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

Files kept by the International Academy of the History of Medicine's President, Dr Noel Poynter, of minutes, membership records, symposia and external relations, plus Poynter's correspondence with members, including prior to foundation of Academy, 1946-1973.

The items in the collection span the work of the Junta during the 1797-1798 smallpox epidemic, comprising a circular announcing the setting up in late 1797 of local charitable societies to be co-ordinated by the Junta, and the Junta's concluding report of early 1798.

Photographs and publications relating to surgery, elephantiasis and local customs in Nigeria, 1930s-1940s.

Administrative records relating to the foundation of the Society, its premises and individual members, 1906-1979, including correspondence, diaries, notebooks, obituaries and photographs.

Papers of members, formerly held by the Society, including Sir Patrick Manson (1844-1922), Sir David Bruce (1855-1931), and Sir Philip Manson-Bahr (1881-1966).

Account-book of a medical practitioner in Kinross. In Vol. II is an inserted letter, dated 8 Jan., 1921, from D. W. B. Fleming of Culross to Orr, the Bristol bookseller relating to this MS. Produced in Kinross.

Papers on independent political movements in the Soviet Union, 1982-1991, comprising:
Subject files on independent political movements in the Soviet Union (general), 1987-1991; subject files on independent political movements in the Baltic republics, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, 1987-1991; subject files on independent political movements in the Cenral Asian republics, Kazakstan, Kirgizia, Turkmenia and Uzbekistan, 1987-1991; subject files on independent political movements in regions of the Russian Soviet Federation of Socialist Republics (RSFSR) including Bashkiria, Dagestan, Ingushia, Leningrad, Moscow, Siberia, Tatarstan, the Urals and Iaroslav, 1987-1991; subject files on politics and independent political movements in the Russian Soviet Federation of Socialist Republics (RSFSR), 1987-1991 - subjects covered include the 1989 and 1990 elections and left wing and labour movements; subject files on non official newspapers in the Russian Soviet Federation of Socialist Republics (RSFSR), 1988-1991, publications include "Anti-Sovetskaia Pravda", "Doverie", "Panorama", "Pozitsiya" and "Referendum"; subject files on political and social organisations in the Russian Soviet Federation of Socialist Republics (RSFSR), 1988-1993, subjects covered include Christian democrat, democrat, green, liberal, nationalist/conservative and peasant organisations; subject files on independent political movements in the Transcaucasus, Armenia, Azerbaijan including Nagornyi-Karabakh and a large amount of material on Georgia including Abkhazia and South Ossetia, 1982-1991; subject files on independent political movements in Belorussia, 1988-1991; subject file on independent political movements in Moldova, 1988-1991; subject files on independent political movements in Ukraine, 1984, 1986-1991

Typescripts, proofs and other material relating to the English translation of Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev's memoirs. Also includes a photocopy of the original Russian typescript, with annotations made by Gorbachev and some unpublished material. and a short memo on the writing and translation of the memoirs by Dr Martin McCauley who was translator of the English edition, 1996;

Records of the Paddington Poor Law Parish, 1845-1936, including minutes of meetings of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; standing orders; reports and accounts; orders from and correspondence with Government departments; orders of removal to and from the Union; registers of lunatics and imbeciles; registers for Harrow Road Workhouse; apprenticeship indentures; register of children sent to the Training Ship Exmouth; registers of children sent to the West London District School; registers of children at the Trenmar Gardens Receiving Home; financial accounts and staff records.

Records of Saint George the Martyr Poor Law Parish, 1835-1873; including minutes of the Board of Guardians; orders of removal; admission and discharge registers; and registers of children admitted.

Records of Saint Mary Newington Poor Law Parish, 1867-1874, comprising Board of Guardians minute books and Newington Sick Asylum District manager's minute books.

Records of the Southwark Poor Law Union (formerly the Saint Saviour's Poor Law Union), 1798-1933, including minutes of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; byelaws and regulations; property documents including deeds; correspondence; settlement examinations; removal orders; report books; admission and discharge registers and creed registers; registers of children admitted and boarded out; register of boys sent to the Training Ship Exmouth; registers of children sent to the Hanwell Schools, Central London Schools District; financial accounts; staff records; plans made as part of survey for rating valuation of property in Saint Saviour's Union; and notices of marriage.

Records of the West London School District, 1865-1936, including minutes and agendas of the Board of Management; minutes and reports of various Committees; annual reports; financial accounts; correspondence with and orders of the Poor Law Board, Local Government Board and Ministry of Health; correspondence and other documents regarding property; admission and discharge registers for Ashford School; registers of apprenticeships; returns and statistics of children in care; papers relating to education and teaching including correspondence, reports, timetables and syllabus; dietary tables; reports by the Medical Officer; issues of the Ashford Residential School Magazine; staff records; building plans of Ashford School and Park School; photographs of Ashford School and papers relating to the transfer of institutions to the London County Council in 1930.

Records of the Woolwich Board of Guardians, 1861-1932, including minutes of meetings of the Board; correspondence with government departments including the Ministry of Health; orders for settlement, removal or relief; registers of lunatics; Woolwich Institution (workhouse) registers including admission and discharge, creed and deaths; Medical Officers record of examinations of inmates at the Woolwich Institution; registers of children in care including baptisms at the Woolwich Union Chapel, apprenticeship indentures, boarded out children, children at Roman Catholic establishments, children in the Infirmary, children in the workhouse and children held in outlying establishments (ones outside the Union); registers for Plumstead Workhouse, including admission and discharge and creed; admission and discharge registers for the Goldie Leigh Cottage Home for Children; quarterly returns of the British born wives and children of interned aliens [foreigners]; financial accounts and registers of staff.

Ticket Office: in-letters and orders, consisting of 107 volumes of letters to the Ticket Office from the Admiralty Office, 1774 to 1815, relating to seamen's pay (class mark, ADM/J). (These form part of the series at the Public Record Office which holds the remainder, 1815 to 1822.) There are also sixteen volumes of abstracts of, and indexes to, Admiralty orders, 1698 to 1785 (ADM/K). Also included in this section is one volume containing pay-books for the Queen, 1694 to 1697, the Quaker ketch, 1683 to 1696, and Queenborough, 1694 to 1697.

Records of the Daily Herald Order of Industrial Heroism, 1923-1964, comprising: Scrap book, covering awards 1-181 (1923-1947), giving details of the recipient, and presentation, Daily Herald and other press cuttings, and photographs of recipients where available; box file, covering awards 182-440 (1947-1964), giving details of recipient and presentation, Daily Herald press notice giving details of award, and press cuttings where availanle [no press cutttings present after 1958]' card indexes to awards by name of recipient and by union; series of 16 box files on awards 17-440, including correspondendce, press cuttings and photographs.

The archives comprise of the administrative records of the College and its predecessor bodies from 1841. The archive also includes personal and asylum records donated by former prominent Members and Fellows of the College, and some printed material in the form of booklets containing histories of mental hospitals, reports of Commissioners in Lunacy, reports on London County Asylums and Parliamentary Papers on Mental Health. Specifically, the records include:

Foundation Papers: Papers of the Association of Medical Officers of Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane (the first predecessor body of the College); Circulars received by Dr Jones of Chester announcing the preliminary meeting of the Association, with minutes of the preliminary, first and second meetings, 1841 and 1842. Announcements of Association meetings in the 1850s and 1860s; report of the Special Committee to consider the Government's Bills for the Amendment of the Laws relating to the Care and Treatment of the Insane, 1859.

Minutes and related papers: on the foundation of the Association of Medical Officers of Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane, 1841 and minutes of meetings, 1841-54, excluding 1845, 1846, 1848, 1849 and 1853 when there were no meetings. Annual meeting minutes have been abstracted onto a Meetings Database. The database can be accessed from the College Library online catalogue. There are no manuscript minutes after 1854 as the Journal of Mental Science was started in that year and the minutes printed in the journal became the official record. Financial information contained in the minutes was also considered the official record and there are no separate financial papers.

Administrative papers, correspondence and circulars: of The Medico-Psychological Association 1870s-[1920], including a few papers on nursing and other examinations, asylum officers superannuation, insanity as grounds for divorce, letters of congratulation, meeting programmes and abstracts, dinner invitations, and menus.

Council minutes, 1887-November 1971: with a few supporting papers, e.g. agenda. An acting sub-committee (also referred to as the managing committee) was appointed at the 1856 annual meeting and there are references to council meetings in the 1860s but no minutes before 1887 have been found. There are some omissions after 1887, especially in the early years but it is not clear if this was because there was no meeting or because no minutes were taken. Council minutes 1887-1971 have been abstracted onto the Meetings Database.

Council and Executive and Finance Committee: Minutes from 1971 onwards are on the Policy Index, which is on the College Library online catalogue.

Minutes and some papers of the Appeals and Buildings Committee, 1972-1974, Appeal Committee 1974-1987, Appeal Advisory Committee, 1989-1990 and Appeals Committee, 1992-1994; Correspondence with contributors (mainly major donors) to the Appeal and on administrative matters, 1971-1979, including the formation of a College chapter in North America and opposition in divisions to a London headquarters; agreement with Craigmyle, 1988.

Conference Office Records: Minutes of committees for organizing the 1999, 2000 and 2001 annual meetings.

Public Education, Parliamentary, and Public Relations Committees Records:

Parliamentary Committee: minutes, 1906-72; General Purposes Sub-Committee: Minutes, 1968-1972; Working Party to Review the Mental Health Act 1959: minutes, 1972-1974; All Parliamentary Group on Mental Health: Minutes and notes of meetings, 1980-1997; Annual Reports 1999-2006; Minutes 1998-2006; Annual meetings with Mental Health Act Commission (MHAC): Minutes 1994 onwards, excluding 1997; Papers and Discussions Committee/Programmes and Meetings Committee: Minutes, 1946-1992; Public Education Committee: Minutes, 1987-2005; Reports to Executive and Finance Committee and Council, 1988-2000; Launch of Help is at Hand leaflets, correspondence, invitations, launch; Public Education Committee Editorial Sub-Committee: Minutes, 4 Oct 2002-20 Jun 2007, Proposal to St Andrews Charitable Fund and resource catalogues; Patients' Liaison Group/Patients and Carers' Liaison Group/Special Committee of Patients and Carers (SCPC): Minutes of Meetings, 1991-2006; Public Policy Committee (PPC): Minutes, 1972 onwards (some missing for 1994); membership lists, 1989-1999; Mental Health Law Sub-Committee: Minutes, September 1994 onwards (1996 missing); Parliamentary Liaison Sub-Committee: (Parliamentary Committee in 1992, Parliamentary Liaison Group, 1994-1999; Parliamentary Sub-Committee, 1999 onwards); Minutes, 1992 onwards (not complete), 2002-2007 (complete); Minutes of joint meetings of the Mental Health Law Sub-Committee and the Parliamentary Liaison Sub-Committee, 2003 are stored with the Parliamentary Liaison Sub-Committee minutes; Public Relations Committee: minutes, 1957-1971; Special Committee on Unethical Psychiatric Practices (SCOUPP): Minutes, 1978 (inaugural meeting) to 1993; agenda 1978-1993; attendance book 1979-1993; Ethics Sub-Committee/Working Group minutes and agenda, November 1994 onwards; Joint Meeting of the Mental Health, Ageing and Older People, Autism, Disability, Drugs and the Primary Care and Public Health All Party Parliamentary Groups and the Associate Parliamentary Group: Minutes of Meeting to discuss the Mental Health Bill, 30 January 2007.

Joint Committees Records:

A Joint Meeting of the Men's Health and Mental Health All Party Parliamentary Groups: Minutes of Meeting to discuss Men's Mental Health, 13 June 2006; A Meeting of the Mental Health APPG in association with the APPGs on Ageing and Older People, Autism, Carers, Children, Disability, Drugs Misuse, Associate Parliamentary Group, Learning Disability, Primary Care and Public Health: Minutes to discuss The Mental Health Bill, 17 January 2007.

Meeting between the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Mental Health Act Commission: Notes of Meetings of 2004 and 2006.

Meeting of Mental Health Law Sub-Committee Minutes: 24 February 2004.

Medical Planning Committee: Minutes, papers and memo, 1941-1945.

British Geriatrics Society (BGS)/College Joint Liaison Committee: Minutes, 1979-90, (not complete); proposed constitution 1976.

Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry/BGS Liaison Committee: Minutes, 1996-2000, correspondence on establishment of BGS Special Interest group on Cerebral Ageing and Mental Health Care, 1998-2000.

British Paediatric Association/BPA/College Joint Liaison Committee: Minutes 1986-8, July 1991-November 1992 (not complete); letters on remit, 1980s.

British Psychological Society/College Joint Liaison Committee: Minutes 1977-94 and a little correspondence about re-formation, 1975-1976, constitution 1987 and College's withdrawal of administrative support, 1995.

College of Occupational Therapists/College Liaison Committee: Minutes 1988-1993.

Medical Planning Committee: Minutes, papers and memo, 1941-1945.

British Geriatrics Society/College Joint Liaison Committee: Minutes, 1979-90, (not complete).

Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry/BGS Liaison Committee: Minutes, 1996-2000, correspondence on establishment of BGS Special Interest group on Cerebral Ageing and Mental Health Care, 1998-2000.

British Paediatric Association (BPA)/College Joint Liaison Committee: Minutes 1986-8, July 1991-November 1992 (not complete); letters on remit, 1980s.

British Psychological Society/College Joint Liaison Committee: Minutes 1977-1994 and a little correspondence about re-formation, 1975-1976, constitution 1987 and College's withdrawal of administrative support, 1995.

College of Occupational Therapists/College Liaison Committee: Minutes 1988-1993.

Campaigns Records:

World Mental Health Day Campaign: Correspondence on the planting of a tree in Belgrave Square by the President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists to commemorate World Mental Health Day, 10 October 1995; Correspondence and minutes of meetings on the World Mental Health Day Campaign, 1995; Correspondence and Papers on the World Mental Health Day Local Grants Scheme, 1996; World Mental Health Day Campaign, 1997.

Defeat Depression Campaign: Video tapes and associated booklet, research studies, reports, minutes, posters, newspaper and magazine articles, factsheets, Christmas card, cartoons, recipes and miscellanea; Defeat Depression Project: Final Report - by The Institute of Mental Health, Castle Peak Hospital. Hospital Authority, Hong Kong 1 pack containing: The Final Report of the Defeat Depression Project; a set of 28 educational leaflets; a book titled "Defeat Depression"; VCD on Depression; Audio CD on Drama series "The Age Depression"; Game Set - Game Fun; CD-ROM of Continuing Medical Education for General Practitioners; CD-Rom of Community Awareness Depression Kit; and Mood thermometer.

Changing Minds: Every Family in the Land: Minutes of the Changing Minds Campaign Management Committee: 2000-2003; Campaign information and booklets.

Stigma Campaign: Complete series of Stigma Campaign leaflets, tickets for launch of '1 in 4' mental health film, 2000.

2001: A Mind Odyssey: Notices, music, and other papers, scrapbook and photographs.

Partners in Care/Carers' Campaign: Notices, leaflets.

Images of Psychiatry Campaign: Psychiatry for Teachers DVD and information.

Focus: Minutes, financial and other supporting papers, details of media and other events.

Help is at Hand and other Information Factsheets: Help is at Hand leaflets. Leaflets in other languages are also included. Reprinted leaflets are also included so some that appear to be duplicates are not so, usually because they have a different publication date.

Special Interest Groups Records:

Biological Psychiatry: Letters on establishing Group, 1977-8; meeting minutes 1978-1985 (some signed) executive committee minutes (some signed) and agenda, 1984-1987; annual meeting minutes, signed, 1986-1987; letters about wish to become section, 1986-1988.

Computers in Psychiatry: letters on establishing Group, 1988; newsletters 2-7, 1989-1993.

History: letters on establishing Group, 1988; newsletters 5-8, 1989-1996.

Management: letters on establishing Group, 1991-3; Newsletter 1-2, 1995-1997; Correspondence and minutes 1991-1999.

Perinatal: minutes, papers and newsletters, 2002 onwards.

Philosophy: letters on establishing Group, 1988-1989; minutes, 1989-1993; newsletters 1-14 and 23, (not a complete series); correspondence, 1994-1998.

Private Practice in Psychiatry: letters on establishing Group, 1992-1993; minutes, 1993-1994.

Psychopharmacology: (Previously called Working Group, Working Party, Committee and Sub-Committee. Psychopharmacology Special Interest Group from 2000). Minutes March 1996, March and September 1997.

Transcultural Psychiatry: letters on establishing Group, 1990-1993; Agenda and Minutes of Meetings and Conference, 1994-1997; Correspondence and Newsletters, 1993-1998.

Postgraduate Education, Publications and Membership Records:

Board of International Affairs: minutes, 2001 onwards.

Overseas Doctors' Training Committee (previously Overseas Trainees Sub-Committee, 1974 (first meeting) -87, Overseas Liaison Group, 1988-1990; Overseas Liaison Committee, 1990-1995): Minutes, 1988-2000, lists of overseas doctors who have completed training, 1997 onwards (names, country of origin, dates of start and finish and status only).

Continuing Professional Development (CPD): Minutes of Continuing Medical Education (CME)/CPD committee, 1992 (first meeting) onwards; a few notes and papers relating to establishing CME/CPD, 1994-1995, Lists of CPD approved events, 1999, 2000 (the only ones that were produced). Notes on meetings of deputy regional advisers (CPD) 1996-1997.

Court of Electors: Papers on establishing, 1966; minutes, 1967-2000.

Collegiate Trainees Committee (CTC): Minutes, September 1979 (inaugural meeting) - November 1999.

Education Committee: Minutes, 1893 onwards (pre-1971 minutes have been abstracted onto the meetings database on Heritage Library On-line catalogue).

Education Committee Royal Medico-Psychological Association Sub-Committees: Clinical Tutors Sub-Committee minutes, 1968-1972; Diploma in Psychological medicine/DPM Sub-Committee minutes, regulations, forms, examination questions and correspondence, 1940s, 50s; Films/Audio-Visual Sub-Committee minutes, correspondence and details of films, 1956-1972; General Purposes Sub-Committee minutes, 1963-1971; Postgraduate Education in Psychiatry Committee minutes, 1958.

General Professional Training Committee: Minutes of Central Panel, May 1974 (the first meeting) to May 1980 continued as Central Approval Panel Minutes October, 1980 to September 1997, and continued as General Professional Training Committee minutes from November 1997 onwards.

Higher Specialist Training Committee (HSTC): Minutes of JCHPT, 1973 (first meeting) -97 (final meeting) with correspondence on establishing, 1972 and Professor Brockington's notes, c1994; HSTC minutes, 1998- ; Child and Adolescent Psychiatry SAC minutes, 1972 (1st meeting)-98; Forensic Psychiatry SAC minutes, 1973 (1st meeting)-98; General and Old Age Psychiatry SAC minutes and some agenda, 1973 (1st meeting) -1998; Psychiatry of Learning Disability SAC/Mental Handicap SAC minutes, 1983-5 (few only) 1993-8; Psychotherapy SAC minutes, 1973 (first meeting) -1998.

Manpower Committee: Minutes, 1972-87, 1990-1992.

Recognition of Tutors Working Party: (Tutors Panel from 1998) Minutes and agenda, 1989-1999.

Research Committee: see Faculties and Sections for pre-1972 archives of this Committee; Consultation paper prepared by the former RMPA Research and Clinical Committee on the structure and functions of the Standing Research Committee of the College, 1972; Committee minutes, 1972-99 with a few agenda, reports and discussions on the future of the Committee.

Tutors Sub-Committee: Minutes, February 1983 (not the first meeting) -1999.

University Psychiatry Committee: Minutes, December 1996 (first meeting).

Journal Committee: minutes and papers, 1961-1991.

Business Affairs Committee/Publications Management Board: minutes and papers, 1987-January 1998.

Membership lists from the 1850s to 1960s are in the Journal of Mental Science; the same lists are in the year books included below. The Archives has other copies of membership lists produced after 1971; Year Books 1934-1969 excluding 1948, 1950-1952, 1964; RMPA membership cards A-Z.

Fellows: Biographical details of Fellows, some with photographs, 1971 onwards.

Lectures and Prizes

Alec Shapiro Travelling Fellowship: correspondence on establishing, 1988; Blake Marsh Lecture: advertisements, 1960s and 70s; Christmas Lecture: programmes and a few papers, 1987 onwards;

Eli Lilly Lecture: correspondence on establishing, and the Lilly Travelling Fellowship, 1984-1994;

Gaskell Prize: appointment of trustees, 1896, 1908, mid 20th century copy of trust deed, 1887, circular 1909, photographs of medal, correspondence about revival of Gaskell Dinner; Gaskell Club Table Mats of the Famous Insane book ; Maudsley Lecture: advertisements, 1945-74, Maudsley Bequest Lecture: advertisements, 1953-71,and Maudsley Lectures and Lecturers: List, 1981-1991; Merck Essay Prize: details, 1993-4; Brian Oliver Prize: details, 1993-5; Gillian Page Prize in Adolescent Psychiatry: correspondence about establishment, 1980-4, details, 1985, 1989-95; Penrose Memorial Meeting: programme, 1973; Research Prize and Bronze Medal: letters, 1990s; Peter Scott Memorial Fund: copy of trust deed, committee minutes and agenda, 1977-94, details, 1980s, 1990s; President's Essay Prize: details, 1991 and correspondence about disestablishment, 1994; Morris Markowe Prize: Proposals for a Public Education Prize, Correspondence, submissions for the Prize, 1990-2000; and RCPsych Awards: 2009: Minutes of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Awards Steering Group, August 2008-October 2009; certificate; awards ceremony programme, attendance list, events schedule and winners` biographies; call for papers; rules for entries; awards criteria; application forms; RCPsych Awards 2009 DVD-R; and a DVD-R on Professor Sir David Goldberg.

Mental Nursing Papers

The Nursing Certificates: The Certificate of Proficiency in Mental Nursing was founded at the Medico-Psychological Association Annual Meeting in 1890 and until 1921 was the only recognised qualification in mental nursing. A separate certificate in Mental Deficiency Nursing was instituted in 1919 and a short-lived Occupational Therapy Certificate was introduced in 1939. After negotiations with the General Nursing Council, the examinations for these certificates were discontinued, the last being held in 1951.

Handbooks: Handbook Committee reports and letters, 1937-1961.

Regulations: Regulations for the Training and Examinations for the Certificate of Proficiency in Nursing and Attending on the Mentally Defective, undated, before 1926; Regulations for the Training and Examinations for the Certificate of Proficiency in Mental Nursing and in the Nursing of Mental Defectives, revised February 1930, revised 1932; Regulations and Rules for the Nursing Certificates, July 1938; Regulations and Syllabus for the Certificate in Occupational Therapy, 1939.

Syllabus: Syllabus for the Examinations for the Certificate of Proficiency in Mental Nursing, November 1927; Syllabus for the Examinations for the Certificate of Proficiency in the Nursing of Mental Defectives, November 1927; Syllabus for the Examinations for the Certificate of Proficiency in the Nursing of Mental Defectives, 1932; Occupational Therapy: an Addendum to the Handbook for Mental Nurses, 1938.

Question papers: Mental Nursing Preliminary and Final Examination and Mental Deficiency Nursing Examination question papers, May 1928-May 1938; Mental Nursing Preliminary Examination question papers, May 1938-November 1949; Mental Nursing Final Examination question papers, November 1938-November 1951; Mental Deficiency Nursing Final Examination question papers, November 1938-November 1951.

Registers: Register of persons who have obtained the certificate of proficiency in nursing, 1891-1951 (18 volumes); Register of persons who have passed the preliminary examination in nursing, 1938-49 (4 volumes); Register of persons who have obtained the certificate of proficiency in nursing mental defectives, 1919-1951; Register of persons who have passed the preliminary examination in nursing mental defectives, 1938-49; Register of persons who have passed the examination in occupational therapy, Educational Committee register of chief examiners for the mental nursing certificate, 1931-1951.

State registration: Extract from Council report, 1926; report on questionnaire, 1928, report on mental defective nurse training, 1928 (all in one pamphlet); letters on relations with the GNC, 1926-9; Memos on termination of the examinations, 1946-51; Shortage of mental nurses: RMPA report and related memos and correspondence, 1953-6; Disciplinary matters: Disciplinary Committee minutes and correspondence on GNC, 1962-3; Mental Nursing Sub-Committee minutes, 1957-1971; Nursing Sub Committee: (continuing the Mental Nursing Committee, known as Nursing Committee from 1980) 1972-90; Nursing Liaison Committee: minutes 1991-1994 and a little correspondence about reorganisation 1990 and about College's withdrawal of administrative support, 1995.

Private Papers:

Freud, Sigmund: Letters on election as RMPA Honorary Member and reply to letter of welcome to England from RMPA, 1936-1938. 4 letters including 3 in German.

Galton, Francis: Letters to Dr Saleeby, mainly about publications, 1904-1909.

Meyer, Alfred: Personal certificates, letters received (some in French or German) and three photographs, 1918-71; list of printed papers and copy of first paper, 1918. Dr Meyer died in October 1990 and these papers probably came to the College Library from his widow, Dr Nina Meyer.

Letters to Samuel Tuke of York from Thomas Hancock of London, 1814-1815, from E Anderson of Dundee, 1815, from Thomas Wintar of Philadelphia, 1815 and from William Morton Pitt of Dorset, 1829-1830.

Asylums: Records and Manuscripts

Camberwell House Asylum: Case Book volume 1, 1846-7, admissions 1 to 441, with notes to 1860s; Orders for the reception of pauper patients, 1846-8, admissions 201 to 600, including admissions of some patients in above Case Book; Commissioners in Lunacy visitors book, 1846-1865.

Otto House, 47 North End Road, West Kensington: Case Book number 1, recording admissions 1902-15, with notes to 1930s and with some death certificates and letters inserted.

Unidentified asylum for female patients, possibly called Fisher House: Case Books 1848-1852, 1858-1872.

Hanwell Asylum: 'Notes of Clinical Lectures on Insanity Delivered at the Hanwell Asylum in 1848 by Dr Conolly and Dr Hitchman'.

Asylums: Plans, drawings and photographs:

Berkshire: Broadmoor: photograph of interior, exterior and patients, and of related newspaper report, from about the time of opening in 1863.
Buckinghamshire: Bucks County Lunatic Asylum: Architect's Report, 1853; plans, c1860, some probably from Lunacy Commissioners' Report.

Cambridgeshire: Isle of Ely and Borough of Cambridge Lunatic Asylum, Fulbourn: Plans, c1850. All on tracing paper, brittle and very fragile, outsize and stored in large folder Cheshire: County Asylum: 'Designs For the Proposed Lunatic Asylum For the County of Chester' 1826 (large manuscript volume, stored in folder); Lunacy Commissioners' Report and plans, 1860; concert programmes, 1860s; coloured sketch of the Pump Yard and patients, undated, 19th century.

Cheshire: Manchester Royal Hospital for the Insane (Cheadle Royal): newspaper advertisement and picture, c1850; photograph of nurses' uniforms, 1850s to 1960s, sent to RMPA, 1967; photograph of North House, c1970.
Cumbria: Cumberland and Westmorland Lunatic Asylum, Garlands, Carlisle: Plans and description from The Builder, 1858.
Derbyshire: newspaper picture of Derby County Lunatic Asylum, c1850.
Devon: Devon Pauper Lunatic Asylum: plans and related letter from architect, Charles Fowler, to Samuel Tuke, 1842. These may be the plans that were given to the Association of Medical Officers of Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane in 1844
Dorset: Herrison Hospital: photograph of uniforms, instruments of restraint etc., taken at an exhibition, 1963; engraving with title 'Forston', 19th century.

Essex: Essex Hall Asylum, Colchester: newspaper cutting with picture, c1850
Gloucestershire: Gloucester Asylum (Horton Road): advertisement and picture, 1848; photograph of plan for extensions, early 1840s (copyright Gloucestershire Records Office, who hold the photocopy, their reference H 22 15/1, from which this photograph was taken); programme for Christmas festivities, 1865-66; photograph of exterior, c1960.

David Smith, Gloucestershire County Archivist, in a letter of 15 March 1991, said that plans of the asylum by Thomas Fulljames were with the records of that firm, GRO reference D 2593/2/41.
Herefordshire: Hereford County and City Asylum: plan from Lunacy Commissioners' Report, mid 19th century.

Hertfordshire: Leavesden see Surrey, Caterham.
Kent: Heath Asylum, Bexley: plan and photograph of ward, opened 1895; City Asylum, Stone, Dartmouth, Kent: Postcard, early 20th century.

Lancashire: County Asylum, Prestwick: plans, mid 19th century; photograph, taken 1983, of c1900 interiors.

Lancashire: Haydock Lodge, Warrington: newspaper advertisements, 1852 and pictures of exterior, mid 19th century.

Lancashire: Manchester Public Infirmary and Lunatic Asylum: photograph (copyright RSM) of exterior, 1782 and plan, 1846.

Lancashire: West Derby Lunatic Asylum, Rainhill: plan, c1849.

Leicestershire: Leicestershire and Rutland Lunatic Asylum: aerial view, 19th century.

Lincolnshire: Lincoln Asylum (The Lawn): plan, 1843, photograph and postcard, c1960
Lincolnshire: County Asylum: plan and newspaper description, mid 19th century. This may be the plan that was given in 1842 to the newly formed Association of Medical Officers of Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane, forerunner of the College.
London: Bethlem: sketches, one signed HS Tuke, of mediaeval hospital.

London: Bethlem: engravings and one photograph (copyright RSM) of the second hospital, 1676 to 1815.
London: Bethlem: engravings and modern card of the third hospital, 1815 to 1930; newspaper cuttings and pictures from The Illustrated London News, 1860; photograph of the workroom, c1910, probably from The Story of Bethlem Hospital by EG O'Donaghue, Hospital Chaplain; photograph of the exterior, early 20th century, and the interior, c1960; photograph of instruments of restraint.

London: Camberwell House: photograph of grounds, laundry rules and advertisement for entertainment, early 20th century.

London: St Luke's: engravings, early 19th century; extract from Lunacy Commissioners' Report and newspaper pictures, mid 19th century; two photograph of interior, early 20th century; photograph of the West Wing at Woodside Hospital, Muswell Hill, the successor to St Luke's, early 20th century. London: Fountain Hospital, Tooting: photograph of wards and postcard, 1950s.

London: Various asylums, mainly private: pictures, mainly from 19th century newspapers of Baums House, Hoxton; Bridewell; Charing Cross Hospital for Lunatics (sketch plan on tracing paper); Earl's Court House, Old Brompton; Effra House, Brixton; Kensington House, Kensington (photograph of print); Munster House, Fulham; Park House.
Highgate. London and Home Counties: photograph of Cane Hill, Darenth Park and Warley, Horton, Mapperley, St Bernards Ealing and Springfield, possibly taken by N Boast, c1990. Photograph of Cell Barnes, Claybury, Friern, Goodmayes, Harperbury, Hill End, Leytonstone House, Napsbury, Shenley and Woodside, taken by C Priest, 1991.

Middlesex: Colney Hatch: ground plans, pictures and aerial view c1847; newspaper description of opening 1851 and of New Year festival 1853; photograph of fete, 19th century; Friern Hospital magazine centenary issue, 1950; colour transparancies, 1992.

Middlesex: Hanwell: 'Description of the design for a New Lunatic Asylum for the County of Middlesex marked "Dean Swift" 'undated, early 19th century; 'Middlesex Lunatic Asylum Key to the Design, Estimate and Skeleton Models with Comparative Estimates', 1828.
Middlesex: Hanwell: ground plan, section of the well, aerial view and report of 'fancy fair' 1843; plan for second asylum, undated; timetable for clinical visits, 1848.

Middlesex: Hanwell: aerial photograph c1960; photograph of interior, instruments of restraint and patients' wall paintings taken for 150th anniversary, 1981; photograph purchased from the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, 1986.
Middlesex: Shenley: ground plan and aerial view, undated, mid 20th century.
Norfolk: Bethel Hospital, Norwich: photograph of the north front, the foundation stone and Mrs Chapman, early 1960s, all copyright RSM.

Northampton: Northampton Asylum: newspaper report and engraving c1850; postcard of Abingdon Abbey, c1960.

Nottingham: Brook House, Mansfield: newspaper advertisement.

Nottingham: Nottingham Asylum: Fortieth Annual Report, 1851; newspaper report and pictures, c1850; photograph of exterior, interiors and staff c1890.

Nottingham: Saxondale: photograph, c1912 of interiors showing staff at Saxondale, the hospital that replaced the County Asylum in 1902.

Oxfordshire: plans and estimates, engravings and newspaper pictures of the Radcliffe and the Warneford Asylums, c1850.

Rutland: see Leicestershire
Somerset: plans for and description of a proposed pauper lunatic asylum, 19th century; photograph of late 19th century lunatics' ball at Mendip Hospital.

Staffordshire: Coton Hill Asylum: plans from The Builder, advertisement, newspaper cuttings and pictures, mid 19th century.

Suffolk: Colville House Institution for Imbecile Children, Lowestoft: newspaper cutting, mid 19th century.

Surrey: Cane Hill: photograph of the interior and staff, about 1920; poster, 1951; examples of admission sheets, 1898, 1945; notes on coat of arms and names of wards, 1950; colour prints, received 1994.

Surrey: Caterham: description and picture from The Builder, 1868, of proposed asylums for the imbecile poor of the Metropolitan District at Caterham and Leavesden; photograph of aerial view, 1870 (copyright RSM); photograph of ward, c1960.

Surrey: 'New County Lunatic Asylum' plan from Lunacy Commissioners' Report, undated c1860.

Surrey: The Royal Earlswood Institution for Mental Defectives, Redhill: interior and exterior views, 19th and 20th century; descriptive booklets, 1859, 1947 and undated.

Surrey: Horton Epileptic Colony, Epson: plan, 1901.

Surrey: Long Grove Asylum, Epsom: ground plan, photograph of garden, main hall and men's baths, early 20th century.

Surrey: Netherne: aerial views, plan of interior and panorama, undated.

Sussex: Sussex Lunatic Asylum, Hayward's Heath: description from Journal of Mental Science, April 1860 and plans from the Journal of Mental Science, October 1900; photograph c1960.

Sussex: Lady Chichester Hospital, Hove: description from Good Housekeeping, 1950s.
Wiltshire: County Asylum: plans and description, 1852.

Worcestershire: photocopy of Elgar's music for Powick Asylum band, 1880 and related letter, 1991.

Yorkshire: Northallerton: plans for a pauper lunatic asylum, c1820 (not built).

Yorkshire: The Retreat: plans, 1820s and 1830s; view of north front, 1830s; group photograph, probably of the MPA, who met in York to mark the Retreat centenary, 1892; copies, c1960, of photograph of interior and exterior, c1900; copy, 1965, of photograph of staff, 1919; photograph of exterior, c1950.

Yorkshire: West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum: 'Plans, elevations and description of the Pauper Lunatic Asylum lately erected at Wakefield for the West-Riding of Yorkshire'. 2 copies, 1 bound, 1 partly bound, both outsize and stored separately in folder; fifth, eighth and ninth reports of the Director, 1822, 1826 and 1828.

Ireland: Limerick: plans of proposed asylum, early 19th century. Clare: plan and description of asylum, 1864.

Scotland: Crichton Royal, Dumfries: newspaper pictures of exterior, 1839 and undated.

Scotland: Glasgow Royal Lunatic Asylum (Gartnavel): plans and picture of first asylum, application form, all undated, probably early 19th century; newspaper cutting and picture of new building opened 1842.

Scotland: Edinburgh Royal Lunatic Asylum (Morningside): plan of principal floor, undated, mid 19th century.

Wales: Denbigh: North Wales Asylum for the Insane: plans and prints, mid 19th century, one outsize and stored separately in folder.

Wales: Lunatic Asylum, Abergavenny: newspaper cutting and picture from The Builder, mid 19th century.

France: plan with title 'projet d'establishment pour 600 alienes par le Dr Esquirol', early 19th century.

Unidentified: photograph of hospital exterior taken by W Hunt, 1853; modern photograph of hospital on a hill.

Records of Bergman Osterberg Physical Training College, later Dartford College of Physical Education, comprising meetings of the Committee of Management, [1916-1960]; minutes of Governors meetings, 1962-1965; minutes of the Governing Body, 1970-1976; ?minutes of College Committee meetings, 1927-1937; minutes of College and Council meetings, 1955-1964; minutes of the College Council, 1968-1969; minutes of the Academic Board, 1969, 1972-1975;

minutes of Library Committee meetings, 1956-1962; minutes of the Games Committee, 1919; minutes of Games meetings, 1949-1955; Games Executive meetings, 1979-1983; minutes of the Bergman Osterberg Union of Trained Gymnastic Teachers, 1916-1917; minutes of staff meetings, 1951-1959, 1969-1973; minutes of the Staff Council, 1972-1977; minutes of Dartford Sports Association, 1980-1981; minutes of the B.Ed Honours (Physical Education) Course Committee, 1980-1985; minutes of the Staff/Student Advisory Committee, 1982;

students' book, 1900-1914, giving lists and details of students; card indexes recording details of former students; pass lists and examiners reports, 1971-1986; Thames Polytechnic examination papers, 1980-1986; student assessments and reports, 1935-1938, 1946-1962; individual student records, 1915-1921; student entry files, 1921-1947; uniform lists, 1911-1950s; rules of residence at the College, 1947; papers relating to staff appointments;

papers relating to the College remedial clinic for children, [1900-1964], including details of treatment and exercises, case histories and photographs of patients; patient record cards, 1950s-1960s; record book, containing photographs and clinical details; correspondence; patient case book, 1916-1921;

volumes recording sports matches, notably lacrosse, cricket, hockey, swimming, netball and tennis, some with photographs, 1904-1985;

plans, maps and drawings of site buildings, [1895-1995]; letters and plans relating to the site and buildings, 1950s; papers relating to college properties; papers relating to the amalgamation of Dartford College with Thames Polytechnic, [1975-1976]; prospectuses, 1891-1982; programmes, 1891-1977;

papers relating to the College during the Second World War, [1939-1945]; College papers relating to the removal of the College to Newquay, Cornwall, [1941]; papers relating to establishment of the University of London Diploma in Physical Education, 1930-1939; correspondence, 1945-1948; correspondence and press cuttings relating to proposals on teacher training, 1982; papers relating to proposal to close teacher training courses at Thames Polytechnic, 1982;

financial records, notably staff pay salary books, 1953-1961; Games Association accounts, 1969-1986; Principals' account, 1944-1951; Bergman Osterberg Trust financial records, notably accounts and ledgers, 1922-1960; correspondence of the College Bursar and Treasurer, 1950s-1960s; papers relating to staff salaries and other expenditure, 1946-1960; deeds and correspondence relating to Pauline Ada Starling Memorial Fund, 1928, and the Bergman Osterberg Trust;

photographs of College life (loose and in albums), including views of College buildings, staff and students, student activities, the remedial clinic, sports and sports teams, classrooms, outdoor activities, dance and gymnastic displays, royal visits, 1890s-1970s; photographs of principals, 1891-1978, including Madame Bergman Osterberg;

letters to Madame Bergman Osterberg, 1906-1915 (in Swedish); notes by Madame Bergman Osterberg, 1887-1911, including notes on the Theory of Movement; scrapbook of College history compiled by Madame Bergman Osterberg, [1885-1915];

certificates awarded to students, [1914-1948]; information files, [1902-1985], relating to individual students and staff, College administration and management, buildings, curriculum and syllabuses;

records relating to the Bergman Osterberg Union, namely Committee Meeting minutes, 1940-1987; magazines, 1917-1996; Bergman Osterberg Trust, anniversaries and celebrations, finance;

memoirs relating to the College, 1900s-1970s; essays by old students relating to College life between 1892-1914; letters from old students who attended the College between 1891-1981; press cuttings relating to the College, 1932-1975; scrapbook of royal visit, 1918;

notes by E A Macleod, relating to theory of education and movement, biology, theory of games, practical science, anatomy, physiology, undated; notes (in Swedish) by Miss A Wikner, relating to pedagogical gymnastics, symptamology, gymnastic exercises, history, physiology, [1904]; exercise books of Katharine Lewis, 1930s, relating to various subjects taught at the College; course notes and lesson plans prepared by Margaret E Welch, 1964, on anatomy, physiology, remedial work; student notes by Cath Martineau, 1948-1951, including notes on anatomy, physiology, pathology, theory of movement.

Records of Morden College comprising:

Minutes of the Trustees of Morden College, 1708-date and various ancillary papers; Trustees' annual reports, 1940-1988; Chaplain's reports, 1854-1983; Medical Officers' reports, 1932-1939, 1952-1983.

Records relating to membership of the College (including residents and outpensioners: Registers, 1700-1952; personal papers c.1800-1930 (incomplete); personal files c.1930-date.

Legal documents including letters patent to Sir John Morden for the Manor of Old Court, and related trust deeds, 1699; transcripts and probate of the Will of Sir John Morden, 1702/1708; deeds of appointment of Trustees, 1712-1865; leases of College property 1700-date; Attorney-General v Lubbock and others, 1831-1836; Attorney General v Thomas M Weguelin and others (Trustees of Morden College) relating to the Charity Commission and appointment of Trustees, 1879-1880.

Financial records including annual accounts 1708-date (incomplete); rent books (chiefly 20th century); certain tax and tithe papers; investments, 1807-1898; bequests, 1709-1995; endowment funds, 1809-1917; surveyors' accounts, 1770-1914; solicitors' accounts, 1770-1910.

Administrative papers including Rules and Orders 1700-1947; correspondence with the Charity Commission, 1870-date; files relating to staff: Treasurer/Clerk to the Trustees, 1782-1976, Chaplains, 1842-1892, Medical Officers, 1742-2000, and others; buildings maintenance, 1810-date; artefacts owned by the College; amenities provided for residents.

Records relating to the Chapel including: Chaplains, 1707-1991; Registers of Services, 1916-1990; burials; pew rents; miscellaneous service sheets.

Records relating to the College history including: Historical notes for lecture on Morden College by Reginald Saw [1962]; The Manor of Old Court: an historical account by Reginald Saw, 1961; Morden College: the title deeds of the trustees from 1708-1853 (abstracts) by Reginald Saw, 1962; The Wricklemarsh Estate: summary of deeds and documents by Reginald Saw, 1959; Morden College 1700-1901, H L Hall [1910].

College publications include Morden College Newsletter (weekly newsletter for residents) 1975-date; Ralph Perring Court, Beckenham, Newsletter (monthly newsletter for residents), 1999-date. See also Allied Materials (below).

Photograph collection, 1865-date, includes photographs of College events, artefacts, places (building exteriors, interiors and grounds), people (trustees, chaplains, visitors, members, staff); photograph albums, 1913-date.

Scrapbooks of ephemera: advertisements and other news cuttings, 1823-1981; scrapbook including 'In memoriam' cards, visiting and trade cards, newscuttings, 1850-1900; scrapbook of obituaries, photographs, newscuttings, 1932-1972; scrapbook 'Life in the College', 1954-1959; L & M Baker's Morden College Library scrapbook of programmes and news cuttings.

Scrapbook of press cuttings, 1936-1938, concerning women's work in a wide variety of occupations and general employment issues such as equal pay and insurance contributions; also deals with the employment of women outside Britain.

The archive consists of minutes of the Council of Women Civil Servants (CWCS) Executive Committee (1920-1959), Standing Joint Committee of Women in the Civil service (1920-1924), Committee of Representatives (1932-1952) and Equal Opportunity Sub Committee (1951,1955-6); Annual General Meetings papers (1923-1958); annual reports (1940-54); subject and correspondence files (1925-1957), publications (1935-1958); membership documents; circular letters of the British Federation of Business & Professional Women (1948-1955); Administrative papers including Parliamentary reports, memoranda and Whitley Council papers.

The archive consists of minutes of the Executive Committee and Council of the Federation of Women Civil Servants (1915-1931) and of the subcommittee (1921-1929); Southborough Committee files (1919-1926); payments and receipt books (1929-1934); annual reports (1920-1931); correspondence and papers related to the Civil Service Alliance (1919-1920), the National Whitley Council (1917-1920), Joint Committee of the Organisation of the Civil Service (1920-1921) and on the Equal Pay Campaign (1910-1935); publications (1917-1919); minutes of the National Council for the Administrative and Legal Departments of the Civil Service (1919-1920); minutes and papers of the National Whitley Council (1919-1920).

ABBREVIATIONS

NWC National Whitley Council.

FWCS Federation of Women Civil Servants.

Administrative records of St Mary's Hospital Medical School, 1898-1988, namely financial records relating to students and fees, 1898-1987, comprising general ledger, 1898-1899; registers of pupils' cash accounts, 1888-1905; composition fees, 1903-1948; audited accounts of St Mary's Hospital Medical School, 1982-1987;
papers relating to the financial situation of the Medical School, 1900-1902, comprising reports, extracts from minutes; report of the Committee concerning financial relations between Hospitals and Medical Schools in London, 1905;
papers relating to student numbers and entry, notably to London Medical Schools, [1870-1901]; summary of students refused admission to the School, 1921-1923; annual entry of students, [1852-1944]; notes on students accepted, 1940, 1941; selection of students, [1952]; financial summaries for 1916, including statistics for the teaching of preliminary subjects and organic chemistry; papers relating to the admission of women students, notably report concerning World War One, 1915; letter from male students against the admittance of women, 1924; notes concerning closing the Medical School to women, 1924; statistics on the medical education of women, 1929; history of women students at St Mary's, [1952];
University Grants Committee returns, 1929-1965, and report, 1933; papers relating to the foundation stone ceremony of the rebuilt Medical School and Innoculation Departments, 1931; papers relating to scholarships, 1923-1933, including notes on Oxford and Cambridge University students, 1923-[1932]; list of scholarship holders from 1871, 1933; correspondence and notes concerning Epsom College Scholarship, 1942; papers concerning examination pass and failure rates, 1919-1935; patient beds at St Mary's, 1937; course in Physiology and Anatomy, 1940; academic and technical staffing and wage rates, 1936-1939; cost of medical curriculum and course, [1930s], 1941; World War Two arrangements, 1939-1941, including fees, effect of wartime conditions; papers concerning the Centenary fund, 1954-1957, including Centenary celebrations, correspondence relating to an exhibition on penicillin, commission of a portrait of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother; papers concerning the Fleming Memorial Appeal, 1955-1960; athletics ground, 1972-1982; development policy quinquennium, 1973-1982; St Mary's redevelopment, 1978; Fleming and Penicillin exhibition, 1978; Fleming Centenary, 1981; possible formation of a joint medical school, 1981; papers relating to the University of London, 1985-1988, including correspondence with the Court, future of medical education; merger with Imperial College, 1985-1987;
plan, elevations and sections of St Mary's Recreation Centre, 1983, by the Fitzroy Robinson Partnership;

records of Imperial College, 1988-1996, notably minutes of the Governing Body, 1988-1992; minutes of the Finance and Executive Committees, 1988-1991; minutes of the Executive Committee, 1991-1992; College Plan [1991-1995], 1991; annual reports and reviews, 1987-1993; prospectuses for 1990-1997, 1989-1996; calendars, 1990-1996; Imperial College Gazette, 1988-1993; Network newsletter, 1988-1994; Felix Student's Union newpaper, 1988-1993.

South-Western Polytechnic, Chelsea Polytechnic, Chelsea College of Science and Technology, Chelsea College Governing Body, Council and Academic Board Minute Books, 1888-1985. This series of minute books comprises one of the most important sources of evidence of the strategic and academic development within the Polytechnic and College from the earliest subscription campaign for the new Institute to the closure of Chelsea when it merged with King's in 1985. It comprises the main class of College governance minutes with a duplicate set covering the years 1906-1966, and in particular the manuscript minutes of the Executive or Governing Body of the South Western Polytechnic (with index), 1881-1906; printed and bound minutes of the Finance and General Purposes Committee, 1906-1918; printed and bound copies of the minutes of the Governing Body and Finance and General Purposes Committee, 1919-1922; printed and bound copies of the minutes of the Governing Body, 1923-1966; folders of typescript minutes of the Governing Body, 1966-1972 (Ref: CA/G/M); folders containing typescript Chelsea Council minutes, 1972-1985 (Ref: CA/C/M). Governing Body/Council minutes typically contain information on appointments and salaries, strategic and academic planning, academic services, scholarships and student numbers, the relationship with other Higher Education institutions and merger details. Incomplete manuscript and typescript Board of Studies and complete typescript Academic Board and Senate minutes, 1917-1931, 1962-1985 (Ref: CA/S/M), covering topics including departmental organisation, examinations, grants and student discipline; meeting papers relating to the Senate minutes, 1972-1985 (Ref: CA/S/MP). Minutes of Special Committees of the Governing Body/Council such as Non-Academic Staff Committee, 1966-1981, Sites and Buildings, 1966-1985; Finance and General Purposes Committee, 1967-1985; Residence and Refectories Committee/Amenities Committee, 1967-1985; Development Committee, 1971-1976; Staff Association, 1956-1976; Sports Ground Committee, 1972-1985; Joint Athletic Ground Committee, 1922-1939; Joint Policy Committee, 1973-1978 (Ref: CA/CS/M, CA/M); Special Committee meeting papers for the Academic Planning Committee and a working party on the College Library, 1965-1983 (Ref: CA/CS/MP).

Records, 1960-1974, of the Junior Science Project or Section of the Nuffield Foundation Science Teaching Project, including teaching notes and materials, 1960-1967; paper on the teaching of science in primary schools, 1963; draft press announcement on the teaching of mathematics to pupils between the ages of 5 and 13, 1964; correspondence, including staff appointments, 1963-1964; papers relating to invitations to serve on the consultative committee, 1963-1967; papers relating to planning on subjects in the Primary Science project including teaching aids, 1964; correspondence on Junior Science, including textbooks, 1964-1967; pilot project; Junior Science consultative committee meetings papers, 1964-1966, including minutes; consultative committee policy papers and correspondence, 1964-1965; papers on safety procedure and storage of equipment, 1965; mathematics teaching, 1965-1966; report on pilot stage of Junior Science and proposals for continuation project, 1965-1966; correspondence relating to equipment and apparatus, 1965-1967; correspondence relating to publications, 1965-1967; papers relating to the Junior Science film 'Into Tomorrow', 1966-1967.

Registers of Constance Road Workhouse/Institution, 1896-1934, consisting of a register of lunatics, 1896; 'Register of lunatics No 18', 1910; 'Register of lunatics No 23', 1915-1916; register of 'Examination of alleged lunatics H & B', 1921-1934; 'Register of articles etc found on inmates', 1912-1922; register of deaths, 1929-1933.

Transcripts of interviews by Roger Southall with South African trade union and political leaders, 1984, comprising: T Adler, National Automobile and Allied Workers Union; Neville Alexander, National Forum Committee; Saleem Badat, Grassroots; Jane Barrett, Transport and General Workers Union; Graeme Bloch, United Democratic Front; Andrew Boraine, United Democratic Front; Phiroshaw Camay, Council of Unions of South Africa; Moss Chikwane, United Democratic Front; Sathasican Cooper; Charles Daris, US Consulate, Johannesburg; Des T East, Motor Industry Combined Workers Union; Alec Irwin, Federation of South African Trade Unions; Brian Fredericks, National Automobile and Allied Workers Union;Dirk Hartford; Paddy Kearnly; M P Lekota, United Democratic Front; Lybon Mabasa, Azania Peoples Organisation; M Maluk, National Union of Mineworkers; Jeff McCarthy, Geography Department, Durban University; Ismael Mohammed; Curnick Ndlovu, United Democratic Front; Jemma Payne, National Union of Textile Workers; Ebrahim "Cassim" Saloojee, United Democratic Front; L Tsholi, United Democratic Front; Theo Van Der Bergh, Personnel Manager, Toyota; A J Van Der Watt, South African Boilermakers' Iron and Steel Workers, Shipbuilders and Welders Society; Zac Yaccoob, Natal Indian Congress.

Records of the Annual General Meetings of the Geological Society of London, 1809-current, comprising:

Rough manuscript minutes of the AGMs of the Geological Society of London, 1840-1891; Fair copies of the minutes of the AGMs of the Geological Society of London, 1844-current [incomplete]; Papers presented at AGMs, including President's agenda, ballot papers, scrutineer reports listing newly elected Council members, Officers and Fellows of the Society [pdf format after 2009], 1941-current; Printed ballot papers to elect Officers and members of Council, 1919, 1963-1996; Tickets, menus, programmes relating to the Anniversary Dinner, later President's Evening, 1853-1998; Printed notices and other ephemera regarding Annual General Meetings, 1809-1902.

Two scrapbooks of documents, newspaper cuttings and photos collected by Sir Jethro Justinian Harris Teall and his wife Harriet, 1876-1926.

Many items relate to Teall's life, with events including his honorary degrees, lectures he gave, dinners he attended, and invitations to occasions such as the funeral of Edward VII and the coronation of George V. There is also a great deal of material relating to his younger son Frederick Teall, particularly his time in the Cambridge University Athletic Club and his subsequent career in the Egyptian civil service and participation in tennis tournaments in Cairo. There are a few items relating to Teall's wife, Harriet, and his elder son, George Teall, who was in the army.

The first volume mostly dates from Teall's time as director of the Geological Survey, while the second relates to the latter part of Teall's directorship of the Geological Survey and his subsequent retirement activities.

Two volumes of notes on St Marylebone Infirmary (later St Marylebone Hospital and then St Charles' Hospital), relating to Hood's period as Medical Superindendent, 1910-1941, compiled by Dr Hood in the 1950s[?], with indexes by his daughter Mrs L Ross.

Forged letter pertaining to be from William Makepeace Thackery to an unknown recipient, [1850]. 'When I said that I could do no more for you for the present I meant it literally: I never once said it as a simple excuse... When I find that your views on hard work are different I may perhaps have something to say to you. Believe me a lazy life is a curse to any man.

Written and signed in an unknown hand, as if by Thackeray.

Papers of Jeremy Bentham, 1750-1885, consist of drafts and notes for published and unpublished works, and cover many subjects including: Bentham's codification proposal, a plan to replace existing law with a codified system, an idea which manifested itself in Constitutional Code (London, 1830), a blueprint for representative democracy and an entirely open and fully accountable government, 1815-1832; penal code, which involved penal law giving effect to the rights and duties of civil law, [1773]-1831; punishment, to certain actions which, on account of their tendency to diminish the greatest happiness, would be classified as offences, [1773-1826]; Bentham's Panopticon, a way of maintaining and employing convicts in a new invented building, 1785-1813; Chrestomathia, the secondary school designed by Bentham, 1815-1826; evidence in law, [1780]-1823; religion, and the Church, 1800-1830; logic, ethics, deontology (the science of morality), morals, utilitarianism and the greatest happiness principle, 1794-1834; political economy, [1790]-1819; Supply without burthen or Escheat vice taxation, a proposal for saving taxes, 1793-1795; legislation, including law amendment and law reform, [1770-1843]; procedure, and procedure codes, [1780]-1830; law and issues in other countries, including Greece, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium and Tripoli, 1810-1830; A Comment on the Commentaries, being a criticism of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, also Bentham's and Blackstone's views on civil code, [1774]-1830; sexual nonconformity, [1774]-1816; Scotch reform, 1804-1809; Court of Lords delegates, 1807-1821; parliamentary papers, and parliamentary reform, [1790]-1831; poor law, and poor plan, 1796-[1845]; correspondence, 1761-1866, including a corrected draft letter to James Madison, President of the United States of America, in which Bentham made an offer to draw up a complete code of laws for the USA, 1811.

Ireland: civil list payments for the year beginning 25 March 1709.

Privy Council letters, 4 Dec 1668, signed by George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Baron Ashley (later 1st Duke of Shaftesbury), and Thomas Clifford (later 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh), directed to Sir Robert Long, Bt, Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer, ordering the payment to Sidney Godolphin (later 1st Earl of Godolphin) of £60, the bi-annual instalment of his salary as Page of Honour to Charles II.

Manuscript draft for a speech to the City Council (Ayuntamiento) of Madrid by the Alcade of Madrid, proposing the erection of an equestrian statue of Charles III, 18th century.

Letter from William Longson of 2 Garnet Street, Hillgate, Stockport to [Joseph Hume], 9 Nov 1825. Congratulating him 'for not receiving the presents offered to you in Scotland', which will 'repress the ... enthusiastic impetuosity of several Bodies of Workmen'. Agreeing with the views of [John Ramsay] McCulloch on the influence of the use of machinery on workmen's wages and the price of the commodities produced. Proposing to publish supporting this view.

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from Richard Oastler of Fixby Hall, Huddersfield, [West Riding of Yorkshire] to John Foster, Esq of 1 Vincent Square, Westminster, 23 Jun 1833. Chiefly relating to the Ten Hours Bill. Lord Althorp had advocated 2 sets of 8 hours as the maximum for children under 14 to work. 'The news came just in time for your Hudd meeting - one hour before we began - & thus before 15,000 to 20,000 people I had the opportunity of blowing the whole scheme to rags' [referring to a speech Oastler made at a meeting on 18 Jun 1833. Urging the London section not to yield a single point: 'If they yield they disgrace themselves and give us another year's excitement and in my opinion hurry on a bloody revolution'.

Autograph, with signature. With Oastler's black seal, bearing the motto: 'The Altar, the Throne and the Cottage'.

Comprising research files containing press cuttings, correspondence and notes regarding incest, illegitimacy, sexual literature, censorship, homosexuality, banned books, prison reform, the Royal Family, separation, witchcraft, sexual behaviour and venereal disease, possibly for use in his works Sex and Revolution (1934), The Banned Books of England (1937), Above All Liberties (1942) and other publications (1922-1942); typescripts for submission to the 'Encyclopedia of Sexual Behaviour' (n.d.); issues of nudist and health periodicals and offprints of articles by Alec Craig and others (1936-1953).

Manuscript volume containing a table giving particulars of the pay and stoppages for all ranks in the different ratings of the Royal Navy, [1800]. Includes a list of leap years from 1752 to 1762.

Collection of transcripts, [1560]-1624, mainly relating to Privy Council matters, notably a petition presented to King James I by Sir Robert Heath, Solicitor General, 1624; a survey of the Forests and Chaces [Chases] of Bringwood, Mocktree and Darvell, with the Manor of Buriton, 1604; a letter from King James I to the Peers of England and the Privy Council concerning the composition of the Privy Council and the replacement of the ailing Lord Chamberlain by Thomas Howard, Lord Howard of Walden, 1603; copies of documents relating to the French conquest of Guiana, South America, including commissions granted by King Henry IV of France to Renée Marie, Lord Mountbarrot, and Daniel de la Touche, Lord of Raverdiere, for the conquest of Guiana, 1605 and 1609, the appointment of Robert Le Brette, Lord Dubosc, as Raverdiere's lieutenant in Guiana and other parts of America, including Brazil, 1609; the commission of Sir John Digby, Vice-Chamberlain, to negotiate a marriage between Prince Charles of England and the Infanta Maria, daughter of King Philip III of Spain, 1615; a letter written by Captain Charles Parker, one of Sir Walter Raleigh's company at Guiana, to Captain Alley, 1607; a declaration of proceedings in the Star Chamber against John Wrenham, who charged the Lord Chancellor of injustice against the King, 1618; a discourse of marriage written by Charles Blount, Earl of Devonshire, in defence of his wedding to Penelope, Lady Rich, [1605]; a discourse written by Dr Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Ely, against second marriage following a divorce, 1601; a discourse made by merchant adventurers on the occasion of a bill preferred to the High Court of Parliament, requiring free trade to all kingdoms and countries, [1610]; a consideration of the office and duty of a herald in England by John Dodridge, the Solicitor General, 1605; proceedings in the Star Chamber against Mary Countess of Shrewsbury for her refusal to give evidence against Arabella Seymour, Duchess of Somerset, 1618; an Act of Council upon the proceedings against James Whitlocke and Sir Robert Mansell for speaking against the King's Commission for reform of the Navy and also against the King's power and prerogative, 1609; speeches, and a memorandum on the union of England and Scotland, by Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, 1617; a copy of 'The present state of things as theye nowe stand, betweene the three greate kingdomes, France, England and Spayne, [1623], and 'A breviarie of the historie of England from William I, intitled the Conqueror, both written by Sir Walter Raileighe, Knight'; a speech by John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln and Keeper of the Great Seal of England, on the occasion of the collecting of the subsidy, Aug 1621; two versions of instructions by William Cecil, Lord Burleigh, Lord Treasurer to his son, Robert Cecil, 1561 and [1598]; letters from Sir Henry Sidney to his brother and to his son, Phillip, [1560]; a treatise entitled 'Toucheinge the Antiquities of Baronies delivered in the College of Antiquaries', [1600].

Manuscript volume containing a report relating to public administration in Peru, [1796], entitled 'Relacion de Govierno del Exmo. Sçnor Virrey del Peru, Frey Don Francisco Gil de Taboada y Lemos, presentada á su Sucesor el Exmo. Sçnor [Ambrosio O'Higgins] Baron de Vallenari y Marques de Osborno'. Includes a table of contents.

Manuscript volume containing tables giving a statement of English excise revenue from Michaelmas 1662 to 1730. The earlier tables are in summary form, but from 1693 to 1730 a full account is given.

Manuscript volume containing tables giving a statement of [English] excise revenue from Michaelmas 1662 to [Jun 1763]. There is a possibility that this manuscript was created by John Bindley, a Commissioner of the Excise Office.

Manuscript volume containing tables giving a statement of the [English] excise revenue from Michaelmas 1662 to [Jul 1875]. There is a possibility that this manuscript was created by Sir Grey Cooper, Secretary to the Treasury.

Manuscript volume, 1669-1670, containing 'miscellanies' relating to Ireland, namely 'The establishment beginning Michaelmas 1669', including lists of salaries for civil officers, pensions and annuities, military payments, salaries for military officers and soldiers, the names of officers of regiments of horse and foot on 25 Dec 1670, provincial, noble and clerical subsidies, and a list of Parliamentary seats; 'A table for reducing plantation acres into English and ascertaining the King's rent in the severall provinces of Ireland according to the explanatory act', [1669]; an abstract of the demise made by King Charles II to John Foorth and Partners of the revenue of Ireland, 12 Jul 1669. There is an index, added by Sir David William Smith, 1st Baronet, in 1828.

Transcript of a Resolution of the London Court of Common Council, held on Thursday 27th May, 1725, concerning the Court's control of the Common Seal, namely 'That for the future the Common Seal of this City shall not be affixed to any Grant where [by] the Estate or Revenue of this City may be Charged, without th[e] Consent of this Court first had for that purpose'.

Manuscript volume containing a record of housekeeping expenses, 1766-1848. The account book contains annual expenses from 1766-1768, weekly expenses from Jan 1769-Aug 1787, mostly for food and washing clothes, and weekly household expenses from Aug 1837 to Nov 1847 with details of servants' wages from Nov 1837 to Nov 1848. The expenses for Aug 1837 are headed '10 Avenue Road, Regent's Park'. Includes a list headed 'Books in Library in Margaret's Room', dated 7 Sep 1837; the works are mainly religious. Some pages have been used for notes and jottings.

Manuscript volume lettered 'Memoire de Finance' containing two works written in the same hand, probably mid 17th century, and attributed by an inscription on the fly-leaf to Charles de Marillac, Archbishop of Vienne (c 1510-1560) and his nephew, Michel de Marillac (1563-1632). The first section of the volume comprises three Gallican tracts, namely 'De patrimonio ecclesie', in Latin and French (latest date mentioned is 1646), arguing that secular patronage was the source of ecclesiastical wealth; 'Cura et authoritas in his quae pertinent ad fidem', defending control of the church by the Chritian prince, with much reference to the early church; and 'La Jurisdiction en generale est un pouvoir et autorite publique', arguing that independent ecclesiastical jurisdiction was confined to spiritual matters, citing papal and royal legislation up to 1639.
The second part of the manuscript contains a treatise entitled 'Du Conseil du Roy', in French and dated to [1611], being a discussion of the personnel, functions and rules of the King's Council (begins on folio 110 + 2, latest date 1629).
The attribution to the Marillacs is made in a later hand than that of the main text.

Manuscript extracts from 'le plus ancien registre qui se trouve au grand Conseil du Roy [lequel] commence [au] dernier jour du mois d'octobre 1483 & finissant le 7e jour de fevrier 1527', possibly written in 1528.

Petition, [1720?], to the justices of the peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire on behalf of Abraham Bean, a farmer of the parish of Cantley, near Doncaster, and signed by John Fox, Vicar of Cantley, Samuel Crabtree, William Morehouse and John Leetham, parishioners. The petition 'Sheweth That your Petitioner is an honest and labourious Person And hath maintain'd himself and family (since he had one) reputably on a Small Farm in This Parish...', and appeals for further aid - the Justices had granted £10 immediate relief the previous August at Rotherham. He had lost 16 head of 'Great Cattle' in the winter, and his house had been burned down. Both he and his wife had suffered from burns, and they and their two children had been forced to enter an alms house 'and are there now barely kept from starving by the Parish'. A note is added at the foot: '29 1. as Charity to be paid by the Treasurer'.

Tables headed 'An Account of the revenues of the British Empire collected in the year 1800, distinguishing the gross and net produce, charges of management etc., and payments into the Exchequer of each respective branch Together with a general view of the revenues from the first stage of collection, with the various deductions therefrom, until the several sums were paid into the Exchequer', organised under the main headings of Customs; Excise; Stamps; Taxes; Post Office; Hackney coaches; 'Hawkers & Pedlers'; and 'General View'.

Papers of Alfred Pavel Peres, 1939-1948, including minutes of discussions held initially between President Dr Edward Benes and Dr Peres and later also including Dr G Beuer, Dr J Zimmer, Dr Popper, and Dr Girschick, signed by Peres. The subjects of the discussions are wide ranging and necessarily reflect the changing situation vis a vis the effects of war. They include problems regarding the Sudetendeutsch, the formation of a Czech government in exile (-/2); problems of Czech refugees (-/3); report regarding Czech soldiers in France. The papers also include correspondence between Peres and Benes, Jan Masaryk and others. These papers document, in part, the activities of Czech exiles in London during the war and the situation in Czechoslovakia in the immediate post war years.