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Eight pencil drawings and watercolour paintings of geological features around Cromarty and Assynt, in the Highlands of Scotland, by Charles Henry Lardner WOODD, August 1847.

Papers of Searles Valentine Wood Jnr, [1862-1881], comprising:

Illustrated manuscript, 'A memoir in explanation of the structure of the glacial and post glacial beds.... in the Thames valley between London and the sea...', 1867; Ordnance Survey maps of East Anglia and the Thames Valley, annotated with geological lines, notes and colouring by Searles Valentine WOOD jnr, which were used as field maps during his research into glacial deposits in the south east of England, [1862-1881]; File of letters concerning the complaint by Searles Valentine Wood jnr about the alterations made to Joseph Prestwich's published paper on the Crag of Norfolk, Mar-Apr 1875.

Papers of Nathaniel John Winch, [1808]-1820, comprising:

Drawing of a plan of the dykes in Montagu Main Colliery, [1808]; Sketches of sections showing dykes in Whitley Quarry and Walbottle Dean, [c 1814]; Letter to Thomas Webster describing a fossil plant found near Whitby, 1820.

This Post class comprises material on how the Post Office operated during wartime and civil emergencies. The greater part of the collection relates to the vital task of maintaining communications, including handling prisoners-of-war mail, censorship and civil defence arrangements during the First World War (1914-1918) and the Second World War (1939-1945). Among the early papers are documents relating to the South African War of 1899-1902 and some nineteenth century notices and field manuals of the Post Office Rifles Association.

Some records have been transferred from POST 14.

Large, conte and pencil drawing of a Cruziana semiplicata fossil by John Lucas Tupper, Rugby School, Rugby, [1875].

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.

Within this class are volumes and files that contain basic information about established Post Office staff and about the principal Post Office branches in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. This class also contains details of Post Office establishments abroad, packet boat services, deceased officers, vacancies and committee reports regarding the Post Office Establishment, amongst much else. There are 24 volumes (POST 59/1-24) covering the period 1691-1798, but the majority of the material consists of lists of salaried officers at various British Establishments for the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The class is divided into eight Sub-series, a few of which should be mentioned at the outset. Sub-series 1 is the largest of these and contains the main Establishment books and lists of officers from 1691-1983, published annually from the late eighteenth century (bound copies for this series for the period 1869-1980 can be found in the BPMA search room). Sub-series 3 contains the Establishment books for provincial postal regions across Britain and so is naturally considerable in size, although the period covered for these books tends to be late nineteenth and early twentieth century only. By contrast, Sub-series 4 and 5 contain major and minor Establishment books for the London Postal Region, spanning nearly a 200-year period from 1800. The only series that does not contain lists of basic information (which is the essence of most of the Establishment books) is Sub-series 6, which contains 20 papers and committee reports for the period 1793-1923 that describe changes that have occurred and have been proposed to the Establishment system; a useful starting point for understanding the organisational development of the Establishment structure.

The sort of information included has changed over this 300-year period, but a large proportion of the information found in any particular Establishment book is likely to include an employee's name, their department or location, date of appointment, and yearly salary (or weekly wage). Similarly, the type of employee that has been included in the yearly establishment books has changed over time (and some consideration of the difference between 'established' and 'unestablished' staff will follow), but as a rule of thumb, in the main Establishment books that were published annually (which can be found in Sub-Series 1), it is staff who have been occupied in more senior positions within the Post Office hierarchy who are likely to be found. As a consequence, most of the yearly establishment books within this class will only ever list by name a modest proportion of the entire Post Office workforce for any given year. (It may be helpful for prospective researchers to note that the best starting point in searching for records relating to 'rank and file' employees are the appointments indexes and pensions indexes. A guide to these sources can be downloaded from the BPMA website and a printed version can be found in the BPMA search room, entitled 'Guide to Family History Research'.) POST 59/ 26, 28, 32, 33, 34, 37, 39, 40, 42 and 91 include brief summaries of duties performed by officers. POST 59/ 7, 11, 18 and 20 give complements of Packet Boats.

Watercolour drawing of a quartz crystal with asbestos inclusions, by Charlotte Caroline Sowerby, [1854].

Caption reads: 'Mineralogical phenomenon

Rock crystal with an hexahedral pyramid in the centre formed of Asbestos. This Crystal is supposed to be unique, Mr Sowerby never having seen a similar one, so extraordinarily curious and beautiful. Charlotte C Sowerby.'

Manuscript treatises and follows:

F 1: 'Annales Elizabethae Reginae', by Anthony Champney, 1558-1603. 1 vol. Latin.

F 3: Declaration of the Vicars Apostolic and their Coadjutors in Great Britain in defense of the Catholic faith, 1826. 1 vol. English.

F 4: Treatise from regular leaders (Jesuits or Benedictines) of England, against Richard Smith, Bishop of Chalcedon as part of the approbation controversy entitled 'A survey of the Answere to the Bishop of Chalcedon his letter to the lay Catholics of England sent to him by the heads of three regular orders in England', 1629. 1 vol. English.

F 5: De quimdecim gloriosis Anglia martyribus breuis historia,

ab Henrico Stilo Benedictino, ex Anglico sermone, in Lamu translate, ex me'I ciori ordine collocate.Pro verae virtutis preniys, falsisceleris poenas subimus.
Gislenpopoli. 1 vol. Latin.

F 6: Sixteenth century Commonplace book concerning the reformation and the dissolution of the monasteries. 1 vol. Latin.

F 7: Volume of additions to Charles Butler's Historical Memoirs of the English, Irish and Scottish Roman Catholics, given to the Vicar Apostolic of the London District by Butler, 1822. 1 vol. English.

F 8: Partial transcript of B28: Volume of contemporary catalogues of the English martyrs, 17th century.

F 9: Transcriptions of manuscripts in Series A comprising:

Transcription of 'Collectanea B' or 'Collectanea de martyribus', the collection of Father Christopher Greene, chiefly containing correspondence between Richard Verstegen and Father Person's, 1592-1594. This collection is no longer in the possession of the Westminster Diocesan Archives as it was exchanged with Stonyhurst College in 1921.

Transcription of Shelly's supplication to Queen Elizabeth I, 1585, in Series A, volume 4, p 33.

Transcriptions of papers relating to martyrs from Series A.

F 10: Transcriptions of papers relating to martyrs from Series A. 1 file.

F11-F17: Biographical notes on priests in penal times by Canon Edward Burton, arranged alphabetically. 7 boxes. English.

F18-19: Theological treatises by Jos[eph] Stapleton, eighteenth century. 2 vols. Latin.

F 20: Sermon notes on the Resurrection and other topics. 1 vol. English.

F 21: Two unbound manuscripts: 'The origin, distinction and mutual independence of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Power' by Bishop William Poynter, and 'The Contemplative Solitaire and Spiritual Guide' by Father George of St Joseph. 2 items. English.

Private correspondence and diaries, 1598-1847, comprising:

E1: An extended letter from John Sargeant (1623-1710) in his defence, bound in a volume, giving 'a catalogue of all the pieces I have writ for Catholic Faith; together with the Occasion, the Process and Upshot of the Controversies between myself and the Protestant writers', Paris, 1700.

E 2: Volume of letters, 1596-1606, chiefly in Spanish, notably from Don Gomez Suarez de Figueroa of Cordova, Duke of Feria to Thomas Fitzherbert and from Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria; Lord Bothwell; Thomas Fitzherbert and Sir Francis Inglefield.

E 7 and 8: Two volumes of Bishop Robert Gradwell's journal whilst rector of the English College, Rome. Volume 1, 1817-1825 and volume 2, 1825-1828.

E 11 Volume of the correspondence of Charles Edward Stuart, c 1764-1769 including with Henry Benedict Stuart and members of the French Court including the French Queen. The volume also contains the correspondence of Lady Webb.

E 12 Volume containing notes on legal practice, possibly made by Edmund Blount, Clifford's Inn, 1695.

Papers of St Gregory's, Paris, (the Paris Seminary), 1701-1782 and an account of the English Mission by Bishop Edward Dicconson, Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District, [c 1741-1752].

Supplementary historical papers, 1293-1889, comprising:

1 Copy of the charter and statutes of the Vicars Choral of Wells, c 1591.

2 Volume containing Acta of Archbishops of Canterbury, Robert Winchelsea, 1293-1313; Walter Reynolds, 1313-1327 and Simon Islip, 1349-1366 and heresy presentations in the diocese of Norwich, c 1430.

3 Volume of letters of Bishop Robert Gradwell, whilst Rector of the English College, Rome, 1817-1828, chiefly to Bishop William Poynter.

4-5 Volumes containing copies of letters of Bishop Thomas Griffiths, 1837-1847.

6 Papers of Capt Barker on the Catholic Revival, 1676-1683 and papers of Henry Browne, Secretary of State to James II in exile at St. Germain, chiefly between France and England, c 1689-1691.

7 Papers relating to the Stuarts, notably James II, 1692-1695, 1711-1713 and 1717-1719.

8-13 Copies of papers and transcripts gathered by the antiquarian John Kirk when researching a continuation of Charles Dodd's Church History of England (1737-42).

14 Official printed material relating to the Beatification of St John Fisher, St Thomas More and others, 1866.

15 Writings of Bishop Richard Challoner and John Kirk's copy of Challoner's Spiritual Letters.

16 Letters from the French Clergy, following the French Revolution, chiefly to Bishop John Douglass, 1792-1798.

17 Papers of Bishop Douglass chiefly concerning nuns, 1788-1805.

18 Papers relating to the Chapter of St Peter, Rome, [by Canon Richard Howard], 1714-1720.

19 Petition of thanks to Pope Pius IX from the Laity of Westminster and Southwark, following the restoration of the Hierarchy, 1850.

20 Draft letters of Bishop William Poynter, 1812-1827.

24-27 Volumes of correspondence of the Roman Agents 1578-1636.

28 Volume of contemporary catalogues of the English martyrs, 17th century.

29 Letters and papers of William Howard and a few earlier family papers, c 1633-1680.

30 Letters of Bishop Robert Gradwell at Rome, 1817-1827.

31 Manuscript volume of Thomas Worthington's catalogue of martyrs, 1614, and copies of other papers concerning martyrs.

32 Volume containing transcriptions of documents in the Magliabecchiana Library, c 1549-1625.

33-46 Epistolae Variarum, 1701-1784, letters from Rome to the Vicars Apostolic.

47 Volume of Roman Agency papers, 1625 with some miscellaneous papers, 1605-1715.

48 Volume of papers of the Roman Agency and papers of [Christopher] Bagshaw, 1590-1790.

49 Volume of draft letters of Bishop William Poynter, [1806]-1814.

50-55 Claims for the recovery of the Douai property and for compensation and correspondence with the English Commissioners, c 1814-1830.

56-57 Process for the English martyrs at Rome, 1888-1889.

Pre-reformation papers and papers of the English Secular Clergy, 1501-1688 and papers of the Vicars Apostolic of the London District, 1688-1847.

The papers chiefly comprise correspondence with the Roman agent; papers relating to Synods; copies of Pastorals; correspondence with Vicars Apostolic and clergy from the Western, Midland and Northern Districts and Scotland; correspondence with Irish Bishops; correspondence with institutions of the English Catholic diaspora; correspondence with Bishops and clergy abroad notably with the Catholic Church in the British colonies; legal papers including wills, bequests, leases and trusts and papers of institutions of the English Catholic diaspora including Douai College, 1652-1789; St Omers College, 1762-1772; the English College Rome, 1701-1783; the English College Lisbon, 1708-1791; the English Seminary Paris (also known as St Gregory's, Paris), 1762-1777 and student register for the English College Lisbon, 1628-1715.

The papers of the Vicars Apostolic of the London District include papers from the episcopacy of Bishop John Leyburn, 1688-1702, Bishop Bonaventure Giffard, 1703-1734; Bishop Benjamin Petre, 1734-1758; Bishop Richard Challoner, 1758-1781; Bishop James Robert Talbot, 1781-1789; Bishop John Douglass, 1791-1798; Bishop William Poynter, 1812-1827; Bishop James Yorke Bramston, 1828-1836 and Bishop Thomas Griffiths, 1836-1847.

Highlights of the collection include: a consultation about the dowry of Catherine of Aragon, c 1509; copy of a letter from Mary Queen of Scots, c 1586; letter from St Henry Walpole to Father Persons, 13 Nov 1593; chart of the Royal succession down to James VI of Scotland as published in Father Persons' book on the succession, 1593; letters of Cardinal William Allen; letter from Father Henry Garnet relating to the Gunpowder Plot, c 1605 and a petition from the Citizens of London to Charles I complaining about Popery, 1640.

Papers of Adam Sedgwick, 1816 and 1843-1854, comprising:

Two notebooks from Sedgwick's tour through the continent of Europe, June-September 1816; manuscripts of Sedgwick's papers, mostly on the geology of Wales, which were read and later published by the Society, 1843-1854.

The Packet Minute series (POST 29 and 34) comprise minutes to the Postmaster General from the Secretary to the Post Office, on the Packet Boat and overseas mails services. It began in 1811, at which date those subjects were transferred from the Postmaster General's Minute series (POST 30 and 35).

POST 34 consists of volumes containing a copy of, or reference to, every minute submitted to the Postmaster General, including those which have since been destroyed. POST 34/1 - 105 are indexed. The Postmaster General's decision on each case is also recorded. POST 29 consists of those actual papers which are still in existence (comprising both the original minute to the Postmaster General and the papers leading up to, and following from, the Secretary's submission). It has been produced in two versions, one numerical and the other alphabetical, i.e., set out under subject headings. When requisitioning papers, both the catalogue reference Nos. and the Minute No. should be quoted, e.g., POST 29/4, Pkt 203B/1314.

For details of how this class relates to the other report and minute classes, see the following section 'Related Material'.

Microfilm copies

The indices to these volumes have been microfilmed (excepting the years 1914 - 1920), and these must be viewed on microfilm.

A series of microfilms has also been created which includes extracts only from piece numbers POST 34/17 - 200. These extracts relate specifically to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific services. A catalogue of the extracts included may be found on microfim reel no. 43.

A separate microfilm includes various extracts from this series, covering piece numbers from POST 34/40 - 226 (Although extracts are not included from every volume). These extracts seem to relate mostly to Singapore, but it is not clear how comprehensive this selection of extracts is.

This series comprises reports and papers on the establishment and operation of, and facilities and services provided by The Post Office Savings Bank. This series comprises those records that did not form part of the National Savings Department holdings in 1969.

This POST class comprises papers and copy minutes of the Post Office Board (1934-[1992]), the Post Office Management Board (1970-1979), and the Posts and Girobank Board (1980-1981). The signed minutes of the main Post Office Board are included, 1969-1972.

This POST class also includes papers of subsidiary boards and committees established by the board, or whose papers and minutes were received by the Board. These include the Girobank Board, Parcels Business Board, Post Office Finance Limited Board, the Post Office Board Emergency Committee, the National Joint Policy Council, the Managing Director's Committee: Posts, the Chairman's Executive Committee, the Post Office Executive Committee, the Girobank and Counters Committee, the Audit Committee, the Counters Executive Committee, the Major Projects Expenditure Committee, the Royal Mail Executive Committee, the Letters Management Committee, the Corporate Identitity and design Committee, the Counter Automation Management Committee and ad hoc committees established by the board.

This class consists of papers spanning the period from pre-regionalisation, when the country was separated into Districts run by District Surveyors, reporting directly to the Postmaster General, up until the early 1990s.

It includes papers on Regional surveying duties and the stretching of resources in the light of an increase in work load due to rapid expansion of the Post Office in the nineteenth century.

In addition it incorporates papers from various Committees including:

-The Decentralisation Committee, appointed to consider devolution of powers in the light of mounting criticism of centralisation of Post Office administration leading to inefficiency and an inability to concentrate on development of policy.

-The Committee of Enquiry on the Post Office (Bridgeman Committee) appointed to consider change in Post Office administration, which had various wide ranging recommendations, including that of the introduction of a Regional system with powers devolved on Regional Directors.

-The Committee on Metropolitan and Regional organisation (Gardiner Committee), appointed to carry through the recommendations of the Bridgeman Report, culminating in the creation of two experimental Regions in Scotland and the North East.

-The Working Party on Regionalisation appointed to assess the progress of Regionalisation and to recommend further innovations if necessary.

It also includes papers from the experimental Regions and various Regional Conferences, as well as papers from the individual Regions. Subjects covered by this material include papers covering the civil disturbances in Northern Ireland and papers relating to the London Postal Service and the inauguration of the London Postal Region. Also included are papers concerning the input of the London and Midlands Regions into the several reviews of efficiency of the Post Office conducted by McKinsey and Company.

There are also papers relating to the split of the Post Office into two separate divisions: Postal and Telecommunications, and how this might best be carried out across the Regional structure.

The papers incorporate a wide range of material, including annual reports, meeting minutes and papers, financial paperwork, organisational diagrams, Regional Board papers, Regional publications, reviews, strategic plans and photographs of Regional representatives.

The POST class is comprised, for the most part, of Entry Books of correspondence which contain authorities for acceptance and payment of monies by probate of wills, letters of administration, powers of attorney, bankruptcy, appointment of assignees, incidental payments, packet boat expenses and warrants for payments of annuities.

GOS/14/1-2; Pamphlet: The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, c 1910; GOS/14/3Research Fund Appeal pamphlet containing brief history of the Hospital, c 1925; GOS/14/4 Illustrated pamphlet: A Little Book Illustrating the Hospital for Sick Children, circa 1925-1926; GOS/14/5, Illustrated pamphlet: Warwick Deeping Writes on the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, c 1930; GOS/14/6, Published text of address by Dr F. J. Poynton, An Address upon Some Incidents in the History of the Hospital for Sick Children 6th May 1939; GOS/14/7, Pamphlet: A Short History of the Hospital for Sick Children Great Ormond Street, by Sir Lancelot Barrington-Ward, 1947 (originally published in the Medical Press and Circular, 1941; GOS/14/8, Pamphlet: The Story of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, by G. J. Piller, c 1970; GOS/14/9, Text of school project: A History of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, by Andrew Hughes, 1986.

GOS/14/10, Published Letters announcing the establishment of the Hospital, March 1850, May 1850; An Appeal to the Public in Behalf of a Hospital for Sick Children, 1850; 1858 Appeal circular with advertisement of Charles Dickens' speech in aid of the Hospital; GOS/14/11, Published Report of Proceedings at a Public Meeting to promote the Foundation of a Children's Hospital, at the Hanover Square Rooms, l8th March 1851; GOS/14/12, Pamphlet, Draft of Rules and Regulations for the Hospital for Sick Children, 1851; GOS/14/13, Published circular, Proceedings of Special Court of Governors (re costs of new building), 1888; GOS/14/14, Circular relating to arrangements for Special Court of Governors' meeting to discuss management dispute with Dr West, 1877.

GOS/14/15 Published report, Appointment of an Almoner, 1909; GOS/14/16 Hospital Prayer Book, 1932 edition; G08/14/17, Programme for Foundation-Stone laying of new hospital building, 1937.

Printed items concerning Hospital Appeals, including GOS/14/18, a volume entitled Specimen Copies of Appeals, 1852-1893, including copies of appeal circulars; Annual Dinner reports and programmes; advertisements for appeal-related lectures and concerts; also contains published reports on new buildings, 1875 and first service in the Chapel, 1875. Enclosures include draft appeal letters, 1894 Committee Diary, application form for post of Lady Superintendent, there is also a file of loose duplicate items removed from volume after conservation; GOS/14/19, Programme for Imperial Coronation Bazaar, 1902; GOS/14/20, Photograph album, Children's Portraits, produced for Imperial Coronation Bazaar, 1902; GOS/14/21, Souvenir programme for Midsummer Fair and Fete in aid of the Hospital, Olympia, June 1909.

GOS/14/22 Appeal leaflet, When Dreams Come True, c 1935; GOS/14/23 Peter Pan League appeal circular by A. A. Milne, 1930; GOS/14/24, an illustrated appeal circular, 1932; GOS/14/25 Ladies Association Clothing Fund circulars, 1930-1938; GOS/14/26, Circular on an exhibition of Salvador Dali jewellery in aid of new Medical School, c 1945-1950; GOS/14/27 Public appeal leaflet, Getting Better, Thank You, c 1935; GOS/14/28, Published list of contributors to Mr. Punch's Appeal on behalf of the Hospital 1900; GOS/14/29 Special and Urgent Appeal circular, 1886; GOS/14/30-31, Volumes of published reports of the Hospital's annual fund-raising dinners, 1864-1871 and 1864-83.

GOS/14/32/1-26 Printed texts of Annual Dinner speeches by Dr. West, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, John Walter, Sir William Gull, the Duke of Cambridge, Viscount Peel, the Earl of Derby and others, 1858-99.

GOS/14/33 Appeal collecting card, 1851, listing the Hospital's Provisional Committee; GOS/14/34, Appeal circular with poem, 'The Vision of St. Elizabeth of Hungary' 1872, with illustration of the new building; GOS/14/35, Illustrated pamphlet, The Appeal for the Reconstruction of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street; The Record, the Needs and the Aims of the Hospital, 1933; GOS/14/36 Special Friends Appeal leaflet, Help us to help the Children, 1973.

Medical and Nursing material, comprising GOS/14/37, Pamphlet, Welcome to the Hospital, 1960, and subsequent revised editions; GOS/14/38 Broadsheet, Children in Hospital, Play and Schooling, c 1970; GOS/14/39 Illustrated Staff Handbook, 1975; GOS/14/40-41, Group Catering Handbooks for Staff Meals and Special Functions, 1980; GOS/14/42-47 Hospital Pharmacopoeia editions, produced 1891, 1900, 1921, 1927, 1933 and 1958; G03/14/48, File of programmes and circulars on Paediatric Surgery, 1949-1963, mainly by British Association of Paediatric Surgeons and also a programme for Hospital Open Day, 1956 and the visit programme for Swedish surgeons, 1949.

GOS/14/49 1908 edition of Dr. West's How to Nurse Sick Children Nurses' League; GOS/14/50-55, Issues of Nurses' League Journal, 1950-1955; GOS/14/56, Typescript published anthology, Thoughts of 100 Years of Nurse Training at the HSC, by Felix Besser and others, 1978; GOS/14/57, Exhibition guide, The Nurse and the Child, A Hundred Years of Nurse Training, 1978; GOS/14/58, File entitled H. S. CIRCA Souvenirs, donated by Sister M. J. McKay; includes Nurses League membership lists, 1962, 1971 and other nursing items; and a Brief History of the Hospital by H. Rutherford, House Governor, 1932.

GOS/14/59, File of mainly printed items collected by Nurse N. Outhwaite, including 1952 Centenary circulars, photographs of nursing staff c 1920-1940; Nurses League Journal 1973; signed copy of Thomas Twistington Higgins' 1952 history.

Hospital Events, comprising GOS/14/60, Programmes and Circulars for Hospital Centenary events, 1952; also programme for Lord Southwood's memorial service, 1946; GOS/14/61 File, programmes for staff awards ceremonies, memorial services, 50th anniversary of the League of Remembrance, 1964, the opening of Sir James Barrie Building, 1963 by the Princess Royal, licensing of Reverend D. Bacon as Chaplain, 1983, the visit of King Hussein of Jordan, 1966, and the visit of the Venezuelan Ambassador, 1976.

Publications by other organisations about the hospital, including GOS/14/62, Princess Mary's Wedding Supplement, published by the Times, 28/2/1922, with an article on the Princess Royal's associations with Great Ormond Street; GOS/14/63 Issues of Fun with articles on Great Ormond Street, 1865 and 1869; GOS/14/64, 'In a Good Cause' (programme of Punch Matinee in aid of Great Ormond Street), 3/5/1900; GOS/14/65 Published extracts from magazines of articles about GOS; from Fun, Aunt Judy's Magazine, Evening Star and so on, 1865-1866; GOS/14/66, Issues of The Leisure Hour, 1877, and The Christian Million, 1884, with articles on the hospital; GOS/14/67, Issues of The Quiver, 11th June 1870, with article on the hospital and Quiver Cot subscription list; GOS/14/68, file containing issues of The Lancet, 1915; Medical Times and Gazette with article on Great Ormond Street, 1852; The Hospital Gazette, March 1925; St. James's Gazette, 16th February 1898; article on child rheumatism from the British Medical Journal, 1939.

GOS/14/69 Issue of periodical Black and White, 22nd December 1900; GOS/14/70, Issue of Illustrated magazine, 26th July 1952, with article on Great Ormond Street.

Publications of other organisations, including GOS/14/71, a booklet of photographs of St. Mary's Convent, Chiswick, c 1930; GOS/14/72, Commemorative short biography of Alexander Simpson Smith by T. Twistington Higgins, for Simpson Smith Memorial Trust. 1946; GOS/14/73, Published text of address, 'Upon the Future of the Nursing of Sick Children' by Allen Moncrieff (HCN, 1944); GOS/14/74, Published text of Harben Lecture on 'Human Relations in Child Health' by Professor Moncrieff, with a copy of his memorial service programme, 1971; GOS14/75, Signed copy of Lancet article, 'Hirschprung's Disease and Idiopathic Megacolon' by B. C. H. Ward; G0S/14/76, transcript report of a visit to Norwich of the Historical Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, 11th June 1966; GOS1 14/77, Programme of Carol Concert at the Royal Festival Hall in aid of the Malcolm Sargent Cancer Fund for Children.

GOS1 14/78, Article from Nutrition by L. I. Woolf, 'Inborn Errors of Metabolism and their Dietary Treatment'; GOS/14/79, Issue of The Hospital, vol. 49 (July 1953); GOS/14/80 Extract from Nursing Mirror, 1954, on Florence Nightingale; GOS/14/81, prospectus of Alberta Children's Hospital, circa 1970; GOS/14/82, Reports of Gold Medal Ceremony of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 1976; GOS/14/83, HMSO pamphlet, Staffing the Hospitals, an urgent National Need, 1945; GOS/14/84 Article from Brunel Society Gazette, 'Brunel's Crimean Hospital' 1984; GOS/14/85 Garthur Ltd., Catalogue of Respirators, c 1970.

GOS/14/86, Article from Clio Medica by Dr. Elizabeth Lomax, 'A Mid-19th Century British Pediatric Interpretation of the Mental Peculiarities and Disorders of Childhood'. 1981; GOS/14/87, NHS pamphlet, Working for Patients-The Health Service During the 1990s; GOS/14/88, four issues of The Hospital, 1920-1921; GOS/14/89, three issues of The Medical Times, 1928-1930; GOS/14/90, three issues of the Bulletin of the Fellowship of Medicine and Postgraduate Medical Associations, 1921-1924; GOS/14/91, three issues, The Lancet, 1960-1961; GOS/14/92, The Contemporary Review, February 1879, with an article on 'Ladies in Nursing'.

GOS/1 4/93, Box-file, entitled 'Magazines, Newsletters and Reports of Children's Hospitals overseas', l977-1981 (largely USA with some Canadian and Australian entries); GOS/14/94-95, Pictures of Life and Character by John Leech from The Collection of Mr. Punch, and 2nd series; 2 volumes, 1864; GOS/14/96, an issue of The Sphere, 1921 with an article about Great Ormond Street; GOS/14/97, Pharmacopoeia of the Metropolitan Hospital, 1926; GOS/14/98 Issue of Woman's Own with article on Great Ormond Street by Godfrey Winn, 1966; GOS/14/99, Article, 'Assessment of Nursing Staff Arrangements in a General Hospital' by F. M. Hatt (reprint from International Journal of Nursing, 1967); GOS/14/100, Issue of Nursing Times , March1977, with article on125th anniversary of Great Ormond Street; GOS/14/101, Issue of Reader's Digest, August 1980, with article about Great Ormond Street by Monica Dickens.

GOS/14/102, Wishing Well Appeal brochure, Building for Life, 1987; GOS/14/103, Programme for 15th Annual Meeting of the American Children's Hospitals Executive Council, held at Great Ormond Street, 4th Mat 1968 (filed with transcript report on public relations in hospitals by Gordon Piller, House Governor); GOS/14/104, Published text of 'A Tradition of Surgery at Great Ormond Street' (Simpson-Smith Lecture)by D. Innes Williams, 1981.

Additional Printed Material deposited by Directorate of Nursing in 1998, comprising GOS/14/105, Early printed Circulars and Resolutions of the Hospital's Provisional Committee, 1850; an invitation to a meeting of potential subscribers with the Provisional committee, 1851; a Circular notifying subscribers of the Hospital's opening, 1852; an example of an original Letter of Recommendation for admission of patient, 1852, with a copy of the Quiver Cot subscription form, 1870, with an engraving of the cot in use.

GOS/14/106, comprising a page from The Graphic, 1875, including announcement of opening of the new Hospital building for public inspection; GOS/14/107, Illustrated introductory leaflets to the Hospital for new members of staff, circa 1970; GOS/14/108, Introductory leaflet to the Hospital, The Child first and Always, 1990; GOS/14/109, Nursing Staff and School of Nursing prospectuses, illustrated, circa 1955, and also a programme of a conference to celebrate 100 years of nurse training at the Hospital , 1978; GOS/14/110, Programmes for special Centenary events at the Hospital, for opening of the Institute of Child Health's Province of Natal Centre, 1955, and for Hospital open day for delegates to the 8th International Paediatric Congress, 1956.

GOS/14/111 School of Nursing Rag Magazine, circa 1988; GOS/14/112, Programme of Lectures for event in honour of retirement of Mrs Caroline Bond from Board of Management, March 1992; GOS/14/113, Institute of Child Health Short Courses Programme, 1992-1993; GOS/14/114, Chronological history of the Italian Hospital, Queen's Square, 1984; GOS/14/115, Text of the First Annual Guest Lecture of the Leukaemia Research Fund, 'Recent Research into Human and Experimental Leukaemia, by Professor Jean Bernard, read at Great Ormond Street, 21 October 1963.

GOS/14/116, Leaflet advertising the work of the Friends of the Children of Great Ormond Street, c 1965, and the Autumn 1993 newsletter of the Friends, Extra Care, GOS/14/117, Article about the Hospital written for The Hospital Officer journal's 'Great Hospitals' series, 1952; GOS/14/118, Programme of European premiere of Walt Disney's 'Peter Pan' at the Leicester Square Theatre, authorised by the Hospital in aid of the British Red Cross Society, 1953; GOS/14/119, Promotional leaflet for Royal Gala Performance of 'Peter Pan' at the Barbican Theatre, 1982; GOS/14/120, Copy of poem, 'The Faithful Hound', by "E. T. ", published in aid of the Hospital, 1859; GOS/14/121, three issues of Woman's Own, July-August 1969, containing reminiscences of her career at the Hospital by Miss G. M. Kirby, Matron.

GOS/14/122, Copy of illustrated leaflet on the career of Dr. Norman Bethune (on Great Ormond Street medical staff, 1919-1920, and later served as doctor to Communist forces in the Spanish Civil War and Sino-Japanese War), published by the Canadian Government for his memorial house, Gravenhurst, Toronto; GOS/14/123, Official Anniversary history for NHS 50th Anniversary, A History of the NHS, by Nicholas Timmins, 1998; GOS/14/124, Examples of 1950s Motherhood training manuals on childhood illnesses, published by Steedman's Powders and Cow and Gate milk; GOS/14/125, Introductory leaflet to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children Hackney, circa 1990, with published articles on Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Princess Elizabeth Hospital, Shadwell.

GOS/14/126 Poster advertising 'Family and Friends' Royal Charity Gala in aid of the Sick Children's Trust, 1988; GOS/14/127, Programme for Ceremony of Rededication of the Hospital Chapel following its move to the Variety Club Building, 1 May 1994.

Additional material deposited by Great Ormond Street Public Affairs Department, 1999; GOS/14/128, 'Show me What My Friends can See', (guide by Dr. P. Sonksen and Blanche Stiff, published by Institute of Child Health an as advice manual for parents of partially-sighted babies, 1991); GOS/14/129, Always with Children, reminiscences of former Great Ormond Street nurse Mary Aston (Dorrance, 1997); GOS/14/130, Diary of a Child, by Susan Edwards, being an illustrated guide to child development up to age 10, published by Manor House Press in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital Fund, 1990; GOS/14/131, Great Ormond Street Hospital Special Olympic Cartoon Book, published in aid of the Great Ormond Street Wishing Well Appeal, 1988; GOS/14/132, Programmes of film Charity Premieres in aid of the Hospital, namely 'Hook', 1992; 'Junior', 1994; and 'Casper', 1995.

GOS/14/133, Stanley and His Magic Slippers, a cartoon published in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital Fund, circa 1990; GOS/14/134, Book of Life and Love, an anthology of poetry compiled by readers of Best magazine, published in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital Fund (Arrival press, 1989); GOS/14/135, 'A Record of the Royal Family's Close association with Great Ormond Street since the Hospital's Inception in 1852', prepared for the Wishing Well Appeal, Spring 1986.

Additional material moved from other parts of the Hospital, comprising GOS/14/136, Report of the Expert Group on Special Care for Babies (DHSS reports on Public Health and Medical Subjects, no. 127, 1971); GOS/14/137, Fit for the Future, the Report of the Committee on Child Health Services (HMSO, cmd. 6684, 1976); GOS/14/138, Prevention and health: everybody's business (HMSO, 1976); GOS/14/139, Pamphlet, Fire! How to deal with it and how to prevent it (Hospitals for Sick Children); GOS/14/140 Ministry of Health, pamphlet, Poliomyelitis, Medical memorandum. 1954; GOS/14/141, The Organisation of the In-Patient's Day, report of a Committee of the Central Health Council (HMSO, 1976); GOS/14/142, David Nabarro, A Case of Juvenile General Paralysis (reprinted from The Lancet, 1 Oct 1927); GOS/14/143, Report of Committee of Enquiry into the Education of Handicapped Children and Young People (HMSO, 1978); GOS/14/144, Second report from the Social Services Committee, Session 1979-80, Perinatal and Neonatal Mortality (HMSO, 1980).

GOS/14/145, Pamphlet, Voluntary Work at the Hospitals for Sick Children 1970s; GOS/14/146 Donald Court and Anthony Jackson (editors) Paediatrics in the Seventies (OUP, 1972); GOS/14/147, Leaflet, Paediatric Training in the United Kingdom (Overseas Committee of the BPA, no date); GOS/14/148, Future Management of the London specialist Postgraduate Hospitals (Consultative Document, DHSS, September 1978); GOS/14/149, 'St Christopher's Chapel, Notes on Interior Decoration', by Peter Larkworthy (1994); GOS/14/150, Peter Pan Golf Tournament, 1996, Miscellaneous printed items; GOS/14/151, Programme of visit of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Institute of Neurology. 1978; GOS/14/152, Ministry of Health, University Grants Committee, Postgraduate Medical Education and the Specialties. 1962; GOS/14/153, Pamphlet, Sick Children's Nursing, 1975 DHSS Publication. Central Office of Information; GOS/14/154 Pamphlet, Pupil Nurse Training at Tadworth Court, circa 1969; GOS/14/155, Booklet on the new ICH building, 1966; GOS/14/156, Pamphlet on The Hospital for Sick Children, circa 1985; GOS/14/157, Pamphlet about the hospital chaplaincy, circa 1985; GOS/14/158, Article in The Builder about the Institute of Child Health, 16 September 1955.

GOS/14/159, Article in Hospital Management about Tadworth Court, by Gordon Piller, January 1967; GOS/14/160, Article on Charles Dickens' memorial at GOS from The Dickensian, Summer 1994 , GOS/14/161, Article on Great Ormond Street from The Journal of the London Society, 1936, given 1995; GOS/14/162, Careers in the Hospital Service: Hospital Administration Ministry of Health August 1962; GOS/14/163, Master set of 'Information for Families' leaflets on individual medical conditions, issued by the Family Resource Centre 2003; GOS/14/164, Georgie Goes to Hospital, book for a child to colour in before going into hospital. Written by Chris Tuatev, North East London Polytechnic, 1976; GOS/14/165, 'The Child First and Always - Is It?', Professor Albert Aynsley-Green's inaugural Great Ormond Street Hospital Lecture, 25 September 2002. Also includes texts of 1996 lecture 'The Child First and Always' by Christine Hancock, President of the RCN, 2003 lecture, 'Making it Better for Children' by Professor Ian Kennedy , 2006 lecture, 'Building environments to protect Children's Health' by Professor Richard Jackson and 2007 Lecture, 'Is Improvement Science ?' by Dr. Donald M. Berwick.

GOS/14/166,The Remarkable Gatty Family of Ecclesfield , Joan and Mel Jones (2003); GOS/14/167, Letters of copyright assignment from patients to William Gates, volunteer and author of 'Bill Gates's Diaries", in aid of GOS; GOS/14/168, Broadsheets from the hospital school, 2002-2003; GOS/14/169, details of Great Ormond Street Hospital's patients' website pages, 2001; GOS/14/170, CHI Governance Review of Great Ormond Street, March 2003.

GOS/14/171, Records of the Training Department, comprising GOS/14/171/1, Staff Attitude Survey October 2001; GOS/14/171/2 Improving Working Lives literature and Newsletter, Oct 2001 onwards; GOS/14/171/13, 'Learning Links' newsletter.

GOS/14/172, Publications on the Medical Illustration Department, comprising GOS/14/172/1, 'Contrast', the Medical Illustration newsletter, 2002 to date; GOS/14/172/2, leaflet, 'Use of Medical Photography and video recording'; also GOS/14/173 GOS Families' Newsletter, 2002 to date; GOS/14/174, Programme of visit of Edward Prince of Wales to the Hospital, 3 May 1921, including brief history; GOS/14/175, Copy of article, 'Infantile Diarrhoea', by Dr F. E. Batten, from the Nursing Times 15 December 1906; GOS/14/176,Report of the 'Great Ormond Street Working Society' (for providing patients' clothing), 1910; GOS/14/177,Child Diet Sheets published by the Hospital, "The Protective Foods", 1946, "Diet for the Normal Child" (ages 1-2:2-5:5-12), 1950; GOS/14/178, Copy articles acquired by Jules Kosky, formerly Honorary Archivist to the Hospital, including, " The Life of Samuel Jones Gee MD" by O. Garrod (Wix Prize Essay, 1937); extracts from "Lord Southwood of Fernhurst by R. J. Minney, 1954; article on Viscount Southwood, "From Office Boy to Press Baron", by M. Stokes (Hornsey Historical Bulletin, no. 24, 1982): Extract from "A Man of Law's Tale" by Lord MacMillan of Aberfeldy (former Hospital Chairman), 1952; Extracts from Orientations by Ronald Storrs, 1937, re Harry Cust (friend of J. M. Barrie); "Woodlands; A footnote to Victorian Literary History" by Jules Kosky (Highgate residence of the Lehmann Family, GOS patrons) from people and Places: Lost Estates in Highgate, Hornsey and Wood Green 1996.

GOS/14/179, Rays of Hope. The story of the Leukaemia Research Fund (LRF, 1994), and copy articles by Dr Gordon Piller, formerly House Governor of the Hospital, 'Great Ormond Street', from The Three Banks Review (1969); 'Leukaemia - A Brief Historical Overview from Ancient Times to 1950', from The British Journal of Haematology 2001; GOS/14/180, Hopscotch (general interest magazine briefly published by the Hospital). 3 editions, 1990-1991; GOS/14/181, 50th Anniversary Historical Review Edition (1953-2003) of the Journal of Paediatric Surgery 2003; GOS/14/182, Information leaflets on the Hospital's International and Private Patients' Unit, 1998; GOS/14/183, Examples of general fundraising leaflets produced by the Hospital, 2002, including "Raise a Smile" Campaign and the Great Wall of China Walk; GOS/14/184, NHS Discussion Document, 'Healthy Futures', on child health provision in the north London Boroughs, 2003; GOS/14/185, Donor form 1936; GOS/14/186 Report of the Public Inquiry into children's heart surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary 1984-1995, Learning from Bristol (TSO) 2001.

GOS/14/187, Supporting Research and Development in the NHS: A Declaration of NHS Activity Associated with Research and Development April 1996; GOS/14/188, Future Developments April 1995: GOS/14/189, Committees Calendar 1894: GOS/14/190 Photocopy of extracts from book, Women at War( John Murray, circa 1944),with photographs of the Hospital's nurses during World War II; GOS/14/191, Published articles by nursing staff, 1970s. (Sister MacElnea on resident parents, Adelaide Tunstill on equipment, M. Thompson on sterile dressings) Nursing Times; GOS/14/192 Extract from The Architect and Building News 2 November 1946, text of lecture by S. E. T. Cusdin and James Crooks.

GOS/14/193, A Collection of papers concerning centenary commemoration 1952 (publications and circulars), donated by Mrs D. K. Cooper; GOS/14/194 Obituaries and other biographical data of GOSH Dental Surgeons(Samuel Cartwright Jnr., Arthur Pitts, Stanley Colyer, William Warwick James, Thomas Cradock Henry), from the collection of the British Dental Association Museum; GOS/14/195, Copy articles from 19th Century periodicals about the Hospital (from The Hospital,1889 and1893; The Nursing Supplement,1887, regarding the Doll Show, and The Hospital Nursing Supplement,1896); GOS/14/196 Extracts from 'Beaconsfield' volume of 'Britain in Old Photographs' series, 1996, with photographs of the Convalescent Home at London End used by Great Ormond Street, circa 1910-1939; GOS/14/197 Hospital for Sick Children , published table of Hospital Committee meetings,1894; GOS/14/198 Items donated by Dr. Richard West of Bristol, including an article from the Nursing Times,1977 on the Hospital's 125th Anniversary, GOSH Christmas Card with an illustrated 1856 ward engraving, and 1925 postcard of the Foundling Hospital.

GOS/14/199 Foundation Trust Summary Consultation Document, Great Ormond Street NHS Trust, 2006; GOS/14/200 Country Life, 20 January 1906, with article on no.44 Great Ormond Street (18th Century house then used as GOSH nursing accommodation); GOS/14/201 Copy circular on new charging arrangements for patients, 1921; GOS/14/202 Partners' fundraising card for Great Ormond Street Hosptal and King's College Hospital, printed for insertion into books published by John Murray publishers,circa1930.

GOS/14/203 Hospital Christmas Card, including fundraising appeal,1936; GOS/14/204 Copy of 'Arkubs' Diploma award for supporting the 'News Chronicle Fund for Supplying Wireless to the Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street',1936; GOS/14/205 Fundraising Card for the Hospital issued by The Winkle Club, Royal Hotel, Sheerness, 1943; GOS/14/206 Article, 'A Modern Hospital', including 3-D colour illustration of the Southwood Building, circa 1950; GOS/14/207 Programme for Opening of Institute of Neurology Laboratory Block (part shared with Great Ormond Street Hospital) by HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 19 July 1978.

GOS/14/208-10 'Welcome to Radio GOSH' leaflet, circa1980; Maccabi Association Yearbook,1981, with article on the Hospital Radio Station; programme for buffet and disco in aid of Radio GOSH at the Mermaid Theatre,3 May 1987; GOS/14/211 Article, 'Denis Browne's Top Hat', by Dr. Jean M. Horton, for History of Anaesthesia Society,1992 (concerning Browne's Ether Inhaler used at Great Ormond Street).

GOS/14/212-227 Published Reports by or concerning the Hospital's Administration,1991-2004, including,

14/212 Report by the King's Fund (London Acute Services Initiative), 'London Health 2010',1991; 14/213 Report of the Inquiry into London's Health Service, Medical Education and Research (Tomlinson Review), HMSO 1992;
14/214 Directory of Great Ormond Street Hospital Clinical Services, 1993; 14/215 Hospitals for Sick Children Special Health Authority Submission to the Children's Services Specialty Review for the London Implementation Group, 1993; 14/216 * Draft Risk Management Review of Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust by QRM Healthcare Ltd, 1994; 14/217 Review of the Appropriateness of Admission at Great Ormond Streey Hospital NHS Trust by the London Health Economics Consortium, 1997; 14/218 Report, Health Services in London-A Strategic Review(by London Strategic Review Independent Advisory Panel), 1997; 14/219 Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust Review of Postgraduate Medical Education,1998-99; 14/220 NHS Executive Modernisation Plan for the NHS in London, 1999-2002, 1999; 14/221-2 Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust Quality of Working Life Survey, 2000 and Amended Report, 2002; 14/223 Report, 'From Vision to Reality-An EPR Strategy for Great Ormond Street Hospital,2 002-2010',2002 (Electronic Patient Records)

14/224 Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust Finance Manual for Non-Finance Managers, 2002; 14/225 Report, Approval of Finance Agreement for Phase 1A/B Redevelopment 2002; 14/226 Draft Clinical Governance Benchmarking Project for Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust, Report by CHKS, 2002; 14/227 ,Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust Estate Strategy report, 2004; GOS/14/228 Great Ormond Street Hospital Redevelopment Appeal brochure, with introduction by HRH the Prince of Wales, 2002; GOS/14/229 GOSH Redevelopment Update published by the Hospital Charity, 2008; GOS/14/230 Consultation Leaflet on the Future of the International and Private Patient Service at Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust,' A World Class Centre for Treating Sick Children',2007; GOS/14/231 Programme for 2008 Great Ormond Street NHS Trust Staff Awards, Institute of Child Health 28 May 2008; GOS/14/232-3 Information Leaflets 2008, 'Welcome to GOSH, A Guide for Families' and 'Finding Your Way Around Great Ormond Street Hospital'; GOS/14/234 Programme for 'Bloomsbury Festival', 19-21 October 2007, including events at Great Ormond Street Hospital, GOS/14/235-6 Programmes for Memorial Service to Nigel Clark( former Director of Fundraising), St. Paul, Knightsbridge, 2 October 2007,and Funeral and Thanksgiving Service for Gwendolen Kirby (former Matron), St Mary Magdalene, Winsford, Somerset,19 April 2007; GOS/14/237 Invitation and related promotional material for launch of Peter Pan in Scarlet by Geraldine McCaughrean in association with GOSH, Kensington Palace Orangery ,5 October 2006.

GOS/14/238 Fundraising Appeal stamps for the Hospital for Sick Children and other London Hospitals, (c.1930); GOS/14/239 Article 'At the Children's Hospital' from the Strand Magazine,1891, with photocopy (largely regarding Cromwell House); GOS/14/240 Miscellaneous items, including copy of leaflet advertising Charles Dickens' reading from 'A Christmas Carol',1858, and brief histories of the hospital by Gordon Piller (circa 1965) and produced for the Hospital's Centenary,1952.(Gift of former staff member G. Holdstock, 2003); GOS/14/241 1905 paperback edition of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', including fundraising advertisement for the hospital with photograph of its 'Lewis Carroll Cot'. Gift of Mr. Chestney,2011.

GOS/14/242 Poster advertising Clerkships and courses at the Hospital's Medical School,1913; GOS/14/243 Copy article from the 'Merthyr Express',1922; 'Bargoed Lady's Reminiscences: Princess as Nurse' (by Mrs. Thomas, formerly Miss Hughes, Ward Sister, Alexandra Ward, concerning Mary, the Princess Royal's training at the Hospital; GOS/14/244 Fundraising leaflet for new Research Department at the Hospital, circa1929; GOS/14/245 Fundraising leaflet for the Hospital issued in association with 'The Practical Home Library',c.1960, including stamp donation by E.F. Staples of Morecambe; GOS/14/246 Fundraising postcard for the Hospital with illustration of nurse and patient,1945.

GOS/14/247 Copy of Hospital Rulebook,1889,with cover annotations by the Secretary, Adrian Hope; GOS/14/248 Certificate that the Hospital is registered as a member of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (ROSPA), 1978; GOS/14/249 Typescript and published items donated by the League of Remembrance,2009; includes copies of 'Brief History of the Hospital for Sick Children 1852-1952','The Story of the Hospital for Sick Children' by G.J. Piller c.1965, 'The History of the Hospital for Sick Children Great Ormond Street'(educational project by patients in the Children's Ward of the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot, published in aid of the Wishing Well Appeal,1988);fundraising leaflet for the 'Peter Pan Children's Fund'(USA)c.1995; typescript histories by Jules Kosky (Honorary Archivist);
'John Walter III; The Times and the Hospital for Sick Children', 'Dickens and Great Ormond Street; The Early History of the Hospital for Sick Children and Some of its Friends',circa1988; 'A Record of the Royal Family's Close Association with Great Ormond Street Since the Hospital's Inception in 1852',1986; Text of 'A History of the Hospital for Sick Children Great Ormond Street' by former patient Andrew Hughes,1987.

GOS/14/250 Copy article ,'Coeliac Disease: One Hundred Years' by Parveen Kumar and John Walker-Smith (Proceedings of Symposium on Coeliac Disease at St. Bartholemew's Hospital,1988);references work of Dr. Samuel Gee at Great Ormond Street; GOS/14/251 'Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity'; folder for new Charity staff, with details of the Charity's services and administration,circa 2000;

GOS/14/252 Proof copy of 'The Remarkable Story of Great Ormond Street Hospital ' by Kevin Telfer, 2007; GOS/14/253 Article, 'Charles Dickens' Work to Establish Great Ormond Street Hospital, London' by Howard Markel, from 'The Lancet',vol.354,August 1999.

GOS/14/254 Circular promoting 'Foster's Classic' celebrity Tennis tournament in aid of the Wishing Well Appeal, June 13 1988; GOS/14/255 'The Sunday Times Magazine', 16 May 2010, including article on the Hospital's Renal Unit by Lesley White; GOS/14/256 Replica of E.H. Shepherd's 1939 Christmas Card for the Hospital for Sick Children, created for the Hospital Charity's Christmas Reception 2009;
GOS/14/257 Programme for production of Puccini's 'Il Trittico' at the Royal Opera House,2011 (Historical background for the 'Suor Angelica ' movement provided to the Director,Richard Jones, by the Museum and Archives Service).

GOS/14/258 Public Consultation Document for the Hospital's NHS Foundation Trust Application,2010,with copy of Foundation Trust 'Member Matters' newsletter,2010,and leaflet asking patients for improvement suggestions as part of Foundation Trust consultation.

GOS/14/259 'A Day in the Life of Great Ormond Street Hospital', 2011 ( photographed by photographer-in residence Polly Braden, in association with 'Go Create !'); GOS/14/260 Spring 2012 edition of 'Chemical Heritage'(magazine of the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, including article 'The Discovery of PKU' by Donna Messner with references to, and illustration of, Great Ormond Street; GOS/14/261 Introductory leaflet to exhibition 'The Body in Pieces; Fragments from the UCL Great Ormond Street Hospital Collection' held at University College London 2011,featuring items from the former Hospital for Sick Children Pathology Museum now held at the Royal Free Hospital.

GOS/14/262 December 2011-April 2012 edition of the Museum of London's 'Friends News', featuring Charles Dickens Bicentenary exhibition 'Dickens and London', to which items loaned by the Hospital archives; GOS/14/263 Promotional leaflet for Hospital's 'Transformation' programme,2009; GOS/14/264 Programmes for annual Hospital Staff Awards ceremonies,2009-2012;
GOS/14/265 Programme of memorial service to Christine Monk, former Trust Fund Accountant at the Hospital Charity, at St. George the Martyr, Queen Square, 18 July 2011.

GOS/14/266 Pages from website 'The Story of John Parry Thomas' (Land Speed Record holder and patron of the Hospital) 2009;
GOS/14/267 'Breakthroughs in Children's Medicine' publication produced by the Hospital Charity; 'Cancer', 'Heart and Lung' and 'Neuroscience', 2007-2011; GOS/14/268 Miscellaneous published items donated by Mrs. Pauline Wood (former Secretary in House Governor's Office), 2012, includes an incomplete set of the 'Great Ormond Street Gazette'; additional copies of 'Welcome ' leaflets for patients(see GOS/14/37 above), programme for laying of Cardiac Wing Foundation Stone, July 1978, 'Notes on Duties of Members of the Board of Governors' c. 1980, 'Complaints Procedure Relating to treatment of Patients' circa 1980: article, 'Growth of an Extrovert Child' on the history of the Hospital from the 1977 Christmas edition of the 'Health and Social Service Journal'; published 'List of Consultant Staff and Outpatient Clinics', 1978; 'Friends of Great Ormond Street 'appeal leaflet circa 1980; article on 'Radio GOSH' from 'The Dental Laboratory', December 1987; article 'The Most Generous Gift' marking the 50th anniversary of J.M. Barrie's gift of the copyright of 'Peter Pan' to the Hospital for Sick Children'; Programme of Thanksgiving service for the life of Dr. Bernard Schlesinger, May 1984.

GOS/14/269 Hospital for Sick Children's official Christmas Card,1936 (Gift of Mr. R.J. Page); GOS/14/270 Advertisements for children's splints, suture needles and other surgical items designed by Sir Denis Browne, from Pryor and Howard Ltd. and Thackray Knives catalogues , circa1960; GOS/14/271 Great Ormond Street NHS Trust published' Quality Quest Standards', 1993-1994 and 1994-1995,with copies of the Trust's published 1994-1995,1995-1996 and 1997-1998 Business Plan Summary, Summary of Aims and Plans,1995-2000 and 1999-2000 Trust 'Factsheet'.

GOS/14/272 Celebration Brochure produced by the Hospital Charity for the opening of the Variety Club Building, funded by the 'Wishing Well Appeal', February 14 1994; GOS/14/273 Published Consultation brochure prior to Foundation Trust application by the Hospital, with 2006 'Suggestions' leaflet concerning earlier Foundation Trust consultation; GOS/14/274 Great Ormond Street Children's Charity 'Challenge Yourself' Events Diary, 2012; GOS/14/275 'Friends of the Children of Great Ormond Street' Advertisement strips and circular fundraising for purchase of No.48 Great Ormond Street as family accommodation, circa 1982-1983; GOS/14/276 Copy of Thomas Twistington Higgins' Centenary history of the Hospital, with programme of Centenary 'Open Day, 29 May 1952 and related press-cuttings; items formerly owned by Dorette Golay, GOSH Ward Sister and Asst. Matron, Hempstead House,1935-1944. Gift of Mrs. G. Woods, 2012.

GOS/14/277 Illustrated Handbook of the Charles West School of Nursing,1966; GOS/14/278 Programme for London 'Open House' day,10 September 1994,including public opening of Hospital Chapel; GOS/14/279 Leaflet commemorating 50 years of Research and Development at the Institute of Child Health, 1995; GOS/14/280 Official Application for NHS TRUST status by the Hospital for Sick Children, 1993; OS/14/281 Leaflet introducing KPMG's 'PIMS' Patient Information Management System, 1994; GOS/14/282 'Welcome to GOS' Floor-by-Floor guide to the Hospital and its facilities, circa 2000; GOS/14/283 Circulars on 'GOS 2000' Hospital development proposals, 1996, and 'Outline Strategy 2004-8' circular, 2004; GOS/14/284 Staff Information Management leaflets, 'Promoting Health literacy at Great Ormond Street hospital' and 'How to produce information for children and families', 2008; GOS/14/285 Information leaflets on changes to the Out-Patient Department, and move of Out-Patient services to the Royal Homeopathic Hospital, 2005, and general information leaflet for families on the Hospital's Redevelopment, 2004.

GOS/14/286 Programme for GOSH/ICH 'Open Day' for Referring Clinicians, 10 September 2012; GOS/14/287 Brief Guide to Tadworth Court (GOSH 'Country Branch'),1980; Privately published by Kenneth R Clew,1980; GOS/14/288 'Times' Supplement ,'The Hospital for Sick Children, London' March 9 1966; GOS/14/289 Programme for Gala Celebrity premiere of Walt Disney Pictures' 'Aladdin', in aid of Variety Club of Great Britain and the Hospital, 18 November 1993 (Leicester Square Odeon); GOS/14/290 'The Architect's Journal', 6 April 1994, including article on the Hospital's newly-opened Variety Club Building; GOS/14/291 'The Paediatric Pathology Society Archive; How it all started' by John Emery (1997, published in 'Paediatric Pathology Society History' July 2005); GOS/14/292 'The Royal College of Surgeons' 19th Century Textbook of Paediatrics and its Authors Evanson and Maunsell', by Professor O Conor Ward, article from 'Journal of the Irish Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, vol. 31 no.2, April 2002.

GOS/14/293 'Forever Young', Article on 'Peter Pan's Centenary from 'Woman's World' (Annual of the Women's Institute),2004-2005;
GOS/14/294 Extract from 'Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust' by Lyn Smith, 2005, including reminiscence of wartime treatment at the Hospital by refugee Steven Frank; GOS/14/295 Article on the 'Babs' Cot and racing motorist J.G. Parry Thomas' involvement with the hospital, from 'Motor Sport'. June 2007; GOS/14/296 'History Today' magazine, October 2009, including article by Paula Hellal on theories of child speech development since the 19th Century, 'To Speak Like a Child'; GOS/14/297 'Early Paediatric Anaesthetics at Great Ormond Street Hospital'; lecture by Dr. T. Gilkes, published in 'History of Anaesthesia Society Proceedings', 2009.

GOS/14/298 'Dental Historian' Number 51, January 2010, including article by Professor Stanley Gelbier,'Great Ormond Street Hospital,Its Dental Surgeons (1856-1946) and the Cartwright Family'; GOS/14/299 Published articles by Dr. Andrea I Tanner, Archive Assistant, Great Ormond Street NHS Trust, 2000-2013; 'Dust-Oh ! Rubbish in Victorian London', from 'The London Journal', November 2006
'Choice and the Children's Hospital: Great Ormond Street Hospital Patients and their Families, 1855-1900', from 'Ariadne' issue 60, July 2009
'The Role of Visitors and the Victorian London Children's Hospital', from 'Clio Medica', 2009; The Great Ormond Street Historical Patient Database Project', from 'Archives '28, 2009; Review of 'The Sophia Children's Hospital in Rotterdam' by M.J. van Lieburg, from 'Medical History' 50, October 2006; 'For the Love of Children', from 'Ancestors', August 2005; 'The Sentimental Hard-Sell; Establishing the Idea of the Children's Hospital in Victorian London', from'Melanges de L'Ecole Francaise de Rome' 1 16, 2004; (with D Martino, G Defazio, A J Church, K P Bhatia, G Giovannoni and R C Dale ) 'Tracing Sydenham's Chorea; Historical Documents from a British Paediatric Hospital', from 'Archives of Diseases in Childhood', 90,2005.

This series consists of a collection of reports on trials and demonstrations of various systems, applications and agreements for the establishment of stations, permits to conduct experiments, departmental and Parliamentary reports and miscellaneous correspondence on the subject, including references to the establishment of an Imperial Wireless Chain.

Significant items in this series include a collection of original letters to Sir William Preece, the Post Office Engineer-in-Chief and electrician, from Guglielmo Marconi dating from the latter's arrival in the United Kingdom, and which describe a number of experiments in wireless telegraphy.

This POST Class comprises material mainly relating to the design, manufacture and distribution of uniform, but also includes some material relating to discipline within the Post Office.

It includes reports on the manufacture and distribution of uniform, papers relating to the Committee of the Joint Working Party on Uniform and Protective Clothing, registers detailing patterns produced, contract statistics and schedules of entitlement, volumes containing decisions made by the Postmaster General which set precedents for the issue of uniform, correspondence relating to all aspects of uniform including the running of the Stores Department and photographic records of uniform garments with pattern numbers, guides to disciplinary procedures, papers relating to disciplinary cases and correspondence and memoranda relating to other aspects of discipline within the Post Office.

This series consists of records relating to the supervision of the General Post Office's financial business, including correspondence relating to authorisation of expenditure, development of services and applications for pensions.

POST 1 is commonly used by researchers investigating their family history. This is because a large proportion of this class consists of documentation relating to pensions and gratuities awarded to individual Post Office employees for the years 1686-1959. Amongst the numerous bound volumes of treasury letters are the pension details of thousands of employees. Additional information is often included such as the officer's name, rank and office, date of birth, career history, last salary, cause of retirement or date of death and a statement of reference. Case statements, reports and correspondence are sometimes included where retirement was on grounds of ill-health or the cause of death under investigation. The names of these individuals can be traced through the pension and gratuity indexes, which can in turn be found in separate POST classes, usually made available on microfilm.

Researchers pursuing their own family history are advised to consult the 'Guide to Family History' which can be found in the Search Room and is available to download online. This guide provides step by step advice on how to trace pension records, as well as appointment records.

The majority of these pension records can be found in Sub-Series 1 'Treasury letters, general correspondence' and Sub-Series 6 'Pensions and gratuities applications and awards' (pp. 1-259 and 271-349 of the POST 1 printed catalogue respectively).

Sub-Series 1 'Treasury letters, general correspondence' accounts for the majority of the material held in POST 1. In addition to pension records, this series comprises a record of communications between the Treasury and Postmaster General concerning the financial management of the inland, foreign and colonial services. This includes Treasury authorisation for expenditure on salaries and allowances; new establishments, buildings, facilities and equipment; extension of postal routes, services and postage rates. Developments in transport and technology, rapid expansion of the GPO and increasing complexity of the Civil Service are reflected in the letter books from the early nineteenth century. Volumes contain correspondence concerning road surveys; conveyance of mails by steam packets and railways; contracts for building work and ship conveyance; extension of telegraphic and telephonic communications; Post Office Savings Bank; Civil Service grades and pay scales.

Many of the letters in Sub-Series 2-5 are helpfully grouped and indexed by subject, such as Sub-Series 4 containing copies of letters authorising expenditure on postal telegraphic and telephone services. However, many of these letters are in fact duplicates of the records found in Sub-Series 1.

This series relates to the conveyance of mail on the railways. In the latter half of the 19th century railway mail services were known as Travelling Post Offices and sorting tenders. During the early 19th century sorting tenders became known as sorting carriages. In general terminology sorting carriages were also often referred to as TPOs. The railway mail service also included bag duties or tenders. TPOs and sorting carriages comprised either special trains run exclusively for conveyance and sorting of mails or carriages on passenger trains hired to convey and sort mails. Bag duties were run solely for transportation of mails.

This series includes papers on the mail bag exchange apparatus, TPO mail circulation and sorting lists, railway rolling stock lists and diagrams, schedules of TPO services, minutes of the TPO Whitley Sub-Committee and files on TPO staffing, during railway strikes and after service alterations.

This series comprises the records of private telephone companies which were taken over by the Post Office in 1912. It consists of items relating to individual companies, National Telephone Company rules and instructions, staff related records, agreements, judicial proceedings, valuation of assets and a collection of early telephone directories.

This series consists of a few specimen agreements between Britain and other countries for the establishment of an overseas telephone service, and a collection of reports on various overseas telephone systems.

This series comprises items on telephone rates and charges, forms of licence issued by the Postmaster General, reports, memoranda and papers relating to matters of telephone policy, items of general interest and a collection of select committee and departmental reports.

This series encompasses the surviving records of a number of early domestic and international telegraph companies which pioneered the development and growth of the public telegraph network.

This series consists of a collection of licences, concessions, agreements, treaties, conventions and conferences, correspondence and memoranda between foreign governments negotiating landing rights, maintenance and operation of submarine cable telegraphs; ocean survey reports as well as other reports by officers in the General Post Office and committee reports.

This series consists of a collection of arbitration cases between the Postmaster General and private telegraph companies; memoranda by heads of Post Office departments and their correspondence, records of the Central Telegraph Office, lighthouses and lightvessels, circuits and codes, mobile facilities for telegraphs at race meetings and special events; Letters Patent taken out by inventors and specifications of inventions.

This series has nine sub-series. These cover Telegrams (general), Greetings Telegrams, Forces Telegrams, the Telemessage Service, Overseas Radio and Telecommunications Branch, the Rules and Procedures, material used for exhibitions, Press cuttings and History.

This POST class mainly comprises correspondence, committee and other reports, statistics, staff manuals, and training information for new staff, relating to the organisation, development and operation of the Post Office Supplies Department.

It also includes a collection of material on posting boxes, including information relating to the design, development, positioning, installation, painting and repainting, locks and keys, and indicator and notice plates for pillar boxes.

On 1 April 1914, under authority of an Order in Council, responsibility for both the manufacture and distribution of postage stamps and related items passed from the Board of Inland Revenue to the Post Office. The work transferred included control of the contracts for the manufacture of watermarked paper, adhesive postage stamps, stamped stationery and postal orders. The records listed here are those created by the Post Office's Stores Depot, more recently known as the Royal Mail Stamp Depot. It was the latter which, in 1989, discovered this collection lying forgotten in its store, and transferred it in its entirety to the Post Office Archives. In 1995 material was sent to the Archive from Hemel Hempstead, and as other items have come to hand, they too have been transferred and added to this list. Please refer to the individual sub-series for the dates that they cover.

This series contains records on all aspects of The Post Office's welfare policy and its implementation. It mainly consists of reports and reviews, minutes and annual reports, correspondence, policies, leaflets and guides, and newsletters. These relate to matters such as Health and Safety in the workplace, refreshment facilities, general health and well being of employees, work related issues such as equal opportunites and harassment, Post Office benevolent societies, staff awards and recreational clubs.

This series consists of reports, memoranda and correspondence outlining training activities in The Post Office and considering the training needs of Post Office staff.

This series contains material on the recruitment of Post Office staff. It covers methods of recruitment, the examinations involved, the various types of posts, the different methods of admission, and the problems encountered regarding recruitment, such as shortage of labour and the employment of disabled persons.

This series relates to arrangements for the payment of pensions, the establishment of the Superannuation Fund in 1821 and the development of the types of pensions payable to include both contributory and non-contributory pensions.

POST 66/18-19 relates to the establishment of the allowance form system and POST 66/22 concerns discussions on the format of order books. POST 66/20 and 22 relate specifically to pensions paid in Guernsey and Jersey . POST 66/24 comprises brief histories of paid allowance and pension orders and postmasters accounts for the twentieth century. The class also includes information on changes to women's employment and salaries, pension fraud and copies of documents conveying a grace and favour pension paid to the Duke of Schonburg and Leinster (POST 66/1).

This series contains records relating to the nomination and appointment of staff, both Established and non-Established. It consists mainly of volumes, in which vacancies, nominations, and appointments were recorded. It also contains records relating to bonds paid, and papers relating to the appointment of specific individuals.

Prior to 1831 appointment records were not kept uniformly over the country and separate series were created. In 1831 centralised employment records were created by copying the relevant minute numbers and brief details relating to appointment, transfer, dismissal, resignation, retirement, or death.

Some records were transferred from POST 14.

This series relates to the provision of medical care for staff through the appointment of medical officers, the monitoring of sick leave and the establishment of the Post Office Ambulance Corps.

This series comprises material relating to the formation, functions and administration of Post Office Staff Associations.

This series is comprised of serialised publications produced by, for, or relating to, Post Office staff associations, unions and societies. The publications contain information on all aspects of union and association internal activity and their negotiations with management on wages, recruitment, grading and conditions. They also report on Annual Conferences and convey general staff news, such as appointments and the development and re-structuring of The Post Office and its subsequent effect on workers.

Many of the publication titles have changed, they are listed as a continuous series and details of the change in title is given at the beginning of the series. Details of those that have undergone significant changes are given.

Please note that in some series many of the publications have been numbered incorrectly or inconsistently at publication stage. The volume and issue numbers given in the description are those that appear on the original.

This series consists of volumes containing the title of every minute submitted to the Postmaster General relating to all aspects of Post Office administration. There are also separate bound indices to the minutes. This general minute series was introduced in 1921, replacing the formerly separate England and Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and Packet series of minutes.

Much of the actual paperwork referred to in these volumes can be found in the accompanying class POST 33 (Postmaster General's Minute Papers). Minutes referred to in this class can also be found in POST 102 (Decimal Filing Series) and POST 122 (Minuted and Decentralised Registry Papers). For further details of how this class relates to the other report and minute classes, see the following section 'Related Material'.

This series consists of volumes containing a précis of, or reference to, every minute submitted to the Postmaster General from the Secretary to the Post Office in Scotland, relating to all aspects of Post Office administration. Separate bound indices to the minutes begin in 1846.

Much of the actual paperwork referred to in these volumes can be found in the accompanying class POST 32 (Scottish Minute Papers). For further details of how this class relates to the other report and minute classes, see the following section 'Related Material'.

The dates and minute numbers on the binding of a number of the volumes are incorrect.

Please note that all of the records in this class cover the years 1842-1921, with the exception of one record, POST 37/187, which is an index to minutes for the years 1920-1937.

This series comprises 'minuted' papers relating to Post Office services in Scotland, although a proportion developed into cases of general interest. 'Minuted' papers were those papers which had been submitted to the Postmaster General for a decision, and then been retained in the Post Office registry. At first, the papers 'minuted' tended only to be the particular case submitted to the Postmaster General but, as time went on, registry staff followed a practice of continuing to add physically to an existing minuted case all other cases on that subject which came to hand. As a result, the minuted papers frequently consist of quite large bundles of files on a common subject spanning many years. The date range of the files is consequently often much earlier or much later than the date suggested by the 'Former Reference' used by the registry staff and, in many cases, the precise dates covered by the files have not yet been listed.

The subject of individual files among the minuted papers can be wide-ranging, from the mundane administrative minutiae to policy decisions on developments of critical importance.

This series comprises 'minuted' papers relating to Ireland for the period 1841 to 1960. 'Minuted' papers were those papers which had been submitted to the Postmaster General for a decision, and then been retained in the Post Office registry. At first, the papers 'minuted' tended only to be the particular case submitted to the Postmaster General but, as time went on, registry staff followed a practice of continuing to add physically to an existing minuted case all other cases on that subject which came to hand. As a result, the minuted papers frequently consist of quite large bundles of files on a common subject spanning many years. The date range of the files is consequently often much earlier or much later than the date suggested by the 'Former Reference' used by the registry staff and, in many cases, the precise dates covered by the files have not yet been listed. The subject of individual files among the minuted papers can be wide-ranging, from the mundane administrative minutiae to policy decisions on developments of critical importance.

This series comprises 'minuted' papers relating to all manner of Post Office matters.

'Minuted' papers were those papers which had been submitted to the Postmaster General for a decision, and then been retained in the Post Office registry. At first, the papers 'minuted' tended only to be the particular case submitted to the Postmaster General but, as time went on, registry staff followed a practice of continuing to add physically to an existing minuted case all other cases on that subject which came to hand. As a result, the minuted papers frequently consist of quite large bundles of files on a common subject spanning many years. The date range of the files is consequently often much earlier or much later than the date suggested by the 'Former Reference' used by the registry staff and, in many cases, the precise dates covered by the files have not yet been listed. The subject of individual files among the minuted papers can be wide-ranging, from the mundane administrative minutiae to policy decisions on developments of critical importance.

This series comprises 'minuted' papers relating to Post Office services in England and Wales for the period 1792 to 1952 (although the vast majority of these records cover the period 1840-1921). It also includes references to Irish and Scottish services until 1840. 'Minuted' papers were those papers which had been submitted to the Postmaster General for a decision, and then been retained in the Post Office registry. At first, the papers 'minuted' tended only to be the particular case submitted to the Postmaster General but, as time went on, registry staff followed a practice of continuing to add physically to an existing minuted case all other cases on that subject which came to hand. As a result, the minuted papers frequently consist of quite large bundles of files on a common subject spanning many years. The date range of the files is consequently often much earlier or much later than the date suggested by the 'Former Reference' used by the registry staff and, in many cases, the precise dates covered by the files have not yet been listed. The subject of individual files among the minuted papers can be wide-ranging, from the mundane administrative minutiae to policy decisions on developments of critical importance.

This class comprises of Headquarters case files that came to light after the appropriate class catalogues (POST 30, POST 31, POST 32, POST 33, POST 102 and POST 122) had been completed. It includes files found in the registry repository in the former Headquarters at St Martin's le Grand, which were filed upon completion and then forgotten. It also includes papers which remained with the originating Headquarters departments until the Headquarters moved in 1984. The majority of these are accumulations of files on a common subject spanning several years.

The manner in which this class accumulated means that it covers a wide range of subjects, ranging from allowances for keeping horses (POST 121/159) and cats (POST 121/22) to the Post Office's official attitude to divorce (POST 121/341). There are also a few appointment papers (POST 121/340, POST 121/344, POST 121/352, POST 121/430, and POST 121/431).

This series comprises 'minuted' papers relating to all manner of Post Office matters.

'Minuted' papers were those papers which had been submitted to the Postmaster General for a decision, and then been retained in the Post Office registry. At first, the papers 'minuted' tended only to be the particular case submitted to the Postmaster General but, as time went on, registry staff followed a practice of continuing to add physically to an existing minuted case all other cases on that subject which came to hand. As a result, the minuted papers frequently consist of quite large bundles of files. On a common subject spanning many years. The date range of files is consequently often much earlier or much later than the date suggested by the 'Former Reference' used by the registry staff and, in many cases, the precise dates covered by the files have not yet been listed. The subject of individual files among the minuted papers can be wide-ranging, from the mundane administrative minutiae to policy decisions on developments of critical importance.

Some abbreviations used in file titles (not an exhaustive list):

BFPO: British Forces Post Office

DG: Director General

IHDS: International Household Delivery Service

IMP: Integrated Mail Processor

IMS: Institute of Manpower Studies

IOC: International Olympic Committee

IPBS: Infectious Perishable Biological Substances

IPC: International Post Corporation

IPT: Industry and Parliamentary Trust

ISIS (pay): Individual Salary Increase System

ISIS (postage stamps): Immediate Sales Indicator Systems

ISM: Information Systems Manager(s)

LPR: London Postal Region

NPM: National Postal Museum

PMG: Postmaster General

POB: Post Office Board

POC: Post Office Circular

POP: Post Office Preferred

POUNC: Post Office Users' National Council

P&TO: Postal and Telegraph Officers

PRU: Pay Research Unit

RFU: Rugby Football Union

TPO(S): Travelling Post Office(s)

UPW: Union of Post Office Workers

This class comprises Post Office headquarters files which, as a time saving wartime measure, were recorded under a Decimal Filing system, instead of the previously used 'Minuted' system. Like the minuted series, the files cover a diverse range of subjects and registry staff continued to add files to the series after it had nominally been closed in 1949: consequently, records date up to 1967. Subjects covered in the papers include inland and overseas telecommunications during and after wartime, the issue of stamps, and Post Office administrative records, such as those covering the introduction of the Decimal Filing system.

The Decimal Filing system was a simple system based on numbers being allocated to particular subjects or headings, with decimal extensions of these numbers being allocated to subheadings: e.g. 10 = Postal Packets, 100 = Letters (Ordinary). No record volumes were created for the Decimal Filing series; papers were filed in batches according to the common serial number allocated for a particular subject.