British Migraine Association / Migraine Trust

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 SA/MIG
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: British Migraine Association / Migraine Trust
Date(s)	: 1964-1968
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 box and 1 folder.
Name of creator(s)	: British Migraine Association Migraine Trust
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The British Migraine Association (BMA) was founded in 1958 as an association for sufferers. Growing out of the activities of the BMA, the Migraine Trust was set up in 1965 as a charitable organisation for the promotion of research into migraine and its alleviation.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of the British Migraine Association (BMA) and the Migraine Trust, 1964-1968, comprising minutes of the Medical Advisory Group of the BMA, 1964-1965; minutes of the Medical Advisory Council of the Migraine Trust, 1965-1978; Migraine Newsletter, 1966-1980; Migraine News, 1967-1978; and miscellaneous publications and press cuttings.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Records were given by Dr K D Keele, a member of the Medical Advisory Group of the British Migraine Association, and of its successor the Medical Advisory Council of the Migraine Trust. Other records were received via the Voluntary Euthanasia Society in 1981, formerly in the possession of Miss Lucy Dorling-Bone, its secretary, who had also been a member of the BMA and Migraine Trust.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Anya Turner.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
June 2008