| Collection | Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) |
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| NGO | Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) |
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| Repository | Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) Archive |
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| Description | The records of the RSCPA are retained at its headquarters. They consist of:
Annual Reports (1832 - to date);
Financial Records (Summaries in annual reports);
Minutes of the Council meetings (1824 - to date) - [missing 1914-1918];
Correspondence (1988 - to date) (retained correspondence is arranged in alphabetical order, by the correspondent's surname);
Promotional Material;
Press Releases;
Press Cuttings;
Campaign/Subject files;
Other Publications [magazines);
Electronic material;
Website Archiving;
Electronic Database;
Photographs, video & film.
(Source: DANGO Questionnaire and C. Cook, The Routledge Guide to British Political Archives, 2006 [information in square braquets]). |
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| Access Rights | Open to researchers. There is a ?hundred year? rule on minutes, in that no external researcher can look at minutes less than a hundred years old. |
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| Coverage | 1824- |
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| Size of Collection | 200 metres of shelved records |
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| Finding Aids/Catalogues | Microsoft Access database of the holdings; this database is however not open to researchers. |
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| Reference of Catalogue | NRA 523 RSPCA |
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| Additional information | A number of branches of the RSCPA have deposited records in a local repository. A full list is available from the NRA's organisation index (search with name of the organisation in the "name" field"). Some online catalogues of these records exist on A2A, for example those of the Liverpool branch. There are a number of other minor references to the RSPCA on A2A and in AIM25. |
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| Source of Information | NRA; DANGO Questionnaire (April 2004) |
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| Last Edited at | 05/04/2007 12:34:10 |
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