Papers of the London School of Economics, 1895-2000, notably records of the central filing system, 1895-1993, including material relating to academic teaching and research, administration of the School, and relations with outside bodies; unregistered LSE files, 1985-1997, comprising important material not contained in the central files, notably early records, reports, papers regarding the British Library of Political and Economic Science, Directors' files of Sir William Henry Beveridge and Sir Sydney Caine, records of the LSE Student's Union, photographs, press cuttings and publications; records of LSE committees, 1894-1993, mainly comprising minutes; material of the LSE History Project, 1895-1998, gathered during research for LSE: a history of the London School of Economics and Political Science, 1895-1995 (Oxford University Press, 1995), including papers relating to academic courses and departments, finance and trusts, buildings, clubs and societies, and research units, as well as biographical material for Directors, staff and students, press cuttings, reminiscences and photographs; oral history material, 1973-2000, comprising interviews with former academic and administrative staff of LSE; and small deposited collections of material relating to LSE, 1909-2000.

Material collated by the LSE History Project, 1895-1998, mainly comprising copies of material found in the LSE Archives, other archival institutions and publications, notably papers concerning academic courses (such as the Commerce Degree), academic staff and teaching, including the establishment of various Chairs; financial material, including audited accounts and statistics; papers relating to various trusts and benefactors such as the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Trust; papers concerning the history of the British Library of Political and Economic Science; material relating to the buildings of LSE from 1899 to the present, including pictures and maps; extensive material concerning individual academic departments, namely Anthropology, Economic History, Economics, Geography, Government, Industrial Relations, International History, International Relations, Language Studies, Law, Philosophy, Social Policy and Administration, Social Psychology, Sociology, Statistics and Mathematical Sciences; biographical material regarding the Directors of the LSE, namely William Albert Samuel Hewins, Sir Halford John Mackinder, the Hon William Pember Reeves, Lord William Henry Beveridge, Sir Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders, Sir Walter Adams, Lord Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, and Dr Indraprasad Gordhanbhai Patel; papers relating to LSE groups, clubs and societies, including the Senior Common Room and the Friends of LSE; material concerning prominent alumni; articles by various authors on the history of LSE; papers and press cuttings relating to historical incidents at LSE, notably relating to student unrest and demonstrations; press cuttings on various topics relating to LSE, including foundation, relations with the University of London, and national educational policy; biographical material on prominent members of LSE, such as Friedrich August von Hayek, Lancelot Thomas Hogben, Harold Joseph Laski, Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, Sir Karl Raimund Popper, Lionel Charles Robbins and Sidney and Beatrice Webb; reminiscences of life at LSE by former students and staff, from foundation to the 1990s; material relating to LSE research units; papers on the constitution, organisation and governance of LSE; staff biographical files containing alphabetically arranged information on former and current staff, including governors, professors, readers, senior administration and library, and former students of the School; material relating to the Student's Union, with biographical details of the Presidents; miscellaneous press cuttings and biographical material concerning the position of women at LSE; administration files of the LSE History Project; photographs of LSE staff, students, buildings and general School scenes.

Small collections of material relating to the LSE, comprising:
Papers of the LSE Athletics Committee (formerly the Malden Committee), 1947-1981, including minutes, correspondence, annual reports and accounts.
Papers of Sir Ronald Stanley Edwards, Professor of Economics, 1933-1956, mainly relating to the teaching of accounting and industrial organisation in the Department of Business Administration.
Records of the LSE Sociology Club, 1923-1953, including minutes, accounts and correspondence.
Lecture notes and essays taken by J Young, [1950-1960], reading Economics and Government.
Papers of Peter Hodges concerning the Social Administration Department, 1962-[1971], including departmental information, papers of the Overseas Students Welfare Committee and correspondence relating to social work training in Nigeria.
Papers collected by E Grebenik concerning the Committee of Enquiry into the Governance of the University of London, 1971.
Lecture notes on law made by R N Hutchins, and undergraduate at the School, 1934.Lecture notebooks kept by Richard Fitter whilst an undergraduate at LSE, [1929-1932], mainly on Economics and Economic History.
Lecture notebooks kept by Hilda Lake whilst a student at LSE, 1909-[1917], on subjects including Economics, Anthropology, Finance and Public Administration.
Papers of the Board of Studies in Economics, 1932-1953, including agendas and minutes.
Minutes and papers of the Industrial Relations Department, 1969-1974.
Letters and postcards from LSE lecturers sent to Neville Vandyk, an LSE undergraduate, 1942-1954.
Notes taken by Professor Hilde Behrend of Morris Ginsberg's lectures on Social Institutions, Social Psychology, Ethics and Social Philosophy, [1942].
Lecture notes taken by Margaret Jenkins (later Thomas) for her BSc Econ in Industry and Trade, 1951-1956.
Texts of lectures given at the LSE by Lewis George Robinson, a Reader in International History, 1943, on the geographical factor in international relations.
Papers by Ralf Dahrendorf summarising responses to his discussion papers 'A Centre for Economic and Political Studies in London', 1976.
Examination papers for the Department of Anthropology, 1923-1995.
Press Office file on the opening of the British Library of Political and Economic Science, 1979.
LSE scarf from the World War Two period, [1941].
Papers relating to Dr Hilda Ormsby and her husband George Vandeleur Ormsby, [1927-1972], including articles on the teaching of Geography at the LSE.
Papers and slides relating to the British Rail Locomotive 'London School of Economics', 1985.
Degree certificates issued to Samuel William Buxton, a BSc student at the LSE, 1917-1924.
Papers of Vera Anstey, Reader in Commerce at LSE, 1921-1948, relating to her employment at the School, and correspondence between her family and Jim Thomas relating to his research on her, 1999.
Scrolls presented to Dr J M Ashworth and Sir Peter Parker, 1996-1998.
Papers relating to student disturbances at LSE, 1968-1969, collected by Professor Kenneth Minogue, as well as material relating to his editing of the LSE Annual Report, 1989-1990.
Papers of the LSE Society, [1948-1956], including administrative correspondence and membership applications.
Papers of the Accounts Research Association, 1940, comprising accounts and register of members.
Texts of a series of lectures given by GF Thirlby, [1944].
Texts of Army Class lectures given by Sir Douglas Owen, [1913-1914].
Papers of the Greater London Group, 1962-1967, relating to the reorganisation of London local government and the establishment of the GLC.
Photographs of a plan to roof over Houghton St, London, [1996].
Papers of George Watson, 1956-1997, comprising photocopies of letters from Lord William Henry Beveridge to Watson and an article by the latter from the Liberal Democrat History Group.
Photographs of Alice Thistle Bottomley, [1910-1912].
Videos of the LSE Cabaret performed during the Centenary Celebrations, [1995].
Papers collated by John Alcock relating to the School's relations with the University Grants Committee and the Quinquennial Plan, 1960-1966.
Paper by Percy S Cohen, Dean of Undergraduate Studies, on 'Aspects of undergraduate teaching: tutorials and classes at the London School of Economics', [1971].
Publicity material for the move of the School to County Hall, [1990], including colour pictures and press cuttings.
Chapter of family history written by John Grist, dealing with the period at the end of World War Two, [2000].

Records of Stoatley Rough School, 1923-2000, including Council Meeting reports, 1935-1959, dealing with the administration of the school; general administrative material, 1933-1962, notably salary books, annual accounts, memorandum and articles of association and pupil card files; school desk diaries, 1949-1955, giving details of term dates and appointments; general administrative correspondence, 1934-1960, including letters relating to the establishment of the school, pupil applications, building maintenance, former pupils and teachers, as well as correspondence with the Jewish Refugees Committee; academic papers, 1934-1960, including examination papers, certificates, syllabuses, timetables and pupils' exercise books; school reports, 1939-1950; pupil files, 1932-1960; material concerning student helpers, 1950-1951, including index cards and correspondence; general papers and publications, 1923-1960, notably attendance and ration lists, papers relating to teaching methods, and material on various refugee organisations; various memoirs and reminiscences by former students and staff, 1948-1991, notably an oral history by Eleonore Astfalck; a typescript history of Stoatley Rough School, 1990. Later deposits include the personal papers of Dr. Hilde Lion including material relating to her early life and career in Germany; papers of Gerda Mayer; papers collected by Herta Loeser and deposited by Barbara Wolfenden in 2008, including History Steering Group papers, 1990s; papers relating to the search for former pupils and arrangements for reunions, 1990s; letters to and from former staff and students, including a few items from the 1930s-1940s, but mainly dating from the 1990s.

Papers, 1903-1940, of the Rev W H Warren, comprising four station reports from Shaohsing, 1903-1914; two printed China Inland Mission reports from Shanghai, 1931; Warren's manuscript account of an attack by pirates on a mission party travelling from Shanghai to Chefoo schools (Yantai), 1935; typescript report on events in China and their implications for missionary work, 1937; typescript report from Shanghai, 1940; Nosu hymnbook, undated.

Correspondence and papers, 1831-c1905, of and relating to James Legge, comprising correspondence, largely manuscript and typescript copies (some later than the originals) of letters, 1831-1897, to and from Legge, the correspondents including his wife Hannah and other family members, also concerning the Anglo-Chinese College, Malacca, and its successor the Anglo-Chinese Theological Seminary, Hong Kong; sermons, mainly manuscript but including some printed, preached in Hong Kong, including the Union Church, and England, c1837-1880; publications, typescript copies, press cuttings, and manuscripts of articles, addresses and accounts, 1839-1890s (some undated; including some later copies), mainly by Legge but including some publications of other authors, the subjects including theology, Chinese religion including Confucius, Chinese language and literature, missionary work and journeys made, and Legge's work at the University of Oxford; personal papers, 1839-1897, including his certificate of ordination, 1839, print of an engraving of Legge with three Chinese students at the Hong Kong Theological Seminary, 1849, photographs of friends in Hong Kong and Chinese friends, and letter book containing Notes of my Life for my sons ... and their sisters', begun 1896; papers relating to Legge, including printed papers relating to his death, 1897, and the typescriptJames Legge: Missionary and Scholar' [before 1905]. Many of the typescript copies of correspondence and other writings were presumably made for Legge's daughter, Helen Edith Legge, for her James Legge: Missionary and Scholar (1905).

Correspondence and papers, c1870-1959, of and relating to Frank Lenwood, including papers and correspondence, c1870-1920, concerning his parents Walter and Charlotte Lenwood; his early essays and press cuttings about him, c1881-1910; letters to his parents and correspondence about his schooling, 1882-1895; letters received from various correspondents, 1893-1933; printed circulars and personal letters from Lenwood and his wife Gertrude from trips to London Missionary Society (LMS) missions in China, India, Benares, the South Seas and Papua, 1906-1916, 1922; letters to various correspondents on religious and personal matters, 1916-1934, including his connection with Greengate Congregational Church; notebooks relating to preaching, 1926-1934 and undated; working papers on the `Oxford Group' movement, c1931-1933; copies of his articles and pamphlets, 1900-1933; copy of An order for the Solemnization of Matrimony ... with an order for the Burial of the Dead, undated, with annotations by Lenwood, 1900-1934 where dated; extracts from his diaries and letters, 1893-1935, for the use of his biographer, and reviews of the biography, 1936-1937; correspondence about the disposal of his books and papers, 1959.

Papers, 1919-1962, of Margaret Katherine Sabin, including notes, letters and photographs. Letters include those written to her family (1919-1950), describing work at the school and mission station in Mbereshi. Also includes photographs of Mbereshi.

Papers, 1919-1990, of and relating to John Emmett Woodall and Tientsin Grammar School (TGS).
Papers, 1927-1946, of John Emmett Woodall comprise applications for positions at the TGS and contracts of employment, 1927-1937; correspondence and papers, 1941-1943, relating to the occupation of the TGS by the Japanese; correspondence and papers, 1942-1945 and undated, relating to the Woodall's family's case for repatriation after internment; personal correspondence, 1935-1942, including two letters from Woodall to his parents; applications for employment in the UK, 1945-1946.
Records, 1919-1990, of and relating to Tientsin Grammar School comprise publications, 1919-1938, 1990 and undated, including prospectuses, Speech Day pamphlets, and alumni magazines; school documents, 1926-1942 and undated, relating to student numbers, examinations, finance, school activities, and text books, and including school journal and order of examination of Daphne Payne, 1928; press cuttings on the TGS, 1928-1939, 1982; photographs, 1919-1941, including staff, students, school activities and buildings, and miniature photographs of scenes in Tientsin (Tianjin), including floods and Japanese bombing; miscellaneous papers and ephemera, 1928-1940, 1978-1987 and undated, relating to the TGS and its alumni and to Tientsin, including the flood (1939).

Papers, c1910-1983, of Sir Ralph Turner.

Papers relating to his military experience comprise leave pass, Cambridge University Officer Training Corps, undated, c1910 (Ref: 1); volume containing manuscript 'Diary of Small Events', 1915-1917, compiled from war diary, battalion orders, Turner's letters, and diaries of other soldiers, containing brief entries on subjects including work and personnel changes, with some days blank (Ref: 2), and another volume containing a similar manuscript diary, 1917-1919 (Ref: 3); file containing typescript and manuscript notes, correspondence, maps, and other documents on military action in Egypt and the Middle East, 1915-1919, including personnel, awards and casualties, also including papers, 1919-1922, relating to a proposed history of the battalion 2nd/3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles (Ref: 4); file containing typescript and manuscript notes and texts and cutting on military action in Palestine, 1917-1918, including later copies of other participants' accounts (Ref: 5).

Language papers comprise a bound manuscript, 'Dvâvimúatyavadâna', 1911, collected from 9 manuscripts in various locations (Ref: 6); file on the Dvâvimúatyavadânakathâ, containing loose manuscript and typescript notes and texts, undated (Ref: 7); notebook entitled 'Dvâváúatyavadânakathâ Notes', containing numbered manuscript notes (index), with additional notes inserted, undated (Ref: 8); postcard on language to Turner from Jules Bloch, 1913 (Ref: 9); file entitled 'IA Introduction', containing manuscript notes and texts on Indo-Aryan languages, including lectures, largely undated [1920s or after] (Ref: 10); draft letter from Turner to [Sir Edward Denison?] Ross, 1926, on Turner's edition of the Dvavimúatyavadânakathâ manuscripts (Ref: 11); two letters from C E A W Oldham and three letters from Turner to Oldham, 1936, concerning place-names in Indic languages, and Turner's appointment [presumably as Director of the School of Oriental Studies] (Ref: 12); letter to Turner from J C Powell-Price, 1962, concerning various matters relating to India and Asia (Ref: 13); copy of a typescript foreword by J Brough to a collection of articles by Turner, undated [before 1983] (Ref: 14).

Copies of five plans and one drawn view of the School of Oriental Studies, 1938 (Ref: 15).

Papers relating to Turner's death comprise two letters from his daughter Audrey [Turner] to 'Clifford' [Wright?] concerning his death, 1983 (Ref: 16); printed order of thanksgiving service in memory of Turner, 1983 (Ref: 17).