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Donations
Our archives are sustained and nourished through donations of various kinds.
What you could give
You could also help by contributing to our Oral History Project, either as an interviewer or interviewee.
How to make a donation or bequest
Working papers/materials
The History of Psychology Centre is always keen to acquire new material, but our priority is on archival material - correspondence, notebooks, diaries, unpublished manuscripts, ephemera, photographs, etc. This includes material relating to the Society's member networks (subsystems), which are often retained by their committee members. We are particularly interested in developing the pre-1970 holdings. While material related to eminent figures is obviously especially welcome, bear in mind that such things as teaching-related documents (e.g. exam papers and laboratory notebooks) are also important, and the older the better!
Photographs
We are keen to acquire visual records of psychologists, psychology events, psychological equipment, etc. for inclusion in the Grace Rawlings Visual Archive. If you have photographs (or cinematographic or video material) that you think might usefully be archived, please call us to discuss - whether it is photographs you took yourself or are just in your posession, or whether it is hard-copy originals or digital images.
Books and monographs
Regarding book donations, we are having to be increasingly selective and will consider donations in conjunction with the Society's official library at Senate House. If you wish to donate books or pamphlets please let us have a checklist beforehand.
The books we are most likely to be interested in taking are:
- pre-1950 hardbacks (especially pre-Second World War, and, even more, pre-First World War), particularly by British and mainland European authors
- annotated association copies - i.e. books that belonged to eminent figures and have been annotated by them
- books on the history of psychology.
We may be able to advise you on disposing of books we do not require.
Periodicals
British journal runs are unlikely to interest us unless they are pre-1960, in which case they may be useful to fill gaps in existing runs held by Senate House Library.
An exception is Newsletters, etc. issued by Society member networks, for which our earlier holdings are still quite patchy (see Subsystems Publications Project).
Senate House already houses our complete collection of the Society's main journals.
Pre-1960 mainland European and North American jounal runs may be of interest, but we would need to be consulted beforehand.
Equipment or apparatus
If you have psychological equipment or apparatus that you wish to dispose of, please contact us - through our links with the Science Museum we may be able to help you find a suitable home for it.
Press cuttings
Press cuttings are only wanted if they are in the form of a systematic collection pertaining to a specific topic or individual.
Psychological tests
We are not at present looking to acquire additions to our Psychological Tests Collection.
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