A Finding Aid for the Papers of Release

This file is CLOSED until 2053.

MSS.171/3/1/2 Summary of bust cases August 1967 - September 1967

Summaries show name, charge, representation and result of the case (where known). Also more detailed individual case histories (typically 1 or 2 pages). These individual reports are carbon copies and very difficult to read.

This file is CLOSED until 2053.

MSS.171/3/1/3 Bust case sheets January 1968 - March 1968

This file is CLOSED until 2054.

MSS.171/3/1/4 Bust case sheets April 1968 - June 1968

This file is CLOSED until 2054.

MSS.171/3/1/5 Bust case sheets July 1968 - September 1968

This file is CLOSED until 2054.

MSS.171/3/1/6 Bust case sheets October 1968 - December 1968

This file is CLOSED until 2054.

MSS.171/3/1/7 Bust case sheet for Yoko Ono and John Lennon October 1968

MSS.171/3/1/8 Bust case sheets January 1969 - May 1969

This file is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/1/9 Bust case sheets June 1969

This file is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/1/10 Bust case sheets July 1969

This file is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/1/11 Bust case sheets August 1969

This file is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/1/12 Bust case sheets September 1969 - December 1969

This file is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/1/13 Bust case sheets and case summary January 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2056.

MSS.171/3/1/14 Bust case sheets and case summary February 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2056.

MSS.171/3/1/15 Bust case sheets with case summary March 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2056.

MSS.171/3/1/16 Bust case sheets with case summary April 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2056.

MSS.171/3/1/17 Bust case sheets with case summary May 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2056.

MSS.171/3/1/18 Bust case sheets with case summary June 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2056.

MSS.171/3/1/19 Bust case sheets with monthly case summary July 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2056.

MSS.171/3/1/20 Bust case sheets with monthly case summary August 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2056.

MSS.171/3/1/21 Bust case sheets with case summary September 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2056.

MSS.171/3/1/22 Bust case sheets with case summary October 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2056.

MSS.171/3/1/23 Bust case sheets November 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2056.

MSS.171/3/1/24 Bust case sheets with case summary November 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2056.

MSS.171/3/1/25 Bust case sheets November 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2056.

MSS.171/3/1/26 Bust case sheets with case summary December 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2056.

MSS.171/3/1/27 Bust case sheets A-C with case summary January 1971 - June 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/1/28 Bust case sheets D-H January 1971 - June 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/1/29 Bust case sheets I-M January 1971 - June 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/1/30 Bust case sheets N-S January 1971 - June 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/1/31 Bust case sheets T-Z January 1971 - June 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/1/32 Bust case sheets A-D July 1971 - December 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/1/33 Bust case sheets E-J July 1971 - December 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/1/34 Bust case sheets K-M July 1971 - December 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/1/35 Bust case sheets N-R July 1971 - December 1971

MSS.171/3/1/36 Bust case sheets S-Z July 1971 - December 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/1/37 Bust case sheets for filing October 1971 - January 1972

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/1/38 Bust case sheets Novemer 1971 - December 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/1/39 Bust case sheets January 1972

This file is CLOSED until 2058.

MSS.171/3/1/40 Bust case sheets A-F January 1972 - June 1972

This file is CLOSED until 2058.

MSS.171/3/1/41 Bust case sheets G-M January 1972 - June 1972

This file is CLOSED until 2058.

MSS.171/3/1/42 Bust case sheets Mc-Z January 1972 - June 1972

This file is CLOSED until 2058.

MSS.171/3/1/43 Bust case sheets for Bardney Festival with case summary May 1972

This file is CLOSED until 2058.

MSS.171/3/1/44 Bust case sheets A-K July 1972 - October 1972

This file is CLOSED until 2058.

MSS.171/3/1/45 Bust case sheets L-Z July 1972 - October 1972

This file is CLOSED until 2058.

MSS.171/3/1/46 Bust case sheets A-K October 1972 - December 1972

This file is CLOSED until 2058.

MSS.171/3/1/47 Bust case sheets L-Z October 1972 - December 1972

This file is CLOSED until 2058.

MSS.171/3/1/48 Bust case sheets 1973

This file is CLOSED until 2059.

MSS.171/3/1/49 Bust case sheets A-K January 1973 - March 1973

This file is CLOSED until 2059.

MSS.171/3/1/50 Bust case sheets L-Z January 1973 - March 1973

This file is CLOSED until 2059.

MSS.171/3/1/51 Bust case sheets A-H April 1973 - October 1973

This file is CLOSED until 2059.

MSS.171/3/1/52 Bust case sheets I-Z April 1973 - October 1973

This file is CLOSED until 2059.

MSS.171/3/1/53 Bust case sheets A-L November 1973 - December 1974

This file is CLOSED until 2060.

MSS.171/3/1/54 Bust case sheets M-Z November 1973 - December 1974

This file is CLOSED until 2060.

MSS.171/3/1/55 Bust case sheets A-D 1975-1976

This file is CLOSED until 2062.

MSS.171/3/1/56 Bust case sheets E-J 1975-1976

This file is CLOSED until 2062.

MSS.171/3/1/57 Bust case sheets K-Q 1975-1976

This file is CLOSED until 2062.

MSS.171/3/1/58 Bust case sheets R-Z 1975-1976

This file is CLOSED until 2062.

MSS.171/3/2 Foreign Busts 1969-1974

MSS.171/3/2/1 Foreign Busts 1969-1971

Draft circulars for the underground and straight press on setting up KK. KK's stated aim was to work in cooperation with Release to help those on drugs related charges abroad. Also notes on practices in foreign countries, newspaper cuttings and letters to Rufus Harris regarding the Timothy Davey case ( youth held in Turkey about whom the film Midnight Cowboy was based).

MSS.171/3/2/2 Foreign Busts 1974

Typewritten sheet on legal procedure for foreign arrests, and one case sheet.

MSS.171/3/3 Bust Case Correspondence 1970 - 1971

6 files

Requests for advice in drugs related cases.

These files are CLOSED for 85 years.

MSS.171/3/3/1 Bust case correspondence January 1970 - May 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2056.

MSS.171/3/3/2-3 Bust case correspondence June 1970-October 1970

Originally 1 file split for conservation purposes.

This file is CLOSED until 2056.

MSS.171/3/3/4 Bust case correspondence January 1971 - June 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/3/5 Bust case correspondence July 1971 - December 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/3/6 Bust case correspondence 1972-1973

This file is CLOSED until 2059.

MSS.171/3/4 Bust Case Statements 1971

Bust case statements usually relate to unusual or particularly bad treatment during the course of a drugs case.

MSS.171/3/4/1 Bust case statement 1971

One case only, statement and correspondence.

MSS.171/3/5 Bust Fund 1971

The Release Bust Fund could be used to help pay fines etc.

MSS.171/3/5/1 Bust Fund 1971

Correspondence requesting grants from the Bust Fund.

MSS.171/3/6 Advice Cases 1969-1979

9 files

Most files are a mix of advice case forms and correspondence with clients. Initially advice case forms were very simple but they developed and, by circa 1970, they had space to record client's name, sex, age, address, details of request, advice given, who referred by and to, remarks and commitment. These forms are often incomplete, reflecting the fact that Release was a 24 hour service and forms were ofen filled out in the middle of the night etc. The advice offered comes under a number of broad categories: legal advice, medical and psychiatric advice, pregnancy advice and general social and practical advice.

These files are CLOSED for 85 years.

MSS.171/3/6/1 Advice case correspondence answered by Rufus Harris 1969

This file is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/6/2 Advice case forms A-E 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/6/3 Advice case forms F-L 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/6/4 Advice case forms M-R 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/6/5 Advice case forms S-Z 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/6/6 Advice case forms A-H January 1972 - November 1972

This file is CLOSED until 2058.

MSS.171/3/6/7 Advice case forms I-M January 1972 - November 1972

This file is CLOSED until 2058.

MSS.171/3/6/8 Advice case forms N-Z January 1972 - November 1972

This file is CLOSED until 2058.

MSS.171/3/6/9 Advice case forms A-Z November 1972 - April 1973

This file is CLOSED until 2059.

MSS.171/3/7 Abortion and Pregnancy Advice Cases 1969-1974

12 files

Release had specialist counsellors for advice on pregnancy and abortion and assisted women wishing to have terminations, including women who had come to England specifically for an abortion. Early files are a mix of memoranda (giving name, address, date, number of weeks pregnant, how much money the client had towards the cost of an abortion and the name of the doctor they were referred to), correspondence and advice case forms (name, sex, age, address, details of request, advice given, who referred by and to). Later files are mainly advice case forms.

These files are CLOSED for 100 years.

MSS.171/3/7/1 Memoranda, correspondence and advice case forms December 1969 - April 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2071.

MSS.171/3/7/2 Memoranda, correspondence and advice case forms May 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2071.

MSS.171/3/7/3 Memoranda, correspondence and advice case forms June 1970 - July 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2071.

MSS.171/3/7/4 Memoranda, correspondence and advice case forms. August 1970

Includes summary of cases January - August 1970.

This file is CLOSED until 2071.

MSS.171/3/7/5 Memoranda, correspondence and advice case forms September 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2071.

MSS.171/3/7/6 Memoranda, correspondence and advice case forms October 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2071.

MSS.171/3/7/7 Memoranda, correspondence and advice case forms November 1970 - December 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2071.

MSS.171/3/7/8 Current Action. Correspondence regarding abortion and pregnancy 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2072.

MSS.171/3/7/9 Pregnancy advice case forms A-D 1974

This file is CLOSED until 2075.

MSS.171/3/7/10 Pregnancy advice case forms E-J 1974

This file is CLOSED until 2075.

MSS.171/3/7/11 Pregnancy advice case forms K-Q 1974

This file is CLOSED until 2075.

MSS.171/3/7/12 Pregnancy advice case forms R-Z 1974

This file is CLOSED until 2075.

MSS.171/3/8 Legal Advice Cases 1970-1973

7 files

These files are CLOSED for 85 years.

MSS.171/3/8/1-2 Advice case forms and correspondence on legal matters March 1970 - December 1970

Originally one file divided for conservation purposes.

These files are CLOSED until 2056.

MSS.171/3/8/3 Advice case forms and correspondence on legal matters 1970-1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/8/4 Advice case forms on legal matters October 1971 - December 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/8/5 Legal Evenings. Advice case forms on legal matters 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/8/6 Advice case correspondence on legal matters 1971

3 cases only

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/8/7 Legal advice letters 1972-1973

This file is CLOSED until 2059.

MSS.171/3/9 Medical and Psychiatric Advice Cases 1971-1972

5 files

Most files are a mix of advice case forms and correspondence with clients. Advice case forms have space for name, sex, age, address, details of request, advice given, who referred by and to, remarks and commitment. Medical and psychiatric advice includes drug related problems such as LSD flashbacks and requests for advice about coming off hard drugs. A range of non-drug related problems were also dealt with including depression, anxiety and sexual problems. Separate forms were introduced for medical advice cases with more space for a medical history but these were not always used.

These files are CLOSED for 100 years.

MSS.171/3/9/1 Medical and psychiatric advice case forms and correspondence A-E 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2072.

MSS.171/3/9/2 Medical and psychiatric advice case forms and correspondence F-L 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2072.

MSS.171/3/9/3 Medical and psychiatric advice case forms and correspondence M-R 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2072.

MSS.171/3/9/4 Medical and psychiatric advice case forms and correspondence S-Z 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2072.

MSS.171/3/9/5 Medical and psychiatric advice case forms and correspondence 1972-1973

This file is CLOSED until 2074.

MSS.171/3/10 Social and Practical Advice Cases 1971-1973

These files are CLOSED for 85 years.

MSS.171/3/10/1 Social and practical advice case forms and correspondence A-L 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/10/2 Social and practical advice case forms and correspondence M-Z 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/10/3 Social and practical advice case correspondence A-Z 1971-1973, mainly 1972

This file is CLOSED until 2059.

MSS.171/3/11 Information Files on Drugs 1960s-1970s

6 files

Probably part of the Release Library. Collections of published and unpublished material on drugs, drug use and the treatment of drug users, many are photocopies. They range from newspaper cuttings, to medical journal articles, to papers by Release staff. Some of the material is of a technical nature reporting on experiments into the physical effects of drugs, other articles discuss the psychological impact or the wider cultural implications of drug taking.

MSS.171/3/11/1 Cannabis 1960s-1970s

Includes a paper on cannabis by Don Aitken, Release Information Officer.

MSS.171/3/11/2 Drug Use 1960s

Includes a list of books on drug use and its effects.

MSS.171/3/11/3 Amphetamines, Drug Education, Heroin Observation 1960s

MSS.171/3/11/4 Heroin Treatment 1960s

MSS.171/3/11/5 Alcohol and Hallucinogens 1967-1970

MSS.171/3/11/6 Drugs and Law, Drugs General 1967-1970

MSS.171/3/12 Miscellaneous Subject Files 1960s-1977

31 files

Two files are CLOSED for at least 80 years. Very sensitive material has been removed from one file in this series to separate files with the same reference number. This correspondence is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/12/1 Project Drug Abuse Research and Education (DARE) not dated [1960s]

Project publicity, drugs information sheets and copies of articles on drugs (American and Canadian).

MSS.171/3/12/2 Release Advice File not dated [1970s]

Probably intended for use with the emergency phone service. Contains useful addresses, information and guidelines for dealing with some of the most common categories of enquiry. Duplicate copies have been destroyed.

MSS.171/3/12/3 'At Ease'. Release Counselling Service for Servicemen not dated [1970s]

Manual for 'At Ease' counsellors and l item of correspondence.

MSS.171/3/12/4 Filing and Information not dated [1970s]

How Release Works, Release: What can we do for you? and a list of controlled drugs.

MSS.171/3/12/5 Miscellaneous not dated [1970s]

Draft report on amphetamines, Unofficial List of Professional and Voluntary Workers for Young People with Drug Problems, flyers and petition regarding the OZ trial.

MSS.171/3/12/6 Registration and Cures not dated [1970s]

Includes A Manual for Draft Age Americans in Europe, determination of rent guidelines, notes on first aid following a drugs overdose, a 2 page summary of cases from Harold Weston & Company, solicitors.

MSS.171/3/12/7 Drug User Questionnaires not dated, [1971]

Completed Cannabis User Study questionnaires (4), examples of drug user questionnaires and information leaflets and application forms for Legal Aid.

MSS.171/3/12/8 Legal 1963-1970

Law: A Practical Guide to Dealing with the Law and Those Who Enforce It, The London Metropolitan Police Guide to the Role of the Police, pamphlets introducing the Citizens Advice Bureau (1963-1964), information about indictments, An Account of a Week Spent in Prison After an Non-Violent Demonstration (1967), A Confidential Survey of Wormwood Scrubs Prison Hospital: Psychiatric Conditions (1970), and a newspaper cutting advertising the services of local rent officers (1969).

MSS.171/3/12/9 Free Clinic Movement 1965-1973

1 bundle

Articles on the free clinic phenomenon, publications from a number of American free clinics and projects.

MSS.171/3/12/10 Social Work 1967-1970

Includes An Unofficial List of Professional and Voluntary Workers Offering Help to Young People With Drug Problems, papers given at St Anne's House, Soho on homosexuality, drug withdrawal, drugs and the Christian community and the custodial treatment of the young offender, Background Information on Drug Addiction and Drug Abuse (Sheffield Health Education Service).

MSS.171/3/12/11 Speech, Drafts etc 1967-1970

Draft talks including a talk to Scotland Yard and a talk on Drugs Education, application for a grant of 15,000 pounds for the running of Release (includes the history of Release, the current state of the organisation/running costs and future plans for Release), and a copy of Caroline Coon's paper Reasons for Establishing the Release Therapy Discussion Group 1970

One file is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/12/12 Publications 1967-1971

Release bust cards and small advertisments (1967-1969), draft versions of leaflets on the history and aims of Release (1967-196), transcript of a television interview ( Caroline Coon and the Chairman of the Police Federation) on the police response to the publication of the Release Report (1969), background information on Implosion and a press statement regarding the resignation of Implosion's organiser (1969), press statement on the Isle of Man bust fund (1970), press statement on LSD (1969), emergency press statements on Mandrax and Speed, information sheets on metherine and barbiturates, case analysis (April-June 1970) annual expenses (1969-1970), press statement for the premiere of Performance held in aid of Release (1970), draft leaflet for the Friends of Release.

MSS.171/3/12/13 Government Committees 1968-1969, 1972

Release submissions to the Arrest and Search Sub Committee of the Advisory Committee on Drug Dependence including detailed case histories, notes of a Release meeting (1972), minutes of a lawyers' meeting (1972), draft information on the Legal Advice and Assistance Bill, a Release press statement regarding sentencing in the Davey case, Release information on immigration, a Release drug case summary (1968-1969), draft Release guidance on legal aid, Release information sheet on dealing with Drug Busts.

MSS.171/3/12/14 Homosexuality 1969-1970

Summaries of four papers given at St Anne' House, Soho.

MSS.171/3/12/15 Missing Persons File 1970-1971

Requests for help in tracing missing persons.

MSS.171/3/12/16 Gresham Youth Project (Lambeth) 1970-1972

1file

Includes Management Committee minutes, Manager's reports and papers regarding the recruitment of various project workers. All but the successful application have been destroyed. Release co-founder Rufus Harris was on the management committee of this experimental youth project. It was aimed at dealing with the problems of 'unattached' youth in the Lambeth area.

MSS.171/3/12/17 Trusts, Appeals and Mailing Lists 1970-1971

Includes an analysis of Release cases (April - June 1970), publicity for a first night benefit of the film Performance

(1970), Friends of Release publicity (circa 1971) and an interim report on a four week census at Release (May 1971).

MSS.171/3/12/18 Offers of Help and Information 1971

Letters from individuals and organisations offering encouragement and or practical help to Release.

MSS.171/3/12/19 Miscellaneous case work 1971-1975

Includes medical case notes.

This file is CLOSED until 2060.

MSS.171/3/12/20 Liaison 1972-1973

Includes a list of Release Trustees, papers of the Standing Conference for the Advancement of Counselling, a Directory of Alternative Work (1973), correspondence and addresses of other organisations.

MSS.171/3/12/21 Review of Government Reports and Commissions of Enquiry on Cannabis 1972

Paper covers legislation in Britain, America and Canada.

MSS.171/3/12/22 Rent Tribunal Application 1972

Report and case papers distributed to staff for information.

MSS.171/3/12/23 Release: A Fifth Anniversary Policy Statement 1972

Unpublished typescript review.

MSS.171/3/12/24 Evidence in Criminal Courts. The Release Lawyers' Counter Report 1972-1973

Correspondence and minutes regarding preparation of the report which was written as a counter to the report of the Criminal Law Review Committee (1972).

MSS.171/3/12/25 Miscellaneous 1972-1973

Includes A Report on the Social/Psychiatric Wing of Release (1973), estimated accounts and donations (1972-1973) and the Inter-Release Bulletin (a newsheet produced by Release Hamburg, London and Sweden).

MSS.171/3/12/26 Mac's cases 1973

Correspondence between Release and a contact in Bournemouth, including information on the local scene and details of a local bust case.

MSS.171/3/12/27 Scrutiny of Release accounts 1973

Newspaper article.

MSS.171/3/12/28 Miscellaneous including Release discussion documents 1975-1976

Includes a number of Release discussion documents; Release Ideas Lost but Not Forgotten(including guidance on bank accounts and expenses), Release Publications, A Controversial Festival Report: Exmoor 1976. Also A Critique of Sir Robert Mark's Proposed Police Reforms.

MSS.171/3/12/29 Release Briefing on Cannabis 1977

Briefing notes.

MSS.171/3/12/30 The Princedale Trust: Bi-Annual Report on the Work of Release 1977

Report of the Release Trustees covering January - June 1977 and supported by a grant from the Voluntary Services Unit.

MSS.171/3/13 Correspondence 1967-1975, mainly 1967-1969

94 files

The correspondence ranges from routine administration to advice cases and bust cases and is in its original order, filed alphabetically by correspondent.

Very sensitive material has been removed from many files in this series to separate files with the same reference number. This correspondence is CLOSED for at least 80 years.

MSS.171/3/13/1 Correspondence A-Z September 1967 - December 1967

One file is CLOSED until 2052.

MSS.171/3/13/2 Correspondence A 1968

MSS.171/3/13/3 Correspondence B 1968

One file is CLOSED until 2053.

MSS.171/3/13/4 Correspondence C 1968

One file is CLOSED until 2053.

MSS.171/3/13/5 Correspondence D 1968

One file is CLOSED until 2053.

MSS.171/3/13/6 Correspondence E-F 1968

One file is CLOSED until 2049.

MSS.171/3/13/7 Correspondence G, I and J 1968

One file is CLOSED until 2049.

MSS.171/3/13/8 Correspondence H 1968

One file is CLOSED until 2049.

MSS.171/3/13/9 Correspondence K 1968

MSS.171/3/13/10 Correspondence L 1968

One file is CLOSED until 2049.

MSS.171/3/13/11 Correspondence M 1968

One file is CLOSED until 2049.

MSS.171/3/13/12 Correspondence N 1968

MSS.171/3/13/13 Correspondence O and P 1968

One file is CLOSED until 2049.

MSS.171/3/13/14 Correspondence R 1968

MSS.171/3/13/15 Correspondence S 1968

One file is CLOSED until 2049.

MSS.171/3/13/16 Correspondence T January 1968 - December1968

MSS.171/3/13/17 Correspondence W 1968

MSS.171/3/13/18 Correspondence A 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2050.

MSS.171/3/13/19 Correspondence B 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2050.

MSS.171/3/13/20 Correspondence B January 1969 - June1969

MSS.171/3/13/21 Correspondence B July 1969 - December 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2050.

MSS.171/3/13/22 Miscellaneous correspondence C January 1969 - June1969

One file is CLOSED until 2050.

MSS.171/3/13/23 Correspondence C July 1969 - December 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2050.

MSS.171/3/13/24 Correspondence D 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2050.

MSS.171/3/13/25 Correspondence E 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2050.

MSS.171/3/13/26 Correspondence F June 1969 - December 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2050.

MSS.171/3/13/27 Correspondence G 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2050.

MSS.171/3/13/28 Correspondence H and I January 1969 - June 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2050.

MSS.171/3/13/29 Correspondence H July 1969 - December 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2050.

MSS.171/3/13/30 Correspondence J 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2050.

MSS.171/3/13/31 Correspondence K January 1969 - June 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2050.

MSS.171/3/13/32 Miscellaneous correspondence K July 1969 - December 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2050.

MSS.171/3/13/33 Correspondence L January 1969 - July1969

MSS.171/3/13/34 Correspondence L August 1969 - December 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2050.

MSS.171/3/13/35 Correspondence M January 1969 - April 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2050.

MSS.171/3/13/36 Correspondence M May 1969 - September 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/13/37 Correspondence M September 1969 - December 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/13/38 Correspondence N 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/13/39 Correspondence O 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/13/40 Correspondence P January 1969 - June 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/13/41 Correspondence P July 1969 - December 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/13/42 Correspondence R 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/13/43 Correspondence S January 1969 - May1969

One file is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/13/44 Correspondence S May 1969 - August 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/13/45 Correspondence S September 1969 - December 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/13/46 Correspondence T 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/13/47 Correspondence U and V 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/13/48 Correspondence W 1969

One file is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/13/49 Miscellaneous correspondence, including thank you letters 1969

MSS.171/3/13/50 Roughly sorted correspondence apparantly awaiting filing 1969

Includes sections on complaints to and from officials and police, foreign busts, advice letters, offers of help and information, talks refused and a newspaper article on the death of a prisoner awaiting trial on a heroin charge.

One file is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/13/51 Filing 1972

Roughly sorted correspondence apparently awaiting filing, including advice letters and requests for information and talks.

One file is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/13/52 Correspondence with newspapers 1975

3 items only.

MSS.171/3/14 Caroline Coon's Files 1967-1971

8 files

A mixture of personal and Release correspondence, receipts and bills. Most of the correspondence relates to personal appearances and talks. Also a few case letters.

Very sensitive material has been removed from some files in this series to separate files with the same reference number. These papers are CLOSED for at least 80 years.

MSS.171/3/14/1 Caroline Coon's correspondence, receipts and bills 1967-1969

MSS.171/3/14/2 Correspondence regarding a bond 1968

MSS.171/3/14/3 Caroline Coon's correspondence 1970

One file is CLOSED until 2070.

MSS.171/3/14/4 Caroline Coon's correspondence, receipts and invoices January 1971 - August 1971

MSS.171/3/14/5 Caroline Coon's correspondence May 1971 - December 1971

MSS.171/3/14/6 Papers by Caroline Coon 1969

The Hippy and the Psychedelic Scene: The Underground Movement. (1969).

Reasons for Starting a Therapy Discussion Group at Release (1970). The second paper includes A Typical Day at Release as observed by two Brunel University students.

One file is CLOSED until 2060.

MSS.171/3/15 Release Premises 1967-1972

MSS.171/3/15/1 Photocopy of a draft lease for Release premises 1967

MSS.171/3/15/2 Release premises 1971

Includes sale of premises at Princedale Road, London.

MSS.171/3/15/3 No 40 and No 70 Princedale Road, London 1971-1972

Finding new office accommodation for Release.

MSS.171/3/16 Solicitors 1968-1972

7 files

Release had a network of London based lawyers who provided advice on legal matters and ran a late evening advisory service, but they also developed a national network of lawyers with expertise in drug cases.

Very sensitive material has been removed from one file in this series to separate files with the same reference number. These papers are CLOSED until at least 2040.

MSS.171/3/16/1 Solicitors' master file. not dated [1970s]

Solicitors' contact details arranged alphabetically by place.

MSS.171/3/16/2-3 Results and reports from solicitors 1968-1970

Second file contains details of Isle of Wight bust cases including a summary of all cases and results (where known).

Originally one file, split for conservation purposes.

MSS.171/3/16/4 Correspondence with solicitors 1971

Follow up and outcome of cases.

One file is CLOSED until 2040.

MSS.171/3/16/5 Solicitors' forms. 1972

Returned solicitors' forms summarizing case details and associated correspondence.

MSS.171/3/16/6 Correspondence with solicitors 1974

Follow up and outcome of cases.

MSS.171/3/17 Don Aitken's Files 1968-1974

14 files

Don Aitken was Release's Information Officer. The files are very mixed up but include casework, correspondence on talks, publicity, and liaison with other groups. Many files include information and/or publications from related organisations.

Very sensitive material has been removed from a file in this series to separate files with the same reference number. This correspondence is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/17/1 Requests for books etc 1968-1971

Requests for items for the research and reference library at Release. Press releases regarding Release Library.

MSS.171/3/17/2 Don Aitken's file 1968-1974

MSS.171/3/17/3 Don Aitken's file 1970-1971

MSS.171/3/17/4 Don Aitken's file 1971

MSS.171/3/17/5 Don Aitken's file 1971-1972

MSS.171/3/17/6 Don Aitken's file 1971-1972

MSS.171/3/17/7 Don Aitken's file 1971-1974

MSS.171/3/17/8 Don Aitken's file 1972

MSS.171/3/17/9 Heavy letters 1972

Correspondence on legal issues.

MSS.171/3/17/10 Don Aitken's file 1972-1975

Includes the National Voluntary Civil Aid Services draft code for free festivals.

MSS.171/3/17/11 Don Aitken's file 1973

MSS.171/3/17/12 Don Aitken's file 1973-1974

MSS.171/3/17/13 Don Aitken's file 1973-1974

One file is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/18 Other Organisations 1968-1975

9 files

MSS.171/3/18/1 Organisations: Underground Press 1969-1971

Correspondence with the underground press regarding articles, adverts, establishment of new papers etc.

MSS.171/3/18/2 Organisations Overground 1969-1971

Correspondence. Also information from other organisations including the Richmond Fellowship, Recidivists Anonymous and A report on pastoral work in Soho and the drug scene in 1969 by Kenneth Leech, Assistant Curate of St Anne's Soho.

MSS.171/3/18/3 Organisations: Outposts 1970-1971

Mainly correspondence with similar organisations around the country offering mutual support and information sharing. Includes information on the Scotland Road Free School (an alternative school for Liverpool) and Glasgow Advisory People (youth and community information and advice service).

MSS.171/3/18/4 Organisation Foreign Outposts 1970-1971

Mainly correspondence with workers at Release in Hamburg, Heidelberg, The Hague and Ghent.

MSS.171/3/18/5 Organisations: Miscellaneous 1970-1971

Correspondence with other organisations including courses and conferences, Primitive Peoples Fund newsletter 1970.

MSS.171/3/18/6 National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) 1968-1971

1file

Includes newsletter (1968-1969), publicity and proposals for a promotional campaign.

MSS.171/3/18/7 Association for the Prevention of Addiction (APA) 1973-1974

Three items (correspondence and newsletter).

MSS.171/3/18/8 Standing Conference on Drug Abuse (SCODA) 1974

Includes copies of the SCODA newsletter, staff reports to and minutes of the SCODA Management Committee.

MSS.171/3/18/9 CURE and SCODA 1975

Includes minutes and report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Provision of Services for Drug Misusers in West London. The Working Group was created following the closure of CURE in 1975. CURE was an independent voluntary organisation which provided and integrated medical treatment and social rehabilitation for young people with drug related problems in the London area. File also contains papers on SCODA.

MSS.171/3/19 Donators and Fund Raising Correspondence 1969-1971

Consist mainly of letters which originally accompanied donations to Release, and Release thank you letters. Other fund raising matters.

MSS.171/3/19/1 Donators and fund raising correspondence 1969-1970

MSS.171/3/19/2 Donators and fund raising correspondence 1971

MSS.171/3/19/3 Donators and fund raising correspondence 1971

MSS.171/3/20 Arts Projects 1969-1972

Rufus Harris was involved in arts and youth work.

MSS.171/3/20/1 Arts Lab Conference 1969

Includes information on the Art Information Register (Catalyst) which was a register of people available for teaching, lecturing and performance. Release co-founder Rufus Harris was part of the Arts Labs in Great Britain Trust.

MSS.171/3/20/2 Arts Lab Movement 1969

Information on Arts Labs, the Art Information Register (Catalyst) and the New Activities and the Community Sub Committee of the Arts Council.

MSS.171/3/20/3 Arts Council 1970

Papers relating to the New Activities and the Community Sub Committee of the Arts Council including a copy of their final report. The Sub Committee was set up to investigate the relationships between the arts and social services, community development, education and youth work. Release co-founder Rufus Harris was a member of the Sub Committee.

MSS.171/3/21 Correspondence With Prisoners 1969-1974

13 files

Correspondence includes answers to legal enquiries (such as the possiblity of appeal), and help with putting prisoners in touch with solicitors, friends, and family members. In some cases a prisoner had contact with Release right through the process of arrest, trial and sentencing and a correspondence continued during the prison sentence.

See also the series of individual client files, most of which contain correspondence with prisoners.

These files are CLOSED for 85 years.

MSS.171/3/21/1 Correspondence with a prisoner in Broadmoor Prison 1969-1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/21/2 Correspondence with prisoners October 1969 - December 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2056.

MSS.171/3/21/3 Correspondence with prisoners A-F 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/21/4 Correspondence with prisoners G-L 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/21/5 Correspondence with prisoners M-O 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/21/6 Correspondence with prisoners P-R 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/21/7 Correspondence with prisoners S-Z 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/21/8 Correspondence regarding appeals 1971

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/21/9 Correspondence with remanded prisoners 1971-1973

This file is CLOSED until 2059.

MSS.171/3/21/10 Correspondence with prisoners A-M 1972-1973

This file is CLOSED until 2059.

MSS.171/3/21/11 Correspondence with prisoners M-Z 1972-1973

This file is CLOSED until 2059.

MSS.171/3/21/12 Correspondence regarding appeals against conviction and sentence 1972-1973

This file is CLOSED until 2059.

MSS.171/3/21/13 Correspondence with prisoners 1973-1974

This file is CLOSED until 2060.

MSS.171/3/22 Individual Case Files 1969-1974

11 files

These files are CLOSED for 85 years.

MSS.171/3/22/1 Case file regarding a campaign to secure discharge from the RAF not dated [1970s]

This file is CLOSED until 2060.

MSS.171/3/22/2 Case file 1969

Correspondence with Rufus Harris.

This file is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/22/3 Case file 1970

Member of the Release Therapy Group established by Caroline Coon in 1971. The file includes confidential medical reports.

This file is CLOSED until 2056.

MSS.171/3/22/4 Case file 1969-1970

Appeal against a prison sentence for larceny.

This file is CLOSED until 2056.

MSS.171/3/22/5 Case file 1971

Three letters from prisoner. Addressed to Rufus Harris.

This file is CLOSED until 2057.

MSS.171/3/22/6 Case file 1971-1972

boy imprisoned in Turkey on drugs related charges. The file includes notes on other British prisoners in Turkey.

This file is CLOSED until 2058.

MSS.171/3/22/7 Case file 1972-1974

Mostly correspondence with prisoner.

This file is CLOSED until 2060.

MSS.171/3/22/8 Case file 1972-1974

Correspondence with prisoner.

This file is CLOSED until 2060.

MSS.171/3/22/9 Case file 1973-1974

Mostly correspondence with prisoner.

This file is CLOSED until 2060.

MSS.171/3/22/10 Case file 1973-1974

Mostly correspondence with prisoner.

This file is CLOSED until 2060.

MSS.171/3/22/11 Case file 1974

Bust case sheet and letter.

This file is CLOSED until 2060.

MSS.171/3/23 Individual Release Workers' Files 1969 -1975

6 files

Files are varied and include advice cases, bust cases and correspondence with prisoners.

Files in this series are CLOSED for 100 years.

MSS.171/3/23/1 Priority Cases 1970

Rufus Harris' case correspondence.

This file is CLOSED until 2071.

MSS.171/3/23/2 Desmond Banks' correspondence 1969-1970

This file is CLOSED until 2071.

MSS.171/3/23/3 Ann-Marie Barton's correspondence 1970-1971

This file is CLOSED until 2072.

MSS.171/3/23/4 Denise Kenny's correspondence 1973-1975

Mainly regarding the case of a British prisoner in Spain.

This file is CLOSED until 2076.

MSS.171/3/23/5 Denise Kenny's correspondence 1973-1974

Mainly letters from prisoners abroad and their families.

This file is CLOSED until 2075.

MSS.171/3/23/6 Annie Grocott's correspondence 1974-1975

This file is CLOSED until 2076.

MSS.171/3/24 Release Therapy/Discussion Group 1970

5 files

Over time, a small group of regular clients became more or less semi-permanently attached to Release (the Release Family). In April 1970 Caroline Coon and a psychiatrist started a weekly group therapy session with 8 members of the Release Family.

The files in this series are CLOSED for 100 years.

MSS.171/3/24/1 Manuscript transcript of the first group session 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2071.

MSS.171/3/24/2 Typescript transcripts of the first, second and ninth group sessions 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2071.

MSS.171/3/24/3 Manuscript and typescript transcripts of the second group session 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2071.

MSS.171/3/24/4 Manuscript and typescript transcripts of the sixth group session 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2071.

MSS.171/3/24/5 Manuscript and typescript transcripts of the ninth group session 1970

This file is CLOSED until 2071.

MSS.171/3/25 Implosion 1970

Implosion was a club for young people and a venue for pop concerts. Release co-founders Caroline Coon and Rufus Harris appear to have been involved in helping to set up the club.

MSS.171/3/25/1 Implosion Bills, Bank and Bookings 1970

Arrangements for Implosion concerts.

MSS.171/3/25/2 Implosion Applications 1970

Requests for money from the Implosion fund.

MSS.171/3/26 Talks Refused 1970-1971

Routine correspondence refusing invitations to give talks.

MSS.171/3/26/1 Correspondence regarding talks refused 1970

MSS.171/3/26/2 Correspondence regarding talks refused 1971

MSS.171/3/27 Release Thank You Letters 1970-1971

Letters which originally accompanied small donations of Green Shield Stamps etc., and Release thank you letters. Due to the repetitive and routine nature of these files, only a sample has been retained.

MSS.171/3/27/1 Thank you letters 1970

MSS.171/3/27/2 Thank you letters 1971

MSS.171/3/28 Cranks and Fan Mail 1970-1971

MSS.171/3/28/1 Crank mail and fan mail 1970

MSS.171/3/28/2 Crank mail and fan mail 1971

MSS.171/3/29 Jobs and work placements with Release 1970-1972

Correspondence regarding work placements at Release.

MSS.171/3/29/1 Work placements 1970

MSS.171/3/29/2 Work placements 1971-1972

Small amount of correspondence most of which relates to one student and including personal information.

MSS.171/3/29/3 Job Applicants 1971

Speculative letters for paid and voluntary work, offers of help.

MSS.171/3/29/4 Appointment of a Psychiatric Social Worker 1971

Background information on the need for the post and funding. Application forms and references have been destroyed [application form of successful candidate missing].

MSS.171/3/30 Requests For Information On Release 1970-1973

Requests for information on Release and for information and statistics relating to drugs. Many requests come from school pupils and students doing projects, as well as teachers, lecturers and youth groups. Due to the repetitive nature of these files only a sample has been retained.

MSS.171/3/30/1 Requests for information on Release January 1970 - December 1970

MSS.171/3/30/2 Enquiries about Release January 1971 - July 1971

MSS.171/3/30/3 Requests for information on Release August 1971 - December 1971

MSS.171/3/30/4 Requests for information on Release 1971-1973

MSS.171/3/31 Talks, Interviews and Visits 1970 -1973

Correspondence regarding arrangements for talks and letters of thanks.

MSS.171/3/31/1 Talks Past 1970-1971

MSS.171/3/31/2 Talks Past 1971

MSS.171/3/31/3 Correspondence regarding talks, interviews and visits 1971

MSS.171/3/31/4 Correspondence regarding talks, interviews and visits filed alphabetically by organisation 1971-1973

MSS.171/3/32 Advertising 1970-1973

MSS.171/3/32/1 Advertising 1970

File includes correspondence with Douglas Maxwell, an American public relations expert who donated work on fund-raising and publicity.

MSS.171/3/32/2 Advertising Mar 1971 - December 1971

Correspondence regarding placing adverts, invoices etc.

MSS.171/3/32/3 Text of Release cartoon strip and associated correspondence 1972-1973

Cartoon strip by George Melly.

MSS.171/3/33 Donaldson Loudoun 1971-1972

Donaldson Loudoun was a magistrate in south west London against whom complaints were made. Release attempted to help gather evidence against him.

MSS.171/3/33/1 Donaldson Loudoun 1970-1972

Court reporting sheets and press cuttings.

MSS.171/3/33/2 Reports on Magistrates Good or Bad 1971

Only two items including Release attempts to gain evidence to substantiate complaints about the magistrate Donaldson Loudoun.

MSS.171/3/34 Festivals 1971-1974

Release was involved in organising welfare services at pop festivals, including alternative services such as recovery tents for those suffering bad LSD trips.

MSS.171/3/34/1 Festivals 1971

Provision of welfare services at the Glastonbury Festival.

MSS.171/3/34/2 Festivals 1973-1974

MSS.171/3/35 Correspondence and Complaints to the Police and other officials 1971 -1975

8 files

Mainly complaints against the police, which Release helped clients to pursue. Some correspondence with senior police officers.

Very sensitive material has been removed from some files in this series to separate files with the same reference number. This correspondence is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/35/1 Letters to officials 1971

MSS.171/3/35/2 Complaints to and from officials 1971

One of these files is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/35/3 Statements of complaint against the police 1971

One of these files is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/35/4 Statments of complaint against the new A10 Branch of New Scotland Yard 1972-1973

One of these files is CLOSED until 2055.

MSS.171/3/35/5 Statements of complaint against the police and correspondence 1972-1975

MSS.171/3/36 Review of Release procedures by the Interactions Advisory Service 1972

2 items

The Interactions Advisory Service was brought in to help Release improve the efficiency of its administrative procedures and to deal with difficulties that had arisen because of the rapid expansion of its services.

MSS.171/3/36/1 Release - Better Ways of Working 1972

Typewritten report on Release procedures by Peter Redstone. Includes recommendations in the areas of establishing and acting on priorities, hiring and firing procedures and the use of meetings.

MSS.171/3/36/2 Seven Months After: A Review of Progress at Release 1972

Typewritten review of Release procedures in light of the Release - Better Ways of Working report.

MSS.171/3/37 Lists of Clients Oct 1972 - Aug 1976

2 volumes

Arranged in date order and including name, name of Release counsellor, previous convictions, charge, bail problems, legal aid problems, solicitor, police station, court, police conduct, plea and result. Results and pleas are not often completed.

Volumes in this series are CLOSED for 100 years.

MSS.171/3/37/1 List of Clients Oct 1972 - Nov 1974

This file is CLOSED until 2075.

MSS.171/3/37/2 List of Clients Nov 1974 - Aug 1976

This file is CLOSED until 2077.

MSS.171/3/38 Abortion 1972-1977

2 items, 2 files

One file in this series is CLOSED until 2080.

MSS.171/3/38/1 Abortion 1972-1979

Abortion counsellor's correspondence. Includes advice letters and correspondence with clinics.

This file is CLOSED until 2080.

MSS.171/3/38/2 Abortion: The Implications of Mr James White's Abortion Amendment Bill not dated [1975]

Legal opinion on the White Bill, particularly its effect on street help organisations.

MSS.171/3/38/3 Abortion Amendment Act 1975 1975

Mainly regarding the registration of pregnancy advisory services under the Act, including comment by the Release Pregnancy Counsellors.

MSS.171/3/38/4 'A Report on Abortion Facilities in London' by Wandsworth and East Merton Community Health Council 1977

Report for presentation to the National Tribunal on Abortion Rights 1977.

MSS.171/3/39 Cannabis Action Reform Organisation (CARO) 1973-1974

7 files

CARO was set up in 1973 to campaign by legal means for the abolition of all criminal penalties for the possession of cannabis and the establishment of channels of distribution, subject to appropriate controls. CARO was jointly sponsored by Release and the National Council for Civil Liberties.

MSS.171/3/39/1 Cannabis Action Reform Organisation contact list and publicity materials 1973

MSS.171/3/39/2 Cannabis Action Reform Organisation correspondence including individual case histories 1973

MSS.171/3/39/3 Cannabis Action Reform Organisation correspondence 1973

Includes a statement of policy and correspondence regarding the search for funding and patrons for the newly formed organisation.

MSS.171/3/39/4 Cannabis Action Reform Organisation correspondence 1973

MSS.171/3/39/5 Cannabis Action Reform Organisation: Correspondence with Hornsey Branch 1973

MSS.171/3/39/6 Cannabis Action Reform Organisation: Correspondence with Reading Branch 1973

MSS.171/3/39/7 Cannabis Action Reform Organisation: Correpondence with Weston-super-Mare Branch 1973-1974

MSS.171/3/40 Midlands Liaison Trip 1973-1975

Release liaison trip to the Midlands to develop new professional and organisational contacts. Contains information on many local groups and projects which were collected during the trip.

MSS.171/3/40/1 Midlands pre-1975 1973-1974

Mainly information gathered from Midlands projects and some observations on projects visited.

MSS.171/3/40/2 Midlands Clarkson Foundation 1973-1975

Correspondence regarding Clarkson Foundation funding for projects in the West Midlands. Release appears to have been involved in securing funding.

MSS.171/3/40/3 Midlands November 1975 1975

MSS.171/3/41 Truckers' Bible 1973-1975

The Truckers' Bible was a Release publication which summarized international drugs law and gave advice to travellers. Publication of the Truckers' Bible caused great controversy.

MSS.171/3/41/1 Underground Advice and Welfare Groups Foreign 1973

Press cuttings and correspondence with the Release Trustees and the Charity Commissioners regarding the controversy caused by the publication of the Truckers' Bible.

MSS.171/3/41/2 Truckers' Bible 1974-1975

Order form and newpaper cuttings regarding the Truckers' Bible and a draft supplement. Circular regarding Release funds.

MSS.171/3/42 Social/Psychiatric Daybooks 1973-1976

3 volumes

List of clients in date order with name, age, brief comments on the nature of the problem presented and details of any referral.

Volumes in this series are CLOSED for 100 years.

MSS.171/3/42/1 Social/Psychiatric Daybook April 1973 - December 1973

This file is CLOSED until 2074.

MSS.171/3/42/2 Social/Psychiatric Daybook January 1974 - October 1974

This file is CLOSED until 2075.

MSS.171/3/42/3 Social/Psychiatric Daybook November 1974 - July 1976

This file is CLOSED until 2077.

MSS.171/3/43 Windsor Free Festival 1974-1975

29 files

The 3rd Windsor Free Festival (August 1974) flared into violence after police cleared around 3,000 pop fans from the festival site. Release called for a full public inquiry into the behaviour of the police and collected statements about police abuses and misconduct during the festival. Many festival goers were arrested on drugs related charges. The Release lawyers countered the official police report into events with their own report 'Truncheons in the Park'.

MSS.171/3/43/1 Windsor Preliminaries 1974

Organisation of the festival, particularly welfare services for the festival site.

MSS.171/3/43/2 Windsor Preliminaries 1974

Organisation of the festival, particularly welfare services for the festival site.

MSS.171/3/43/3 Petition against the police stopping the Windsor Free Festival 1974

MSS.171/3/43/4 Windsor Free Festival bust case sheets 1974

MSS.171/3/43/5 Windsor Free Festival cases 1974

Includes notebook with summary of cases, correspondence, statements of complaint, a list of remanded prisoners and a schedule of court cases showing names of those remanded, charge, plea, whether or not legal representation was used, results, complaints or cross summons.

MSS.171/3/43/6 Windsor Free Festival cases 1974

Statements of complaint, correspondence.

MSS.171/3/43/7 Windsor Free Festival defendants 1974

Includes details of defendents.

MSS.171/3/43/8 Windsor Free Festival summary of statements of complaint 1974

Summary gives number and category of complaint. File also contains newspaper cuttings.

MSS.171/3/43/9 Windsor Free Festival statements of complaint 1974

MSS.171/3/43/10 Windsor Free Festival statements of complaint 1974

MSS.171/3/43/11 Windsor Free Festival statements of complaint 1974

MSS.171/3/43/12 Windsor Free Festival statements of complaint sent to the police inquiry 1974

MSS.171/3/43/13 Windsor Free Festival statements of complaint not sent to the police inquiry 1974

MSS.171/3/43/14 Solicitor's statement of complaint 1974

MSS.171/3/43/15 Windsor Free Festival letters of permission 1974

Returned circular letters granting/denying Release permission to forward statements regarding the policing of the Windsor Free Festival to Assistant Chief Constable Hall. Correspondence attached in some cases.

MSS.171/3/43/16 House of Commons and House of Lords correspondence 1974

Arrangements for a meeting between Release representatives and Members of Parliament to discuss the festival, correspondence, notes of meeting.

MSS.171/3/43/17 Home Office correspondence 1974

Mainly letters to the Home Secretary regarding the Windsor Free Festival.

MSS.171/3/43/18 Petition demanding a full public enquiry into police action at the Windsor Festival 1974

MSS.171/3/43/19 Windsor Free Festival fund raising appeal 1974

1 file (3 items only)

List of names with amount of money donated.

MSS.171/3/43/20 Applications for donations from the Windsor bust fund 1974

MSS.171/3/43/21 Windsor Free Festival correspondence 1974-1975

Includes correspondence with Assistant Chief Constable Hall, statements of complaint, correspondence and newspaper cuttings.

MSS.171/3/43/22 Correspondence regarding the policing of the Windsor Free Festival 1974-1975

Includes the Thames Valley Police Authority Report to the Home Secretary on the policing of the Windsor Free Festival and correspondence with Assistant Chief Constable Hall of Staffordshire Police Authority, who was appointed to investigate complaints.

MSS.171/3/43/23 Miscellaneous file on the Windsor Free Festival 1974-1975

Includes a press release about the intention of some festival goers to bring a claim for damages against the Thames Valley Police Authority and an unpublished Release report 'Pop Festivals: The Release Experience.'

MSS.171/3/43/24 Windsor Free Festival 1974-1975

Includes papers regarding a case brought by some festival goers against the Thames Valley Police Authority, bust sheets, statements of complaint, correspondence, Adam Trust Report on Glastonbury Fayre, Trentishoe and Stonehenge 1975.

MSS.171/3/43/25 Post Windsor contacts and developments 1974-1975

MSS.171/3/43/26 Windsor Free Festival newspaper cuttings 1974

MSS.171/3/43/27 Windsor Free Festival newspaper cuttings 1974

MSS.171/3/43/28 Windsor Free Festival newspaper cuttings 1974

MSS.171/3/43/29 Windsor Free Festival photographs 1974

MSS.171/3/44 Release Drug Information Service 1975

The Drug Information Service was a recorded telephone hot-line that was started in July 1975.

MSS.171/3/44/1 Controversy regarding the General Post Office's decision to disconnect the service 1975

File includes a recording of the first telephone hotline message from July 1975.

MSS.171/3/44/2 Text of the first Release Drug Information Service message and drafts of the second and third messages 1975

MSS.171/4 Publications 1969-1980

26 items

MSS.171/4/1-26

Release publications including newsletters.

MSS.171/4/1 A Woman's Guide to Contraception, Abortion and Related Matters not dated [1970s]

MSS.171/4/2 Release Donation Form not dated [1970s]

MSS.171/4/3-5 Release posters not dated [1970s]

3 items

MSS.171/4/6 The Release Report on Drug Offenders and the Law by Caroline Coon and Rufus Harris 1969

MSS.171/4/7-8 Connection 1972

MSS.171/4/9-10 Release Monthly Newsletter May, August 1974

2 issues

The May issue was the first ever issue of the Release Monthly Newsletter.

MSS.171/4/11 Release Monthly Newsletter September 1974

1 item

Windsor Festival: Special Aftermath Issue.

MSS.171/4/12 Truncheons in the Park: Malice or Incompetence? A Release report on police actions at the third annual Windsor Free Festival 24-29 August 1974 September 1974

MSS.171/4/13 Stop and Search: A Release Report on Police Powers and Practice 1977

MSS.171/4/14 Release 67-77: Tenth Anniversary Publication 1977

MSS.171/4/15-23 News Release 1977-1980

9 issues

Newsletter.

MSS..171/4/24 Release Bust Card 1978

1 item

Pocket-sized summary of rights, what to do if stopped and searched in the street or at home, or if taken to a police station.

MSS.171/4/25 Cannabis 1978

1 item

A pamphlet in the Release Drug Education Series.

MSS.171/4/26 List of Release Publications 1978

MSS.171/5 Publications of Other Organisations 1960s-1978

25 files, 4 items

MSS.171/5/1 Individual Publications 1970-1978

2 files, 4 items

MSS.171/5/1/1 QUEST: The News Service and Information Centre on Voluntary Movements and Social Change 1970-1972

Newsletters.

MSS.171/5/1/2 Release: A Progress Report 1972 by Jeremy d'Agapeyeff 1972

1 pamphlet

MSS.171/5/1/3 A Study Guide for Emergency Medical and Drug Abuse Technicians: Do It Now Foundation National Media Centre, Phoenix, Arizona 1973

MSS.171/5/1/4 The Abortion Controversy: Is There Any End To It? An Examination of the Abortion Amendment Bill 1975 in Relation to the Lane Committee Report 1974 by the Birth Control Campaign 1975

1 pamphlet

MSS.171/5/1/5 A Charitable Rejoinder to The Select Committee: Memorandum from the Trustees of the British Pregnancy Advice Service on The First Report of the Select Committee on Abortion (Session 1975-1976) September 1976

1 pamphlet

MSS.171/5/1/6 Legalise Cannabis Campaign publicity leaflet 1978

1 leaflet

MSS.171/5/2 Files of Publications 1968-1970s

23 files

Strictly speaking, a mixture of published and unpublished material from related organisations/projects, both mainstream and alternative. Includes newsletters, publicity brochures, directories of projects and addresses, information about campaigns, conferences and courses, as well as more substantial publications such as annual reports. A majority of the organisations are London based and working in the fields of youth advice, homelessness, community services, drug rehabilitation, alcohol rehabilitation and work with discharged prisoners. There is also material from British regional projects and a few overseas projects (mainly American).

MSS.171/5/2/1 Straight organisations 1966-1971

Includes RINK (an experimental project with unattached young people in the West End of London), Radical Alternatives to Prison (RAP), Soho Project, Youth Service Information Centre, Blenheim Project (detached social work with young drifters in London), Off The Record (a confidential advisory service for young people in Sheffield), Portobello Project, Notting Hill Housing Service (housing survey), Standing Conference on Drug Abuse (SCODA), National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders, Tibet Society, Simon Community, National Council for Civil Liberties.

MSS.171/5/2/2 Foreign organisations and Vera Institute of Justice, New York 1966-1971

Includes correspondence and information on Release Amsterdam, Manhattan Bowery Project (alcohol detoxification programme), ' Help' (telephone advice service based in Philadelphia), Vera Institute of Justice (New York) and French pamphlets on conscientious objectors.

MSS.171/5/2/3 Miscellaneous organisations 1968

Includes Living Arts Workhop, Support Communications for a Revolutionary Europe and World (SCREW), New Organisation (concerned with the use of the visual arts and visual activities in urban architectural space).

MSS.171/5/2/4 Drugs: meetings and organisations 1968-1970

Includes Church Army Centre for the Prevention of Addiction, Association for Prevention of Addiction, Salvation Army Rehabilitation Centre for Drug Dependents, Coke Hole Trust, St Anne's Soho, Soma Research Association Ltd, Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence, Care Understanding Research Education (CURE) Society for Addiction, Centrepoint, League for Spiritual Recovery, Tai Lam Treatment Centre, Lok Heep Club.

MSS.171/5/2/5 Information from other organisations 1969-1970s

Includes National Arts Lab conference report 1969.

MSS.171/5/2/6-9 Other bodies' publications 1969-1970s

Includes Campaign for the Homeless and Rootless (CHAR), Radio London Underground Information Sheet, Shelter Housing Aid Centre Ltd (SHAC), Westminster Council of Social Service, The Squatters Handbook by Islington Squatters, Association for the Prevention of Addiction Ltd, Lonely Freedom (youth resettlement project), East London Gay Liberation Project, Housing Action Campaign, Radical Alternatives to Prison minutes and newsheet, The Addiction and Drug Abuse Report: a confidential monthly newsletter covering all aspects of drug abuse, its prevention and treatment of its victims (September - December 1971), A Directory of Proposed Productive Projects in Self-management or Alternative Technology, 'The Health of the People' from the Journal of the Socialist Medical Association (1971), Camden Council press statement on squatters (1972) and The Effect of the Regular Practice of Transcendental Meditation on Students Involved in the Regular Use of Hallucinogenic and Hard Drugs (1969).

Originally one file, split for conservation purposes.

MSS.171/5/2/10 Other bodies' publications 1970-1974

Includes United Nations: Division of Narcotic Drugs information letter, Westminster Council of Social Service newsletter, Life Line Trust annual report 1972-1973, Standing Conference On Drug Addiction (SCODA) newsletter and press release on financial problems at Release and associated organistions, A consumer's guide to drug treatment facilities (brief comments on each centre), London Youth Advisory Centre annual report 1970, Haldane Society Bulletin, Addiction and Drug Abuse Report, ICAA News, National Council for Civil Liberties and West London Project Workers' Group meeting minutes 1972.

MSS.171/5/2/11 Other organisations and minority groups 1970-1976

Includes The Unemployed, Homeless and Destitute: A report on the situation of British Asians in Uganda (Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants) 1971, the Notting Hill Women's Paper, Tibet Relief Fund newsletter (The Tibet Society of the United Kingdom), Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants annual report 1970, Campaign for Homosexual Equality, Children's Rights.

MSS.171/5/2/12 Other bodies publications 1971-1974

Includes the Phoenix House Featherstone Lodge Project annual report, the Helping Hand Organisation annual report, the United Nations: Division of Narcotic Drugs information letter, National Voluntary Civil Aid Services newsletter, Community Levy for Alternative Projects (CLAP) Handbook, The Lifeline Trust Estimates for Planned Development, Alpha House Information for Prospective Residents (house for those coming off drugs), National Council for Civil Liberties, International Council on Alcohol and Addictions.

MSS.171/5/2/13 Miscellaneous publications 1972

Includes several editions of the BIT International Newsletter, BIT's Complete European and British Address Network, and a report on developments at BIT, 1971-1972. BIT was a pioneer information and help service which helped to establish similar centres outside London and produced regular newsletters and lists of information and help services in Britain.

MSS.171/5/2/14-18 Other bodies' publications 1972-1973

5 files

One file each for information on London organisations, British organisations outside London, foreign organisations, lists of organisations and a miscellaneous section.

Originally one file, split for conservation purposes.

MSS.171/5/2/19-20 Other bodies' publications 1972-1974

File one includes National Voluntary Civil Aid Services newsletter 1974, National Union of Students Women's Campaign briefing document 1973, Campaign to Legalise Cannabis material, first issue of Sativa, the publication of the Cannabis Action Reform Association. File two includes background information on CURE (Care, Understanding Research Education) and its work with drug addicts.

Originally one ring binder.

MSS.171/5/2/21 Other bodies' publications 1973 and not dated

Includes information on the Cobden Trust Research Project on Tribunals, Cobden Trust application for a grant to pay for an Education Officer and secretarial assistance, Westminster Charities For the Needy (list), publicity for CURE's Now telephone service and the Citizens Advice Bureau.

MSS.171/5/2/22 Foreign organisations and BIT Overland 1973

Mainly copies of a German publication Die Grune Kraft.

MSS.171/5/2/23 Reports from other organisations: general advice and information 1974 and not dated

Includes BIT newsletter, National Voluntary Civil Aid Services newsletter, Westminster Community Relations Council free newspaper, A Survey of the Silchester Estate to Comprehend and Research the Needs of the Young People in the Area (undertaken during placement with the Portobello Project, Lancaster Road Methodist Church, London), Centrepoint: a report on a year's work at St Anne's Soho Centre, London, Blenheim Project ( working with young drifters in London).

MSS.171/10 Newspaper Cuttings 1967-1972

MSS.171/10/1 Newspaper cuttings regarding drugs research 1967-1971

MSS.171/10/2 Newspaper cuttings regarding drugs related charges against Dr J. Petro and Dr C. Swan 1968

Tables showing age, sex, court, offence, sentence, previous, bail, legal aid, employment, lawyer and remarks (1967-1969). Some correspondence and returned case summaries from solicitors (1970). These include client names.

MSS.171/13/2 Monthly summaries of bust cases 1970-1971 [incomplete]

Summary sheets show date, name, charge and result of the case (where known). One sheet per month for each solicitor.