Body Positive

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0097 HCA/Body Positive
Held at	: British Library of Political and Economic Science   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/library ›
Full title	: Body Positive
Date(s)	: 1985-2000
Level of description	: Subfonds of the Hall-Carpenter Archives View parent record
Extent	: 4 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Body Positive | HIV support organisation

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Body Positive is an organisation formed in 1985 to provide support and information for individuals diagnosed as HIV positive, and to represent their views. The activities of the group included running a telephone counselling service, a hospital visiting group and a drop in centre, as well as organising training sessions and workshops for members and volunteer counsellors. Body Positive ceased to exist in 2000.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Body Positive, a support organisation for those diagnosed as HIV positive, 1985-2000, notably minutes of the Policy and Resources Group, 1986, the Counselling Group, 1985-1987, the Telephone Counselling Group, 1986-1987, and the Hospital Visiting Group, 1987; leaflets for the Counselling Support group, [1987]; Body Positive newsletters, 1985-2000; Body Positive (London) Gay Men's Group newsletters, 1985-2000; organisational papers, 1985-2000, including counselling rotas, correspondence and working files of Julian Meldrum, editor of the newsletter; leaflets, 1986-1987, on subjects including protected sex, counselling initiatives and regional groups.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Arranged as follows: minutes, newsletters, organisational papers and leaflets. The Meldrum accession is separate.

Conditions governing access:

Open, though some confidential files remain closed. Apply to the Archivist for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright retained by the depositors.

Finding aids:

Final handlist and on-line catalogue available for the first accession.

Archival Information

Archival history:

The papers collected by Jonathan Grimshaw were lent to the AIDS Social History project based at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and transferred to the British Library of Political and Economic Science in 1995. An additional deposit was made by Julian Meldrum in 2000.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

Related material:

The British Library of Political and Economic Science holds further material relating to Body Positive in the papers of Michael James (Ref: Michael James papers).

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Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Sources: British Library of Political and Economic Science Archives catalogue. Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

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:
Oct 2000