Treating the patients' records: a preservation and conservation project for the Retreat Archive at the Borthwick Institute, University of York. (360G-Wellcome-082821_Z_07_Z)

£86,204

This project will secure The Retreat patients' records from the effects of original poor storage and handling at The Retreat, and enable them to be safely used by medical history researchers. It builds on a successful ResearchResources in Medical History Scheme re-cataloguing project for The Retreat Archive undertaken in 2002-2004, which transformed access to the archive (resulting in a 50% increase in use), and identified many hitherto unknown records, but also brought to light urgent preservation and conservation problems. These must be addressed to prevent further deterioration of already fragile records. The project will focus on the most heavily-used part of the archive: " Case books, admissions, deaths and discharge registers, and other volumes ofpatients' documentation, 1790s-1960s; " Nineteenth-century patients' papers, letters and writings; " Twentieth-century patients' case notes and correspondence files. The project will utilise a number of preservation and conservation measures, including cleaning, repackaging and boxing; and remedial conservation of individual items as appropriate. The end result will be fully conserved and preserved patients' records for thewhole span of The Retreat's history to the 1960s, thereby opening up new sources relating to one of the most influential psychiatric hospitals in the UK for researchers in medical history.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 86204
Applicant Surname Webb
Approval Committee Research Resources Committee
Award Date 2007-05-16T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2006/07
Grant Programme: Title Research Resources Award
Internal ID 082821/Z/07/Z
Lead Applicant Mr Christopher Webb
Partnership Value 86204
Planned Dates: End Date 2010-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2008-01-02T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region Yorkshire and the Humber