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Records of the Family Planning Association from its inception as National Birth Control Committee in 1930, until the major organisational changes following the 1974 NHS Act; records of predecessor bodies subsequently assimilated; records of affiliated clinics, including substantial collection of records of the North Kensington Women's Welfare Clinic; papers of Margery Spring-Rice and of Caspar Brook; photographs, pamphlets, ephemera, posters

Files, catalogues and one minute book of the Medical Recording Services Foundation and Graves Medical Audiovisual Library, documenting its activities from 1957 to 1993. Also one file on the Medical Audiotape Slide Producers Association (MASPA) set up by the Graves in 1974.

Files kept by the International Academy of the History of Medicine's President, Dr Noel Poynter, of minutes, membership records, symposia and external relations, plus Poynter's correspondence with members, including prior to foundation of Academy, 1946-1973.

Papers of the Jungian Umbrella Group including editorial correspondence relating to the Umbrella Group Newsletter; copies of Newsletters 1-10 (no. 4 is missing, and there is editorial correspondence for a no. 11, not received); and a file on the proposals for a C. G. Jung Centre in London.

Papers of the British Migraine Association (BMA) and the Migraine Trust, 1964-1968, comprising minutes of the Medical Advisory Group of the BMA, 1964-1965; minutes of the Medical Advisory Council of the Migraine Trust, 1965-1978; Migraine Newsletter, 1966-1980; Migraine News, 1967-1978; and miscellaneous publications and press cuttings.

Papers of the Multiple Sclerosis Society (MSS), 1953-1977, comprising general files relating to the MSS headquarters, 1953-1976; medical files relating to the MSS headquarters, 1955-1976; files relating to MSS regional branches, 1954-1977; and records relating to the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, 1955-1977.

Papers of the National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other forms of Tuberculosis, successor and associated bodies, 1890s-1990s, comprising administrative records of the Association including Council and committee minutes, financial records, correspondence, publications, leaflets and posters; records of the organisation of the 1901 British Congress on Tuberculosis; records of pre-existing charitable funds that were amalgamated into the Association, notably minutes of the Spero Fund and of the Queen Alexandra Sanatorium and related Funds; administrative and patient records of the Queen Alexandra Sanatorium, Davos, Switzerland, 1890s-1920s; and a minute book for the Cambridgeshire Tuberculosis After-care Association, 1916-1935.

Papers of the British Phrenological Society, 1915-1966, comprising minutes of the council and annual general meetings, 1951-1964; class attendance books, 1915-1938 and 1951-1966; and a visitors book, 1955-1966.

Records of the Physiological Society, including all the minute books from the foundation of the Society in 1876, the proposal books for candidates from 1888, correspondence, histories and photographs. The bulk of the material dates from after 1939.

Papers of the Medical Pilgrims, 1928-1995, comprising archives of the Medical Pilgrims, 1928-1995; notebooks, 1928-1978 and 1980; Scribes' reports, 1928, 1957 and 1959-1995; correspondence relating to a visit to China, 1970s; minutes, 1982-1995; publication The Medical Pilgrims 1928-1955 ; items from individual Pilgrims; scrapbook, possibly from John Hay; file relating to Sir Melville Arnott, 1967-1976; files relating to the history of the Medical Pilgrims by Dr Clifford Hawkins; biographical material relating to Sir Arthur Hurst; and slides.

Papers of The Prout Club, 1975-1996, comprising records of the annual dinners including menus, correspondence, order of business, invitation circular, annual toast to Prout, list of attendees, annual balance, and CVs of new members and honorary guests; committee correspondence; and papers relating to the history of the club.

Papers of the Society for the Study of Addiction to Alcohol and other Drugs, 1920s-1970s, comprising minutes, 1921-1969 and 1976; registers of attendance, 1904-1939; financial records, 1930s and 1960s; and uncatalogued meeting papers and correspondence, 1965-1968. Including minutes of the London Society for Study of Addiction, 1965-1967.

Papers of the Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories, 1899-[1946], comprising correspondence files, a rule book, microfilms of files, and publications.

The items in this collection are concerned with ornithology. WMS/Amer.109 is a copy of part of William Bartram's work on North American birds, while WMS/Amer.110-111 comprise Sabine's own observations, respectively on the Niagara frontier of Canada and in the Arctic during Parry's 1819-1820 expedition in the Hecla.

These manuscripts comprise two copies of a work on the theory and extensive therapeutic uses of Peruvian balsam, probably produced in Mexico in the second half of the 18th century.

The items in the collection span the work of the Junta during the 1797-1798 smallpox epidemic, comprising a circular announcing the setting up in late 1797 of local charitable societies to be co-ordinated by the Junta, and the Junta's concluding report of early 1798.

Photographs and publications relating to surgery, elephantiasis and local customs in Nigeria, 1930s-1940s.

The collection comprises drawings and photographs concerning mosquitos and malaria, plus correspondence with Sir Rickard Christophers.

Administrative records relating to the foundation of the Society, its premises and individual members, 1906-1979, including correspondence, diaries, notebooks, obituaries and photographs.

Papers of members, formerly held by the Society, including Sir Patrick Manson (1844-1922), Sir David Bruce (1855-1931), and Sir Philip Manson-Bahr (1881-1966).

The archive spans Browne's career from school onwards, but the core series of records focus on his work as a medical missionary at the BMS hospital in Yakusu, Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). Section B comprises records for the period 1938-1958, including registers of leprosy sufferers, case records and photograph albums documenting various symptoms. Section K contains further photographs (mainly clinical) for the period 1938-1977, the most important series of which dates from Browne's time at the Baptist Mission Hospital and comprises over 900 negatives and prints together with supporting documentation, 1954-1958.

Section C contains a small number of files compiled by Browne during his research into leprosy, yaws, onchocerciasis and ainhum, 1946-1983. Particularly notable are the files on the anti-leprosy drug B663 (now known as clofazimine), into the use of which Browne conducted pioneering studies whilst director of the Leprosy Research Unit, Uzuakoli, Eastern Nigeria, 1959-1966.The remaining records comprise personal and biographical material, 1923-1985 (section A); general subject files containing correspondence, reprints etc. on a wide variety of topics, 1948-1986 (section D); writings by Browne, 1935-1985 (section E); records of Browne's involvement with the International Leprosy Association, 1909-1985 (section F) and various other organisations, 1959-1986 (section G); records on foreign visits, 1965-1985 (section H); and a few files on religious matters, 1959-1984 (section J).

Account-book of a medical practitioner in Kinross. In Vol. II is an inserted letter, dated 8 Jan., 1921, from D. W. B. Fleming of Culross to Orr, the Bristol bookseller relating to this MS. Produced in Kinross.

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.

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 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].

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.

Auctioneers' sale particulars by Blake and Croydon (and others) for land and properties mainly in Tooting and Wandsworth. The majority are of the firm Messrs Blake of Croydon and are listed first (1-35); those by other firms follow (36-46). The entries are arranged: date, auctioneer (if not Blake), place, style. Most of the sale particulars relate to land and properties in Tooting and Wandsworth, although a small number refer to properties in Battersea, Balham and Putney and elsewhere (outside the Borough of Wandsworth). Printed, many with MS notes.

Minutes and accounts of the Burial Board, burial registers for the cemeteries at Battersea Rise and Morden.

The collection contains minutes of meetings of the Executive Committee and the General Management Committee from 1924 to 1983 although with substantial gaps. There are also minutes of meetings of the East Putney branch and the Thamesfield Ward branch of Putney Labour Party. There are also several Annual Reports as well as correspondence relating to elections, membership and general party business. Also includes newspaper cuttings, posters, pamphlets and other publications.

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.

The collection mostly relates to the history of the hospital and the redevelopment of the site.

The collection consists of circulars issued by the Education Department of the London County Council and circulated to various Local Education Authorities as well as other memorandums and correspondence. The material concerns the possible and eventual evacuation of children and other vulnerable groups from London from 1939 until 1952. There is little information that is specific to Battersea, Wandsworth and individual schools, instead the material focuses on nationwide policies and initiatives. Most of the circulars seem to have been received by the Battersea Divisional Offices in St John's Hill.

Deeds relating to an orchard in Roehampton.

The collection consists of title deeds to the property on Putney Heath later known as Highlands.

Papers relating to Farmers Chemist, Putney. Includes: prescription books; poison register; papers including invoices, insurance policies and receipts; and photographs. Most of the material relates to the period when the chemist was run by Claude Hopkins.

Records of the Putney Society's actions, decisions, and finances, including: financial records and minutes, agendas, reports, and notes for meetings of the society and its executive committee, subcommittees, and panels. There are also Society publications and mailings, including the Putney Society Bulletin and the Putney Society Review, photographs, scrapbooks and newspaper cuttings, working files and subject files. External research documents include documents produced by outside organisations and used or consulted by members of the Putney Society; most are consultation documents produced by the London Borough of Wandsworth, the Greater London Council, or central government, but there are flyers, leaflets, and other items produced by pressure groups.

Papers belonging to Stanley Bollans including personal letters and cards, photographs, papers relating to the Wandsworth Technical Institute Cycling Club, Wandsworth Technical Institute ephemera, and papers, photographs and ephemera from a cycling trip to Europe in 1936.

Architectural plans of Old Battersea House. One series was produced by the Council's Architects Department and shows proposed alterations and renovations to the property. The second series of plans was produced by Vernon Gibberd Associates on behalf of Forbes International who took over the lease of the property and began restoration work.

Includes administrative files of Battersea Labour Party and local wards, and of Wandsworth Labour Group; governor's papers relating to Alderbrook Primary School, Balham, Chestnut Grove School, formerly Hydeburn School, Balham, and Hearnville Primary School, Balham; and collected press cuttings and other printed material relating to Wandsworth Council, local political affairs, education and schools, and local history.

Documents relating to Mrs Isabel Kirby leasing a flat in Harcourt Lodge, 5 Melrose Road, Wandsworth.

The collection consists of a counterpart lease and an assignment of leasehold premises for 1 and 2 Hyde Terrace, Battersea.

Documents relating to the estate of James Edward Horne of 8 Earlsfield Road, Wandsworth, following his death in 1908.

Documents relating to the marriage settlement of Edwin James Fairland and Emma Maggie Thomson. The collection consists of the original marriage settlement of 31 October 1870 and various associated papers.

Documents relating to 287 Battersea Park Road.

The collection consists of a single mortgage of 69, 71 and 73 Northcote Road.

The collection consists of a single school inventory relating to Sir Walter St. John's School, Battersea.

The collection includes minutes of meetings, annual reports, and letters, as well as papers relating to the General Strike of 1926.

The collection is comprised largely of material produced by contemporary and former students and staff of Hotham Road School in Putney, as part of various projects undertaken by the Hotham School Social History Group, the school itself and the PTA, to celebrate the history of the school. This includes correspondence, primarily from former pupils, providing their reminiscences of the school, and notes and drafts for publications about the school's history. The collection also includes other material generated by the school and by Hotham Adult Education Centre, such as photographs, examples of students' work, and promotional documents.

The collection is mostly made up of prospectuses, calendars and syllabuses for courses available at Battersea Polytechnic Institute. There are also some financial records relating to the accounts of Battersea Polytechnic as well as annual reports for the Institute. Additionally there are several volumes listing the names of students enrolled on courses and some examination lists. There are also Battersea Polytechnic Institute magazines as well as numerous programmes and tickets for concerts and events held at the Institute. Additionally there is a series of material relating to Battersea Polytechnic Hostel.

Wandle School records: The first series contains several admissions registers and one volume containing school records. These volumes are closed. The second series is comprised of miscellaneous papers such as letters from old pupils, a copy of the Inspectors report on the school in 1959, and papers relating to the history of the school used to organise an exhibition in 2004.

The collection is contains material relating to Spencer Park school including copies of the school magazine, papers outlining the history of the school and the Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum site, prospectuses, photographs, newspaper cuttings, programmes and various other items. There are no administrative records for the school in the collection. Additionally there is a series of deeds, leases, and other papers relating to the Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum site, the building of the school, and the sale of the site in the 1980s for redevelopment.