History Bones: opening up the archive of the Brittle Bone Society (360G-Wellcome-220148_Z_20_Z)

The project will catalogue the archive of the Brittle Bone Society which is primarily held by the University of Dundee Archive Services. Any material remaining at the Society headquarters will be transferred and catalogued and the catalogue will be available online. The material will be re-housed into appropriate archival quality storage containers and a proportion of the material will be digitised. An additional element of the project will be to conduct oral history interviews with Brittle Bone Society members and staff which will become part of the Society's archive. A project board will oversea the progress of the project and will assist in organising a dissemination event. The archive will be fully catalogued allowing researchers to understand its content and identify relevant material The material will be properly preserved ensuring its long term survival The archive will be supplemented by recordings of people associated with the Society which add to the richness of the research resource Awareness of the archive and its research potential will be increased, as will the likelihood of further accruals of material in future Two interdisciplinary dissemination events will allow the discussion of archives relating to disability and the Brittle Bone archive in particular