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Papers of George Arbuthnot concerning currency, as edited by V D[elves?] B[roughton?]; Papers of Lord Welby concerning the organisation of Government departments, gold coinage, Indian currency, bimetallism, coinage, and the Bank of England; Lord Welby's correspondence; and a compendium of information on British administration in the mid 19th century.

Papers of the Wider Share Ownership Council, c1958-c2003, including correspondence, minutes, conference papers, reports and publications, including material relating to the merger with Proshare. Also the personal papers of George Copeman, mainly relating to employee share ownership and business management.

The papers consist mainly of correspondence and memoranda relating to the political positions held by Lord Wigg, 1939-1983, and has been divided into the following sections:

1. Early life and personal papers;
2. Early Political Career, 1945-1951;
3. Labour Party Opposition, 1951-1964;
4. Paymaster General, 1964-1967;
5. Later Political Career, 1967-1983;
6. General Elections, 1945-1966;
7. Constituency Papers, 1945-1966;
8. Horserace Betting Levy Board, 1964-1972.
   
   A further 80 boxes of papers relating to the Horserace Betting Levy Board remain closed and unlisted.

Papers of (Robert James) Martin Wight, [1939-1972], including research material for books and articles, texts of lectures and talks, conference papers, quotations, press cuttings and correspondence all on subjects including international politics, the United Nations and European unity, World War Two, religion, Russia, and the teaching of history; material relating to societies; and files on the teaching of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Financial records of William Brandt's Sons and Co, a London merchant bank, 1814-1957. The collection consists entirely of volumes of account books.

Papers relating to Juliet Rhys Williams' work on economics, taxation reforms, wages policy, and Commonwealth trade; her membership of the European League for Economic Co-operation, the United Europe Movement, the European Movement, and other European groups; correspondence, articles and pamphlets relating to European issues; correspondence, speeches, conference papers and pamphlets from the Liberal Party; material concerning Rhys Williams' involvement in the Conservative Party, mostly relating to the Monday Club and elections; papers relating to commercial television, and film making; documents relating to the building and administration of Cwmbran New Town; papers relating to Rhys Williams' time as Churchwarden of St Anne's, Soho, and as vice-president of the St Anne's Society; material relating to the publishing and winding up of the 'European Review' and the 'Economic Digest'; minutes of the Bishop of Llandaff's Committee on hardship in the Rhondda Valley; Rhys Williams' collected writings, correspondence, and pamphlet and newsletter collections; papers relating to projects and societies in which Rhys Williams was involved; and family papers relating to property owned by the Rhys Williams family, family finances, photographs, Elspeth Rhys Williams (her daughter) and Sir Rhys Rhys Williams (her husband).

Papers of Brandon Meredith Rhys-Williams, 1965-1988, including political appointment diaries, 1980-1988; correspondence, press cuttings and printed material relating to various Kensington constituency issues, 1979-1988, including local health facilities, education funding, drugs, police and community relations, immigration and refugees, and homosexuality; general constituency correspondence, 1985-1988; papers relating to various Parliamentary campaigns, 1968-1988, notably on child benefit, housing, pensions, and social security; material concerning finance and taxation, 1968-1988, including note, speeches, reports and correspondence relating to finance bills, budgets and taxation; material concerning the many attempts of Rhys-Williams to pass a Companies Bill through Parliament, 1967-1988, including correspondence, draft bills, reports and press cuttings; papers relating to Europe, 1968-1988, including material on domestic opinion, the European Parliament, the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, the European League for Economic Co-operation, the European Democratic Group, the European Conservative Group and the European Economic Community; papers concerning Rhys-Williams' interest in social security reform, 1965-1988, including correspondence, printed reports, pamphlets, notes and drafts on subjects such as child benefit, taxation, pensions, basic income guarantee and European social security.

Papers of and relating to Sir John Fischer Williams, 1913-1923, notably originals, copies and transcripts of correspondence with Leonard Henry and Catherine Courtney, 1st Baron and Baroness Courtney of Penwith, mainly relating to Williams' role as British Legal Representative on the Reparations Commission in Paris, and the negotiations between France, Germany and Great Britain; a typescript by David Francis Hubbock based on the Williams correspondence entitled 'Letters from Paris: Reparations and the Ruhr crisis of 1923', [1947-1990]; a photocopy of diary notes kept by Williams on the Reparations Commission, 1920; photocopy of notes on Lord Courtney by (Martha) Beatrice Webb, 1918; copies of photographs of Lady Courtney and the Legal Committee of the Reparations Commission, taken at the Hotel Astoria in Paris, 1920s; a list of publications by Williams.

This collection contains speeches by Wise; financial reports on the economic condition of Germany; correspondence regarding the publication of his German diary; pamphlets and reports on reparation payments; studies, notes and papers on government policy; notes regarding economic policy; and notes and correspondence regarding his political life.

Copies of evidence to the Wolfenden Committee.

This collection consists of 11 volumes covering activities connected with the Guild, propaganda work, photographs, correspondence, material relating to the "Sheffield Enquiry", promotion of "peoples stores", speeches and leaflets. Includes:
Volume 2: Printed and manuscript material connected with the propaganda work organised by the Coronation Street branch of the Sunderland Co-operative Society, 1902-1904.
Volume 3: Album of photographs relating to the activities at Sunderland documented in volume 2. Includes image of central Guild banner, Guild chain of office and 1906 Guild Congress.
Volume 4: Manuscript, printed material and photographs relating to the activities documented in volume 2, 1902-1903.
Volume 5: Manuscript and printed material, drawings, paintings and photographs relating to the activities documented in volume 2, 1903-1904.
Volume 6: Manuscript and typed material relating to a Guild enquiry on co-operation among the poor in Sheffield, 1902. Arranged in order of each investigator' who participated in the enquiry. The volume also contains manuscript and printed material documenting the propaganda work organised by the Guild which related to the Kingsland Road store of the Bristol Co-operative Society, 1905-1906. Some of the letters, now merged into the chronological sequence, were originally clipped together and marked, in the hand of Miss Mary Spooner, whose reports on conditions figure among them, "Interesting experiment with an 'Out of Debt' Fund".
Volume 8: Press material and correspondence connected with the resignation of the General Secretaryship and Assistant Secretaryship, respectively, on 1 Oct 1921, of Margaret Llewelyn Davies and Lilian Harris.

Annual Reports of the Womens Cooperative Guild, 1893 (10th), 1895-1945 (12th-62nd), 1949-1956 (66th-73rd).

Correspondence and papers concerning the administration and incorporation of the Council; papers and correspondence relating to surveys concerning Trade Unions, the employment of teachers in hospitals, women admitted to workhouses, schools, and women's trades and conditions; correspondence and papers relating to the Council's Education Committee, and correspondence concerning Lipton Ltd; letter books and other correspondence, and printed material concerning unemployment in other European countries; correspondence and papers concerning technical education; and completed forms and charts relating to the home work survey.

Executive Committee minutes; annual reports; circular letters and international circular letters; papers, notes and correspondence on subjects including women's suffrage, India, Germany, and the early history of WILPF; printed material, including press cutting books; and additional members' correspondence, notes and papers concerning refugees and immigrants, and lobbying of the United Nations.

YMA/WF: papers of the Woodcraft Folk, 1910-1975, including yearbooks and annual reports, 1928-1973; administrative material, 1930-1972, notably agenda and minutes of National Delegate Conferences, the National Folk Council and its various committees, membership details, and financial papers such as account books, paysheets and correspondence; general correspondence, 1929-1972, on subjects including the Public Order Act, Folk organisation during World War Two, conscientious objection, and the organisation of campsites; material concerning teaching undertaken by the Folk, 1938-1956, notably papers concerning National Training Camps, tests and badges; correspondence and papers concerning the National Folkhouse, 1938-1958; publications and propaganda, [1926-1965], also including song sheets, play scripts, draft articles and newspaper cuttings; correspondence and papers concerning relations with other organisations, 1929-1972, notably the Co-operative Union; material relating to international activities, 1931-1975, including correspondence with international youth groups, participation in international children's camps and European conferences; papers relating to local Woodcraft Folk groups, 1924-1973; papers of individual Folk, [1925-1975]; photographs of Folk activities, 1938-1971; printed materials and periodicals, 1910-1973. (114 boxes).

YMA/WF/2003 (accessions M3199 and M3204): Additional papers of the Woodcraft Folk, including minutes, annual reports, correspondence, publications, photographs, c 1929-c 1989 (80 boxes).

YMA/WF/2005 (accession M3293): Papers of the Woodcraft Folk: Mount Pleasant Group, 1970s (1 box).

Papers of Martha Wooley, [1920-1990], comprising material collected by her for a biography of Sir Halford Mackinder.

Woolly Al Walks the Kitty Back collection comprises transcripts of interviews and videotapes relating to the making of the BBC Timewatch programme, Woolly Al walks the Kitty Back, produced by Brian Lapping Associates Ltd.

Includes interviews with leading British and Argentinian political figures, as well as diplomatic figures from the United Nations. The interviews relate to the Falklands War and issues leading up to and following the immediate conflict.

Papers of the journal Work, Employment and Society, a journal of the British Sociological Association, 1992-1994, comprising contributors' files.

Photocopy of book containing medicinal and culinary recipes, compiled by Margaret Wynne (? of Wales).

Papers of the youth and student groups of the Liberal and Liberal Democrat parties, 1930s-1990s, including: Union of Liberal Students papers, 1980s, including: mailings; conference papers; financial records; papers on local groups; and, press releases. Young Liberals papers, 1958-1980s (mainly 1970s-1980s), including: constitution, 1975; minutes; conference papers; newsletters; leaflets and other publications. Student Liberal Democrats office files, 1930s-1980s (but only a few items before the 1980s). Papers of Ruth Coleman mainly relating to the Young Liberals and Liberal Students, 1970s-1994.

Two photographs of Eileen Louise Younghusband, [1910-1920], a coloured miniature as a child, and a black and white photograph as a young girl.