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WONG, Hoi Wah
GB 0074 LMA/4498 · Collection · [1940-1949]

Photograph of Chinese seamen, their captain and other staff on an ocean liner, 1940s.

Wong , Hoi Wah
Whiteley, Wilfred Howell
GB 0102 PP MS 42 · Created 1935-1972

Papers, 1935-1972, of Wilfred Howell Whiteley, comprising his personal correspondence (1956-1972); language material on over 30 Bantu languages collected by Whiteley during his lifetime; and socio-linguistic material. Also included is a major section on Swahili (including papers on the socio-political issues raised over the adoption of Swahili as a national language).

Whiteley , Wilfred Howell , 1924-1972 , anthropologist and Professor of Bantu languages
WARSAW ANGLICAN CHAPLAINCY
GB 0074 CLC/413 · Collection · 1964

Certificates of baptisms carried out by the Warsaw Anglican Chaplaincy.

Warsaw Anglican Chaplaincy
UNIONE TICINESE
GB 0074 LMA/4265 · Collection · 1874-1999

Records of the Unione Ticinese mutual aid society, consisting of Committee minutes 1925-1992; the minutes of the Ladies section from 1939-1955; Joint Entertainment Committee minutes 1951-1952; Advisory group and Cultural Sub-committee minutes 1984-1986; records of membership, including the first membership record 1874; accounts 1926-1966; circulars 1934-1998; correspondence of the president Peter de Maria 1951-1953; publications including 125 years of the Unione Ticinese and Continental Taste: Ticines emigrants and their Cafe-Restaurants in Britain 1847-1987; and photographs dating from 1903.

Unione Ticinese , mutual aid society
Travers, Benjamin: Papers
GB 0114 MS0276 · c1816-1868

Papers of Benjamin Travers, c 1816-1868, comprising 4 manuscript case books, 1843-1859; a manuscript titled Annotationes in Re Medica ac Chirurgica, Apr 1850-Sep 1857; a manuscript titled Further Observations on some unusual forms of injury occurring at the hip joint, Nov 1853; a manuscript case book, inscribed with the address '12 Bruton Street, Berkeley Square', 1834-1839; syllabi of Travers' lectures; post-mortem reports, including Travers own by R C Headington; case notes by Benjamin Brodie and William Dalrymple; accounts of hydrophobia by various writers; letters from S Cooper, J R Farre, Samuel Reynolds, John Smith Soden, Edward Stanley etc; and a volume titled An Account of French Practice in 1816 by John Murray.

Travers , Benjamin , 1783-1858 , surgeon
TRAN, Can (fl 1938-2008)
GB 0074 LMA/4501 · Collection · 1989-199-

Personal papers of Can Tran, Chinese community centre leader, including certificates issued in acknowledgement of his community work; issue of China magazine, and photographs of activities at Chinese community centres.

Tran , Can , fl 1938-2008 , Chinese community centre manager
LMA/4423 · Collection · 1861-1974

Register of baptisms, 1861-1933; specifications and correspondence regarding the re-building of the Church, includes architect's floor plan, 1947-1948; Quarterly meetings minute book of the London Welsh Circuit, 1889-1908; Church committee minute book, 1908-1940; Church committee meeting minutes book, 1923-1955; Church committee meeting minute book regarding post war move of church, 1946-1963; Meeting minutes of the trustees and officers, 1953-1974; Memorandum of the choice and appointment of new trustees, 1950-1950 and Poland Street Trustees Account Book, 1884-1918. Please note that most of the minute books are written in Welsh.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
TEY, Kin Fong (fl 1966)
GB 0074 LMA/4514 · Collection · 1966-1969

Personal papers of Kin Fong Tey, comprising advertisements for Chinese restaurants, and photographs of London.

Tey , Kin Fong , fl 1966
SO, Chun Loy (b 1937)
GB 0074 LMA/4515 · Collection · 1958-196-

Personal papers of Chun Loy So, including passports, financial records, transcript of oral history recording The London I have seen, and photographs.

So , Chun Loy , b 1937 , restaurant owner
SCOTTISH REEL CLUB
GB 0074 ACC/3614 · Collection · 1953-1995

Records of the Scottish Reel Club, comprising minutes, financial records, membership records and programmes.

Scottish Reel Club , 1953-1990
SCOTS CHURCH, LONDON WALL
GB 0074 CLC/182 · Collection · 1689-1868

The records of the Scots Church before 1856 comprise constitutional documents, registers and records of the congregation, financial material, letterbooks and administrative papers, and deeds. Also papers of Dr Robert Young (1801-1813).

Scots Church , London Wall x Trinity Presbyterian Church , Canonbury
SAAM THEATRE GROUP
GB 0074 LMA/4530 · Collection · 2007-2008

Records of the Saam Theatre Group oral history project. The collection consists of a description of the running of the project and typewritten transcripts of the eight interviews, and CD versions of the interviews with a video report on the running of the project on DVD. Because of their format, the CDs and DVD are currently available by appointment only.

Saam Theatre Group
RUSSIAN JEWS COMMITTEE
GB 0074 ACC/2712/RJC · Collection · 1881-1882

Records of the Russian Jews Committee, consisting of minutes of the Executive Committee and a letter book.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.

Russian Jews Committee
GB 0074 CLC/101 · Collection · 1950-2008

The records of the Royal Society of St. George, City of London Branch, comprise minutes of the council 1950-2005 and entertainments committee 1974-1995, and dinner menus 1953-2008.

Royal Society of Saint George , City of London Branch
ROYAL SCOTTISH CORPORATION
GB 0074 CLC/126 · Collection · 1820-2002

Records of the Royal Scottish Corporation, comprising copy charters, byelaws and grant of arms (Ms 35760); minutes and related papers 1831-1834, 1877-1990 (Ms 35761-4); annual reports and accounts and other financial records 1935-2002 (Ms 35765-72); correspondence 1936-1993 (Ms 35773-80); seal register 1935-1992 (Ms 35781); papers re subscribers and legacies 1894-1969 (Ms 35782-5); papers re festival dinners 1820, 1906-1998 (Ms 35786-90); papers re St Andrews Soldiers' Home 1914-72 and St Andrews Scottish Soldiers' Club Fund 1980 (Ms 35791); correspondence re the London Scottish Regiment War Memorial Fund 1957-62 (Ms 35792); minutes, financial papers and register of pension payments of the Kinloch Bequest 1877-1992 (Ms 35793-801); minutes, financial records and correspondence of the Freer Trust 1915-62 (Ms 35802-8); correspondence relating to the hall, property and insurances 1864-1988 (Ms 35809-10); and press cuttings and miscellaneous items 1829-1995 (Ms 35811-2).

Please note that access to some financial records less than 30 years old is restricted. Access to records less than 50 years old which contain personal information is also restricted. 24 hours notice is required for access to all the records.

Royal Scottish Corporation
GB 0074 LMA/4534 · Collection · 2005 - 2011

Records of the River Cultures Festival, comprising final published project oral histories 'Memories of the genuine children of Limehouse Chinatown': 'the photographs down memory lane' and 'what we remember' (2005), 'Spinning Lifestyles by East London's Bangladeshi families' (2007), and original recordings for the project 'Walking Proud in East London' (2011).

River Cultures Festival
LMA/4358 · Collection · 1822-1960

Annual reports, 1847-1927; Trustees minute book, 1825-1848; Literary Society minute book, 1904-1910; British Women's Temperance Association minute book, 1916-1919; Communicants' roll book, 1933-1946; Disjunction certificate book, 1937-1949; Register of baptisms, 1822-1856; Register of baptisms (including the Caledonian Church, Cross Street, Hatton Garden), 1826; Register of baptisms, 1827-1840; Young Men's Association register, 1841-1911; scrap book regarding the National Scotch Church, 1823-1960 and scrap book regarding events at Regent Square, 1860-1893.

Presbyterian Church of England
GB 0074 LMA/4231 · Collection · 1935-1985

Collection of material relating to the singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson, including a large number of recordings on tape and vinyl of Paul Robesons' wide repertoire of songs and a series of reel-to-reel tapes including interviews and radio programmes made with Robeson; and letters and photographs and a series of scrapbooks (put together by Ken Goodland) of newspaper cuttings charting the life and career of Paul Robeson.

Various.
GB 0096 AL97 · Fonds · [1699]

Letter from Jean Pellerin of Amsterdam to an unknown recipient, [1699]. Urging the English to combine with the Scots in founding a colony at Darién [Panama]. 'Je voy bien qu'il n'y a point de nation a présent dan L'europe que Les anglois.'

Autograph, with signature.

Pellerin , Jean , fl 1699 , [French traveller]
GB 0099 KCLMA Paton Walsh · 1885-1947

Papers comprising printed or typescript reports and supporting publications, on the 1 Army, North Africa, Civil Affairs Staff Centre (CASC), and on the administration of civilians in occupied territory including the Control Commission Germany (CCG), 1885-1947; notably comprising printed and typescript instructions, orders and reports issued by the Provost Marshal's Office, 1 Army, North Africa, including on traffic control, stores, planning, lessons learnt from the operations, intelligence summaries, 1 Army newsletters, 'Crusade', with an air raid precautions poster from Algeria, 1939-1943; reports and typescript summaries relating to the Civil Affairs Staff Centre (CASC), on 'captivity neurosis', the economics and finance of wartime Europe, fire and civil defence, road transport, military writing, the welfare of occupied populations, Nazi doctrines, files of information on national temperaments and characteristics of various occupied countries including Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany and Italy, 1943-1944; appointments diary compiled by Paton Walsh (1945), memoranda, correspondence and papers on aspects of the German penal system under the Nazis and Allied occupation, notably the police, procedures, juvenile courts, penal statistics from Nazi Germany, 1929-1947, including copies of British Zone Review, Nov 1945-Dec 1946; papers on the Control Commission Germany including confidential reports on police trainees, lectures given by Paton Walsh, the purging of Nazis from office, training and planning for post-Nazi administration, training and organisation of the penal system in Allied occupied Germany with observations on the regulation of the system under the Weimar Republic and the National Socialists, precautions against sabotage directed against occupying forces, 1943-1946; witnesses' depositions in the Nuremberg trials, account of Brendonk Concentration Camp, defence positions of the Gestapo, Sturm Abteilung (SA), 1945-1946; papers on Cologne Prison, including an autobiographical account and journal of Rudolf Kirsch, prisoner, and correspondence, 1939-1944, papers on executions at Cologne Prison with copies of the last letters of the condemned, 1941-1944; publications in English on military law, police and transport, mainly manuals, regulations and information notes on Imperial policing, traffic patrols, military law, inspection and care of vehicles, 1917-1945; publications on the Allied occupation of Germany, consisting of notes on the military government of occupied territory, internment camps, contact lists for civil administrators, Who's who in occupied Europe, chart of the Nazi administrative structure, re-education programmes, maps and gazetteers of Germany, Austria and Denmark, 1943-1945; American publications, namely civil affairs information guides, fileld manual of military government, an entertainment guide for American soldiers entitled, 'What's Cooking in Berlin', copies of The Stars and Stripes and the New York Herald Tribune, 1940-1946; general military handbooks including guidance for officers on allowances, the training of Army tradesmen, training manuals on air support of infantry and the use of parachute troops, catering, defence of aerodromes against attack, the disposition of unit records, signals, mine clearance, anti-malarial precautions, 1939-1943; Army Education booklets in a series entitled 'The British Way and Purpose', 1942-1943; German language publications on law, crime and prisons especially regulations, criminal biology, youth crime, 1885-1942; German National Socialist publications on topics ranging from flying schools, the SA in Berlin to the beginnings of radio broadcasting,1926-1946; maps, mainly Ordnance Survey and Stanfords, of United Kingdom cities and counties, including Wolverhampton, Winchester, Dover, East Sussex and Suffolk, 1913-1940; maps of Germany, central and eastern Europe, 1936-[1945]; maps of Algeria, French North Africa, Tunisia, 1942; propaganda cartoon and other posters published by the Evening Standard, Stationery Office and Army Bureau of Current Affairs, 1944; 1 file of telegrams, commission of 1918 and details of the various promotions of Paton Walsh, 1916-1947.

Walsh , Edmund James Paton , 1897-1985 , Brigadier
GB 0074 CLC/197 · Collection · 1691-1912

Collection of records relating to non-established religion in London, including papers of the Freethinking Christians, the Dutch churches in Colchester and Norwich and St Martin Orgar French Church. The record of the latter comprise minutes, lists of members and seatholders, and financial material.

French Protestant Church at St Martin Orgar Freethinking Christians Dutch Church, Colchester Dutch Church, Norwich
LONDON WALL SCOTCH CHURCH
LMA/4356 · Collection · 1822-1836

Register of baptisms, 1822-1836.

Presbyterian Church of England
LING, S (fl 1953-2008)
GB 0074 LMA/4510 · Collection · 2007 Nov 19

Transcript of oral history recording Our Laundrette in Birkenhead, describing Mrs Ling's early working life in her father-in-law's laundrette.

Ling , S , fl 1953-2008 , restaurant owner
LIM, Shu Pao (fl 1920-1999)
GB 0074 LMA/4504 · Collection · 1938-2008

Personal papers of Shu Pao Lim, community worker, including correspondence from the Race Relations and Immigration sub-committee; certificates awarded to Lim for her dedication as a voluntary worker; photographs of Lim and her family in Burma and of Lim receiving the MBE; and Burmese wall hangings.

Lim , Shu Pao , fl 1920-1999 , community worker
LI, Muk Wan (fl 1960-1980)
GB 0074 LMA/4511 · Collection · 1960-1965

Personal papers of Muk Wan Li, restaurant owner, including travel documents relating to his immigration to Britain; financial papers, and family letters.

Li , Muk Wan , fl 1960-1980 , restaurant owner
LEE, Shui-wai (fl 1966-1971)
GB 0074 LMA/4500 · Collection · 1966-1971

Papers of Shui-wai Lee relating to her nursing training and permission to work in Britain.

Lee , Shui-wai , fl 1966-1971 , nurse and lecturer
LAM, Yee-Moon (b 1916)
GB 0074 LMA/4508 · Collection · 1961-1981

Passports (British and Hong Kong) belonging to Yee Moon Lam, merchant.

Lam , Yee Moon , b 1916 , merchant
LAM, Tom (fl 1970-2008)
GB 0074 LMA/4502 · Collection · 1968-2007

Personal papers of Tom Lam, charity worker, including photograph of students at the School for Chinese in Vietnam; edition of Chinese poetry; scroll of Chinese calligraphic work; magazines and journals.

Lam , Tom , fl 1970-2008 , charity worker
LAM, Ting Kau (fl 1935-2008)
GB 0074 LMA/4505 · Collection · 1960

Personal papers of Ting Kau Lam, restaurant owner, comprising passport and transcript of oral history My Life in London.

Lam , Ting Kau , fl 1935-2008 , restaurant owner
ITALIAN CARABINIERI BAND
GB 0074 LMA/4247 · Collection · 1918

This collection comprises one photograph showing an Italian Carabinieri band marching down Cockspur Street, Pall Mall c 1918.

Unknown.
GB 0074 LMA/4506 · Collection · 1987-2007

Papers of Islington Chinese Association, including general administrative records, annual reports, and printed material including event programmes, brochures and newsletters.

Islington Chinese Association
ACC/2622 · Collection · 1850-1929

Records of the Hamburg Lutheran Church comprising 'church books' (Kirchenbuch) containing lists of baptisms, 1850-1929; lists of marriages, 1850-1920 and a chronicle of events relating to the church, 1888-1913.

Hamburg Lutheran Church , Dalston
HAMBURG LUTHERAN CHURCH
GB 0074 CLC/189 · Collection · 1688-1945

Records of the Hamburg Lutheran Church, including letters patent granting the right to establish the church; registers of baptisms, confirmations, marriages and burials; consistorial act books; papers relating to the construction of the new church in Dalston; and financial accounts.

Hamburg Lutheran Church , Dalston
GB 1556 WL 558b · Collection · 1936-1939

This microfilm collection contains a variety of pre-Second World War propaganda materials produced for consumption in Great Britain, 1936-1939, including reports, publications, leaflets and transcript of a radio broadcast: Hitler's speech to the Winter help, 10 Oct 1938; chiefly produced by the Anglo-German Fellowship, Deutsche Ausländer Dienst, Deutsche Fichte Bund and the Anglo-German Information Service.

Various
ACC/2597 · Collection · 1858-1998

Register of baptisms, 1858-1902; register of marriages, 1860-1914 (in German); and index to marriage register providing a partial translation, compiled 1998.

German Evangelical Church , Islington
FLACK, May (1891-1954)
GB 0074 LMA/4507 · Collection · 1888-2008

Personal papers of May Flack, owner of a boarding house for the Chinese community in Limehouse, including birth, marriage and death certificates; papers relating to members of Flack's family such as National Service cards, medical cards, letters and so on; family trees and an ancestry by DNA test; family photographs and newspaper cuttings relating to May Flack and Chinatown in Limehouse.

Flack , May , 1891-1954 , boarding house owner
ENGLISH CHURCH, SIENA
GB 0074 CLC/164 · Collection · 1841-1859

Memorandum book of the English Church in Siena, including agreement concerning the Protestant cemetery (1843), abstract of receipts and payments (1841-1846), correspondence and notes.

Church of the Holy Trinity , Siena
GB 0074 LMA/4499 · Collection · [1990]

Records of the East London Chinese Community Centre, comprising photograph of an exercise class at the Centre.

East London Chinese Community Centre
DUTCH CHURCH, AUSTIN FRIARS
GB 0074 CLC/180 · Collection · 1462-1945

Records of the Dutch Church at Austin Friars, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; financial accounts; letter books; lists of members; council and committee minute books; memoranda books; legal papers; property records including title deeds; rules and regulations relating to the governance of the church.

Dutch Church , Austin Friars, London
DIOCESE OF WESTERN CHINA
GB 0074 CLC/417 · Collection · 1888-1951

Records of the Diocese of Western China, comprising registers of baptisms and marriages and baptism and marriage certificate books.

Diocese of Western China
LMA/4288 · Collection · 1852-1998

The collection consists of records relating to the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church and other German Churches in London, 1852-1998: Saint Georg (Alie Street, London E1), Saint Paul (Goulston Street, London E1), Camberwell Church (Denmark Hill SE5), Saint Marien (Sandwich Street, WC1) and Brighton Church. The greater part of the collection originated from Pastor Dr Julius Rieger (reponsible for the parish 1945-1953) and Pastor Wallman who assisted Rieger from 1951. The records also include the archives of the Camberwell Church which closed in 1914.

The collection includes papers relating to Church Constitution and meetings; Council correspondence; relations with the church in Germany; pastoral correspondence; Parish history and statistics; papers relating to staff including Pastors and Curates; registers of baptisms, confirmations, weddings and burials, 1876-1977; records of services held; hymn books, prayer books and sermons; records of different Church organisations and societies; newsletters; correspondence with German prisoners-of-war, correspondence regarding the organisation of aid for prisoners of war and prisoner of war camp newspapers and newsletters, Second World War; correspondence regarding the organisation of aid for refugees, Second World War; correspondence regarding aid for post-Second World War Germany; papers regarding the welfare of German immigrants in Great Britain; financial and legal papers relating to property; papers relating to Church buildings and Vicarage buildings.

Papers relating to other German congregations including registers of baptisms, confirmations, marriages and deaths for the Camberwell Church, 1854-1914; administrative papers of the Camberwell Church; papers relating to other German churches both in London and Great Britain; papers relating to work with other Lutheran churches and the Union of Lutheran churches; reports, conference papers and correspondence from the German-speaking Evangelical Synod in Great Britain; correspondence and other papers from the Geistlicher Rat (Lutheran Council); papers regarding relations with other churches and copies of the Inter-congregational newsletter.

Publications including pamphlets, newsletters, booklets and press cuttings; photographs of Pastors, church members and church buildings.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church xx German Evangelical Church , Sydenham
GB 0074 LMA/4512 · Collection · 1932-200-

Personal papers of Wong Ying Chung including Chinese passport; oral history transcript entitled Life in the Laundrette, and family photographs.

Chung , Ying Wong , fl 1920-1985 , launderette owner and caterer
CHINQUE, SAMUEL
GB 0074 LMA/4520 · Collection · 1901-2005

Personal papers of Samuel Chinque, political activist, including issues of the Hsinhua weekly news sheet; photographs; official or business correspondence; administrative documents for the Chinese Mutual Aid Association; publications; official personal papers; original writings and poems; and private correspondence.

Chinque , Samuel , 1908-2004 , political activist x Sheng , Chen Tian
GB 0074 LMA/4513 · Collection · 2004-2008

Records of the Chinese National Healthy Living Centre, including promotional leaflets; recordings made under the oral history project 'Whispers of Time: Memories of Migration and Settlement'; and promotional material from the 'Footprints of the Dragon' project.

Chinese National Healthy Living Centre
CHEUNG, Yick Kwan (fl 1957)
GB 0074 LMA/4497 · Collection · 1957-1972

Photograph of Yick-Kwan Cheung and family at the Hong Kong Restaurant, London, 1957; and 2 copies of the Overseas Chinese in Britain year book.

Cheung , Yick Kwan , fl 1957
GB 0074 LMA/4503 · Collection · 1957-2002

Personal papers of Jo Yiu Cheung, seaman, comprising photograph on board an ocean liner, and portrait in front of a Buddha statue.

Cheung , Jo Yiu , fl 1938-2008 , seaman
GB 0074 CLC/038 · Collection · 1925-1938

Records of the British Friendly Society, comprising accounts, annual reports and accounts, and receipts for money advanced to British citizens in need.

British Friendly Society , Hamburg, Germany
BRITISH FACTORY, OPORTO
GB 0074 CLC/037 · Collection · 1716-1814

Registers of baptisms, marriages and burials for the British Factory at Oporto, 1716-1807.

British Factory , Oporto