Personal papers of medical and other staff at Great Ormond Street hospital, comprising GOS/11/1 Dr Charles West, including cases seen at the Waterloo Dispensary prior to his Great Ormond Street career, circa 1841-1859; his notebook on Gynaecology, and maternal conditions liable to affect childbirth, from circa 1841, photographs, press cuttings, correspondence, and printed circulars and reports relating to Dr West's dispute with the Committee of Management about aspects of the Hospital's administration, 1877-1878. GOS/11/1/11 includes letters and photographs of Dr West and his family, largely donated by Dr Peter West. And the manuscript text of R Clavering's notes on Dr West and the establishment of the Hospital, 1956.

GOS/11/2 comprises a letter from Archibald Bence-Jones concerning the role of his father, Dr Henry Bence-Jones, in the establishment of the Hospital, 1906; GOS/11/3 comprises the letter of resignation from Catherine J Wood, Hospital Matron, 1878-1888 and biographical data on her.

GOS/11/4 comprises the papers of Dr. Frederick John Poynton, 1933-1941; GOS/11/5, those of Dr Felix Besser, dermatologist (some donated by his son, Dr. Michael Besser), including correspondence, obituaries of Great Ormond Street Hospital staff, pamphlets, typescripts, and material on the foundation and history of the hospital, 1933-1977; GOS/11/5/26* contains literature and correspondence on pachyonychia congenita, and includes correspondence with the University of Dundee on named patients.

GOS/11/6/1 is the presentation book to Sir Arthur Lucas on his retirement as Chairman of the Board of Governors, 1921, signed by Governors and senior clinical staff; GOS/11/7 /1 is correspondence and a copy Trust Deed for the Alexander Simpson-Smith Memorial Lectureship, 1947, including correspondence with Margaret Simpson-Smith about the Lectureship, 1957.

GOS/11/8 contains the papers of John Wycliff Peck, hospital pharmacist, including correspondence, photographs and memorabilia of Mr. Wycliff Peck, Hospital Pharmacist, 1894-1935, including correspondence concerning the supply and invention of drugs and equipment, and his own invention of 'Pexuloid' Splints, 1912; published programmes and leaflets concerning Hospital events; leaflets of pharmaceutical suppliers to the Hospital.

GOS/11/9 comprises Mr. Thomas H Kellock's personal papers, 1836-1922; GOS/11/10 is a presentation book given to Mr McKay on his retirement as Hospital Secretary,1932, signed by staff and Board members.

GOS/11/11 are the papers of Dr J Alistair Dudgeon (later Professor and Dean of Institute of Child Health), comprising correspondence, 1968-1974; GOS/11/11/22 Patients Pending file, 1968; GOS/11/11/23 are Doctors' letters, relating to Great Ormond Street Patients, 1964-1973; case reports. 1964-1970 and articles for journals, GOS/11/11/33-37 is Correspondence relating to the Institute of Child Health, 1969-1974; GOS/11/11/38-4, London University Thesis Reports, lecture drafts and notes, 1964- 974; GOS/11/11/43 Papers of Board of Studies in Pathology, 1973; GOS/11/11/44-45, Papers of Joint Research Board, 1967-1970; other papers cover correspondence with the House Governor at the hospital, plans for the new cardiac wing 1972, charity and research grants, GOS/11/11/52 * is correspondence with and about Dr Keitha Fraser (New Zealand), 1960-1965; GOS/11/11/70-76 are papers concerning research outcomes 1968-1974; GOS/11/11/76-79 Rubella Clinic and experiments, papers and correspondence, 1965-1969; GOS/11/11/80-81 British Postgraduate Medical Federation, reports and correspondence of Working Parties and Advisory Council, 1970-1973; GOS/11/11/82-83 Polio Tissue Innoculation Reports, 1956; GOS/11/11/84 Planning Committee papers, 1966-1968; GOS/11/11/85 Pickering Committee papers, 1968; GOS/11/11/86 Tumour Committee papers, 1964-1971; GOS/11/11/87 Organ Transplant Committee Papers, 1964-1970; GOS/11/11/88 Immunological Products Advisory Group papers, 1969-1970;GOS/11/11/89-90 DHSS Vaccination and Immunisation Committee papers, 1969-1972; GOS/11/11/91 Workshop Course on Virological Techniques, 1967.

Further Dudgeon papers, comprising GOS/11/11/92 International Paediatric Congress, Tokyo, 1965; GOS/11/11/93-98 Conference papers on rubella and other diseases, 1964-1974; GOS/11/11/99 North-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board papers (Pathology Committee), 1971-1974; GOS/11/11/100-101, Epidemiology Course, Glasgow, 1967; GOS/11/11/102 ICH Symposium on Rubella Vaccines, 1968; GOS/11/11/103 International Paediatric Congress, Mexico, 1968; GOS/11/11/104 Bethesda Conference, February, 1969; GOS/11/11/105 Miscellaneous Rubella lectures for adaptation to articles, circa 1964-1974; GOS/11/11/106-107 Royal Society of Medicine Symposium on the Very Young, 1968; GOS/11/11/108-109 3rd Annual Conference on Congenital Malformation, GOS/11/11/110111 Bethesda Conference, May 1969; GOS/11/11/112 Pathology of Viral Diseases Symposium, 1969; GOS/11/11/113 Course in Advanced Paediatrics, 1968; GOS/11/11/114 119 Miscellaneous committee papers and lecture notes, 1964-1968.

GOS/11/12, Papers of Mr. David Waterston CBE (Cardiothoracic Surgeon), comprising GOS/11/12/1, Papers of British Association of Paediatric Surgeons' meetings, 1964-1974; GOS/11/12/2, Papers for British Paediatric Association meetings, 1965-1973; GOS/11/12/3, Papers for BPA meeting, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1975, with notes on earlier meetings at Great Ormond Street; GOS/11/12/4, Correspondence and reports concerning 'Denis Browne Memorial Travelling Scholarships', 1967-1973; GOS/11/12/5, Minutes, Agendas and correspondence for meetings of the Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, 1968-1974; GOS/11/12/6, Minutes, Agendas and Reports of the 'Paediatric Visiting Club', 1966-1974; GOS/11/12/7, Papers of meetings of 'Browne's Club', 1965-1971; GOS/11/12/8, Clinical reports on 'Persistent Truncus Arteriosis' and 'Tricuspid Ataxia'; GOS/11/12/9; Newsletters of the 'Janes Society'(Canadian Surgeons), 1971-1973; GOS/11/12/10, Correspondence concerning Mr Waterston's CBE award, 1972, and the accidental death of his son, 1970; GOS/11/12/11 Miscellaneous correspondence and reports, 1968-1975, including 1975 report on paediatric surgical training by Atwell and Gough.

GOS/11/13, Papers of Dr David N. Nabarro (Pathologist), 1895-1938, including GOS/11/13/2-6, Dr Nabarro's notebooks and Registers of patients with sexually-transmitted diseases seen by him at GOS; 1917-1920, 1924-1938; 1927-1929; 1935-1938; 1938-1939**; GOS/11/13/7, Printed articles and reports concerning Venereal Diseases written or collected by Dr Nabarro.

GOS/11/14, Papers of Dr Ian Cathie (Pathologist), comprising GOS/11/14/1-3 Dr. Cathie's correspondence on personal and clinical matters; 1954-1956 and 1958; GOS/11/15 Papers of Dr W W Payne (Chemical Pathologist), comprising GOS/11/15/1-3 Dr Payne's correspondence, 1957; GOS/11/16 Papers of Dr. Barbara Clayton, comprising GOS/11/16/1-2 Dr. Clayton's correspondence, 1962-1965, GOS/11/16/3, Draft articles by Dr. Clayton on growth and development, with related clinical statistical data, 1965; GOS/11/17, Papers of Dr D R C Willcox, comprising GOS/11/17/1 Correspondence concerning child growth and thyroid testing at the Bethlem Hospital, 1959-1965.

GOS/11/18 Papers and memorabilia of Great Ormond Street Nurses; comprising GOS/11/18/1, papers of Nurse Dorothy M. Roberts, 1920-1923; GOS/11/18/2, Papers of Nurse Dorothy Trotter, circa 1930-39; GOS/11/18/3, Papers of Nurse Nancy A. McDonnell, circa 1930-40; GOS/11/18/4, Memories of nurses at Runabouts, received from Mrs H Brooker; GOS/11/18/4, Papers of Nurse Amelia Mary Eynon-Williams', including material on the Miles quads, and material compiled subsequently on the quads; GOS/11/18/5, Papers of Nurse Nansi Jones, 1936-1970; GOS/11/18/6, Typescript, 'Memories of Tadworth Court', donated by Mrs Jean Clew; GOS/11/18/7, 'A Unique Nursing Experience', memories of nursing HRH Prince Charles, 1957, by Sister M. J. Hicks (Mrs McLean) and Mrs Gwyneth Robinson; GOS/11/18/8, Part of memoir of Nurse Joan Lamb, circa 1932-1937; GOS/11/18/9, comprising sketchbooks, with commentary, on nursing life at the Hospital, drawn by Nurse A G Bois, circa 1900-1904.

GOS/11/19 Papers of Mr D Lloyd-Roberts(Consulting Surgeon), comprising GOS/11/19/1, patient treatments and management of patient services at Tadworth Court, 1960-1974; GOS/11/20 Papers relating to Mr. William Pendle (Stoker), relating to the award of the George Medal to Mr. Pendle for his actions during the bombing of the Hospital in 1940, including award certificate, photographs of Mr Pendle and family attending the awards ceremony, 1941, and letter notifying the Order of St George of his death, 1951; GOS/11/21 Papers of Dr R H Wilkinson (Biochemist); comprising GOS/11//21/1-4, correspondence and papers, 1950-1957 and, GOS/11/21/5, Royal Society of Medicine papers, 1953.

GOS/11/22, Papers relating to Sir Denis J V Browne, comprising a biography and reminiscences by Mr. James Crooks, 1967, and an unidentified newspaper obituary; GOS/11/23, *Papers of Dr. John Sutcliffe (Radiologist), 1952-1960, including clinical and research correspondence with other doctors, some concerning individual patients, correspondence concerning departmental staffing, financing and equipment purchase.

GOS/11/24, Autograph book, signed by staff members, given to Arthur J. Lilly, engineer, on retiring from Hospital for Sisk Children in July 1959 after 40 years, including photograph of Mr Lilly in army uniform in 1915; GOS/11/25, Reminiscences of C W Hale (Great Ormond Street laboratory assistant, 1929-1930), dated 1988; GOS/11/26, Papers of Alfred William Gates, hospital volunteer, including original patients' letters, copyright forms and Assignment of Copyright relating to The Diaries of William Gates, A Personal and Moving Account of Great Ormond Street's Children, 2000; GOS/11/27 Frank Cole Madden's papers, comprising ornamental envelopes bearing Great Ormond Street address drawn by Frank Cole Madden during his term as GOSH Surgeon, 1897-1898, with a copy of his biography from Plarr's Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons ; GOS/11/28 Mala Trivedi and Behnaz Mohzakka, cards for the memorial service at Conway Hall, 5 October 2005, following their deaths in bomb attacks of 7 July 2005; GOS/11/29 Sir George Frederic Still, a picture-card sent by Sir Frederic to Miss Virginia Firth(daughter of his colleague Dr. Douglas Firth), circa 1932; GOS/11/30 Death Certificate of Henry Sykes Thornton, the Hospital’s banker and board member,1 December 1881; GOS/11/31 Mary D. Dawson's typescript recollections of working as a trainee in the Hospital Almoner’s office during World War II (from the author, Mrs. Mary Wilson, 2010); GOS/11/32 Items from former Clerical Assistant at the Hospital Miss Jean Parsons, including regarding the 1952 Centenary celebrations and invitation to staff Christmas Dance from Lady Southwood,1948 (gift of Miss Parsons’ son Derek Britton,2012); GOS/11/33 Nurse Training documentation, and notes made during training, by GOSH nurse (Dorothy) Beryl Faulkner (1941-1945) which includes her set of the Nurses’ League Journal, 1944-2005( missing 1945, 1948, 1968, 2003, 2004).

Commemorative volume containing testimonial to Sir Edwin Cooper Perry, (1856-1938), on the occasion of his retirement from the post of Superintendent to Guy's Hospital, signed by past and present students and staff, 29 Jan 1920.

Papers of Dr John Dalziel Wyndham Pearce, 1933-1994, including published and draft papers re juvenile delinquency, and relating to RAMC psychiatry service, Second World War. Includes account of case of religious fervour in an ambulance unit, 1941.

Proceedings in the case of Richard Paternoster versus William and Charles Finch, proprietors of a lunatic asylum at Kensington, John Paternoster, surgeon, and others, in the Court of Common Pleas, 1840.

Records of the Parkwood Convalescent Home, including Trustees' minutes, 1913-1950; House Committee agendas and minutes, 1950-1963; annual reports and accounts, 1926-1946; general administrative papers, 1962-1966; plans of the home, 1891; deeds, 1890-1954; scheme of regulation, 1946; registers of nurses, 1949-1963; photograph albums, 1890-1944; certificate of thanks from the Red Cross and St John War Organisation for loan of premises during World War Two, [1945] and an extract from The Quiver: 'Refitting for the Struggle - A visit to the hospital convalescent home at Parkwood', 1895.

Small photograph album of Elsie M Parkinson containing images of King's College Hospital, nurses, staff, wards, patients, etc. Also includes some pencil sketches, rhymes and poems [1913-1919]. Most photographs have captions.

Papers of Maurice Pappworth comprising writings, notes, articles, correspondence, draft chapters, and photographs, 1960s-1990s. Subjects include material relating to his concern in ethical issues arising from experiments on humans, Section C, to Section D on organ transplants and brain death as well as Jewish medical ethics, 1964-1994. It is interesting to note the reactions that Human Guinea Pigs stirred up within the medical profession in Section C, 1958-1991. With regards to not being elected a Fellow of the RCP, Section E highlights how other doctors were appalled at the length it took for him to be elected (see letters of congratulations), 1961-1993.

Translations and transcripts of papal privileges of 10 Apr 1625, 11 Oct 1621 and 1559-1565 for the Hospital Real del Buen Suceso.

Sir James Paget's index to references for medical biographies, intended for the Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1842-44), c.1844.

Records, reports and correspondence relating to John Page's work in Prisoner of War camp hospitals and Japan during the Second World War, 1942-1953.

Register of children privately baptised at Paddington Green Children's Hospital; states at beginning of register 'Such baptisms being entered in the Registers of St Mary's Church, Paddington Green', later entries include baptisms by R.C Chaplain, 1887-1977.

Small manuscript notebook of Henry Ambrose Oldfield, when a medical student at Guy's Hospital in 1841, containing notes on medicinal qualities of various plants, journal of journey through the Derbyshire and Yorkshire, including list of expense, comments on countryside, art and architecture. Also detailed notes on architecture of English cathedrals.

Sir Alexander Ogston's papers comprising case-books, Villa Trento Hospital 13 September 1916 to 16 November 1917. Compiler's holograph MSS. Note-books of cases at an Italian Military Hospital-the patients are mostly Italians.

Survey questionnaires of obstetric flying squads, a summary of the survey and correspondence regarding hospital call-out team insurance, 1980-1987.

Four lecture notebooks of Hedwig (Hedy) Lehmann when she was a medical student, covering the period 1942-1945. These items shed light on the curriculum and teaching methods in nursing training in England during the Second World War period. With additional original and copy documents relating to H Lehmann and her nursing career, and transcript of an interview H Lehmann gave to historians Sybille Baumbach and Beate Meyer in London May 1991 investigating the history of the Jewish community in Hamburg during the years up to and including the Second World War.

Records of the North-Western Fever Hospital (NWFH), (later the Lawn Road or North-Western Branch of the Royal Free Hospital), 1887-1972, comprising: Nursing Staff Registers, containing service records for nurses and ward orderlies, 1887-1951; Nurse training records, for probationer and student nurses trained at NWFH, 1937-1946; Domestic Staff Registers, containing service records for domestic staff, including housekeeping, laundry and catering staff, 1887-1923.
Royal Free Hospital, Lawn Road (or North Western) Branch: In-patient Registers, 1965-1972; Patients Property Register, 1944-1962; Joint Consultative Staff Committee minutes, 1951-1954.

Records of the North-West London Hospital, Kentish Town Road, London, 1878-1908, comprising: Annual Reports (printed), 1884-1904; Committee of Management minutes, 1878-1886, 1902-1908; Medical Committee minutes 1900-1903.

Case registers from the North Western Hospital, Hampstead, 1896-1948, providing the following information - number, date of admission, name, sex, age, address, parish or area, disease certified on admission, disease diagnosed in hospital (except for the 1st register), complications, and date of discharge, transfer or death.

Records of the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, including minutes and papers of the Board; National Hospital Reserve Sub-Committee; Establishment Committee; Medical Staffing Sub-Committee; Nursing Sub-Committee; Finance Committee; Finance Committee Investments Sub-Committee; Drugs Expenditure Sub-Committee; Medical Advisory Committee; Planning Committee; Planning and General Purposes Committee; Planning and General Purposes Committee Building, Land and Works Sub-Committee; Planning and General Purposes Committee Clinical Research Sub-Committee; Mental Health Committee; Planning and General Purposes Committee Mental Health Sub-committee and Steering Committee.

North West Metropolitan Regional Committees including minutes and papers of the North West Metropolitan Area Nurse Training Committee; North West Metropolitan Area Nurse Training Committee Finance Sub-Committee; Joint Consultative Committee for Inner London Hospitals in the North West Metropolitan Hospital Region minutes and papers; Joint Working Group of the Metropolitan Joint Consultative Committees; North West Metropolitan Hospital Regional Staff Advisory Committee, and the Regional Staff Committee.

North West Thames Regional Health Authority minutes and Departmental Records, including papers of the Regional Centres for Specialised Treatment; Major Accidents Procedure; Joint Consultative Committee for Inner London Hospitals; Planning: Central London Area and Planning: Regional Joint Liaison Committee for transfer to new authorities.

National Hospital Service Reserve, including papers of Mrs Grieb, Regional Coordinating Officer comprising scrapbook and photographs.

Records of the North Thames Regional Health Authority and predecessors, 1944-1995. This collection includes minutes, agendas and papers of the Health Authority/Health Board and various committees including the Nurse Training Committee; Hospital Management Committee; University Liaison Committee; Dental Committee; Nursing and Midwifery Committee; Optical Committee; Manpower Committee; Appointments Advisory Committee; District Pharmaceutical Managers; Senior Registrar's Joint Advisory Committee; Chief Nursing Officers Group.

Also press cuttings, regional circulars, financial accounts; photographs and reports.

Records of the North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, 1948-1949. This collection comprises the circulars to the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board Hospital Management Committees.

Records of Normansfield Hospital, including Mary Langdon-Down's Correspondence 1881-1888; John Langdon-Down's Correspondence 1883-1896; Mary Langdon-Down's Correspondence 1890-1900; Reginald Langdon-Down's Correspondence 1900-1951; Norman Langdon-Down's Correspondence 1963-1968; Correspondence and papers filed by subject 1907-1952; Memorandum and Articles of Association 1926; Testimonials and prospectus 1888-1946; Inventory and valuation 1941. Registers of admissions (including Earlswood Asylum) 1855-1914; Register of discharges and deaths (including Earlswood Asylum) 1855-1914; Medical visitation books 1868-1887; Reports on patients on admission 1881-1898; Dr Reginald Langdon-Down's notes on patients 1907-1934; Board of Control Visitors' books 1931-1960; Register of mechanical restraint and seclusion 1946-1960; Reception orders, medical certificates and statements 1863-1908; Death and discharge papers 1870-1954; X Ray photographs of patients and staff 1916-1932.

Staff record books 1898-1928; Officers' applications and testimonials 1891-1921; Applications for nursing and other posts addressed to Matron 1951-1952; Staff applications addressed to Medical Superintendent 1951-1959. Patients' ledgers 1888-1890; 1942-1955; Suppliers' ledgers 1909-1927; Wages book 1939-1951; Invoices and receipts, 1916-1922 and 1946-1951. Photographs of the Hospital buildings, farm and gardens, patients and staff and the Langdon-Down family, 1877-1983. Papers relating to the Langdon-Down family 1853-1927; League of Friends of Normansfield c 1957-1968; Centenary histories and celebrations 1968 and Newspapers cuttings 1970 -1979.

Papers relating to the Normansfield Inquiry, including Dr Lawlor's files 1970-1977; Dr Nelson's files on Education Unit 1958-1977; Area Nursing Officer's files 1969-1982; Regional Health Authority capital services files 1973-1976; Regional Health Authority Inquiry November 1976; Sherrard Inquiry transcripts of proceedings Feb 1977-Feb 1978; Documents submitted in evidence 1953?-1978; Report and disciplinary proceedings 1978-1979.

Works by Florence Nightingale, and works by various authors, the property of, or containing contributions by Florence Nightingale, on subjects including nursing, public health, hospital administration, and military hospitals.

Papers of Florence Nightingale, 1876-1956, comprising notes on sick nursing addressed to the editors of Every Girl's Magazine, 19 Nov 1881; photographs of autograph labels for Nightingale's collection of shells. Including a letter from G Ellis Flack from Nottingham University, where the shell collection is now housed, 1951; autograph in pencil; correspondence with Dr John Shaw Billings, 23 Oct 1876-4 Dec 1876, requesting advice from Nightingale on the building of a hospital in Baltimore by the Johns Hopkins Trust; and 2 letters relating to the efforts to locate the correspondence, Apr-May 1956.

The collection chiefly comprises correspondence by Florence Nightingale, either in original or in copy form. The date-span covers the whole of her life and the subjects range from her attempts to become a nurse, service in the Crimea and subsequent work reforming the training and practice of nursing, through her other concerns such as Indian sanitation, cottage hospitals and the use of medical statistics, to personal and family matters. Well-represented correspondents include her family (particularly her sister Parthenope and brother-in-law Sir Harry Verney), Sir William Aitken (1825-1892), Professor of Pathology at the Army Medical School; George Hanby De'ath (c.1862-1901), Medical Officer of Health for Buckingham; William Farr (1807-1883), statistician; Miss Louisa Gordon, Matron at St Thomas' Hospital; Miss Amy Hughes, Superintendent of the Nurses' Co-operation; Sir John Henry Lefroy (1817-1890); Charles C. Plowden of the Sanitary Department of the India Office; and Mary Clarke Mohl (1793-1883). In addition, there is twentieth century material relating to Nightingale's legacy such as photographs of her grave (at MS.9101) and administrative papers relating to the compilation of A calendar of the letters of Florence Nightingale (Oxford, 1977) by Sue Goldie (MSS.9106-9109).

Minutes of Health Authority meetings and records of the District Sub Committees.

The archives of New End Hospital, Hampstead, comprising series of administrative and patient records, registers, photographs and records of education and training, 1914-1981, comprising:

Administrative Records, notably Medical Superintendent's reports, 1926-1930, containing details of births and deaths, accident and emergency admissions and summaries of operations performed; Medical Committee minutes, 1968-1973 and correspondence, 1969-1974; Archway Group Hospital Management Committee Annual Reports, 1948-1962; Fire Drill Instruction Reports, 1942-1981; Chaplain's Journal, 1965-1977, containing record of services and hospital visits; Planning Committee minutes, 1963-1967;

Matron/School of Nursing records including registers of nurse education and service, 1902-1938; Nursing Staff Registers, 1947-1971;

Patient records including Registers of Births, 1914-1915, 1920-1953; Register of Baptisms, 1920-1958; Maternity Registers, 1939-1953; Consultant's case books, 1931, 1934, 1936; Death Registers, 1930-1967; Admission and Discharge Register 1937-1938; Operation Registers, 1941-1952; Post Mortem Registers, 1930-1964, 1974; Mortuary Registers, 1949-1986;

Ephemera including photographs, ward signs, labels and plaques.

Papers relating to naval medical history, 1932, comprising a volume titled Grievances of Naval Surgeons containing precis of letters published in The Lancet from 1827-1902, compiled by 'Surgeon Captain, Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, September 1932'; 2 letters from Christopher Lloyd of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, to Miss Jessie Dobson, concerning a historical enquiry (24 Oct 1960), and a visit to look at 'your Lancet volume'; and a volume containing issues which appeared in The Lancet in the 19th century, for instance, the exclusion of naval medical officers from the King's Levees, a new mode of punishment in the Navy, hospital ships, and the Gilbert Blane Medal.

The collection covers the work of the NNAH from its founding c 2000 up to its closure in 2007. It includes the institutional archives of the National Network for Arts in Health (NNAH) and the Baron Archive of Health Care Arts (c 1980-2000). The resources collected by both organisations include files on art, drama and music projects in the health service supported by Art in Hospitals and the NNAH, together with a library of 150 books, 4,500 reports and pamphlets and other research materials assembled as a resource for education and research.

Archives of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery comprising: Broad Management and Administration records: Annual reports 1859-1948; Board of Governors’ minutes 1865-1948; Finance Committee 1902-1948; Appeal Committee minutes 1935-1944; Medical Committee minutes 1877-1948; Sub-committee minutes 1894-1948; Trust Fund/accounts 1895-1901; Medical School Committee 1919-1938; Papers relating to the dispute between the medical staff and the Administration 1899-1901; Register of Bequests 1861-1908, 1930s-1940s; Property leases, agreements etc 1881-1850, 1930-40s; Correspondence/drawings re rebuilding 1877-1882; Building layouts/ copy plans covering both hospitals 1894-1963; Statistics 1897-1939; Patient records: Physicians’ Case notes (including surgery reports) 1861-1946; Clinical Pathology register 1937-1952; Staff records: Weekly/staff reports by Lady Superintendent 1902-1957; Nursing certificates register 1895-1949; Nursing staff appointments register 1903-1949; Male nurse register 1929-1948; School of Massage minutes,syllabus, accounts 1929-1935; School of Massage Register of certificates awarded 1905-1937; Domestic staff/ward orderlies appointments 1930-1966; Photographs: Approximately 3,000 covering staff, special occasions, buildings, wards and theatres.

Records of the National Heart Hospital, consisting of a sample of the case files kept by the physicians of the hospital between 1907 and 1963 and photographs taken by Dr John Mathias Senior Registrar of the first heart transplant in the United Kingdom in 1968.

Records of the National Heart and Lung Institute, 1877-1972, incorporating records of the Brompton Hospital, comprising catalogue of pathological specimens at Brompton Hospital, 1877; Dr Pollock's register of females admitted to the Brompton Hospital, 1878-1881; food supervisor's report book, 1924-1933; matron's report book, 1941-1954; illustrations of physicians and scientists, [1905-1913]; resident medical officer's report books, 1937-1947, 1967-1972;
correspondence to Dr Marcus Paterson as medical superintendant of Brompton Hospital Sanatorium, comprising letters from physicians, medical officers of health, former patients and their relatives and employers, trade correspondence relating to the sanatorium and treatment of tuberculosis, [1905-1912];
papers relating to Frederick Rufenacht Walters, [1882-1932], including notebooks concerning his publications, reprints, press cuttings, memoranda and some letters.

Napsbury Asylum papers comprising: procedure book, reports from Pathological Department, 1930s, investigation into typhoid carriers in the Hospital, 1934, study of 16 cases of cerebral tumour, 1935; articles and cuttings relating to psychiatry and neurology, 1927-1956.

Records of Napsbury Hospital including minutes of the Standing Sub-committee of Visitors, 1898-1947; Sub-committee minutes, 1940-1941; Shenley and Napsbury Group minutes, 1948; Finance and General Purposes Committee, 1948-1949; hospital statistics, 1951-1970; admission registers, 1904-1951; death registers, 1933-1948; departure registers, 1931-1948; discharge registers, 1910-1961; general registers, 1948-1964; medical journals, 1915-1925; case books, 1905-1911; medical registers, 1940-1948; registers of daily patients, 1964-1972; some correspondence concerning patients, 1951-1953; register of mechanical restraint 1948-1952 and service patients' bill book, 1946-1952.

Diary of a resurrectionist, 1811-1812, probably Joshua Naples, describing his activities supplying bodies to anatomists in London, including to St Thomas's and St Bartholomew's Hospitals.

Papers of Isabella Jeanette (Jean) Murray, including letter enclosing gift, 21 Dec 1922; enrolment card as member of King's College Hospital Nurses League, 14 Jan 1925; receipt for life membership subscription of the League, 18 Apr 1927;
bundle of small black and white photographs including images of nurses Iris Angwen, Jean Murray, Dilnot, Emma, Wallis and Littlejohn, Nichol, Lloyd, Shaw, Ross, Bush, c 1924; photograph of Dr and Mrs Firth, and Raymond Firth, 1932; photograph of Lonsdale Ward, King's College Hospital (undated);
volume of manuscript notes on bandaging, operating theatre procedures and surgical equipment; cuttings of various remedies; the Hospital Chorus; trolley preparation for various procedures; and descriptions of treatments and patient preparation;
examination question paper for King's College Hospital Junior Probationer Examination [c.1921];
bundle of photocopies including an invitation to the Nurses Christmas Ball, King's College Hospital, Jan 1959; notes on Kitchen Duties;
letters to Murray, from T R Sanderson, Assistant County Secretary, British Red Cross Society Kent, confirming her appointment as an approved Lecturer in Home Nursing, 20 Mar 1940; from G G Hall British Red Cross Society, 2 May 1940, relating to Miss Murray's class undertaking the Home Nursing examination; from E [Guy] principal, Ashford Technical Institute and Evening Classes, relating to salary claim form for lectures given in Home Nursing, 7 Apr 1941.
Murray's books including: Text-book for nurses, anatomy physiology, surgery and medicine, E W Hey Groves, and J M Fortescue-Brickdale, 2nd edition, The Joint Committee of Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1919 (inscribed J I Murray, 1920); A handbook for nurses with examination questions based on the contents of the chapters, J K Watson, 5th edition, The Scientific Press, London.[undated] (inscribed J Murray 1919); A complete system of nursing, A Millicent Ashdown, J M Dent & Sons, London and Toronto, 1919 (inscribed I J Murray , and containing letters to Miss J J Murray 1940-1941)); Aids to anatomy and physiology for nurses, Katherine F Armstrong, Balliere, Tindall and Cole, London, 1939 (inscribed I J Murray).

Records of the Moorfields Eye Hospital and predecessor hospitals, 1804-1993, including the Children's Ophalmic Convalescent Home, the Central London Opthalmic Hospital, the Royal London Opthalmic Hospital and the Royal Westminster Opthalmic Hospital.

Records of Moorfields Eye Hospital, 1860-1993, including minutes of the Committee of Management and Board of Governors, Building Committee, Building and Planning Committee, Drug Committee, Ethical Committee, Finance Committee, House Committee, Medical Committee, Medical Establishment Committee, Planning Committtee, Staff Committee and Trustees Committee; papers relating to amalgamation with the Central London Opthalmic Hospital; annual reports; statistics; staff records; issues of magazine 'The Hospital' and issues of the Hospital Yearbook.

The collection consists of miscellaneous material pertaining to Professor John Chassar Moir's career which was retained in the family, 1921-1977. This includes biographical material; research files, including on ergot, vesico-vaginal fistula, and history of obstetrics; a few case notes; correspondence; and two films of operations.

Secondary medical records, comprising GOS/12/1: Register of drugs issued, including names, quantity and cost, 1857-1865; GOS/12/2: Drug Issue Register, 1870-1875; GOS/12/3: Drug Issue Register, 1882-1887; GOS/12/4: Drug Issue Register, 1894-1903; GOS/12/5: Register of Beer, Wines and Spirits issued to patients, 1852; GOS/12/6: Register of beer issued to patients, 1858-1864; GOS/12/7: Register of beer issued to patients, 1864-1878; GOS/12/8: Register of wines and spirits issued to patients, 1876-1883; GOS/12/9: Register of brandy, port and stout issued to patients (Victoria Ward) 1891-1892; GOS/12/10: Monthly totals register of wines and spirits issued, 1852-1853; GOS/12/11 Monthly totals register of port, brandy, sherry, gin, claret and porter issued to patients, 1860-1869; GOS/12/12: Monthly totals register of port, brandy, gin and porter issued to patients, 1869-1879; GOS/12/13: Monthly totals register of port, brandy, sherry and porter issued to patients, 1879-1893; GOS/12/14: Monthly totals of brandy and sherry issued to patients by ward, 1923-1935.

GOS/12/15: Register of Anti-Toxin reports, 1900-1913; GOS/12/16-17: Registers of X-Rays, 1930, 1932; GOS/12/18-19: Blood-Bank registers, 1961-1962, 1963; GOS/12/20: Antra Wash-Out Clinic statistical register, 1965-1966; GOS/12/21-22: Surgical instrument registers for GOS surgeons during wartime use at Tadworth Court and Hempstead House, c 1940-1941; GOS/12/23: *Patient Appliance Forms (Splints), 1971-1989; GOS/12/24: Illustrated information leaflet on urine testing for Phenyl-Ketonuria published by GOS, 1957; GOS/12/25: Volume, 'Surgical Registrar's Scheme for Preparing and Maintaining Annual Index of Diseases', 1927.

GOS/12/26: Miscellaneous papers of the Medical Records Department; includes examples of patient attendance cards and doctors' letters, 1897-1934, and examples of early 'punch card ' patient records, 1952; GOS/12/27: Patient admission form, of Eileen Last (for electrical treatment under Mr Steward, at age 5 weeks) 1905; GOS/12/28: Patient admission and discharge cards of Grace and Hilda Gilbert (renal sarcoma patients of Mr. Barrington-Ward), 1931; GOS/12/29: Letter of Dr G F Still to Dr Callender concerning treatment of patient Margaret Trimley for tubercular peritonitis, 26 November 1927; GOS/12/30: Programme notes for Clinical Demonstration Day in Annie Zunz Ward, 15 February 1939; GOS/12/31: Table compiled by Mrs Mitzi Waltz, University of Sunderland, on possible cases of autism taken from Dr Dickinson's case notes; GOS/12/32 Patient cards etc, for Catherine Evans, 1925-1934.

GOS/12/33: Great Ormond Street Index to Standard Nomenclature of Diseases of the American Medical Association 4th edition, Dec 1965 (gift of RCPCH Library); GOS/12/34: Patient admission forms 1936; GOS/12/35-36 Patient cards and letters for Brian Cyril Smith, 1937-1938 (permission to use from date of deposit); GOS/12/37 Correspondence from, or concerning, former patients and their past treatment, 1931-1980 (received 2005-2008); GOS/12/38 Papers of D. Lewis, Senior Physiotherapy Nurse, on physiotherapy methods used at the Hospital, circa 1945-1950.

GOS/12/39-83 *Post Mortem Registers, 1860-1948; comprising GOS/12/39 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1860-1865; GOS/12/40 Post Mortem Case Reports,1865-1870; GOS/12/41 Post Mortem Case reports, 1870-1876; GOS/12/42 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1876-1879;
GOS/12/43 Post Mortem Case Reports,1879-1882; GOS/12/44 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1882-1884; GOS/12/45 Post Mortem Case reports, 1885-1887; GOS/12/46 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1887-1890; GOS/12/47 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1890-1891; GOS/12/48 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1891-1892; GOS/12/49 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1892-1894; GOS/12/50 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1894-1896; GOS/12/51 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1896-1897; GOS/12/52 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1896-1899; GOS/12/53 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1899-1900; GOS/12/54 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1900-1902; GOS/12/55 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1902-1904; GOS/12/56 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1904-1905; GOS/12/57 Post Mortem Case Reports,1905-1906; GOS/12/58 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1906-1907; GOS/12/59 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1907-1908; GOS/12/60 Post Mortem Case Reports; GOS/12/61 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1910-1911; GOS/12/62 Post Mortem Case Reports,1911-1913; GOS/12/63 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1913-1915; GOS/12/64 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1915-1918; GOS/12/65 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1918-1920; GOS/12/66 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1920-1921; GOS/12/67 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1921-1924; GOS/12/68 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1924-1926; GOS/12/69 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1926-1929; GOS/12/70 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1929-1931; GOS/12/71 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1931-1933;GOS/12/72 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1933-1935;GOS/12/73 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1935-1937; GOS/12/74 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1937-1940; GOS/12/75 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1940-1944; GOS/12/76 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1944-1945; GOS/12/77 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1945-1946; GOS/12/78 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1946-1947; GOS/12/79 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1947-1948; GOS/12/80 Post Mortem Catalogue (indexed alphabetically by condition, covering the 1860-1907 Case Report registers listed above);GOS/12/81 Post Mortem Photograph Album, c. 1900-1920 (?); GOS/12/82 Post Mortem Photograph Album, c.1920-1930 (?); GOS/12/83 Post Mortem Photograph Album, circa 1930-1948(?);

GOS/12/84 Attendance Card for Lily Rawlings (patient of Mr. Tyrrell Gray),7-19 March 1926; GOS/12/85 Patient Admission Card for John Cawson, 2 May 1948 (Gift of Mr. Cawson); GOS/12/86 Correspondence with Chief Executive Dr. Jane Collins of former patient Mr. G.K. Allen, concerning his treatment in the 1920s, 2011 *; GOS/12/87 Correspondence by postcard to patient Beryl Parr at Great Ormond Street and Tadworth Court,from family members,1928-1929 (gift from her family).

Records of the Miller General Hospital, including Governors and Board of Management minutes, 1828-1948; Medical Council minutes, 1913-1928; Nursing Committee minutes, 1928-1948; annual reports, 1870-1948; file of correspondence and administrative papers relating to the purchase of 4 St. Johns Park, Blackheath, and its conversion to a Preliminary Training School for Nurses, 1945-1948; registers of patients, 1904-1945; Matron's report book, 1927-1948; staff registers, 1933-1951; salaries and wages books, 1921-1944 and history of the hospital, 1893.

Also financial accounts of the Kent Dispensary, 1783-1856.

Administrative records, Chaplain's records, patient records, nursing records, photographs and miscellaneous records.

Administrative records, patient registers, nursing records and photographs.

Records of the Mildmay Memorial Hospital, comprising Council minutes, 1917-1948 and minutes of the McCall Maternity Hospital committee, 1941-1945.

Midwifery casebook, Aug 1781-Mar 1786, of 'cases extraord[inar]y' in the Lying in Hospital, Dublin and in private practice domiciliary visits 'chiefly among the poor', May 1782-October 1785. Indexed by symptoms.

Papers of the Clare Hall Hospital, 1905-1929, including minutes of the meetings of the Board, Finance Committee, General Purposes and House Committee, Visiting Sub-committee and Farm Sub-committee; annual reports; finance reports; financial papers and papers relating to superannuation.

The collection comprises a detailed financial report on the state of the hospital, dated 1819 (WMS/Amer.80) and a prescription book for the women's section of a large hospital, dated 1840 and conjecturally assigned to the Hospital de San Andrés (WMS/Amer.87).

Records of the Metropolitan Hospital Sunday Fund. The archive comprises: minutes and meetings papers of the Council, annual general meetings and various committees, 1872-1984 (Mss 30585, 30587-94); annual reports and accounts, 1873-1994 (Ms 30586); other financial records, 1934/5 (Ms 30595); correspondence and papers, including papers concerning bequests, 1871-ca 1989 (Ms 30596-609, 616); posters (Ms 30610); and photographs with associated papers, 1959-95 (Ms 30611-15).

Comprises: Administrative records; Estate and property records; Nursing records; Medical records; Pathology records; Radiography records; Nurses League records; Staff records; Operating theatre records.

Records of the Metropolitan Ear Nose and Throat Hospital, including minutes, 1954-1959; annual reports, 1875-1947; registers of operations, 1955-1966, matron's correspondence, 1950-1968 and general correspondence, 1908-1931.