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Major accessions to repositories in 2022 relating to Health and Medicine

Local

Archives and Cornish Studies Service (formerly Cornwall Record Office)

  • Asylum Stories Project, St Lawrence's Hospital, Bodmin: records created or collected by the Asylum Stories Project incl articles, evaluation, oral history recordings with transcripts, themed edits of oral histories and written memories about St Lawrence's Hospital, with a small quantity of records from the hospital 2014 (AD3154, HC1)
  • St Lawrence's Hospital, Bodmin: additional records primarily registers of discharges and deaths for pauper and private patients 1845-1945 (HC1)

Bath Record Office

  • Royal United Hospitals Bath: committee minutes, probationers nursing registers, other records 1919-2002 (1391)
  • Southern Dispensary, Bath: annual reports, minutes, corresp, records of subscribers, rules and ephemera. 1840-1948 (0028BL)

Berkshire Record Office

  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, Newbury: proctor's accounts and deeds 1624-1796 (D/EZ213acc10989)

Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service

  • Royal Orthopaedic Hospital: theatre books and registers of operations 1902-2002 (HC RO Additional)

Bristol Archives

  • The General Practice of Dr Foss: patient records, reports, certificates, Practice corresp, circulars, financial records and policy documents 20th cent (46674)
  • Ham Green Hospital: patient admission and discharge registers 1949-1954 (46702)

Denbighshire Archives

  • Central Midwives Board, Denbighshire: maternity/midwifery birth registers, completed by local midwives 1939-1985 (HD/26)

Derbyshire Record Office

  • Derbyshire County Council: records rel to occupancy of industrial estates owned by the council, strategic papers rel to redesign of Records Management Service, Dronfield and District Adult Education Centre, Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site Community Arts Project, Director of Public Health Annual Reports, death of HM Queen Elizabeth II; Florence Shipley (Adult) Care Home, Heanor, Human Resources; Historic Building Recordings and some Derbyshire Council Children's Homes c1959-2022 (DCC)

Dorset History Centre

  • Royal Bournemouth Hospital: plans of the hospital and clinics 20th cent (11834)

East Sussex Record Office

  • Miss Brown (fl1912-1925), nurse: autograph books, including soldiers nursed during the First World War c1912-1925 (14080)

Edinburgh City Archives

  • Merchant Maiden Hospital, Edinburgh: vols (7) of accounts (non-consecutive) 1782-1907 (1278)

Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

  • West Ham House Red Cross Hospital, Basingstoke: autograph album of Elizabeth Best, kept while working as a nurse at the Hospital, containing drawings, photographs, poems, and notes written by soldier patients 1916 (46A22)

Isle of Man Public Record Office

  • Isle of Man Government: Department of Health and Social Security, (1986-2010) and predecessors: records of Ramsey District Cottage Hospital, Isle of Man, incl photographs, meeting minutes, plans, patient registers and financial records 1907-1999 (A267)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

  • Autograph book containing accounts of wounded soldiers recovering at Belvoir Castle 1914-1915 (DE10313)

London Metropolitan Archives: City of London

  • St George's Hospital Group: consent form for the first Covid vaccination at St Georges University Hospital, press releases 2020 (H68)
  • National HIV Story Trust: Frankie O'reilly phptograph albums, VHS tapes, negatives and framed photograph, books, cd, letters c1968-2000 (LMA/4801/B)

North Devon Record Office (South West Heritage Trust)

  • North Devon Health Authority: minutes 1983-1993 (B1479)
  • North Devon Healthcare Trust: minutes 1998-2005 (B1349)

North East Lincolnshire Archives

  • Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Grimsby: photographs of the hospital on Scartho Road 1970s-1990s (1570 (2022/004))

North Yorkshire County Record Office

  • Harrogate Medical Society: minutes and records incl records of Wilfred Edgecombe charity c1884-2022 (ZJN)

Northamptonshire Archives

  • St Andrew's Hospital, Northampton: records including case books, patient files, reports, financial documents, plans, correspondence, minutes, photographs, annual reports, deeds, ephemera c1838-2019 (SAH)

Northumberland Archives

  • Photographs (18) of Eleanor Lockey's time in Stannington Sanatorium, Stannington c1952 (NRO 12459)

Nottinghamshire Archives

  • Central Midwives Board, Nottinghamshire area: registers of cases [RESTRICTED ACCESS] 1965-1972 (10104)
  • Ernest Ringrose (1869-1959), doctor: diary with family photograph (1936) and an image of the 'Ringrose' operating theatre at Newark Hospital (nd) [acquired by Friends Of Nottinghamshire Archives (FONA)] 1886-1952 (10137)
  • Nottingham Nursery Nursing College: photographs, books, pamphlets, history of the college [RESTRICTED ACCESS] 1947-2000 (10286)
  • Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust: Mapperley Hospital male case book, patients no 1447-1834 1890-1893 (10298)

Oxfordshire History Centre

  • Papers rel to the Development of Supported Mental Health Accommodation and Community Psychiatric Nursing in Oxfordshire. Collected by Dr Peter Agulnik, former Consultant Psychiatrist at Littlemore Hospital, and Dr John Hall, former Head Clinical Psychologist at Warneford and Littlemore Hospitals 1970-2001 (7017)

Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

  • Significant Sign Limited: digital copies of art work for Covid 19 pandemic signage for the National Health Service, Plymouth Argyle Football Club, Plymouth City Council and others clients 2020-2021 (4441)
  • University Hospitals, Plymouth NHS Trust: Computerised Tomography theatre registers 1981-2011 (4410)

Surrey History Centre

  • Holloway Sanatorium, Virginia Water: additional records 1909-1985 (10403)
  • Ottermead Auxiliary Military Hospital, Ottershaw: photographs of patients and nursing staff (digital) 1916 (Z/750)

Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives

  • Harrington (Harry) Delisle Cumberbatch (b1943), MBE; and Tower Hamlets African Caribbean Mental Health Organisation: minutes, corresp and printed material; incl archives of Afro-Caribbean Advisory Group to MIND in Tower Hamlets; African-Caribbean Outreach and Development Project; Tower Hamlets Mental Health Users Development Project c1993-2021 (TH/10149)
  • Myra Garrett (fl1970-2017), social worker and community development and public health campaigner: correspondence, newsletters and other printed material c1970-2017 (TH/10186)

Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

  • Swindon District School of Nursing: registers and photographs c1946-1990 (J6)

National

British Library, Manuscript Collections

  • Alexander Monro (fl 1829), student of anatomy: notes on a course of anatomy lectures given by Edward Stanley (1793-1862), surgeon and founding fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons 1829 (Add MS 89651)

Jersey Archive

  • Jersey Covid Review Panel: documents, corresp and press conference recording c2020-2022 (JA/3975)
  • Madeleine Louise Norman (1899-1978), nurse: autograph books (2) rel to patients at the King George Hospital, South East London, signed and illustrated by patients at the hospital c1915-1919 (JA/3878)
  • Annie Elizabeth 'Betty' Thornley MBE (1900-1995), nurse: papers and diaries (mainly from the Occupation period), incl a piece of original artwork signed Ninetta Butterworth, Jersey Prison, April 7th 1944 c1940-1950 (JA/3898)

Lothian Health Services Archive

  • Ally van Tillo: oral history on LGBT activism and the UK Names Project for AIDS memorial c1970-2022 (Acc22/005)
  • Clifford Leen, consultant in infectious disease: papers collected during his career, specialising in HIV and AIDS 1989-2006 (Acc22/008)
  • Eothen Stearn, artist: oral histories, moving image footage, and digital artwork created by Eothen Stearn towards an art installation around Edinburgh's experience of the HIV epidemic (Meet me at the threshold, Talbot Rice Gallery, 2022) c1970-2022 (Acc22/015)
  • Roy Robertson, professor of addiction medicine: papers fl1989-2010 (Acc22/010)
  • Iain Dewar Haig (fl1955-1986), architect: papers and photographic material from his career as South Eastern Hospital Board architect 1955-1986 (Acc22/014)

National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections

  • Ebenezer Black (fl1806-1815), surgeon: journal 1806-1815 (Acc.14342)
  • Rose B Willison (fl 1915-1923), nurse in the First World War: autograph album while a nurse at Stobhill Hospital 1915-1923 (Acc.14319)

Science Museum Library and Archives

  • QUIT, anti-smoking charity: items rel to the charity, incl minute book, campaign scrapbook, photo album, correspondence, internal documents and promotional literature 1947-1991 (QUIT)

Special

Bishopsgate Institute

  • Bristol Crisis Service for Women and Self Injury Support Archive: papers and oral histories 1986-2022 (BCSW)
  • Positive Lives, project documenting impact of HIV: photographs and papers 1993-2009 (PLA)

Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Archives

  • Alexander William Sharman 9fl1931-1948), engineer: correspondence to his wife, Florence, incl telegrams from West Park Mental Hospital regarding his health 1931-1948

Royal College of Midwives Archives

  • Royal College of Midwives: corresp with midwives rel to the RCM centenary celebrations; some guidelines and publications nd (RCM/2022/6)
  • Mary Slee (fl1966-1974), midwife: midwifery case registers 1966-1974 (RCM/2022/7)
  • E.E. Carden (fl1945-1946), midwife: midwifery case registers 1945-1946 (RCM/2022/1)
  • Alfreda Thomas (nee Parker) (fl1942-1960), midwife: case register, certificates, exam papers, photographs and notes 1942-1960 (RCM/2022/8)
  • A.R. van Woerden (fl1965-1986), midwife: midwifery case registers 1965-1986 (RCM/2022/2)

Royal College of Nursing Archives

  • Patricia Penn, nurse: personal papers 1937-1992 (C199)
  • Royal College of Nursing Communications Directorate: Royal College of Nursing Communications daily media update emails, collected as part of the COVID-19 collecting project 2021 (RCN36)
  • Rose Gallagher (fl2014-2021), professional lead for infection control, Royal College of Nursing: emails and records regarding COVID-19 and her role as professional lead for infection control 2014-2021 (RCN45/2)
  • Royal College of Nursing Yorkshire and Humber Region: weekly update emails, collected as part of the COVID-19 collecting project 2021 (RCNE/9)
  • Royal College of Nursing West Midlands Region: weekly update emails, collected as part of the COVID-19 collecting project 2021 (RCNE/8)
  • Royal College of Nursing South West Region: weekly update emails, collected as part of the COVID-19 collecting project 2021 (RCNE/7)
  • Royal College of Nursing Scotland: daily media update emails, collected as part of the COVID-19 collecting project 2021 (RCNS)
  • Royal College of Nursing South East Region: weekly update emails, collected as part of the COVID-19 collecting project 2021 (RCNE/6)
  • Royal College of Nursing Northern Region: weekly update emails, collected as part of the COVID-19 collecting project 2021 (RCNE/4)
  • Royal College of Nursing North West Region: weekly update emails, collected as part of the COVID-19 collecting project 2021 (RCNE/5)
  • Royal College of Nursing Northern Ireland: weekly update emails, collected as part of the COVID-19 collecting project 2021 (RCNN)
  • Royal College of Nursing London Region: weekly update emails, collected as part of the COVID-19 collecting project 2021 (RCNE/3)
  • Royal College of Nursing East Midlands Region: weekly update emails, collected as part of the COVID-19 collecting project 2021 (RCNE/2)
  • Royal College of Nursing Eastern Region: weekly update emails, collected as part of the COVID-19 collecting project 2021 (RCNE/1)

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

  • Gwen Tilt (fl1970-1995), Head of Service, Mother and Babies Home, Woolwich: photographs and other material rel to the Home c1970-1995 (RCOG/2022/2)

Royal College of Physicians of London

  • Royal College of Physicians: Cholera committee papers 1830-1892 (RCP-CTTEES/CHOLC)
  • Gavin Milroy (1805-1886), physician: photographs of Trinidad and Jamaica, and drawing of patients with leprosy 1852-1886 (MS6186-6187)
  • Francis Ray Bettley (1909-1993), dermatologist and venereologist: typescript memoir 1990 (MS6190)
  • Leslie Barrett Cole (1898-1983), physician: memoir of his time with the RAMC in Camiers, France, entitled 'Goodbye to France' 1940 (Acc2022/5)
  • John Victor Stewart Arlingham Davies (1917-1990), physician: diary 1941 (Acc2022/7)

Wellcome Collection

  • Transform Drug Policy Foundation, Bristol: organisational records, incl policy and lobbying records, correspondence with members of the public and Transform members, campaigns, subject files, press cuttings, and other matters rel to drug policy and decriminalisation 1990s-2010s (SA/TRA; Acc 2579)
  • Bourn Hall Clinic, infertility treatment centre: organisational records, rel to the establishment, development and activities of the clinic as well as its founders and staff, patient relationships and premises, incl material rel to assisted reproduction technologies; patient information; photographs; architectural plans; policies and procedures; records rel to assisted reproduction training and workshops run by Bourn Hall and university courses organised by Kay Elder, Senior Research Scientist 1960s-2010s (SA/BOU; Acc 2577)
  • Professor John Raymond Hobbs (1929-2008), pathologist: papers, incl rel to his work as a professor at the forefront of clinical immunology, protein biochemistry and bone marrow transplantation, pioneering the development of bone marrow transplantation in the UK at Westminster Hospital and establishing the world's first unrelated bone marrow donor register 1970-2001 (PP/JHO; Acc 2666)
  • Seafarers Hospital Society: organisational records, rel to the foundation, governance, development and activities of the SHS, incl trustee and committee minutes and meeting papers; annual reports and accounts; publicity and fundraising materials; legal and property records; scrapbooks, albums, and photographs of SHS premises, facilities, patients and staff 1820s-2000s (SA/SHS; Acc 2683)
  • Parkinson's Herbal: herbal manuscript, referencing 'Parkinson', probably herbalist John Parkinson (1567-1650), author of the most popular printed herbal during this period, 'Theatrum Botanicum', Theatre of Plants 17th-18th cent (MS.9317; Acc 2652)
  • John Wilson Carswell (b1937), physician: records rel to the establishment and activities of the AIDS Unit in South Africa, incl reports and organisational records; education programme campaign materials; correspondence; articles and offprints; and transcripts of speeches 1990-1992 (PP/WCA; Acc 2695)

University

Aberdeen University, Special Collections Centre

  • Theodore Shennan, Professor of Pathology, University of Aberdeen: personal papers c1850-1950

Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre

  • Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards (1925-2013), knight, physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine: additional papers, including photographs, audio visual materials, articles and digital files 1970s-2010s (EDWS, acc 2212, 2220 & 2229)

Dundee University Archive, Records Management and Museum Services

  • Dr James F Riley (1912-1985) surgeon: research notebooks 1943-1969 (UR-SF 48)
  • Dundee Royal Infirmary: Eye Ward operation books,lists patients details, operation, treatment and outcomes 1913-1951 (ACC 2022/1220)

Glasgow University Archive Services

  • Sir Kenneth Calman (b1941), surgeon, oncologist and former Chancellor of the University of Glasgow: papers 20th-21st cent (GLAASC ACCN 00059)
  • Andrew Brownlie (b1876), medical graduate, University of Glasgow, Scotland: clinical notes on lectures and demonstrations given by Professor Sir W T Gairdner FRS, summer session, 1898 1898 (GLAASC ACCN 00086)

King's College London: College Archives

  • David Clark (b1953), professor of medical sociology: papers, interview recordings, transcripts and background research material rel to the history of palliative care 1995-2009 (K/PP253)

Leicester University Library: Special Collections

  • Brenda May Barnard (1938-2021), textile artist and scarf collector: papers rel to student life incl exam papers, teaching notes and degree congregation programmes c1971-1974 (Acc 2022/2)

London University: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

  • Sir Malcolm Watson (1873-1955), malariologist: scrapbook of press cuttings 1910s-1950s
  • Helen Wilson (fl1930s), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: drawings of insects created for teaching purposes c1930

Manchester University: University of Manchester Library

  • British Medical Team Saigon: personal papers of several doctors and medical practitioners who were part of the British Medical Team in Saigon, Vietnam 1966-1979 (BMT)

Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections

  • Dinah Mary Joyce Holt (1926-2017), midwife and nurse: lecture notes, , case books and case registers, journals, brochures and correspondence 1943-1973 (MS 1047)
  • Nottingham Study of Neurotic Disorder: papers 1985-2022 (MS 1048)

Oxford University: Griffith Institute

  • Arthur Ferdinand Rowley Platt (1863–1946), physician and surgeon: correspondence written during two trips to Egypt, when accompanying the eighth Duke of Devonshire, Spencer Cavendish, as his personal physician 1896-1908 (Platt MSS)

Strathclyde University Archives

  • Mental Health Foundation: Reclaiming Our Heritage oral history project records c1950-2009 (Acc 1848)

University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections

  • Thomas Pretious Heslop (1823-1885), social reformer, philanthropist and physician: volume of manuscript lecture notes on the subject of pain and inflammation c1830 (MS1041)
  • Manuscript volumes (6) of medical case notes, written in more than one unidentified hand 1860s-1870s (MS1039)
  • James Russell (1818-1885). physician: volumes comprising manuscript notes, medical journal cuttings and ephemera c1860-1880 (MS1043)
  • John Birt Davies (1799-1878), physician: medical case notes 1845-1846 (MS1042)