Royal College of Nursing

1890-2019: records incl briefings, consultations, public affairs files, administrative files and project files

1916-2020: Royal College of Nursing Council: royal charter, minutes, reports, corresp, annual reports & accounts, governance files and attendance records [restricted access]

1976-2001: Fellowship Department: records rel to Fellows incl membership papers, reports, minutes

c1987-2020: Standing Committees Department: minutes, meeting papers, financial records, digital files collected from the Governance Support Unit

1994: British Nursing Index: records

c1916-2020: General Secretary's Office: records incl NHS policy board papers [restricted access]; corresp; speeches rel to Catherine Hall; records rel to registered nurses; consultation records; open letters (3) and emails rel to Covid-19 pandemic

1928-1958: Public Health Section: minutes of executive committee, records rel to occupational health

1950-2007: Nursing Development and Educational Institute records: papers rel to distance learning; administrative files; teacher/training aids; papers rel to examinations

1928-2010: Education Department: records incl minutes and reports, papers rel to National Nursing Staff Committee, papers of Middle Management and Courses, records rel to industrial nursing and occupational courses incl corresp and research notes, Department of Education files, Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting files, History of Nursing Society papers and corresp, teachers records, programmes, records rel to office of Director of Education; papers of the Academic and Administrative Affairs Committee, Occupational Health records and photographs; records rel to Board of Governors; examination records

1916-1953: Finance Department records: papers, leases, accounts, ledgers

c1948-2020: AGM: speeches, minutes, agenda and associated papers

1990-2010: International Department: papers and corresp; papers rel to World Health Organisation; papers rel to International Council of Nurses and Commonwealth Nursing Federation; papers rel to Nurses Committee of the European Union

1988: Labour/Employment Relations Department: administrative papers; staff records; employment briefs; records rel to Whitley Council; newsletters

c1900-2014: Library and Archives: records incl minutes, reports, corresp, indices and policy documents

1959-2016: Department of Nursing Policy and Practice: records incl papers of the Work Injured Nurses Group (WING) incl committee papers and photographs, papers rel to Community health organisation; papers of Society of Mental Handicap Nursing; minutes of Society of Mental Health Nursing; records of Community of Psychiatric Nurses; Association of Nursing Management records; Association of Nursing Education conference records; Research Society papers; forum records incl newsletters; policy papers; Occupational Health newsletters; papers rel to cardiac and paediatric care; papers rel to ophthalmic and transplant networks; membership records, Midwifery Society records; records of the RCN Research Society; records of the Geriatric Society; corresp; Paediatric Society research [restricted access]; Professional Nursing Department records incl those submitted to the House of Commons Health and Safety committee; records rel to RCN Nursing Association of Nursing Management; records rel to Health Committee on Children's Health; records rel to Work Injured Nurses Group; Cancer Nursing Partnership newsletter; GP Nursing Forum poster

2020: Trade Union Committee: agenda, minutes, meeting papers and documents rel to special meetings about pay and Covid-19

1972-2013: Press and Public Relations Department: records incl reports, minutes, press cuttings, posters and College publications, papers rel to anniversary celebrations, ephemera, campaign literature, press releases, regional magazines

1923-2000: Legal Department: records incl property papers; papers rel to Sobell Court; legal statements

1963-1973: Membership Department: membership records and corresp

1995-2009: Research and Development Centre: records incl minutes and reports; records rel to Academy of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Research

c1928-2016: Events department records: programmes, corresp, records rel to campaigns, guest book (2016)

1923-1982: Education Endowment Fund records: corresp and papers; reviews

1967-2020: Representative Body/Congress: records incl agendas, minutes and reports, a/v recordings; records rel to cancelled 2020 Congress; digitised publications

1950-1993: Student Nurses Association: papers

1916-1979: pamphlet and textbook collection

2011-2020: Nursing Department: files, Research Bulletin, newsletters, communication updates, conference presentations, emails, records rel to UK membership issues and Covid-19 pandemic

1988-2009: Director of Legal Services department: mixed committee, council, legal and governance records

1995-2020: Media and Communications Department: administrative papers; event programmes; films; Dignity campaign material; documents and webpages rel to Covid-19

2020: web archive of RCN website incl Covid-19 webpages

1887-2000: badge and medal collection incl prototypes

1990-1993: Gene Therapy Committee: minutes [restricted access]

1990-1994: Nuffield Council of Bioethics: minutes [restricted access]

1940-1970: Ophthalmic Nursing Board: records, corresp

c1880-2010: Photographic Collection: incl negatives

2015: Defence Nursing Forum Oral History Project with military nurses and Royal College of Nursing staff

1990-1999: Wittington Project: oral history with overseas nurses

1855-2015: object collection incl uniforms

1980-1999: a/v collection

1984-1986: records rel to Workgroup and Open Conference Proceedings

2020: digital copies of new and obsolete publications

2018-2021: Podcasts downloaded from RCN Soundcloud account. Podcasts include RCN staff and members speaking about a variety of clinical topics and their nursing experiences.

2001-2019: Nursing Department position statements, reports and action plans of Children and Young People's Field of Practice

2017-2020: records of International Committee incl agenda, papers and minutes

2021: collecting to document the Covid-19 pandemic and institutional responses

2022-2023: England oversight strike committee records