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The Hall-Carpenter Archives, named in honour of the lesbian novelist Marguerite Radclyffe Hall and Edward Carpenter, the writer on social and sexual reform, exist to publicise and preserve the records and publications of gay organisations and individuals. The Hall-Carpenter Archives had their roots in the Gay Monitoring and Archive Project established by the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) in 1980 with the purpose of scrutinising the media for evidence of discrimination and caring for material deposited with CHE by earlier gay rights organisations. The Gay Monitoring and Archive Project later became separate from CHE, and spent some time in the care of one of its founders, Julian Meldrum, who was employed on a part-time basis by a Manpower Services Commission grant. It was incorporated in 1982 as a limited company under the name of the Hall-Carpenter Memorial Archive Ltd, with a remit of recording and documenting the history of gays and lesbians in Britain. The first Directors were either librarians and information scientists, journalists working for gay publications, or gay rights campaigners interested in maintaining a historical resource. Charitable status was granted in 1983. During this period the Archives were given office space at the National Council for Civil Liberties. From 1984 to 1989, the Hall-Carpenter Archives were housed in the London Lesbian and Gay Centre, and were staffed mainly by volunteers, who collected archives, journals and ephemera, indexed and sorted press cuttings, wrote publications and ran archival projects. Funding was provided by various grants, most notably from the Greater London Council. GLC funding was withdrawn in 1986, and despite approaches, no replacement funding was available, forcing the Archives to leave the LLGC, and be housed at various locations.

The press cuttings collection was moved [in 1988] to the offices of SIGMA (an organisation conducting sexual research in relation to HIV) in Brixton, South London. Their transfer to the Greenwich Lesbian and Gay Centre was arranged by Mark Collins in the late 1990s. In February 1997, the collection was transferred to the Collections Room of the Cat Hill campus of Middlesex University on a ten-year loan. On 2nd June 1998 the collection was formally opened by a Member of Parliament, Evan Harris (standing in for Stephen Twigg MP). The collection was renamed the Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive in 2001.

The Collection was transferred to the Bishopsgate Institute in January 2011

From the guide to the Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive, 1930s-1990s, (Bishopsgate Institute)

The Hall-Carpenter Archives, named in honour of the lesbian novelist Marguerite Radclyffe Hall and Edward Carpenter, the writer on social and sexual reform, exist to publicise and preserve the records and publications of gay organisations and individuals. The Hall-Carpenter Archives had their roots in the Gay Monitoring and Archive Project established by the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) in 1980 with the purpose of scrutinising the media for evidence of discrimination and caring for material deposited with CHE by earlier gay rights organisations. The Gay Monitoring and Archive Project later became separate from CHE, and spent some time in the care of one of its founders, Julian Meldrum, who was employed on a part-time basis by a Manpower Services Commission grant. It was incorporated in 1982 as a limited company under the name of the Hall-Carpenter Memorial Archive Ltd, with a remit of recording and documenting the history of gays and lesbians in Britain. The first Directors were either librarians and information scientists, journalists working for gay publications, or gay rights campaigners interested in maintaining a historical resource. Charitable status was granted in 1983. During this period the Archives were given office space at the National Council for Civil Liberties. From 1984 to 1989, the Hall-Carpenter Archives were housed in the London Lesbian and Gay Centre, and were staffed mainly by volunteers, who collected archives, journals and ephemera, indexed and sorted press cuttings, wrote publications and ran archival projects. Funding was provided by various grants, most notably from the Greater London Council. GLC funding was withdrawn in 1986, and despite approaches, no replacement funding was available, forcing the Archives to leave the LLGC. They were split into several parts, with the organisational archives, the journals and the ephemera being deposited in the British Library of Political and Economic Science in 1988. The Hall-Carpenter Archives Management Committee was in abeyance between 1989-1991. In 1991 Oliver Merrington took over as the Honorary Secretary and began to strengthen the management structure of the Archive, dissolving the Limited Company, arranging annual meetings, issuing occasional newsletters and drawing up formal agreements with the repositories which held its materials. The Hall-Carpenter Archives have continued to grow whilst at the British Library of Political and Economic Science, with new accessions every year.

From the guide to the HALL-CARPENTER Archives, 1940-2000, (British Library of Political and Economic Science)

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creatorOf HALL-CARPENTER Archives, 1940-2000 British library of political and economic science
creatorOf Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive, 1930s-1990s Bishopsgate Institute
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associatedWith Act Up, AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power corporateBody
associatedWith Albany Society, sexual research and counselling organisation corporateBody
associatedWith Albany Trust corporateBody
associatedWith Amnesty International corporateBody
associatedWith Association of Labour Authorities, Lesbian and Gay Committee corporateBody
associatedWith Bach, Charlotte, fl 1970-1996 person
associatedWith Beach, Rupert, fl 1970-1972 person
associatedWith Body Positive corporateBody
associatedWith Body Positive, HIV support organisation corporateBody
associatedWith Camden Gay Liberation Front corporateBody
associatedWith Campaign for Homosexual Equality corporateBody
associatedWith Canterbury Magistrates Court corporateBody
associatedWith Chesterman, John, d 1996 person
associatedWith Christie, Adam, fl 1981-1999 person
associatedWith Church of England corporateBody
associatedWith Clause 28 corporateBody
associatedWith Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution (Wolfenden Committee) corporateBody
associatedWith Conservative Group for Homosexual Equality corporateBody
associatedWith Conservative Party corporateBody
associatedWith Crossman, Robert, d 1997 person
associatedWith Dyson, Anthony Edward, fl 1958-1998 person
associatedWith Festival of Light corporateBody
associatedWith Friend corporateBody
associatedWith Friend, Fellowship for the Relief of the Isolated and Emotionally in Need and Distress corporateBody
associatedWith Gay Activists Alliance corporateBody
associatedWith Gay Christian Movement corporateBody
associatedWith Gay Community Organisation corporateBody
associatedWith Gay Liberation Front corporateBody
associatedWith Gay Liberation Front Youth Group corporateBody
associatedWith Gay London Police Monitoring Group corporateBody
associatedWith Gay London Policing Group corporateBody
associatedWith Gay Men Fighting AIDS corporateBody
associatedWith Gay Policing Project Support Group corporateBody
associatedWith Gay Pride corporateBody
associatedWith Gays in Media corporateBody
associatedWith Gay Switchboard corporateBody
associatedWith Greater London Council, Gay Rights Working Party corporateBody
associatedWith Greater London Council, Gay Society corporateBody
associatedWith Greater London Council, Gay Working Party corporateBody
associatedWith Greater London Council, Women's Committee corporateBody
associatedWith Grey, Antony, b 1927 person
associatedWith Homosexual Law Reform Society corporateBody
associatedWith International Lesbian and Gay organisation corporateBody
associatedWith Joint Council for Gay Teenagers corporateBody
associatedWith Labour Party corporateBody
associatedWith Leeds University corporateBody
associatedWith Lesbian and Gay Switchboard corporateBody
associatedWith Liberal Democratic Party corporateBody
associatedWith Liberal party corporateBody
associatedWith London Gay and Lesbian Centre corporateBody
associatedWith London Gay Campaign Group corporateBody
associatedWith Meldrum, Julian, fl 1985-2000 person
associatedWith Mellors, Robert, 1950-1996 person
associatedWith Modus Operandi corporateBody
associatedWith Moss Side Community Press corporateBody
associatedWith Murray, Christine, fl 1972-1980 person
associatedWith National Abortion Campaign corporateBody
associatedWith National Colleges of Education Gay Rights Committee corporateBody
associatedWith National Council for Civil Liberties corporateBody
associatedWith National Council for Civil Liberties, Gay Community Liaison Group corporateBody
associatedWith National Council for Civil Liberties, Gay Rights Committee corporateBody
associatedWith National Council for Civil Liberties, Police Committee corporateBody
associatedWith National Federation of Homophile Organisations corporateBody
associatedWith National Lesbian and Gay Health Foundation corporateBody
associatedWith National Union of Students, Gay Rights Campaign corporateBody
associatedWith National Viewers and Listeners Association corporateBody
associatedWith Nighthawks corporateBody
associatedWith OutRage! corporateBody
associatedWith Outright Scotland corporateBody
associatedWith Palmer, Robert, fl 1970-1983 person
associatedWith Scottish Minorities Group corporateBody
associatedWith Starkey, David, b 1945 person
associatedWith Stonewall corporateBody
associatedWith Tatchell, Peter, b 1952 person
associatedWith Terrence Higgins Trust corporateBody
associatedWith The Times, newspaper corporateBody
associatedWith Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh corporateBody
associatedWith University of London Union, Gay Society corporateBody
associatedWith Watney, Simon, fl 1970-2000 person
associatedWith Woods, Christopher, b 1966 person
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