SubSection AUD/1/1 - JIC Sound Recordings (Digitized by the Norfolk Record Office) 1942 - 2000

Extent: 2 discs, 12 reels, 33 cassette tapes; Format: original (reel, cassette, disc) and digital

Sound recordings in various original media relating to the history of the John Innes Institute, the Plant Breeding Institute and the Nitrogen Fixation Laboratory (merged into the John Innes Centre in 1994). Digitized by the Norfolk Record Office in 2008/9 and 2013 into Waveform Audio files (NRO Catalogue AUD 29/1-85). Further details on NROCAT (Norfolk Record Office catalogue). Contact NRO for access to digitized files. Originals and related material held by the John Innes Centre Archives.

Accessible in Norfolk Sound Archive listening room only via link in ECopy field in the Norfolk Record Office catalogue (http://nrocat.norfolk.gov.uk)

Admin History: Received by the Norfolk Sound Archive on 6 April 2009 (SAC 2009/1), as copies made of original recordings, deposited with them temporarily by the John Innes Centre's Library Information and Archive Service on 7 October 2008 (TD 2008/24). Received by the Norfolk Sound Archive on 24 October 2013 (SAC 2013/21), as copies made of original recordings, deposited with them temporarily by the John Innes Centre's Library Information and Archive Service on 5 August 2013 (TD 2013/17). 75 Waveform Audio files, 139 papers The John Innes Horticultural Institution was founded at Merton, South London, in 1910. The first director was William Bateson. He was succeeded, in 1926, by Sir A. Daniel Hall and J.B.S. Haldane became part-time Head of Genetical Research. Sir Daniel was succeeded, in 1939, by C.D. Darlington. After the Second World War, the Institution moved to Bayfordbury estate in Hertfordshire. In 1966-7, the John Innes Institute moved to its present site at Colney, near Norwich. Other directors of the Institute include K.S. Dodds, Roy Markham, Harold Woolhouse and Professor Richard B. Flavell. The Plant Breeding Institute was established in 1912, within the Cambridge University School of Agriculture. In 1948, it was established as an Agricultural Research Council institute, which resulted in it severing its links to Cambridge University. In 1955, it moved from the University farm to Trumpington, Cambridgeshire. In 1987, the non-privitised part of the PBI was integrated into the Institute of Plant Science Research, which included the John Innes Institute and the Nitrogen Fixation Laboratory in Sussex. In 1990, the majority of the PBI's scientific staff were relocated to newly built facilities at the John Innes Institute. Directors of the Institute include Sir Rowland Biffen, H. Hunter, G.D.H. Bell, and Sir Ralph Riley. The Nitrogen Fixation Laboratory was established in 1963, as the Agricultural and Food Research Council (AFRC) Unit of Nitrogen Fixation. Initially it was located at the Vetinary College and Queen Mary College, London. In 1965, it moved to the Chemistry Laboratories at the University of Sussex. In 1987, the Unit was incorporated into AFRC Institute of Plant Science Research (IPSR), which included the John Innes Institute and Cambridge Laboratory. In 1992 AFRC decided to move the Nitrogen Fixation Laboratory into a purpose-built laboratory on the John Innes Centre site. This move took place in late summer 1995. Directors of the Laboratory include J. Chatt, J.R. Postgate and Barry E. Smith.