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Records of the RSSPCC (CHILDREN 1st)

This Archive contains material originating from the RSSPCC Head Office, the Edinburgh Branch, additional branches throughout Scotland, the Scottish Children's League of Pity and various miscellaneous records and items. 

NAS catalogue (use RSSPCC as search term)
Scottish Archive Network (use RSSPCC as search term)

Records of the RSSPCC

• Constitutional and organisational records, including printed copies of the Constitution and Royal charter, reports and correspondence regarding relationship between the Executive Committee and the branches, and staff and committee manuals, 1889-1977
• Executive Committee minutes, 1897-1982
• Annual Reports, 1890-1980
• Reports and correspondence on subjects affecting children, 1890-1979
• Secretary's correspondence, 1895-1932
• Staff records, 1899-1972
• Publications of the RSSPCC, 1890-1980
• Records relating to the Eddleston Project, 1973-1980
• Press-cuttings, 1913-1963
• Acts of Parliament and published reports relating to children, 1897-1975
• Assorted leaflets and newsletters, 1973-1988

Records of the Edinburgh Branch of the RSSPCC -

• Edinburgh Committee minutes, 1884-1976 (including minutes of the predecessor organisation, Edinburgh and Leith Children's Aid and Refuge)
• Edinburgh Finance Committee records, 1902-1981
• Edinburgh financial records, 1912-1988
• Edinburgh Case Committee records, 1907-1980
• Women Inspectors Committee minutes, 1907-1925
• Edinburgh Secretary's correspondence, 1949-1952
• Miscellaneous Edinburgh committee records, 1907-1988
• Edinburgh Committee Annual Reports, 1886-1980 (includes Edinburgh and Leith Children's Aid and Refuge)
• Records of complaints and prosecutions, 1902-1979
• Records of the Children's Shelter, including admission registers, diaries, report books, visitor books and minutes, 1891-1981
• Records of Murrayfield Home, 1891-1906
• Press-cuttings, 1890-1964

Records of other branches of the RSSPCC -

• Aberdeen, 1918-1984
• Angus and Kincardine, 1934-1967
• Ayrshire, 1894-1987
• Border Counties, 1909-1969
• Buchan, 1903-1974
• Coatbridge and Airdrie, 1907-1965
• Dumfriesshire and Stewarty, 1893-1972
• Dundee, 1984-1986
• East Lothian, 1912-1980
• Falkirk, 1906-1977
• Fife, West, and Kinross-shire, 1902-1967
• Glasgow, 1885-1987
• Hamilton, 1934-1982
• Leith, 1911-1992
• Moray, Nairn and Banff, 1910-1982
• Motherwell, Wishaw, Shotts, and Lanark, 1904-1982
• Paisley, 1926-1977
• Perthshire, 1895-1964
• Ross, Cromarty and Sutherland, 1910-1995
• West Lothian, 1922-1992

Records of the Scottish Children's League of Pity -

• Executive, Finance and other Committee minutes, 1903-1979
• Edinburgh Branch records, 1893-1982
• Annual Reports, 1903-1959
• Records relating to fundraising events, 1891-1973
• Dundonald House records, 1937-1981
• City Sparrows, 1894-1983

Various miscellaneous records/items including -

• Assorted ephemera and publicity material, 1893-1962
• Photographs, late 19th Century-1970s
• Posters, 1960s-1980s
• Objects, including collecting boxes and memorial plaques, 1902-1970s
• NSPCC and miscellaneous publications, 1866-1984

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