Records relating to the School of Music at Kingston University dating 1998-2010. Includes posters, programmes and leaflets for Kingston University Music Concerts; school of music staff and student handbooks from early 2000s; programmes for graduation ceremonies; and other general documents relating to the history of Kingston University.

Documents relating to Kingston School of Art (later Kingston College of Art, which merged with Kingston Technical College to form Kingston Polytechnic in 1970). The Collection includes minute books; scrap books containing press cuttings, exhibition invitations and leaflets; prospectuses; and items relating to exhibitions and fashion shows.

Items related to musical theatre collected by scholar and musician Alan Poulton. Includes programmes, books, research and other items relating to the work of Stephen Sondheim, and other items relating more widely to the world of musical theatre including journals, books and recordings.

The initial deposit, sections A-K, consists mainly of correspondence and associated papers (leaflets, memoranda, extracts from minutes, etc.). There are two main series of correspondence: 'People' and 'General' and some other distinct smaller series such as 'Branches and other Societies'. The internal arrangement of these files is normally chronological, with a few exceptions (usually an alphabetical arrangement). There are also lecturers' report sheets, publications, slides, posters, charts, and photographs, mainly but not exclusively in Section G: Propaganda and Publicity. There is a set of Annual Reports and related material 1908-1979 (Section A). Under the will of Dr. Marie Stopes the Eugenics Society was left her birth control clinic, books from her library and certain emoluments. Three boxes of her correspondence and some miscellanea, were assigned to section K. In 1988 minute books and the Society's extensive collection of press cuttings plus some financial records were added as GB0120 SA/EUG/L-N.

Archive of the British Humanist Association, including: papers of the British Humanist Association and it's predecessors bodies, The Union of Ethical Societies, The Ethical Union and the Humanist Association,1887 - c.2001; papers of the Humanist Trust, 1958 - 1996; papers of groups affiliated to the British Humanist Association and it's predecessor bodies, The Union of Ethical Societies and The Ethical Union, 1892 - 2007; Uncatalogued material of the British Humanist Association, c.2000-2014. (1887-2014)

The papers of Garrick Club comprise one volume containing playbills for the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden between 28 September 1825 and 23 June 1826 with occasional notices of cast changes.

Advertisement label, pasted on cloth, for Nathaniel Gladman, trunkmaker, 17--.

Records of the Family Planning Association from its inception as National Birth Control Committee in 1930, until the major organisational changes following the 1974 NHS Act; records of predecessor bodies subsequently assimilated; records of affiliated clinics, including substantial collection of records of the North Kensington Women's Welfare Clinic; papers of Margery Spring-Rice and of Caspar Brook; photographs, pamphlets, ephemera, posters

Papers relating to a Christian Commandos advertising campaign, and pamphlet regarding the Greater London Christian Commando Campaign "Follow up Conference" at Rosehill, Reading.

Papers of John Wright relating to his campaign to improve the water supply of the Grand Junction Waterworks Company. The records comprise: papers relating to the water supply in the Metropolis, 1719-1831; and letter of appeal concerning John Wright's efforts to improve the water supply, 1829.

Copy of "The Star Property Guide", containing advertisements for new housing in Middlesex, Kent and Essex, with illustrations, July 1934.

Papers of individual members of staff at Barclay Perkins and Company Limited, including papers of chairman E W Giffard; papers of managing director H L Grimston; papers of Company solicitor R Whitmarsh Gray, including legal papers and press cuttings; papers of head brewer J B Binnie, including photographs, posters, advertisements, invitations, cards and programmes; and papers of head brewer Charles Collard, including brewing books.

Records of Courage, Barclay and Simonds Limited, brewers, including precis of news reports about the brewing industry; examples of advertising including a gramophone record; papers relating to public houses; and publicity department correspondence and subject files relating to various events, company activities and aspects of the brewing industry.

Records of the Royal Choral Society. The archive is divided into seven sections: administrative records, including a series of individual concert files; financial records; membership records, which include attendance registers and audition files; concert records and programmes; publicity records including posters and newspaper cuttings; files of printed musical scores, arranged by piece, and including programmes for concerts featuring the work; miscellaneous records, which comprise information and programmes relating to other choirs, magazines of the society, or which include articles on the society or choral singing in general, and photographs of choir members, soloists and conductors.

Highlights of the collection include a comprehensive, although not complete, series of concert programmes from 1873-1985, including the programme for the last concert to be held in the Queen's Hall before its destruction during World War II. There are also manuscript copies of "Eryri" by Alun Hoddinott. This piece was composed for the investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1969 and the collection has a copy both of the original score, for 16 soloists, chorus and orchestra, and the revised version for baritone solo, chorus and orchestra.

Advertisement of John Besford, supplier of patterns and drawings for needlework and netting silk, dated to the 19th century.

Prospectus of Miss Millman's School, dated to between 1868 and 1888. Includes list of teachers.

Sales particulars, 1834-1947, for the following properties:

• 35 and 36 Foley Street, Regent Street, Saint Marylebone
• 5-storey building, Buckingham Street, Strand, Westminster; with plan and elevation.
• 16 and 17 Kings Parade, Kings Road, Chelsea.
• Estate in Frederick Street, Hampstead Road, Saint Pancras, including a brewery; with plan.
• Suite of chambers, Albany, Piccadilly, Westminster.
• 133 Barnsbury Road, Islington; house and shop.
• 6 Holford Place, Pentonville, Finsbury.
• 2 Pont Street, Belgravia, Westminster.
• 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25 and 27 Malden Crescent, Kentish Town, Saint Pancras and adjacent land; with plan.
• The Queen's Arms, Weston Street, Southwark, with adjoining building land. Land and vaults at Maze Street and Saint Thomas Street, Southwark; with plan.
• 6 Euston Square, Saint Pancras with stabling in Seymour Row.
• 110 and 116 High Street, Poplar. Houses and shops; with plan.
• Building estate, Clifton Road, New Cross, Deptford; with plan.
• 166, 168 and 170 Park Road, Crouch End.
• Building land at Chapel Road, Church Road, Mitcham.
• 5, 7, 10, 12 and 14 Linscott Road, Lower Clapton, Hackney.
• 126 and 127 High Street, Whitechapel, Stepney. Bank, office and warehouse premises.
• Pedrail Transport Works on the corner of Wyfold Rd, and Kingwood Road, Fulham.
• 40-46 and 60-72 (even) Bowland Road, Clapham, formerly Crescent Road, Clapham, Wandsworth.
• 26-40 (even) Balham New Road, Balham, Wandsworth.
• 311-321 (odd) York Road, 254-260 (even) York Road, Lambeth, 61-63 (odd) Battersea Park Rd, Battersea.
• 'Collingtree' 68 Norbury Crescent, Norbury.
• 93 Finchley Road, Hampstead.
• 31 and 35-53 (odd) Pendle Road, 35-41 (odd) Penrith Road, 30 and 32 Parklands Road, Streatham, Wandsworth.
• Property known as 'Clarence Cinema', Hackney in Mare Street at the junction of Clarence Road and Lower Clapton Road, Hackney; with plan.
• 'Neilgherry' 77 Stanhope Avenue, Finchley.
• 8 Balham Hill, Balham, Wandsworth; with plan.
• 11 Motcomb Street, Belgrave Sq., Westminster; corner shop premises.
• Details of forthcoming auction sales.
• Royal Parcel Mail Yard, 11-29 Seward Street, Goswell Road, Finsbury; stabling and cottages; with plan.
• 129, 131 and 133 Mare Street, Hackney; with plan.
• Building site at 11-29 (odd) Seward Street, Goswell Road, Finsbury; with plan.
• 21 Culmore Road, 123 and 125 Asylum Rd 18, 20 and 22 Marmont Road, Peckham, Camberwell.
• 10 St James Street, Bedford Row, Westminster; with plan and photograph
• 1 Fleming Road, Walworth, Southwark.
• Site and premises and 10 houses 65, 66, 67 and 68 George Street, and 80, 82, 86, 88, 90 and 92 Euston Street, at Euston, Saint Pancras; with plan.
• 41 Sloane Avenue, Chelsea.
• 'Clarence House' Mare Street, Hackney.
• 'Villa Bellevue' 23 Umfreville Road, Green Lanes, Harringey.
• 127 Fortess Road, Kentish Town, Saint Pancras; shop premises.
• 'The Poplars' 159 Upper Brockley Road, Brockley, Lewisham; houses and garages; with plan.
• 1 and 3 Bannockburn Road, Plumstead 139 Maxey Road, Plumstead, 13 and 15 Abbey Grove, Abbey Wood.

Legal, administrative and financial records, some relating to the Carpenter family, including letters; accounts; papers regarding various companies including the London Life Association and the Liberation Building Society; legal papers and court proceedings; deeds for premises at Hampstead, Ealing, Kentish Town and Wood Green; advertisements and handbills; papers regarding the police forces; job applications; sales particulars for the Globe public house in Shoreditch; deeds for the George public house in Finchley; copies of wills; and pamphlets.

Records of the National Council for Soviet Jewry, later called the National Council for Jews in the Former Soviet Union, 1950-1993. Records include Council and Committee minutes, correspondence and reports; general correspondence; conferences and seminars; National Council for Soviet Jewry publications including Jews in the USSR, circulars and newsletters; publications relating to Soviet Jewry by other organisations; photographs of events and refuseniks; films; press cuttings and financial records.

PLEASE NOTE: Written permission from the depositor is required to access this collection. Contact: Executive Director, Board of Deputies of British Jews, 5th Floor, Commonwealth House, 1-19 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1NF.

Records of the London County Council Tramways Department, 1904-1950, comprising posters, and original artworks used in posters, advertising various attractions and destinations reachable by tram. Some of the posters were designed at the LCC Central School of Arts and Crafts. Also plans of works to LCC tramways and trolleybus routes.

Records of Whiffen and Son Ltd, manufacturing chemists, 1752-1972, including history of the company; articles of partnership and other contracts and agreements; legal documents relating to property; correspondence; circulars; financial accounts; papers relating to shares and shareholders; stock records; newspaper cuttings; photographs; staff wages books and pensions papers; records relating to staff associations and sports clubs including minute books; reports on chemical manufacture, laboratory notebooks and chemical analyses; papers relating to sales; papers relating to imports and foreign suppliers; advertisements; registers of product labels; samples of packaging; rules, regulations and legislation regarding factories and safety measures; papers regarding the Second World War including war damage to factories and papers relating to staff on active duty.

Also records of Saint Amand Manufacturing Company Limited including ledgers, letter books and journals.

Papers and designs of the Silver Studio design practice, comprising:
Personal correspondence and papers of the Silver family, photographs and family albums, personal cards (Christmas, visiting etc).

Business correspondence, business diaries and time books, staff records, studio trade cards, letter heads, order forms, notes and studio inventories, day books and financial records.

Books, magazines and other printed ephemera collected as visual reference material by Silver Studio employees.

Photographic records (glass plate negatives, reference photographs of designs etc); sketch books; printed ephemera, comprising cards (postcards, cigarette cards, greetings, advertising cards), booklets (programmes, guidebooks, exhibition catalogues, leaflets, maps), loose papers (handbills, cuttings, calendars, bookplates, posters).

Silver Studio designs on paper (c40,000 designs for wallpapers, textiles carpets and other domestic furnishings); 5,000 textile samples (both of the Silver Studio and other designers/manufacturers); 5,000 wallpaper samples (loose sheets and albums, both of the Silver Studio and other designers/manufacturers).

Studio objects (door plaque, lamp, paint boxes etc).

When Stephen Tallents became GPO (General Post Office) Public Relations Manager in 1933, he decided to adopt the use of posters to carry information from the Post Office to the public. The bulk of POST 110 consists of over 6000 posters produced by the Post Office from the creation of its Public Relations Department in 1934 up to the present day.

Posters were initially produced for distribution to schools as an educational aid, or for display on mail vans, but soon the decision was taken to produce posters specifically designed to be displayed inside public offices; subject matter included public information and sales of philatelic items.

Posters for internal purposes were also produced by the Joint Production Council from the 1950s, these variously encouraged staff to be industrious, vigilant and to be thrifty.

Many well-known artists and designers have been commissioned by the Post Office (particularly in the 1930s-1950s) to produce posters. These artists include Peter Huveneers, Hans Schleger (Zero), Abram Games, Austin Cooper, Eric Fraser, Jan Lewitt, George Him, Tom Eckersley, Edward McKnight Kauffer, Harold Sandys Williamson, Frederic Henri Kay Henrion, Hans Arnold Rothholz, Ronald Searle and Barnett Freedman.

POST 110 also includes POPOS (Post Office Point of Sale) display instructions produced for branches, giving information on the display material they should obtain and display for particular periods. It also includes other publicity material such as leaflets and calendars.

There is an ongoing project to catalogue POST 110, with the main focus currently on the posters; there are 1,837 posters catalogued and available for viewing via our online catalogue, the majority of these records also include images of the posters.

Papers of L A Plummer relating to the New Leader, comprising 1. Scrap book containing samples of stationary and circulars and cuttings, mainly advertisements in other journals, 1922-1927; 2. Promotional letters for New Leader, also The Miner and The Post. 1925-1930. 3. Report by L A Plummer on a visit to the USA to investigate the American newspaper advertising system for The Evening Standard. 1931.

Papers of David N Deacon, 1998-1999, comprise detailed, semi-structured interviews with representatives from selected extra-governmental agencies (including both 'recognised' and 'non-recognised' quangos) regarding media and publicity issues, and with national and local news professionals regarding their use of quangos as news sources and their relationship with these executive agencies. All the interviews were made between 1998 and 1999. With a file containing interview schedules and 4 floppy disks.