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Major accessions to repositories in 2013 relating to Legal History

Local

Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives: Town House branch

  • Craigens, solicitors, Aberdeen: chartularies and feu records of properties in the City of Aberdeen 19th cent-20th cent (DD1816)

Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies

  • James Elliott, police constable, Thames Valley Police: reminiscences rel to his police service (1953-1978) (AR 68/2013)
  • Terry Lee, detective sergeant, Thames Valley Police: reminiscences rel to his police service (1958-1983) (AR 68/2013)
  • High Wycombe Constabulary: papers incl service records, photographs, and publications c1900-1959 (AR 52/2013)
  • Transcript of evidence of an enquiry at Chesham police station, into inter-service co-operation and personnel, resulting from complaints by the Wardens of Amersham Air Raid Precautions and the Fire Brigade 1940 (AR 2/2013)

Ceredigion Archives

  • Phillip Davies, police constable: notebook documenting beats patrolled, mine accidents and ac case of bestiality, as well as his demotion in 1861 for "irregular conduct" c1857-1861 (ADX/1405)

Cornwall Record Office

  • Grylls & Paige, solicitors, Redruth: additional deeds and client papers 1816-1946 (GP)
  • Royal Cornish Consols: papers rel to the case of HM Secretary for Trade and Industry versus Royal Cornish Consols 1990-1995 (AD2278)

Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Whitehaven

  • Cumbria Constabulary: minutes of community liaison committees 1989-1994 (YSCONS)

Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle

  • Cartmell Shepherd Solicitor, Carlisle: probate records and records rel to 'Westgarth' Hayton 1733-1890 (DCARTC)

Cumbria Archive Centre, Kendal

  • Thomas Hayton Winkley, solicitors, Kendal: clients' deeds and papers 1577-1863 (WDTHW)

Derbyshire Record Office

  • Chesterfield Magistrates Court: registers incl adult and juvenile (some gaps) c1917-1982 (D7657)
  • Eckington Magistrates' Court: registers (some gaps), licensing minute book (1958) 1923-1973 (D7657)
  • Glossop Magistrates' Court: registers (some gaps) c1975-1982 (D7657)
  • High Peak Petty Sessions: registers 1978-1982 (D7657)
  • HM Junior Detention Centre, Foston Hall: minutes, annual reports 1955-1987 (D7632)
  • Derby and South Derbyshire Magistrates Court: licensing registers 20th cent (D1990)
  • Buxton Magistrates Court: licensing records incl building plans 1975-2007 (D246/3)

Devon Heritage Centre

  • Morgan & Pope, solicitors, Exeter: client deeds and associated papers c1800-1999 (8536)

Dorset History Centre

  • Kempe of Osmington, solicitors: accounts and deeds rel to farm land c1700-1899 (D.2560)
  • Preston & Redman, solicitors, Bournemouth: probates and probate registers c1850-1979 (D-PRD)

East Sussex Record Office

  • Attree & Sons, solicitors, Brighton: additional corresp 1833-1841 (ACC 11710-11712)
  • HM Prison, Lewes: records 1907-2013 (ACC 11438)

Edinburgh City Archives

  • J & A Hastie, solicitors, Edinburgh: letter book (Accession 918)

Flintshire Record Office

  • Albert Griffiths, soldier, policeman and Baptist minister: personal papers, scanned copies of photographs and other papers 1919-1972 (AN4738 & AN4739)

Glamorgan Archives (formerly Glamorgan Record Office)

  • Wilson Reginald Harrison, Director of the Home Office Forensic Science Laboratory: texts of lectures about detection of forgery in handwriting and documents provided for various audiences incl the Cardiff City Police School of Experience and Research and the Metropolitan Police College, Hendon 1935-1936 (D965)
  • South Wales Police Authority: registers of constables, sergeants, transfers and discharges, occurrence books, reports, orders, other records 19th-20th cent (DSWPA)

Gloucestershire Archives

  • Goldingham & Jotcham, solicitors, Wotton-under-Edge: additional deeds and papers 1669-1913 (D654 acc 13267)
  • Penley, Milward & Bayley, solicitors, Dursley: additional deposits incl Vizard family papers 1600-1999 (D2078)
  • Winterbotham, Ball & Gadsden, solicitors: papers rel to the management of Minchinhampton Common (on behalf of the National Trust since 1912) 1831-1980 (D13306)
  • HM Prison, Gloucester: additional records 1893-1999 (Q/Gc)

Gwent Archives

  • Nathaniel Williams: legal precedent book 1622 (D5932)

Gwynedd Archives, Caernarfon Record Office

  • William George, solicitor: minutes of various societies, papers, cuttings and booklets 1900-1967 (XD147)

Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

  • Peter George Spooner, Corporal, Royal Military Police: memoirs when serving at Beaumont Barracks, Aldershot 1968-1976 (77A13)

Herefordshire Archive Service

  • Grimsworth Hundred Petty Sessions: minutes 1835-1847 (CR50)

Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies

  • Hawkins & Co, solicitors, Hitchin: firm's and client records 15th-20th cent (Acc 5410)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

  • Mount Saint Bernard's Abbey Reformatory School Agricultural Colony, Whitwick: records of boys convicted and referred to the agricultural colony 1866 (DE8691)

Lincolnshire Archives

  • HM Prison, Lincoln: records incl executions register, glass negatives of prisoners 1868-1987 (3-LINCOLN PRISON)

London Metropolitan Archives: City of London

  • Valentine Alexander Botwright, metropolitan policeman: personal papers, incl civilian and work diaries 1940-1950 (B13/013)

Manchester Archives and Local Studies

  • Slater Heelis, solicitors, Manchester: records c1600-1999 (GB127.M824)

North Yorkshire County Record Office

  • Edmundson & Gowland, solicitors, Masham: case papers and other records c1830-1900 (ZDY)
  • Her Majesty's Young Offenders Institution, Northallerton: governors' journals, order books, minutes, rules, standing orders, plans and photographs 1891-2012 (NG/P/NO)

Nottinghamshire Archives

  • Rothera Dowson Solicitors, Nottingham: deeds and papers 19th-20th cent (8467, 8480)

Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

  • Recollections of the Dartmoor Prison mutiny by William John Lee, Superintendent and Chief Clerk, Plymouth Police with research papers on the mutiny by Mrs Rosalie Trayner 1932-1989 (3951)

Scottish Borders Archive and Local History Centre

  • Blackwood & Smith, solicitors and estate agents, Peebles: clients' papers c1359-19th cent (SBA/581)

Sheffield Archives

  • South Yorkshire Police: corporate communications and Data Protection Officer's files rel to the Hillsborough disaster 1970-2009 (2013/7 & 2013/51)
  • South Yorkshire Police: records rel to the Hillsborough disaster and the Rhino Whip case 1963-2009 (2013/30)
  • West Midlands Police Authority: records rel inquiry into Hillsborough disaster 1986-2001 (2013/10)

Shropshire Archives

  • HM Prison, Shrewsbury: plans, calendars of prisoners, land record book incl perambulation reports, legal papers, drainage book, prison service roll of honour for Great War, quarters and prison decoration and repairs book, register of temporary officers, chief officer orders book, scrapbook, governor's journals, corresp, incl papers rel to GW&L & NW Joint Railways c1830-2006 (acc 8644)

Somerset Heritage Centre

  • Dyne Drewett, solicitors, Wincanton: records 1700-1959 (A\DTF)
  • HM prison, Shepton Mallet: chaplaincy records, guards books, engineer's day book, register of officers, photographs and papers 1918-2001 (Q\AGS)
  • Wiveliscombe misc records incl petty sessions, recreation ground committee minutes local government acts, maps, photographs and papers 1814-2000 (A\DRC, DD\X\LXN)

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Stoke-on-Trent City Archives

  • Stoke-on-Trent City Police: records c1922-1969 (SD 1651)

Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch

  • Deeds rel to Ixworth Police Station 1676-1977 (HD3244)

Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

  • Gudgeons, Peecock & Prentice, solicitors, Stowmarket: further clients' records rel to Stowmarket Charities, incl trustees copy letter books and minute books 1523-1926 (HB11)
  • Alan Simpson & Co, solicitors, Essex: clients' deeds rel to property in Ipswich, Suffolk 1779-1963 (HB466)
  • Bankruptcy papers (1866-1867) rel to John Keen Sidgwick, brewer and maltster, Stonham Brewery 1668-1897 (HD3046)

Surrey History Centre

  • Robert Bartlett, Police Officer, Chairman of Surrey Constabulary Old Comrades Association and police historian: additional collected papers and photographs of Surrey Constabulary c1920-2013 (9017)
  • Surrey Constabulary: additional records 1851-1999 (9152)

Warwickshire County Record Office

  • William John Kerr, police constable: journal compiled when assigned to the Bedworth beat, Foleshill Division of the Warwickshire Constabulary 1898 (05261)

Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service

  • Marcy, Hemingway & Sons, solicitors, Bewdley: ledgers, accounts, reports and minutes rel to Bewdley Grammar School 19th-20th cent (15469)
  • Willans, solicitors, Cheltenham: pre-registration title deeds and corresp 19th-21st cent (15468)

National

British Library: Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections (previously Oriental and India Office Library)

  • Sir Francis Cannon Tudsbery, CBE, lecturer in merchant law: diary rel to tour of India 1939 (Mss Eur F679)

Imperial War Museum Department of Documents

  • Malcolm Henry Tilbury, Captain: papers rel to service as a police constable during World War II, and later as an officer with the 14th Battalion Durham Light Infantry 1939-1945 (Documents.23415)

National Museums Liverpool: Maritime Archives and Library

  • Arnold Franz McJannet, solicitor: log of a voyage on the Dalgonar, Grace Beazley & Co, Liverpool to Australia by McJannet 1908 (DX/2565)

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

  • Ben Forde, police officer, singer and author: corresp, essays, poetry, photographs, audio cassettes and CDs 1946-2012 (D4547/1-2)
  • Joseph Allen Solicitors, Lisburn: business papers 1920-1939 (D4527/9/UNL)

Special

Bishopsgate Institute

  • William George Glenvill Hall, politician and lawyer: papers and corresp 1884-1962 (GLENVIL HALL)

Royal Institution of Great Britain

  • CJ Mander & Sons, solicitors, London: corresp rel to work with the Royal Institution of Great Britain c1910-1963 (RI MS MA)

University

Cardiff University

  • District Auditors' Society: minutes, conference proceedings, audit files, surcharges, standard forms and procedures, press cuttings, the papers of Clement Gibson (Chief Inspector of Audit, 1884-1947), circulars, staffing documentation, panel reports, audit guides, responses to government legislation, accounts and estates, documents of the history of District Audit, and photographs 1846-2004 (460)

Hull History Centre (Hull University Archives)

  • Parity, equal rights organisation: minutes, corresp and other records c1980-2011 (U DPY)

London University: King's College Archives

  • John Toulmin, senior circuit judge: papers rel to work as a Senior Circuit Judge late 20th cent (Acc 2658)

London University: School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)

  • Antony Nicolas Allott, jurist and magistrate: corresp, notes, research and teaching material rel to African law c1950-2002 (PP MS 93)

Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Western Manuscripts

  • Arthur Lehman Goodhart, Academic Lawyer: additional corresp, annotated books rel to Richard M Nixon, notes rel to Nixon, the law and the Middle East 20th cent (Acc 9420)

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

  • Donald Haigh Brodie, Palestine Policeman: photograph albums 1937-1942 (0581)
  • Trevor Kirby, Palestine policeman: papers rel to police service incl scrapbook and association newsletters 1932-2012 (0585)
  • Hugh Edgar White, Palestine Policeman and Royal Air Force pilot: papers, photographs and artefacts rel to service in the Palestine Police and RAF c1918-1949 (0583)

Strathclyde University Archives

  • Turner & Newall Ltd, manufacturer of asbestos products, Manchester: copy of part of the archives of Turner & Newall, made by Chase Manhattan Bank as part of the discovery process during legal proceedings against Turner & Newall begun in 1987 c1920-1989 (Acc 1410)