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Microfilm of papers relating to the enactment of racial laws in the Third Reich including the Sudetenland, 1935-1943.

Records of Lawn and Alder Limited, wine merchants, including Board and general meeting minutes; register of members, directors, etc, annual returns under Companies Acts, and including register of seals; share transfer certificates; memorandum and articles of association and papers in liquidation with returns to Registrar of Companies and accounts.

The Law Union and Rock Insurance Company Limited records comprise: deed of settlement, prospectus, agreements, conveyances and related papers 1854-1970; AGM minutes and annual reports and accounts 1855-1970; board minutes and agendas 1858-1973; committee minutes and reports 1857-1935; seal registers 1896-1964; correspondence and reports 1901-28; policy registers 1854-67; instructions to agents 1898-1903; scrapbooks ca.1888-1961; and records concerning staff 1896-1957.

Permission to publish any material must be obtained from the depositor.

Records of the Law Union and Crown Insurance Company, comprising fire department instructions to agents.

Minute book and list of members of the Law Students' Debating Society.

Records of the Law Life Assurance Society comprise: policy registers 1823-1912; minutes 1823-1911; accounts 1823-91; papers relating to the transfer of business to Phoenix Assurance 1909-10; and papers concerning directors of the company 1910-33.

The Law Fire Insurance Society records consist of constitutional documents, minutes, administrative material including items relating to staff and salaries, reinsurance treaties, annual reports and financial material. Ms 29198 comprises annotated copy minutes and meetings papers of the Accident Offices Association found amongst the Society's records.

Papers of John F Lavery, consisting chiefly of photographs of Ancient Greek sites. Including photographs, glass slides and negatives of Ancient Greek sites, Greek landscapes and modern Greek buildings. Notebooks containing notes, diary entries and sketches, interspersed with items of correspondence and poems. Typescript bound draft volume: Agamemnon, Choephoria and Eumenides, edited and translated by Lavery. Draft articles and academic notes by Lavery. Lavery's PhD thesis, 1985; personal correspondence [1985-1995]. Sketches, press cuttings, maps, and poems.

Records of Lavender Hill Congregational Church, Stormont Road, near Clapham and Battersea, 1881-1976, including Church Meeting minutes; Deacons' (later Elders') Meeting minutes; Stormont Brotherhood minutes; membership rolls; journal of daily events; The Stormont Magazine and photographs of church buildings, church members and so on.

Marriage registers for Lavender Hill Congregational Church, Stormont Road, Battersea, 1917-1963.

Extensive collection of personal and working papers reflecting many aspects of Joseph Lauwerys' varied career, including science education, educational broadcasting, international co-operation and understanding and comparative education. They include correspondence files, mostly dating from the late 1940s onwards; lecture notes, articles, conference papers and other published and unpublished writings; files relating to societies, associations and organisations; material about post-War reconstruction and the founding of UNESCO; files relating to specific overseas visits and tours; and collected papers on the educational conditions in many different countries.

Papers of Leonard G Carr Laughton, consisting of mainly notebooks, both in his hand and that of his father's, containing their research at the Public Record Office, British Museum and other repositories, relating to various aspects of nautical history. Among these are notes on Nelson, extracts from Pepys' diary and notes for articles on HMS VICTORY. There are also blueprints used in the restoration of HMS VICTORY, together with the Technical Committee minutes of meetings, 1927-8 and the Advisory Committee minutes, 1929. There are a series of notes on lectures given by Professor Sir John Knox Laughton, including those given at the Royal Naval College at Greenwich in the early 1900s. The collection contains a typed copy of L G Carr Laughton's 'Nautical Dictionary'; a card index for Dictionary of National Biography entries; a number of albums containing newspaper cuttings; and various correspondence including letters with Dr R C Anderson, 1925-37. Finally, there are some manuscripts written by others including Harold H Brindley and a copy of a personal logbook kept by Dudley Stone on board the ship MONKBARNS, 1913, Buenos Ayres to Australia.

Records of Lord Charles Latham, leader of the London County Council, consisting of reports, papers, correspondence, notebooks and diaries including photographs and press cuttings belonging to Lord Latham.

Correspondence between Dr Maurice Laserson and Professor Ernst Cohn-Wiener, art historian, 25 Feb 1924-26 Dec 1938 on topics including Cohn-Wiener's travel experiences and the art treasures and traditions of various countries; Cohn-Wiener's experience in India including comments on the situation of the indigenous Jewish population there; Laserson's activities relating to his involvement with ORT (Organisation for Rehabilitation through Training) and efforts by Laserson, in Australia, to find suitable employment and an entry permit for Cohn-Wiener. Also Curriculum Vitae of Cohn-Wiener, written whilst in India, [1938] and a list of Cohn-Wiener's publications produced by Laserson.

Records of the Larmite family relating to premises in Finchley. Documents include conveyances, lease and releases, abstracts of title, wills and probates, bargain and sales, mortgages, feoffment and papers relating to enclosure.

Papers of Cpt Dennis Augustus Hugo Larking, consisting of private letters to Captain Larking from Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty (1871-1936) and Lady Beatty (d 1932). Lady Beatty's letters, 1914 to 1918, were mostly written from Aberdour House, Fife. The letters from Earl Beatty, 1914 to 1928, date mostly from the war, when the Admiral commanded the First Battle Cruiser Squadron, later the Battle Cruiser Force, and then the Grand Fleet.

Records of the Lankat Rubber Company Limited, including articles of association, minute books, annual reports, and circulars to shareholders.

Access to records less than 30 years old (or records less than 70 years old which relate to staff) should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).

Minutes of the Lanka Plantation Company Limited.

Papers of Joseph Langland, undated, comprise copies of his poems about Buchenwald and Hiroshima entitled 'Buchenwald near Weimar'; 'The Lotus Song'; 'A Hiroshima Lullaby' and a copy of an entry from Who's Who in America.

Records of the Langkon North Borneo Rubber Limited, comprising articles of association, prospectus and circulars to shareholders.

Records of Langford Road School including admission registers, attendance register and log books.

Papers of Felix Langer, 1933-1941, comprise three volumes of diaries plus enclosures. The diaries contain mostly sparse notes often barely legible. A large part of the content relates to books.

Records of Langen (Java) Rubber Estates Company Limited, including articles of association, prospectuses and circulars to shareholders.

The only surviving records of Langbourn Ward School are trustees' minutes from 1738 and a set of rules.

Records of the Langbourn Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise minutes, rate assessments and inhabitants lists, administrative papers and records of assistance sought from the benevolent fund. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.

Papers of Andrew Lang, [1892], comprise a letter to an unknown recipient, 'I am adding something on Continental Literature, which you shall have in a day or two. Your note and enclosure somehow were overlooked'.

Sir William Arbuthnot Lane papers, 1880-1956, comprising autobiographical notes, scrapbook, reprints and biographical material.

Records of Richard Stuart Lane, Baltic shipping agent and merchant, comprising: letter books 1858-68, note book on foreign clients 1856, private diaries 1875-82 and correspondence and accounts 1847-87.

Records of attorneys John Lane, Thomas Lane and John Lane, comprising: account books 1768-1821 (Ms 11453-11453A, 11454-7) , out-letter book 1778-1781 (Ms 11453B) and miscellaneous correspondence and legal papers 1783-1847 (Ms 11457A-B).

Papers of Elsie Lane, including personalia, autobiographical notes and correspondence about her life, training, career and views on education and training, 1912-1973; also a few cuttings about the National Association for Gifted Children; also includes her father's apprenticeship indentures as a print cutter, 1881.

Papers, 1763-1907, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents relating to properties in Tottenham, East Acton, Harrow, Highgate, Stoke Newington, Twickenham, Acton, Ealing, Teddington and Kingston. Papers of the solicitors relating to the Chancery case of the heirs of Halifax and Atkinson concerning property in Enfield and Ottery Saint Mary, Devon, 1790-1805; and papers relating to the case of A. Turner v. J. Bingham for debt, held in King's Bench, 1796.

Also the Sheriff of Middlesex's acknowledgment of the receipt into his custody of the bodies of persons charged by the outgoing Sheriff, 28 September 1794, with a schedule giving the name of defendants, date of arrest, plaintiffs, cause of action, sum sworn to be levied, name of process and their return and attorneys names. These are persons charged with debt, damages, bills of Middlesex, in King's Bench Prison; not criminal offences.

Papers of Howard Lansell relating to Hampton Grammar School, including school prospectus, 1934; school reports, 1939; school photograph, 1938; The Lion school magazine, 1936-1990 (with some gaps); and papers relating to the Old Hamptonian Association, 1939-1990. Also school photograph for Twickenham County School, 1947.

Papers of Myer Jack Landa, 1900-1945, including papers relating to Jewish organisations including the Jewish Association of Arts and Sciences, the Jewish Fund for Soviet Russia, the Refugee Industries Committee and the Israel Delivered from Bondage Society; correspondence, 3 Sep 1943-27 Feb 1945 and newspaper and journal articles, chiefly reviews of books with a Jewish theme, some of them by Landa, 1900-1943.

Copies of contracts and notarial certificate documenting the sale of a house at Burgschmietstrasse 12, Nuremberg, property of Max and Frieda Landenberger, to Gauleiter Hölz for the sum of RM 4,000 and a summary of the event, 4 Dec 1938-27 Feb 1939. This collection is an example of the way in which the Nazis forcibly appropriated Jewish property under the guise of a legitimate transaction into which both parties freely entered.

Records of the Land Tax Commissioners for the City of London, including a number of administrative papers (see Ms 11295-315, 11318-20) and also a fine run of assessment books for the City, 1692/3-4 and 1703/4-1949, arranged by wards (Ms 11316-317D). The run of assessments are particularly valuable as they predate those for most counties, which only survive from 1780, when duplicate returns had to be lodged with the Clerk of the Peace.

The Tower Division of Middlesex covered the area to the east of the City of London including Hackney, Whitechapel, Spitalfields, Shoreditch, Wapping, Norton Folgate, Poplar, Stratford, Bow, Mile End, Bethnal Green and Stepney. The records comprise land tax assessment books arranged by parish.

Records of the Land Tax Commissioners, comprising land tax assessments and redemptions for properties in the London Boroughs of Lambeth, Greenwich, Wandsworth, Westminster, Bexley, Barnet, Islington, Haringey, City of London, and Southwark.

Land tax assessment for Hampton.

Warrant to levy and collect Land Tax in Islington.

Minutes of the Land Club League, press cuttings and notes on the land question, held by Edward R Pease: Limpsfield and District (Surrey) Land Club minutes, 1907-1909; Land Club Union minutes, 1908-1909; Land Club League minutes, 1909-1911; Press cuttings; Notes on the land question.

Marriage registers for Lancaster Road, Congregational Church, Enfield, 1938-1943.

Papers of A M D Lampen, comprising six lecture notebooks kept by Lampen at the Naval College, Dartmouth, and deal mainly with historical subjects.

Records of Lampard, Clark and Company, tea traders, including correspondence; financial accounts; and statements of shipments of tea and rubber.

Papers of Lamont and Warne, coal merchants, including contracts, correspondence and notes of sale for orders with a number of collieries in Great Britain, and gas and other companies supplied with coal.

Confidential circular letter to leading government officials, 27 Jul 1944, from Dr Lammers, Reichsminister and Chef der Reichskanzlei, regarding the Nazi government's public treatment of the bomb plot of 20 July 1944.

C 1621-1627 M 1619-1753

Records of Saint James in the Wall, Monkwell Street, City of London, also known as Lamb's Chapel, comprising register of baptisms, 1620-1627 and marriages, 1618-1626 and 1696-98; and register of marriages, 1709-1753; which includes, at front, list of chaplains or "readers" of the chapel, 1694-1731.

Papers of the Manor of Lambeth, Surrey, comprising admission of tenant to land on Norwood Common, and entries in the tenants' court books of the manors of Lambeth and Croydon.

Records of the Lambeth Waterworks Company relating to water supply and distribution, including engineer's report books; Inspector's report books; water supply applications and agreements; supply registers; water meters; constant supply registers; registers of fires; water rent registers; engine time books and statistics; house surveys and works in progress.

Staff records of the Lambeth Waterworks Company, comprising establishment books.

Financial records of the Lambeth Waterworks Company, including ledgers; journals; cash books and day books; Collector's rent and revenue records; water charges records; road watering and meter account books.

Corporate records of the Lambeth Waterworks Company, including minute books of the Committee of Management and Directors; Committee minute books; agenda books; Director's reports; correspondence and letter books; legal papers; papers relating to stocks and shares; dividend books; registers of bonds; and contracts records.