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A history created by Brigadier A E Stokes-Roberts, includes amended first edition created in 1966 and second amended edition from 1972.

Brochure includes inner sleeve with brochures and leaflets regarding the transitional living unit, leaflets for John Howard's House and other leaflets relating to types of injuries.

Electronic and typescript correspondence, notes, photographic prints and negatives, mounted 35 mm slides and captions. File chiefly relates to the publication of the book, Victorian Incurables: a history of the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability by professor Gordon Cook. The correspondence relate to finding a publishing house for the book and editorial changes to the book.

Reports and publications relating to research undertaken by the hospital's research department along with conference and seminar papers produced by the Department including research relating to the SMART assessment for patients with disorders of consciousness.

Booklet, Caring for the disabled- adversity and caring' by Maureen Tudor, based on an address delivered at Ware College, Hertfordshire. Published by J Walter Thompson Company, London. Booklet No. 2/81.

Booklet, Brain damage and psychiatric disability' by Professor W A Lishman. Booklet No.1/83. Reprinted from a seminar on 'The Problems of Overlapping Psychiatric and Physical Handicap; held on 17 July 1982.

Booklet, 'A Progressive approach to long-term residential care for physically handicapped people in an integrating society' by the Development Trust for the Young Disabled. Booklet No. 1/84.

Booklet, 'The Dynamic approach to the residential care of disabled people in an integrating society', an International (EEC) seminar held in London on 10 April 1984. Booklet No 2/84.

Booklet, 'Physical Management in Long-term disability' by Mrs Pauline M Pope. Booklet No. 1/85.

Colour photographs and negatives of building work of new rehabilitation wing and transitional living unit on the hospital site, c.1983-1990. File includes early images of hydrotherapy pool and gymnasium.

Copy of the 1975 presentation film for the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables (RHHI). Film includes narrated sound track, though the audio quality is fairly poor, with an audible background crackle throughout the recording. Track duration: 05:54.

Copy of the presentation film for the RHHI (Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables). This version of the film is identical to the film(archive ref: GB 3544 RHN-AV-1-2) but the sound quality has been slightly better preserved. Track length: 05:54.

Manuscript minutes of the House Committee, dated 16 December 1916 to 19 June 1918. The volume is indexed and also includes manuscript and typescript inserts chiefly relating to letters and reports by Walter P Wright regarding the condition of the hospital garden.

Manuscript minutes of the House Committee, dated 13 July 1918 to 10 September 1919. The volume is indexed and also includes manuscript and typescript inserts chiefly relating to letters and reports by Walter P Wright regarding the condition of the hospital garden. The minutes include multiple entries regarding the dismissal and subsequent re-hiring of five male attendants, who were dismissed for being 'conscientious objectors'.

Manuscript minutes of the House Committee dating from 18 November 1925 to 8 December 1926. The minutes are indexed and also contains enclosures including a typescript reports on complaints by patients.

Manuscript minutes for the House Committee dating from 15 December 1926 to 21 December 1927. The minutes are indexed with various enclosures including papers relating to installing 'wireless' radio at the hospital.

Manuscript minutes of the House Committee dating from 31 January 1934 to 8 May 1935. The minutes are indexed and include various committee papers including reports, letters received and published duties of assistant nurses.

Minutes of the House Committee from 3 January 1962 to 30 December 1964. Typescript minutes with alphabetical index.

Typescript minutes of the House Committee dating from 13 January 1965 to 11 December 1968. The minutes are indexed and include some inserts including a proposal to build a day nursery through a substantial donation by a Mr Blott. The Board debated the proposal and rejected due to Mr Blott's condition to be allowed to visit patients to persuade them to read Christian Science literature.