GB 2603 NNAH - National Network for the Arts in Health (NNAH) Collection

50 linear metres

The Hospital Arts archive was transferred to the NNAH, c 2000. The collections were compiled by the NNAH and stored on behalf of the NNAH by Art in Hospitals, from 2000 until 2008, when they were transferred to Goldsmiths by Deed of Gift.

GB 2603 NNAH 2000-2007 Collection (fonds) 50 linear metres National Network for the Arts in Health (2000-2007)

The National Network for the Arts in Health NNAH (2000-2007) was a registered charity registered under Chairty Number 1084023. The organisation was an advocate for the Arts in Health field, bringing together the arts and health communities and supporting the use of the arts to improve patients’ experience. It was chaired to 2007 by Catherine McLoughlin CBE, Company Secretary was Guy Eades. The organisation was funded by the Kings Fund and the Arts Council from 2000 until 2007, when it closed. The NNAH succeeded, and shared the aims of, the organisation 'Hospital Arts', founded by J Hugh Baron (b 1931), c 1980.

The Hospital Arts archive was transferred to the NNAH, c 2000. The collections were compiled by the NNAH and stored on behalf of the NNAH by Art in Hospitals, from 2000 until 2008, when they were transferred to Goldsmiths by Deed of Gift.

Given to Goldsmiths in 2008.

The collection covers the work of the NNAH from its founding c 2000 up to its closure in 2007. It includes the institutional archives of the National Network for Arts in Health (NNAH) and the Baron Archive of Health Care Arts (c 1980-2000). The resources collected by both organisations include files on art, drama and music projects in the health service supported by Art in Hospitals and the NNAH, together with a library of 150 books, 4,500 reports and pamphlets and other research materials assembled as a resource for education and research.

Has not been appraised.

Further accruals are not expected.

Archival collections are filed as created. Project documentation is arranged alphabetically and includes slides, artist's statements, and ephemera. Pamphlets and reports are filed thematically, by type of art practice. The 150 published monographs are unsorted.

Open for consultation by appointment.

Copying policy is available in the library.

English

Includes 35 mm slides, photographs and ephemera.

List available in the library.

Has parts: NNAH institutional archive (NNAH/AD) and Baron Archive of Health Care Arts (NNAH/BARON).

Papers of J Hugh Baron (b 1931) [physician and biomedical scientist] are held at the Wellcome Library GB 0120 GC/199, GC/241, SA/BHC, SA/PRO

Description compiled by Jacqueline Cooke, Research Support Librarian

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.

2008 Hospitals Art National Network for the Arts in Health x NNAH Medical institutions Health services

Given to Goldsmiths in 2008.

The collection covers the work of the NNAH from its founding c 2000 up to its closure in 2007. It includes the institutional archives of the National Network for Arts in Health (NNAH) and the Baron Archive of Health Care Arts (c 1980-2000). The resources collected by both organisations include files on art, drama and music projects in the health service supported by Art in Hospitals and the NNAH, together with a library of 150 books, 4,500 reports and pamphlets and other research materials assembled as a resource for education and research.

Has not been appraised.

Further accruals are not expected.

Archival collections are filed as created. Project documentation is arranged alphabetically and includes slides, artist's statements, and ephemera. Pamphlets and reports are filed thematically, by type of art practice. The 150 published monographs are unsorted.

Open for consultation by appointment.

Copying policy is available in the library.

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English

Has parts: NNAH institutional archive (NNAH/AD) and Baron Archive of Health Care Arts (NNAH/BARON).

List available in the library.

Papers of J Hugh Baron (b 1931) [physician and biomedical scientist] are held at the Wellcome Library GB 0120 GC/199, GC/241, SA/BHC, SA/PRO

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.

• inglês