What’s in the archive, and where is it?
access the archive in person in Glasgow or online
The Gartnavel archive is administrated by NHS/GGC and can be viewed on Level 5 of The Mitchell Library in Glasgow. Wellcome’s digitisation of much of the archive can be accessed online here: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/pk2ufbnt
The archive occupies some 88 metres of shelf space and contains items ranging from 1811 to 2002. Asylum documents include Minutes, Annual Reports, Ledgers and cash books, Case notes and patient records, Registers, Admission documents, Registers of physical condition, Files and papers of secretary/treasurers, superintendents and medical staff, Scrap books and Asylum publications/magazines, Photographs, Maps and plans, Records of Gardener’s department, Education and training records and Pharmaceutical requisition books.
The digitisation undertaken by Wellcome in 2017 is limited as prescribed by the Data Protection Act, so certain records are not available online. Of the records available online, there is as yet no detailed cataloguing, cross-referencing or indexing of individual patients.
In the Writing the Asylum project, some contributions refer to a particular item from the archive, and where that is the case the reference number appears in square brackets immediately after the creative work, eg [Patient record of (name) at HB17/20].
What’s in the archive, and where is it?
access the archive in person in Glasgow or online
The Gartnavel archive is administrated by NHS/GGC and can be viewed on Level 5 of The Mitchell Library in Glasgow. Wellcome’s digitisation of much of the archive can be accessed online by clicking here.
The archive occupies some 88 metres of shelf space and contains items ranging from 1811 to 2002. Asylum documents include Minutes, Annual Reports, Ledgers and cash books, Case notes and patient records, Registers, Admission documents, Registers of physical condition, Files and papers of secretary/treasurers, superintendents and medical staff, Scrap books and Asylum publications/magazines, Photographs, Maps and plans, Records of Gardener’s department, Education and training records and Pharmaceutical requisition books.
The digitisation undertaken by Wellcome in 2017 is limited as prescribed by the Data Protection Act, so certain records are not available online. Of the records available online, there is as yet no detailed cataloguing, cross-referencing or indexing of individual patients.
In the Writing the Asylum project, some contributions refer to a particular item from the archive, and where that is the case the reference number appears in square brackets immediately after the creative work, eg [Patient record of (name) at HB17/20].