Spastics news : magazine of the National Spastics Society.

Issues <March 1963-July 1967> have subtitle: The magazine of the Spastics Society

Issues <March 1968-February 1984> have subtitle: New series

1958-1963: London : National Spastics Society

1963-1984: London : The Spastics Society

Monthly

Began in Vol. VI, no. 6 (December 1958)-February 1984.

volumes : black and white illustrations ; 28-44 cm

This journal was donated as part of the Scope archive held by Wellcome Collection, reference SA/SCO https://wellcomecollection.org/works/vfnj8zkw

From March 1968 format changed to newspaper style (tabloid size).

Bound volume (1966) includes a loose leaf copy of "Spastic News Extra" published by The Spastics Society on the occasion of the Extraordinary General Meeting at Bristol, 14th May, 1966 (iv pages ; 39 x 26 cm folded to 19 x 26 cm).

Absorbed in 1958: N.S.S. news : magazine of the National Spastics Society.

Continued in March 1984 by: Disability Now.

Description based on: Vol. VI, no. 6 (December 1958), Vol. VII, no. 7 (January 1960) and ; title from cover.

Latest volume consulted: February 1984.

Copy 1 of: Vol. VI, no. 6 (December 1959) ; vol. VII, no. 1 (February 1959), no. 7 (January 1960)-vol. XIV, no. 7 (July 1968), no. 9 (September 1968)-June 1969, August 1969-December 1970, September 1972-February 1980, April 1980, June 1980-November 1982, January 1983-February 1984. Donor: Scope.

April 1960 has no assigned volume or number; Both May and June 1960 are Vol. VII, no. 11, making May-December issue no. 11-17 misnumbered; An error in volume number for July 1961 (should be Vol. VIII, no. 7 not Vol. VII) results in the misnumbering of the volume sequence between from July 1961-September 1968; Issues for Vol. XIII (June-July 1967) are misnumbered as no. 5 but correct numbering continues from August 1967.