Transforming Lives: Cataloguing the history of social welfare and health at Barnardo's (1867 - 1980) (360G-Wellcome-215417_Z_19_Z)

Since 1867, Barnardo’s archival collections have continuously captured the role the charity has played in supporting hundreds of thousands of children and families through vital services, projects, research and campaigns. Essentially, they illustrate the large influence the charity has had on the progress of social welfare policy and practice for children in the UK, during the last two centuries. Thus far, the Archive Service has only had the facilities and resources to support a small number of key research projects, therefore, the aim of the project is to raise awareness of the value of these collections, increase levels of access and more widely engage with health-related humanities and social science research audiences. To achieve these aims, a Project Archivist and Archive Assistant will be appointed to increase access through the arrangement, description and cataloguing of two of Barnardo’s collections; the Child Care Records Collection and the Corporate Collection. They will also be tasked with developing a plan to increase engagement and raise awareness of the collections within the academic research community. The final objective of the project will be to ensure the successful conservation of 126 of Barnardo's most frequently accessed bound volumes.