • Photograph of PC Stephens, Leicester, England's heaviest police constable c1900 (DE10314)
  • Deed for the Common Gaol of the County of Leicester, Leicester (1686) and probate copy of will of Charles Spencer of Thorpe Acre (1711) c1686-1711 (DE10461)

Northamptonshire Archives

  • Joblings Solicitors, Daventry: records incl deeds and other documents c1600-1999 (2022/35)
  • Northamptonshire County Police Force: Thrapston daily police journals (1871-1872, 1882-1884) c1871-1884 (NCPF/699NCPF/700)

Northumberland Archives

  • Photographs of the Gate Lodge and Control Room at HM Young Offenders Institution Castington, Acklington c1990 (NRO 12478)

Nottinghamshire Archives

  • Nottingham City Police: pocket books of John Albert White, Police Constable no 372 - with biographical information and copy photographs [RESTRICTED ACCESS] 1939-1958 (10124)
  • Elizabeth Fry Family Centre, prisoners' family support charity, Nottingham: correspondence, reports, minutes, news cuttings and copy of 'Reflections on Life: A Collection of Verse' - poetry collection by parents at the Elizabeth Fry Family Centre, 1995 20th cent (10281)
  • Marston Clarke Buszard (1837-1921), Queens Counsel and politician: licence to plead at a trial for perjury at Nottingham Assizes on behalf of Francis Wartnaby, with covering note regarding the role of Queen's Counsel 1884 (10121)

Southwark Local History Library and Archive

  • Latin American Women's Rights Service: photos, zines and flyers from LAWRS respective projects: WARMI, Sin Fronteras and Outreach programme; images were taken and flyers created by project coordinators and participants 2016-2019 (2022/16)

National

British Library, Manuscript Collections

  • Peter Benenson (1921-2005), barrister, human rights activist and founder of Amnesty International: archive 20th cent (Add MS 89648)
  • Francis North (1637-1685),1st Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and Attorney-General: notebook c1680 (Add MS 89594)

Special

Bishopsgate Institute

  • Diane Langford (b1941), activist and campaigner: papers 1953-2022 (LANGFORD)

University

London University: London School of Economics Library, Archives and Special Collections

  • Professor Stephen Thomas Whittle (b1955), transgender academic and activist: personal papers, Press for Change campaign papers, legal papers, newsletters and print from trans organisations (UK and international) 1969-2022 (WHITTLE)

London University: London School of Economics, The Women's Library

  • First 100 Years, a history project charting the journey of women in law since 1919: video interviews and transcripts from the project 2019 (UKLSE-AS1FH01)