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The collection contains minutes of the NUTC and the LUTC from their foundation to the 1950's. Files date from the 1940's to 1984. It also contains a minute book of the Sunday Closing Special Campaign Committee (SCSCC) which transferred its work to the NUTC in 1903 (this Committee may have been appointed by the NUTC). The secretary of the NUTC (and LUTC) also served as one of the two general secretaries on the SCSCC. A minute book of the Free Churches Pledge Signing Campaign Committee (FCPSCC) appears in the collection. This committee was dissolved in 1911. Representatives of the NUTC and LUTC attended meetings which were held in Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, and in 1911 the secretary of the NUTC and LUTC was also secretary of the FCPSCC.

A minute book of the Society of Cogers appears in the collection probably because an NUTC member, H. Weightman (later NUTC secretary and treasurer), was acting secretary of the society c.1919.

The recording of financial income and expenditure into ledgers was not always done. A number of blank ledgers deposited suggest the aim of entering such information, but it was never achieved. An almost complete set of audited, annual summary accounts from 1911 to 1975 provide the bulk of information on finance.

The archive consists of minutes (including those of the British Vigilance Association (BVA)), annual reports, and publications. Correspondence and campaigning files on issues of public morality, sexual morality, traffic in women, the armed forces, obscenity, prostitution, entertainment and employment. Case files (including some individuals) including regional cases from Wales and North-East England. Administration in connection with British National Council, International Bureau, Travellers' Aid Society (TAS); also the Public Morality Council; and miscellaneous papers including campaign, resource and administrative files about various issues connected with social morality and public morality.

Papers of the Neonatal Society, 1959-2005, comprising correspondence and material relating to society meetings, membership and constitution.

Records of the Nightingale Fund Council, including deeds of trust; minutes; correspondence; annual reports; papers relating to St Thomas's Hospital; regulations; financial accounts; fundraising accounts; agreements; registers, prospectuses and syllabi of the Nightingale Training School; papers relating to the registration of nurses and nursing in general.

Also papers of the City Auxiliary Committee of the Nightingale Fund, comprising minutes, correspondence and accounts; and papers of Albert Venn Dicey (a jurist and Professor of Law at Oxford).

Minute books of the No 1 Cornhill Club, a professional association for insurers.

The archive consists of Priscilla Norman's personal collection of pamphlets, publications and propaganda material relating to the suffrage campaigns. There was a strong tradition of Liberal support in Lady Norman's family, and some of the material is concerned with their activities. The archive includes circular letters and memoranda from the Workers' Suffrage Federation, the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage and the Men's Liberal Suffrage Union. Also included are pamphlets dating from the late 1870s, a series of annual reports of the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage (1875-1883), and some anti-suffrage material sent to Sir Henry Norman as a Member of Parliament.

The collection includes minutes (with the exception of three volumes for 1837-1843, 1866-1884 and 1896-1905 which are noted as missing in the later minute books), rules and papers from the society including reference to insuring the society silver and stories from members.

The minutes are very detailed and provide an exception insight into the pawnbroking trade; shared stories reflect concerns of the time. There are accounts of losing money on pledges, bulgaries, fraud as well as discussions on the impact of legislation on the business and the state of the trade generally. References to the type of items being pawned also show the changing value of goods over the period of time.

The minutes cover both the First World War and the Second World War and show how the pawnbroking businesses were affected during these period of time, for example during the First World War it was recorded in October 1916 that one member raised the question of whether field glasses could be taken in pledge, in February 1919 a discussion was had on the effects of demobelisation and wages and in March of 1920 they discussion the issue of being offered firearms as a pledge items and how one member had recently sold to the Ministry of Munitions two army revolvers.

The Second World War saw meetings abandoned for a short time with members raising concerns about holding what could be deemed as a 'social gathering' in war time being recorded in the February of 1940 and in May 1941 there are detailed discussions between the members concerning the effect of fire, caused by air raids on jewellery and valuables in safes which was following the next month by discussions of the position of pawnbrokers regarding war damage insurance in respect of goods that they were holding on pledge. An entry from November 1941 shows the effect of not wrapping purchased goods when a member, Mr Norris remarked that the about of pilfering by the public in the sales shops had increased since the order prohibiting the use of paper for wrapping up goods sold to customers which meant that it was not easy to detect thieving as there was noting to show at a glance whether the article had been purchased or not.

Papers of the Northern Refugee Centre, from 1983 to the time of writing, chiefly comprising files arranged by country containing material on refugees including: pamphlets and leaflets, published and unpublished reports, offprints of articles, press cuttings, newsletters and press releases. The collection also comprises annual reports from other refugee organisations and published material on refugees.

Correspondence, minutes and papers relating to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Nutrition Committee, 1944-1947.

Survey questionnaires of obstetric flying squads, a summary of the survey and correspondence regarding hospital call-out team insurance, 1980-1987.

Printed announcement of meeting of Obstetrical Society of London on obstetrical instruments, 1866.

This archive consists of annual reports (1926-1938, 1941, 1947-1956, 1959, 1961, 1963-5); agendas and resolutions of Annual Meetings (1948-1963); memoranda (1929-1957); printed leaflets and pamphlets (1926-c.1947)

Abbreviations used include:

Cmd - Command Paper;

ILO - International Labour Organisation (United Nations);

ODC - Open Door Council;

ODI - Open Door International;

UNESCO - United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation.

This archive consists of minutes of board meetings (1947-1973), reports and conference resolutions (1929-1966), conference papers (1952-1957), constitutions and charters (1929-1970), correspondence files of president and honorary secretary (1947-1974); incomplete series of the publication Open Door (1929-1938), circular letters (1949-1959), leaflets and pamphlets (1929-1964), headed stationery, reports and publications of other organisations including United Nations commissions and International Labour Organisation. Most of the papers originate from the organisation's Honorary Secretaries.

The collection consists of 205 interviews available in digital audio file format and one folder of contextual material relating to the interviews, including essays and reports by Brian Harrison. The digital files are copies of the original oral history interview recordings that are held on reel-to-reel cassette.

Report of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) working party on overseas affairs, Nov 1995.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Overseas Committees and Councils, 1946-1984. The series contains: correspondence, minutes and papers of regional councils in Australia (1946-1980), New Zealand (1947-1976) and Canada (1948-1964); minutes and papers of the Dominion Committee (1952-1958); minutes, papers and reports from the Overseas Policy Committee (1946-1971); correspondence, minutes and papers of the South African Reference Committee and Regional Council (1953-1976); correspondence and papers of the Overseas Representative Committees in Ceylon, India and Pakistan (1962-1977); minute books of the international Regional Councils and Overseas Committees (1946-1984).

Marriage registers for Oxendon Presbyterian Church, Haverstock Hill, Belsize Park, 1960-1969.

Minute book of the Syrian Society, 1805-1808; letters to and from W R Hamilton concerning Joseph Marpurg, Joseph Hammer and others; draft of resolution of disbandment of the Association and the transfer of its assets to the Royal Georaphical Society, 1834.

Notes of interviews by Julie Wells with Josie Palmer, active in the Communist Party of South Africa, and the African National Congress, and founder member of Transvaal All-Women's Union and the Federation of South African Women), 1928-1955, on 19 and 26 October 1977.

Collection of papers by and about Baldwin Hamey (1600-1676); and a biographical memoir of Hamey, 1733.

Records of the Paper Trade Protection Association, comprising a Trade Advisory Committee minute book and prospectuses.

Access is restricted to records less than 30 years old where specified and 24 hours notice is required for access to all the records.

'Note sur la peste', and a collection of material (primarily correspondence) formerly held in the Department's Autograph Letters Sequence, 1795-1847.

Court of Session minute books, 1860-1942; Managers' Meeting minute books, 1863-1942; Annual general and congregational meetings minute books, 1860-1941; Literary Society minute books, 1919-1939; Harvey Street Working Committee minute book, 1938-1956; Missionary Committee for Hoxton Mission, 1909-1917; minute book of the Trustees' meetings, 1896-1942; annual reports, 1861-1940 (some gaps); Communicants' roll books, 1859-1956, including Hoxton Mission; register of baptisms, 1860-1939; issues of The Highbury Magazine, 1901-1911 and issues of the Park Church Literary Magazine, 1929-1937.

Papers, 1962-1977, of Dr Carlos P Parsloe, comprising typescript financial accounts of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA), 1962; typescript of proposed byelaws of the WFSA, 1964; minutes of WFSA Executive Committee, 1964; Interim Report, Finance Committee, WFSA, 1964; list of subscriptions (1956-1964) [1964?]; typescript proceedings of the General Assembly of the WFSA, Sao Paolo, 1964; typescript list of members, WFSA, undated; booklet on the University of the Philippines College of Medicine Anesthesiology Center Western Pacific, Jan 1973, and typescript annual reports of the Center, 1972, 1974-1977.

Pawnbroking Parliamentary Reform Association records comprising: minutes and reports, 1868-71; telegrams, 1872; and photograph album, 1873. They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1987.

Records of the Peabody Trust, including corporate records, financial accounts, personnel records, property records, estate management, plans, photographs, publications, artefacts, seal books, clasp books and legal papers.

Records of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes, including corporate records; financial records; correspondence; property records; tenants' records; plans; photographs; publications and artefacts.

Records of the Westminster Housing Trust including corporate records; financial accounts; administrative records; legal records; personnel papers; estate management papers; tenants' records; plans; photographs and publications.

Papers, 1970-1976, consisting of biographies of lives of the Fellows collected by Sir John Peel for his book The Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 1929-1969 (Whitefriars Press Ltd, 1976), including notes and correspondence.

Records of the Pentonville Charity School, comprising minute book of Committee meetings; report and notes on the school and ticket for coal.

Records relating to the Cook's Company, including extracts from the Company records and transcript of the register of freedom admissions and apprentice bindings.

Papers of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB), 1964-1991, including Executive Committee minutes, 1964-1980; Annual General Meeting minutes, 1964-1988 and working files of Executive Committee and Annual General Meeting , 1977-1991 (excluding 1980 and 1984). Papers relating to the PESGB constitution, 1983 and amended, 1986. Papers relating to workshops and conferences including Standing Conference on Studies in Education, 1974-1979; the World Congress on Philosophy, 1988; Day conference, 30 Nov 1984; Annual Conference, 1989-1990; Newsletter, 1989; National Conference for Philosophy, 1989-1990 and workshops 1985-1986. Correspondence, 1965-1990, including with the British Society of Aesthetics, 1975. Papers relating to surveys on the Philosophy of Education in Higher Education Departments, 1988 and the PESGB work and activities, 1984. Newsletters and related working papers, 1975-1990; membership files, 1983-1990; information sheets and application forms; papers relating to the Philosophy of Education Society, Australia; press cuttings, 1971; papers relating to London meetings, 1984 and papers relating to the Social Science Research Council, 1975-1976.

Photographs and pictures of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1633-2001. The majority of photographs depict the membership and social history of the College and include presidential portraits and photographs of Fellows and Members, prominent obstetricians and gynaecologists, visitors to the College, meetings and study groups. There is also a class of photographs of College buildings. Donated and deposited material also includes photographs and slides of clinical disorders and specimens.

Records comprise portraits, pictures and other memorabilia relating to William Blair-Bell, 1920-1996; presidential portraits, 1927-1995; portraits of Fellows, 1935-1991; photographs of Honorary Fellows, 1921-1997; photographs of annual dinners, 1931-1954, 1998; photographs of admission ceremonies, 1931-1992; College buildings, 1930-1991; Royal visits, 1931-1990; Council and officers, 1934-1992; photographs of meetings, members and artefacts of the Gynaecological Visiting Society, 1911-1973; British congresses of obstetrics and gynaecology, 1933-1999; photographs of overseas groups and other photographs relating to the profession overseas, 1935-1997; RCOG study groups and educational courses, 1979-1995; photographs and paintings donated to the College by Professor Preston Maxwell, 1898-1935; presentations, awards and lectures, 1949-1995; Strachan collection of portraits of eminent medical men, c1693-c1847; ceremonial and related paraphernalia and artefacts and gifts to the College, 1931-1992; miscellaneous photographs relating to the history of the College and of obstetrics and gynaecology, 1929-1999; decorative pictures, 1633-1957; photographs of pathological subjects transferred from the College Museum, 1950s-1978; photographs and drawings presented to the College by Professor John Chassar Moir, 1932-1957; photographs of eminent medical men collected by Sir Anthony Alment, transferred from the College Library, 1921; photographs and memorabilia relating to Sir Norman Jeffcoate, 1946-1975;

undated portrait photographs of eminent medical persons; Donald Whatley Roy photographs donated to the College Archives by A D Roy, 1903-1935;

collection of miscellaneous photographs transferred from the College Library, undated.

Papers relating to the Physiological Society consisting mostly of memoirs and miscellaneous correspondence of members of the Society or material of general interest to physiological history, 1828-1993.

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.

The archive consists of minutes and working papers for the organisations in which Pierotti was involved, namely the National Union of Women Teachers (1924-1964), the Joint Standing Parliamentary Committee of Women's Organisations (1942-1950) and the Status of Women Committee (1945-1978) including details of its establishment; Suffrage material relating to the movement in general, her membership of the Women's Freedom League (1919-1928). There is also material related to the Pethick Lawrences and Charlotte Despard; various press cuttings, pamphlets, photographs, postcards and objects. The pamphlets include material on equal pay and equal rights.

Records of the Pilgrim Trust, including minutes of Trustees meetings; financial records; papers of the Secretary; correspondence; annual reports; publications; annual accounts; ledgers; cash books; grant payment books; and grant files relating to art and learning, countryside preservation, ecclesiastical preservations, secular preservation and social welfare.

Minute books, 1926-1927, and Annual reports, 1926-1938, of the Pioneer Health Centre Peckham, and volumes of press-cuttings about the Centre 1929-1961; files, publications and ephemera relating to the activities of the Centre, 1925-1952; files of the Pioneer Health Centre Ltd following the closure of the Centre, 1950-1999; books about the Centre; photographs, films and videos; papers of George Scott Williamson, 1910-1991, including personalia, correspondence, lectures, drafts of articles and books, notes; papers of Innes Hope Pearse, including personalia, correspondence, notes, manuscripts, drafts of The Quality of Life, reprints; materials relating to Scott Williamson and Pearse's research on pathology and the thyroid, including notes, lectures, manuscripts, correspondence, and reprints.

Papers on alchemy by Albert Poisson, including correspondence, translations, essays, notes on chemistry, John Dee, the occult, extracts from books on alchemy, 1885-1904.

Papers of Alfred Poland, 1845-1846, comprising a volume titled Surgical Analysis of cases reported by the Clinical Society during the last six months of 1845 and the months of January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September 1846. Alfred [Poland] containing a table of contents; lists of cases including detailed patient information; and a letter concerning the deposit of the volume with the Library.

Records of the organisation known variously as the Polytechnic Sports Club, the The Institute of the Polytechnic Sports and Social Clubs, and The Polytechnic Sports Club Committee, as well as records of the Polytechnic's Men's and Women's Council, and Joint Council.

This collection includes all records relating to the organisation of sports and social activities by members of the Polytechnic except for records of the individual clubs themselves, which are catalogued as separate collections. However it does include correspondence with the clubs by the Secretary and Committees. This collection also includes papers relating to the award of Polytechnic-wide medals and trophies, including the Elsie Hoare Trophy, Studd Trophy and Ditchman Trophy.

Minute book and an account book for the Poors Piece Charity, Hanwell.

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

Records of the Presbyterian Housing Scheme, Poplar, including Ladies Committee minute book (The Committee of the Presbyterian Settlement, East London), 1901-1910; Ladies Settlement Committee minute book, 1910-1912; Committee of the Women's Presbyterian Settlement minute book, 1912-1939; Settlement Committee minute book, 1939-1946; General Committee minute book, 1946-1964; Executive Committee minute book, 1938-1960; Finance Committee minute book, 1954-1958; annual reports of the Presbyterian Settlement (missing years 1938, 1939 and 1966), 1899-1969; annual reports written by the congregation (missing 1961/1962), 1960-1965; architectural plans, 1938-1953; printed material relating to the Presbyterian Settlement, 1924-1968 and correspondence, 1911-1967.

Copies of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Press Publications, 1993-2002, comprising publications and serials produced since 1993, namely RCOG Press miscellaneous publications, 1994-2002, including information pamphlets; The Yearbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1993-2001; The Diplomate, 1994-1999; RCOG Guidelines ("Green Top" Guidelines), 1994-1999; Evidence-based Clinical Guidelines, 1998-2001; Personal Assessment in Continuing Education (PACE) Reviews, 1997-1999; The Obstetrician and Gynaecologist,1999-2002.

The catalogued Pamphlet Collection comprises over 12,000 titles dating from approximately 1830 to the present. The Pamphlet Collection consists of printed material less than 60 pages in length and includes government policies, reports, annual reports and campaigning material, primary law, including Bills and Acts. The subject material of the collection reflects and enriches the wide range of topics held elsewhere in the Women's Library.The topics covered include: English fiction, children's stories, poetry, women's organisations, feminism, role of women in society - UK and abroad, nursing, sex discrimination law, divorce law, employment, occupations, careers, equal opportunities, labour law, pension law, social security, taxation, housing, health, pregnancy, abortion, birth control, domestic violence, mothers, one-parent families, children, family life, housekeeping, religion, ordination, arts, costume, suffrage. Organisations include Equal Opportunities Commission, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, National Union of Suffragettes, National Society for Women's Suffrage, US Women's Bureau, American National Red Cross, Union of Jewish Women, National Union of Townswomen's Guilds, National Federation of Women's Institutes, Fawcett Society, National Council for the Unmarried Mother and Her Child, British Federation of University Women, Association of University Women Teachers, Divorce Law Reform Union. Most of the material is in English, but there are also pamphlets in other languages, such as Italian, German and French.The pamphlets are arranged in two sections - one for standard sized pamphlets and one for oversized pamphlets.

The 'UDC Pamphlet Collection' [Universal Dewey Decimal Classification]: In addition to the main Pamphlet Collection is the 'UDC Pamphlet Collection.' The UDC collection was the first pamphlet collection created by the Library and consists of approximately 10,000 pamphlets dating from mid nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries, covering all subjects. As the collection was gradually acquired during the Library's first 20 years of life, it was arranged by subject, using the Universal Decimal Classification system. The pamphlets were primarily deposited by organisations and individuals, although some purchases were made. There is a finding aid kept with the collection but the collection was never catalogued and therefore remained a hidden resource within the Library for more than 80 years. Unsurprisingly other libraries did not collect most of these pamphlets. In 2007 as part of a cataloguing funding bid preliminary sampling of the collection against Copac (the merged online catalogues of 24 university research libraries in the UK, plus the British Library and the National Library of Scotland) found that over 60% of the UDC pamphlets were not listed in these major research collections. This is a very significant level of unique printed material.Cataloguing of the UDC collection started in 2007 and as the pamphlets are catatogued, they are transferred to the main pamphlet collection described above. As at 2009 the collection was partially catalogued and The Library was seeking additional funds to complete the project.

Over 3,000 periodical titles are held dating from 1745, some in single issues, but many in complete or representative runs. The Periodicals Collection brings together academic, popular and campaigning women's journals in one location and gives a unique insight into periodicals published about, for and by women. Titles range from commercially-produced popular magazines (Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan), to academic quarterlies (Gender and History, Feminist Review), organisational journals (One Parent Families, National Association of Women Pharmacists), special interest publications (Executive Black Woman), and older titles such as the English Woman's Journal. Many of these titles are not held in other research collections. The non-commercial nature of many of these periodicals with limited self-published print runs, resulted in periodicals that were issued irregularly, on poor quality paper and often only selectively deposited with the main copyright libraries.

COMMERCIALLY PUBLISHED

The Library's collection of commercially published magazines, a key resource for research into social history and popular culture, begins with the Ladies' Almanack of the 1740s and documents women's fashion and domestic concerns from runs of the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, The Queen, Ladies' Magazine, Ladies Monthly Magazine and Lady, Gentlewoman, in the 19th century; Home Chat, Woman's Weekly, Woman, Woman's Own, Honey,, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire in the 20th century; Grazia, Glamour and Easy Living of more recent years. Also included are some magazines aimed at girls and young women such as The Girls' Own Paper, Petticoat, Just 17 and Jackie.

FEMINIST AND CAMPAIGNING

At the heart of the Periodical Collection are the women's campaigning journals and feminist periodicals. The collection of feminist periodicals at The Women's Library is unrivalled in its extent and breadth. It begins with the English Woman's Journal of the mid-19th century, and continues with titles such as The Young Women and includes complete runs of titles such as The Women's Penny Paper, the Woman's Herald, Victoria Magazine, the Woman's Signal, the Woman's Leader, Englishwoman's Review, Englishwoman, Freewoman, Time and Tide, Woman's Gazette, and Shafts all of which were key to the development of feminist theory and progressive ideas.

SUFFRAGE

The Library's extensive collection of suffrage periodicals is central to the study of women's rights in the 20th century, titles including Votes for Women, Common Cause, Woman's Dreadnought, The Vote, the Women's Suffrage Journal, Women's Franchise, the Suffragette Newssheet, the Independent Suffragette, Britannia, and the Suffragette as well as titles such as the Anti-Suffrage Review.

WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT

The collection of journals documenting 'second-wave' feminism in the UK includes complete runs of titles such as Spare Rib and Trouble and Strife and near complete runs of other liberation titles such as Red Rag, Shrew, WIRES, Outwrite and the London Women's Liberation Newsletter. Regional involvement was an integral part of the movement and this is charted through a number of regional titles including Brighton and Hove Women's Liberation Group, Edinburgh Women's Liberation newsletter, Leeds Women's Liberation newsletter, Leicester Women's Liberation newsletter, Manchester Women's Liberation newsletter and Norwich Women's Centre newsletter.

CONTEMPORARY FEMINISTS

The periodical holdings continue to document the development of contemporary feminism, sometimes referred to as 'third wave', with titles including Verve and Subtext. Additional contemporary feminist publications can be found within our 'zine' collection (dating from 2002).

WOMEN'S ORGANISATIONS

Periodicals created by women's organisations, networks and campaigns. These can include weekly or monthly newsletters and magazines aimed at members, quarterly and annual journals aimed at members and a wider academic audience, and annual reports aimed at a wider audience. Given the short life of many campaigning organisations, their newsletters and bulletins often provide the main record of their activities. Few of these publications are held elsewhere, and they are only selectively deposited with national collections, organisations include: the Fawcett Society, National Council of Women, The National Federation of Women's Institutes (Home and Country), Townswomen's Guilds (The Townswoman), UK Federation of Business and Professional Women, Girls' Friendly Society, Executive Black Woman, Catholic Citizen and National Association of Women Pharmacists document women's efforts to come together to improve the quality of their lives.

SPECIALIST INTEREST

Whilst retaining the collecting focus of women's lives in the UK, there are a number of subject specialist interest areas including:

• The Arts - titles such as Feminist Arts News, Heresies: a feminist publication on art and politics, n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, Vogue and Women's Art Magazine.

• Domestic Violence - titles such as Rights of Women Bulletin, Violence Against Women: an international interdisciplinary journal and Women at War: preventing gun violence, WAVAV - Women Against Violence Against Women.

• Education - titles such as Gender and Education, The Woman Teacher, Gen: an anti-Sexist Education Journal, British Federation of University Women, and The Parents' Review.

• Employment - titles such as Work and Leisure, Women's Union Journal, Labour Woman, Women's Trade Union Review, Equality Now: magazine of the Equal Opportunities Commission, Executive Woman, the Woman Worker, The Woman Engineer: journal of the Woman's Engineering Society and Double shift: working women's newsletter.

• Family and the home - titles such as Women's Weekly, Woman's Own, Family Planning Today and New Home economics.

• Feminist Theory - titles such as Feminist Studies, Feminist Economics, Feminist Theory, and the International Journal of Feminist Studies.

• Health - titles such as Women and Health, Top Sante, London Black Women's Health Action project newsletter and Mental Health.

• Law - titles such as ALRA newsletter: Campaigning for a Woman's Right to Choose on Abortion, Family Law, Individualist: monthly journal of personal rights, Lesbian Employment Rights, and Rights of Women Bulletin, National Abortion Campaign.

• Literature - titles such as Mslexia, Silver Moon Quarterly and Writing Women.

• Media - titles such as Feminist Media Studies, The Woman Journalist and Women's Media Action Bulletin.

• Medicine - titles such as Women in Medicine: newsletter of the Medical Women's Federation and National Association of Women Pharmacists newsletter.

• Motherhood - titles such as Home and Family: journal of the Mother's Union, Journal of Marriage and Family, Maternity Alliance, Gingerbread, One Parent Families, World Congress of Mothers News and Information.

• Sexuality - titles such as Sappho, Sex Roles: a journal of research, Journal of the history of sexuality, Chroma, Diva, Arena Three and Dykelife.

• Women and peace - titles such as Woman today, Greenham Newsletter, Peace and Freedom News: journal of the British Section of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Sellafield Women's Peace Camp Newsletter, Women for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Newsletter and WoMenwith Hill: Women's Peace Camp Newsletter.

• Politics - titles such as Equal Opportunities International, Gender and Society and the NAWO e-bulletin (National Alliance of Women's Organisations).

• Prostitution - titles such as The Shield: to promote the repeal of Contagious Diseases Act, Network: news from the English Collective of Prostitutes and WHISPER: Women hurt in systems of prostitution engaged in revolt.

• Ethnicity - titles such as Pride, Race Today and Manushi.

• Religion - titles such as Church Militant, Jewish Women's Review, Catholic Citizen, Newsheet/Women Living Under Muslim Laws International Solidarity Network, and Movement for the Ordination of Women.

• Science and Technology are The Woman Engineer, Science for People, Women Chemists Newsletter and Forum: Journal of the Association for Women in Science and Engineering.

• Sport - titles such as Poise: the Health and beauty magazine, Ladies' Alpine Club, The Dyke: Lesbian Walkers' Magazine, Women in Sport: the Voice of Women's Sport and Outdoor Women.

The Sadd Brown Library was founded in 1939 in memory of Myra Sadd Brown, and contains books and periodicals about, and often by, women of the Commonwealth. It covers colonial pioneers to modern day freedom fighters, as well as investigations of women's political and economic advancement and their positions in other societies and religions. For example it includes conference reports of the British Commonwealth League from 1925 to 1938 which vividly reveal the feminist concerns of pre-war generation, some issues having a contemporary resonance many decades later.The Library was the tribute of her suffrage colleagues to Myra Sadd Brown and it continues to grow with support from her family and the Commonwealth Countries League. The collection includes some late nineteenth century publications, such as Olive Schreiner's Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland, 1897, but most of the collection dates from the twentieth century. Some examples of books and periodicals in the Sadd Brown Library include The African child by Evelyn Sharp 1931, Women living under Muslim laws newsheet, Pakistan 1992-, Onions are my husband: survival and accumulation by West African market women by Gracia Clark, 1994 and Race relations news, South Africa 1947-1955.

The surviving records of the Printers and Theatres Rating Committee (Southern Committee) are incomplete. They mostly concern the rating of individual risks. As a result, they contain much information about particular theatres, music halls, cinemas, film production studios, publishers, printers and allied trades (including papermakers), and associated processes and products. Some of the records are indexed by name and/or place. The whereabouts of the records of the Northern and Scottish Rating Committees is unknown.

Society of Apothecaries of London: Prizemen in Botany and in Materia Medica and Pharmaceutical Chemistry collection, 1830-1894, comprises records relating to the two prizes offered to male medical students by the Society of Apothecaries and include various registers detailing entrants and prizewinners, press notices, the Clerk Robert Brotherson Upton's letter to the Royal College of Physicians regarding Willam Wyon's design for the Galen Medal and his letter to Joseph Hooker at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew requesting his assistance in editing a press notice and Hooker's reply, 1862, prizewinners' bookplates (blank) and copies of examination papers, 1893 and 1894.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Publications Management Committee, 1993-2004, comprising the first minute book of the Committee (1993-1997); loose copies of Publications Management Committee minutes, memoranda and correspondence (1993-1998); Committee correspondence regarding the Diplomate Journal; correspondence, contributors' agreements, authors' details and declarations of interest relating to the production of RCOG information pamphlets and publications (1993-2004).

Records relating to Imperial College publications, 1887-2000, comprising minutes of the Phoenix (Imperial College Arts Magazine) Board, 1916-1959; correspondence, 1919-1966; copies of the Science Schools Journal, 1887-1891, later Royal College of Science Magazine, 1891-1904, later Phoenix, 1904-2000 (SPA); minutes of the Felix (Imperial College student newspaper) Board, later Publications Board, 1965-1971; copies of Felix, 1950-2000, (SPF); Coming Events, 1966-1969, later IC News, 1969-1974, later IC Diary, 1974-1982, later IC Gazette, 1982-2000; Topic magazine, 1974-1982; ICON, monthly Imperial College Review magazine, 1973-1982, CRITICON, 1982-1987; Network, Imperial College monthly newspaper, 1987-1994; IC Reporter, twice monthly staff newpaper, 1995-2000; The Central, 1903-1957, later Imperial College Engineer, 1987-1998 (Journal of the City & Guilds College Old Student's Association, formerly the Old Centralians); The Record, 1910-1995 (Journal of the Royal College of Science Old Students Association); The Spanner, 1963-1988 (yearbook of the City and Guilds College Union); Journal of the Mining and Metallurgical Society, 1848-1951, later Royal School of Mines Journal, 1952-1964; Guilds Engineer, 1950-1964 (Journal of the City and Guilds College and Engineering Society).