Major accessions to repositories in 2013 relating to Disability

Local

Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

• Open Sight, blind support association, Hampshire: Aldershot branch minutes 1942-1972 (173A07)

Lancashire Archives

• Bacup Aged Blind and Disabled Annual Treat: minutes, corresp, accounts and other records 1959-2009 (DDX3017)

Surrey History Centre

• Surrey Association for Visual Impairment: additional records incl newsletters, publicity material and internal memoranda 1923-2011 (7711)

West Sussex Record Office

• Speaking up for Disability Project, West Sussex: records and oral history recordings and transcripts, incl rel to the charity Voice for Disability who established the project 1949-2013 (Acc 17191, 17271)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds

• Leeds Braille Society: minutes, corresp, accounts and other records 1980-2012 (WYL2402)

Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

• Trident Club, Melksham: minutes, accounts, corresp and papers 1988-2012 (4152)
• Wiltshire Blind Association: minutes, reports and accounts 1920-2009 (4171)

National

Lothian Health Services Archive

• Royal National Institute for the Blind: RNIB Scotland records 1858-2005 (Acc 13/017)

University

Oxford Brookes University: Special Collections

• Dorset House School of Occupational Therapy, Oxford: selected files rel to former staff and students c1940-1999 (BACOT)