The Survivors History Group was founded to value and celebrate the contribution that mental health service users/survivors have made and are making to history. It is working towards a comprehensive history on this site and in a book. It will also preserve historical material in digital form on this site, and in printed and other forms. The website includes, or will include:
- The story/stories of the movement in the form of a timeline.
- Individuals' stories inter-related to the story of the movement. See, for example, Charlotte and Freda Mew - Eric Irwin - Joan Hughes - Valerie Argent - Frank Bangay - State of Mind.
- Information boxes about particular features such as Survivor's Poetry
- Indexes such as that of survivor history features in Asylum magazine.
- Reviews and summaries of books, articles and other printed material that record and discuss the story.
- Copies of articles about the movement and its history.
- Copies of documents from the movement's history.
- Lists of paper records about groups in the movement that individuals and others have preserved -
- Book and pamphlet lists.
- Records of where papers, books and pamphlets are preserved.
