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GB 0074 B/CAT · Collection · 1908-1958

Records of Catesbys Limited, department store, 1908-1958. The records consist of registers of members and directors, annual returns and minutes. There are also private ledgers, many indexed; progress and stock books, as well as wage returns. There is a salaries book for Catesbys Contract and Export Ltd.

Catesbys Ltd , department store
Catholic Education Council
GB 2164 CEC · 1848-1993

: Records of the Catholic Education Committee and its predecessors comprising:

Annual reports 1848-1981 (incomplete); Annual General Meeting reports of proceedings 1923-25, including Report on religious inspection of training colleges; files concerning St. Mary's College, Strawberry Hill 1937-1985;

photocopies of Chairman's papers, 1899-1900 including letters received by Chairman from the Committee Secretary, Mr Hunnybun, in 1899 and of report of the Hammersmith Committee,1900;

Catholic Poor School Committee Thiebault's Trust papers 1864-1880;

Catholic Education: an educational review 1956-1959 (incomplete); Catholic Education Council News Bulletin 1962-1972 (incomplete); The Education Reform Act 1988 and Catholic Schools: a guide to the Act, 1988; The Education (School Government) Regulations, 1989: a guide for the governors of Catholic schools, 1989.

Catholic Education Council , from 1905 Catholic Poor School Committee , 1848-1888 Catholic Schools Committee , 1888-1905
GB 0122 CEG · 1918-2007

Papers of the Westminster chapter of the Catholic Evidence Guild, 1918-2007, including minutes of the Inter Guild Conferences, 1928-1986; minutes of the Westminster Catholic Evidence Guild, Oct 1920-Sep 1986; minutes of the practical training committee, 24 May 1929-Jun 1939 and 19 Jul 1941; library records, May 1964-1981; photograph albums and loose photographs; press cuttings, 1925-1926; book: The Catholic Evidence Movement, by Henry Browne, (London, 1921); report of the Westminster meeting, 1918; Birmingham Guild handbook, 1921; Inter Guild conference handbooks, 1924-1972; 'The Guildsman' and 'Guild Newsletter', Jun 1972-2007.

Catholic Evidence Guild , Westminster
GB 0101 ICS 151 · 1973-2000

Papers of the Catholic Institute for International Relations (CIIR), notably relating to South Africa, including papers relating to the African National Congress including minutes of meetings, papers on projects; press releases, correspondence and papers on the conference on South African debt rescheduling, Jul 1989. Papers relating to South Africa on topics including prisoners; Nelson Mandela; churches; violence; workers; children and repression; labour and trade unionism; unemployment and migration; women; international monitoring of elections; federalism; sanctions; debt and South Africa's relationship with the UK. Papers relating to other organisations working in South Africa including: Catholic International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity; South Africa Advisory Committee; South Africa Inter Agency Group; Southern Africa Catholic Bishops' Conference; South Africa Council of Churches; National Conference of Churches in South Africa; Johannesburg Democratic Action Committee; Five Freedoms Forum; Southern Africa Coalition; Anti-Apartheid Movement and Christian Concern for South Africa. Papers relating to Zimbabwe including photographs; papers on conferences; CIIR publications on Zimbabwe; papers relating to Zimbabwe Detainees Defence Committee including letters from Robert Mugabe and papers relating to the Zimbabwe Diaspora Development Chamber of Commerce. Papers on other countries and regions with which CIIR had involvement including Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Sri Lanka, Southern Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.

Catholic Institute for International Relations
Catholic Missionary Society
GB 0122 CMS · 1910-2001

Papers of the Catholic Missionary Society (CMS), 1910-2001, including the journal of the CMS, Catholic Gazette, 1910-2001; financial accounts, 1995-1999; photographs; a history of the CMS; correspondence regarding the CMS to act as relaters for Christian Unity Dialogue; Catholic Enquiry Centre legacies, 1987-1995; Catholic Enquiry Centre correspondence; papers relating to Missionary Priests; minutes of the CMS, 1979-2001; papers relating to CMS Missions.

Catholic Missionary Society
GB 0402 GCT · 1935-1985

Papers of Gertrude Caton-Thompson, 1935-1985, comprise artwork including preliminary drawings of maps, an offprint of an article 'Lake Moeris, re-investigations and some comments' by G Caton Thompson, E W Gardner and S A Huzayyin from Bulletin de l'Institut d'Egypte, T. XIX, 1936-1937 and photocopy of article 'Recent geological work in the Faiyun...' by O H Little from Bulletin de l'Institut d'Egypte, T. XVIII 1935-1936; aerial photo taken autumn 1938 by US pilot prospecting for oil, showing drainage pattern on edge of high plateau between Mukalla and Wadi Hadhramaut; Watercolour by Edith Hughes of the Fayum depression and preliminary drawing of map/sections of Wadi 'Amd at Hureidha, prepared for plate LXXII in the book Tombs and Moon Temple of Hureidha published in 1944.

Thompson , Gertrude Caton- , 1888-1985 , anthropologist and egyptologist x Caton-Thompson , Gertrude
GB 0074 CLC/B/103-02 · Collection · 1919

Minutes of preliminary meetings of the Cattle Feeding Stuffs Central Advisory Committee.

Cattle Feeding Stuffs Central Advisory Committee
CLC/B/005/CT04 · sub-fonds · 1950

Business records of Cattle Traders' Insurance Company Limited comprising specimen policies.

Cattle Traders' Insurance Co Ltd x Cattle Traders' Marine x Shipowners' Security Insurance Co Ltd Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd
CLC/B/005/CT01 · sub-fonds · 1916-1991

Corporate records of Cattle Traders' Insurance Company Limited comprising certificate of incorporation, shareholders' meetings and annual general meetings minutes, annual reports and accounts, audited accounts, registers of directors and secretaries, share ledger, register of transfers, and company seal book.

Cattle Traders' Insurance Co Ltd x Cattle Traders' Marine x Shipowners' Security Insurance Co Ltd Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd
CLC/B/005/CT02 · sub-fonds · 1932-1975

Share records of Cattle Traders' Insurance Company Limited comprising share certificates book, annual return of shareholders, and registers of directors' shareholdings.

Cattle Traders' Insurance Co Ltd x Cattle Traders' Marine x Shipowners' Security Insurance Co Ltd Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd
GB 0099 KCLMA Caunter · Created 1908-[1960]

Papers and photographs relating to Caunter's career, 1908-[1960], including one photograph album, containing 90 photographs, newspaper cuttings and invitations, 1908-1933, notably photographs of Crefeld POW camp, Germany, 1916, Caunter's return to UK following his escape from Schwarmstedt POW camp, Germany, 1917, group photographs of officers, Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1922-1923 and Senior Officers Course, Hythe, Kent, 1927, with thirty five loose photographs, 1909-1941, including Salonika, 1918, Iraq, 1920-1921, Egypt, 1936, and Western Desert, Libya, 1941. Papers relating to the First Libyan Campaign, Western Desert, 1940-1941, and Caunter's command of 4 Armoured Bde in the capture of Fort Capuzzo, Battle of Beda Fomm, Libya, Feb 1941, including typescript memorandum by Caunter entitled 'Notes on the disposal of prisoners captured by AFV (Armoured Fighting Vehicle) units', 1 Oct 1940; two typescript 7 Armoured Div intelligence summaries, Dec 1940; typescript memorandum by Caunter entitled 'Some lessons from the campaign', [1941]; typescript account entitled 'The story of the 4th Armoured Brigade in the First Libyan campaign', Western Desert, 1940-1941; two letters from Capt Basil Henry Liddell Hart, dated Jan 1947 and Dec 1951, relating to Caunter's deployment of armoured forces in the Battle of Beda Fomm, Western Desert, Feb 1941. Memoranda and reports relating to Caunter's service as Brig General Staff and Deputy Director of Staff Duties, Armoured Troops, General Headquarters, India, 1941-1943, including typescript memorandum by Caunter, 'Defence of the North West Frontier of India and appreciation' [1942]; typescript report by Lt Col Rothwell H Brown, US Army, 'Report of conditions noted in armoured units and ordnance establishments by the US Army Tank Training Detachment', 10 Nov 1942; edition of Tanks and tank folk by Eric Kennington (Country Life, London, 1943).

Caunter , John Alan Lyde , 1889-1981 , Brigadier
CAUSTON FAMILY
GB 0074 ACC/2914 · Collection · 1701-1824

Records of the Causton family including wills and administrations, marriage settlement, appointment as game keeper and licence to hunt.

Causton , family , of London
CAUSTON FAMILY
GB 0074 ACC/0917 · Collection · 1831-1911

Records of the Causton family relating to property in Highgate, Muswell Hill, Turnham Green, West Drayton and Suffolk.

Causton , family , of Highgate
Cavalier Playing Cards pack
GB 0096 MS1092 · 1886

Cavalier Playing Cards collection, 1886, comprises a bound volume containing a pack of cavalier playing cards, designed in the era of Charles II, forming a complete satire of the Commonwealth, published by the Clarendon Historical Society, with accompanying typescript explanation on each card by Edmund Goldschmid (1885-1886).

Unknown
Cavanagh, John Barr (b 1921)
GB 0120 GC/7 · Collection · 1958-1977

Documents on 'Minamata disease', 1958-1977.

Cavanagh , John Barr , b 1921 , Director of the Medical Research Council Group in Applied Neurophysiology
GB0074 LMA/4758 · Collection · 1900s -1976

Records of Cave Austin and Company Limited kept by the Stamp Family, comprising director’s report and printed material including Christmas brochures issued to staff, articles and event material. The survival of other records is unknown.

Cave Austin and Company Limited
GB 0120 GC/220 · 1954-1973

Correspondence and literature of various charitable bodies with which Sir Richard Cave was associated, 1954-1973, including the British Obesity Association, 1967-1969; Disabled Christians' Fellowship, 1959; International Holiday Camp and Rally for the Disabled, 1958; Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for the Disabled , c 1970s; Scroth Centre for the Treatment of Rheumatic Disease by Natural Therapeutics, c 1950s-1970s; Society for the Relief of Distress and other bodies.

Cave , Sir , Richard , 1912-1988 , Knight , philanthropist
GB 106 7RCB · Fonds · 1894-[1959]

The archive consists of letters and articles written by Ruth Cavendish-Bentinck, press cuttings and articles relating to the suffrage movement, press cuttings and manuscript notes on women's employment, a drawing of and letter from George Bernard Shaw.

Bentinck , Ruth , Cavendish- , 1867-1953 , suffragist
CAWLEY, Alan (fl 1930s)
GB 0402 SSC/15 · 1938 - 1954

Papers of Alan Cawley, comprise survey notes on his ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro in 1938; notes on measuring altitude and a typescript report by P Wilkinson on the vulanicity of the mountain, 1954.

Cawley , Alan , fl 1930s , geological surveyor
GB 0099 KCLMA Cawley · 1915

Transcript of uncensored letter from Captain Harold Thomas Cawley, Aide de Camp to Major General Sir William Douglas at Headquarters, 42 Division, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, to his father Frederick Cawley MP, August or September 1915. Includes frank assessment of the military situation at Gallipolli with severe criticism of General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, Lieutenant General Sir Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston and Major General Sir William Douglas; description of landings and attacks carried out between 4 June and 7 August 1915 and evaluation of the Turkish forces.

Cawley , Harold Thomas , 1878-1915 , Captain
GB 0074 CLC/B/123-16 · Collection · 1929-1935

Records of Cawnpore Electric Supply Corporation, comprising general ledger.

Cawnpore Electric Supply Corporation
GB 0099 KCLMA Cawthra · Created 1940-1941

Three photographs of HMS ORIBI, HMS HOOD and HMS PRINCE OF WALES, 1940-1941.

Cawthra , Arthur James , 1911-2005 , Rear Admiral
GB 0101 ICS 9 · c1974

Typescript of paper by Marjorie Caygill 'The British Medical Association and its Overseas Branches: A Short History' on the development of medical links within the Empire and Commonwealth, and variations between the UK pattern and its overseas offshoots. The paper covers the establishment of the BMA in the UK and in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, India and the Colonies; the development of the medical education and General Medical Council recognition; and the establishment of the Commonwealth Medical Conference and the Commonwealth Medical Association. It is a working paper prepared in the 1970s as part of Terry Johnson's project on the Nature and Significance of Professional Links within the Commonwealth.

Caygill , Marjorie L , fl 1974-1997 , museum curator
Cayley, Arthur
GB 0096 MS1012 · Fonds · 1891

Nine foolscap pages of handwritten mathematical calculations and notes by Arthur Cayley entitled 'Areal Co-ordinates' (December 1891)

Cayley , Arthur , 1821-1895 , mathematician
Cazaly, M C E (fl 1942-1944)
GB 0064 CAZ · Collection · [1942-1944]

Papers of Lieutenant-Commander Cazaly, including a large number of charts, maps, reconnaissance photographs and intelligence reports, all of which are marked "Secret" or "Top Secret" . These relate mainly to the D-Day landings, showing the various landing zones, enemy positions, etc, but there are also some charts showing the coastline of Sicily prior to invasion. Also present in the collection is an iluminating after-action report by Lt-Cdr Cazaly to his C.O., explaining how his flotilla fared during the D-Day landings.

Cazaly , M.C.E. , fl 1942-1944 , Lieutenant-Commander
CAZENOVE AND COMPANY
GB 0074 CLC/B/039 · Collection · 1853-2003

Records of Cazenove and Company, investment bankers. The records are especially strong for financial records (including partners' and staff ledgers), and the company's late 20th century history, particularly the period around "Big Bang" in the 1980s, and leading up to incorporation in 2001. As well as partnership deeds, minutes, accounts and financial records, they include the papers of a number of partners, including Mark Loveday who was Senior Partner 1994-2001 and retired on the point of incorporation, and a significant amount of material gathered in the course of research for the company's history. The archives include copy material dating from 1823.

The archives are subject to a 30 year closure rule and are on 24 hours call. Access to some of the correspondence is subject to special conditions. For further details about access, please enquire with staff.

Cazenove and Co , investment bankers
Cecchini, Mario
GB 0120 MSS.1536-1538 · 1732-1752

Students' notes of Mario Cecchini's lectures on tumours, at the Archiospedale del Santo Spirito, Rome.

Cecchini , Mario
Cecil Tudor Davis Collection
GB 0347 D133 · Collection · 1898-1914

The collection contains material written by Cecil Tudor Davis, Librarian of Wandsworth, including material on the history of Wandsworth, the River Wandle, industry in Wandsworth and other local interest topics. Additionally there is material of local interest collected by Davis, such as manuscripts belonging to the writer A M W Stirling, a diary of the portrait painter George Richmond, as well as various maps, plans and other papers.

Please contact the Archive for further information.
GB 0097 SR 1012 · 1536-1616

Collection of bills, letters and miscellaneous documents of autograph interest created by William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, 1536-1616, including letters, government and legal documents, and financial material. Other persons included in the collection are: John Wynter; Sir Marmaduke Constable; Sir Walter Mildmay; Sir Francis Walsingham; Rev Robert Abbot; Robert Cooke; Sir Robert Cary; Sir John Popham; Sir Edward Coke; Sir John Fortescue; Sir Robert Newcomen; Sir Julius Caesar; William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke; Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk; and Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham.

Cecil , William , 1520-1598 , 1st Baron Burghley , statesman
CEDARS LODGE
LMA/4039 · Collection · 1936-1970

Visitors book (includes signature of George Lansbury, Member of Parliament and leader of the Labour Party 1931-1935), 1936-1969 and typescript "A Brief History of Cedars Lodge" by Brian Morley of Southwark Council, 1970.

Cedars Lodge , Clapham; Welfare Department , London County Council
Celestinus, Terentius
GB 0120 MSS.185-186 · 1648

Alchemical works of Terentius Celestinus, 1648.

Celestinus , Terentius x Coelestinus , Terentius
CENTENARY CLUB
GB 0074 CLC/040 · Collection · 1695-1872

Registers of members of the Centenary Club dining society, 1695-1872.

Centenary Club , dining society
CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION
GB 0060 DF ADM · 1881-1993

Central administration papers of the Natural History Museum comprising: DF1000 Director's Office: Reports and Letters;
DF1001 Director's Office: Museum Secretary's Outgoing Letters;
DF1002 Director's Office: Numerical Register of Incoming Letters;
DF1003 Director's Office: Alphabetical Register of Incoming Letters;
DF1004 Director's Office: Case and Policy Files;
DF1005 Director's Office: Personnel Files;
DF1006 Director's Office: Salary and Wage Records;
DF1007 Director's Office: Registers of Payable Orders;
DF1008 Director's Office: Journals, Ledgers, Abstracts and other Financial Records;
DF1009 Director's Office: Establishment Officer's Files;
DF1010 Director's Office: Papers of the General Foreman;
DF1011 Director's Office: Printed Forms.

Director's Office , Natural History Museum
GB 1814 TCB Central Administration · Subfonds · 1854-1969

Records of central administration of the Post Office Telegraphs and Telephones (later Post Office Telecommunications) including records of the Post Office Board (including meeting papers TCB 54), Post Office Advisory Committee and other central functions.

The records concern both strategic telegraphy and telephony activities, such as policy, planning, legal papers (including on the takeover of the National Telephone Company) and routine reporting, and central operational activities including personnel and communications (including Joint Production Council publications, staff magazines, press notices, media coverage and training school and studio photographs).

These central administration records also include the minuted papers relating to telecommunication services 1889-1977 that, for various reasons, fell outside previous archival transfer. The subjects in these minuted papers (TCB 2) include satellite communications (Early Bird), international telephone services, policies toward staff and unions, telephone information services (including ship telephone services, roads and weather, teletourist service, speaking clock and the Santa Claus service), and technological developments (including telephone kiosks, the answering machine, "Amplifying Telephone" and "Laryngaphone").

Post Office Telecommunications
Central African Examiner
GB 0101 ICS 11 · c1961

Typescript draft letter [author's name removed] to the Editor of the Central African Examiner, on the renaissance of trade unionism in Nyasaland, c 1961.

Central African Examiner
GB 3032 E 320 PAM · 1976-1985

Pamphlets, reports, statements and bulletins, 1976-1985, issued by Agencia de Noticias del Istmo S.A. (ANI), Comisión para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos en Centroamérica, Congreso Centroamericano de Sociología, Socialist International, Taller Continental de Trabajo, and War on Want Parliamentary and Trade Union delegation to Central America.

Institute for the Study of the Americas
GB 0074 CLC/B/029-03 · Collection · 1895-1918

Records of the Central Association of Bankers, a society promoting the interests of banks, comprising annual reports and accounts; minutes; circulars and reports.

Restricted access to later records.

Central Association of Bankers , society promoting the interests of banks
CENTRAL BAHIA RAILWAY TRUST
GB 0074 CLC/B/227-045 · Collection · 1909-1945

Minute book of the trustees of the Central Bahia Railway Trust.

Central Bahia Railway Trust
GB 1556 WL 859 · 20th century

Papers of the British Fund for German Jewry comprising lists of contributors to it and an appeal leaflet. Including printed list, 'Further List of Contributions to the Central British Fund for German Jewry'; list of contributions to the Central Jewish Fund and postwar appeal leaflet entitled 'Remember Buchenwald'.

Central British Fund for German Jewry
GB 0074 ACC/2793 · Collection · 1933-2004

Records of the Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief, predecessor organisations and associated organisations. The archive details the work of the Fund in shelters, hostels, internment camps, schools and foster homes.

Records include correspondence; reports; appeals; records relating to relief organisations including the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad, the Pioneer Welfare Fund; the Medical Committee for Relief Abroad and the Jewish Board of Guardians; records relating to refugee organisations including the Central Committee for Refugees; the Central Office for Refugees; Jewish Refugees Committee and Children's Refugee Movements; records relating to the Agudas Israel World Organisation and the Israel Colonisation Organisation; administrative papers including Committee minutes and papers; and case files for Afghan, Argentine, Austrian, Belgian, British, Czech, Egyptian, Ethiopian, German, Hungarian, Iranian, Lebanese, Moroccan, Polish, Rumanian, Russian, South African, Syrian, American and Yugoslavian cases.

LMA also holds case files for the "Kindertransporte" through which children were evacuated from Germany and Austria in 1938 and 1939. PLEASE NOTE: These case files are only accessible in digital form and by application to World Jewish Relief.

Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief
GB 1556 WL MF 27 · 1933-1965

Papers of the Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief, 1933-1965, detail the work of the CBF in shelters, hostels, internment camps, schools and foster homes, and also contain information on the finances of the fund. The collection notably include CBF minutes of its committees, finance, reports from individuals, and also a complete run of country files detailing the fund's work abroad; records of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and other relief organisations, 1941-1953; records of the Children's Refugee Movement and the Jewish Refugees Committee; files on various other organisations which were involved with the work of the CBF to a greater or lesser extent, including the Agudas Israel World Organisation.

Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief x World Jewish Relief
GB 1556 WL 1239 · 1945-1948

Papers of Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief, 1945-1948, comprise reports and memoranda documenting, in part, the challenges encountered by receiving such a large group of refugees with all their attendant problems. Included are some pamphlets and brochures regarding the CBF activities with children from concentration camps.

Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief x World Jewish Relief
CENTRAL CATERING COMPANY
GB 0074 LMA/4453/Q · Collection · 1904-1907

Board minutes and financial accounts for the Central Catering Company, dating from 1905-1907.

Central Catering Company , suppliers of catering to public houses
GB 1556 WL 1469 · 1940

Six copies of a donation form of the Central Council for Jewish Refugees/London, special emergency appeal by N M Rothschild, 1940. English

Central Council for Jewish Refugees
CENTRAL GURDWARA, LONDON
ACC/2516 · Collection · 1984-1987

Records of Central Gurdwara (Khalsa Jatha), 62 Queensdale Road, Kensington, comprising marriage registers, 1984-1987.

Central Gurdwara
ACC/1388-22 · Collection · 1928-1972

Registers of marriage, 1943-1973.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
CENTRAL INSURANCE COMPANY
GB 0074 CLC/B/192-10 · Collection · 1901-1909

London Committee minutes of the Central Insurance Company, formerly the Birmingham Mutual Fire and General Insurance Association.

Central Insurance Co x Birmingham Mutual Fire and General Insurance Association
GB 1924 WEA Central Labour College · 1909-1918

Archives of the Central Labour College comprising minute book, 1909-1918, and legal papers relating to a dispute between the warden and the Governors, 1918.

Central Labour College
CENTRAL LONDON RAILWAY
GB 0074 ACC/1297/CLR · Collection · 1891-1933

Records of the Central London Railway comprising Board Meetings minutes; General Meetings minutes and Assented Stockholders Meetings minutes; correspondence; reports; contracts; handbills; maps and other administrative papers.

Central London Railway