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The records cover the period 1976-1993, although the majority of the records date from 1985-1993. Many sections of the archive are complete - minutes of the Executive Committee, 1985-1993; annual reports, 1986-1993 and newsletters, 1986-1993. The archive also contains a great deal of information relating to other cancer organisations, both in this country and abroad.

Papers of the British Medical Association compring files [1915-1960], from the following subject series: Medico-Political, Science, Groups, Ethics, Public Health, Hospitals, Organisation. Also incomplete set of copy minutes of Council, Committees and of the Annual Representatives' Meetings and Special Representatives' Meetings, [1907-1982].

Papers of the British Microcirculation Society including the files kept by the Secretary; signed minutes of Annual General Meetings and of committee meetings (1963-1990) together with accounts, correspondence files and copies of printed booklets about the Society and the scientific meetings which it organised. There are also copies of photographs and films about microcirculation, given by the former secretary.

Papers of the British Society of Gastroenterology including the minutes of General and Council Meetings, 1937-1966, and a Jubilee History, 1987.

An almost complete set of the written evidence to the Royal Commission on Medical Education (copy "no. 3"), except for four pieces of evidence given in confidence and closed for 30 years after the date of the commission (these items are deposited in the Public Record Office).

Also included is a collection of relevant published papers and reports, including the "Todd Report" itself.

The archive of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy provides a comprehensive record of its activities and development, dating back to its foundation - with two press cuttings books of the 1894 'massage scandals' (P.1), and Council minutes from 1894 onwards (B.1). The core of the collection is formed by complete runs of minute books for the various committees. There are no committee working papers or correspondence files other than those bound with the minutes. Papers relating to education and examination including minutes for all the major committees and sub-committees (C.1), and material relating to the actual administration of examinations: syllabuses, examination papers, result books and reports (C.2). Records relating to membership including membership registers 1895-1975, published lists of members 1920-1986 and minutes and registers of the fund and prize committees 1949-1957 (D). Records of some branches and special interest groups within the CSP can be found in section J.

Material relating to protecting and improving the status of its members within the medical profession can be found in section F, especially in connection with the debates on the place of physiotherapy within the NHS - training, conditions of service and its existence as a profession distinct from others such as occupational therapy. These topics are also discussed in publications (N). Other publications illustrate specific physiotherapy and lifting techniques and advertise physiotherapy as a career. Section P contains 'historical' material relating to the early years of the Society: the 'massage scandal' press cuttings, and correspondence re the Harley Institute massage school 1912-1914. Section P also contains material relating to the writing of the Society's commissioned histories, and personal papers and reminiscences, including a group of papers and photographs relating to Olive Guthrie-Smith and the Swedish Institute, (later St Mary's Hospital School of Physiotherapy), 1904-1939. There is a substantial photograph collection (Q.1), dating from 1900-1980, illustrating many aspects of the Society's work as well as specific treatments and hospital departments. There are also nine films (Q.5), 1942-1976, illustrating techniques, training and events; sound recordings (Q.3); and a series of tapes of oral history interviews recorded in 1992 (Q.4).

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.

Papers of the Medical Eye Centre Association (MECA), 1928-1990, comprising minutes, 1928-1990; reports; newsletters; membership lists; subject files including records relating to the administration of Medical Eye Centres; correspondence with other bodies, including correspondence relating to legislation; publicity material including posters; and publicity material relating to the National Eye Service.

Papers of the National Birthday Trust Fund (NBTF), 1928-1993, comprising minutes; committee papers; records of annual general meetings; accounts; administration including maintenance of the building; correspondence relating to members, other organisations and individuals; fundraising and publicity; records relating to analgesia; records of research projects funded by the NBTF; reports to outside bodies; surveys; records relating to the Perinatal Mortality Survey, 1958; records relating to the British Births Survey, 1970; press cuttings; miscellaneous papers; administrative records of the Joint Council On Midwifery; records relating to the Abortion Survey conducted by the Joint Council On Midwifery; records relating to the Nutrition Survey conducted by the Joint Council On Midwifery; personal papers of Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams DBE (1898-1964), founder member and Chairman for a period until her death; and records relating to non-NBTF organisations.

Papers of the World Organisation of Gastroenterology, 1958-2000, comprising administrative records, 1958-1995; publications including congress reports, bulletins, newsletters and World Gastroenterology News, 1935, 1958-1995; photographs and long playing records.

Papers of The Society of Medical Officers of Health, 1856-1998, comprising the constitution, 1892-1993; council records, 1856-1997; records of the general purpose committee, 1937-1981; records of the standing and temporary committees, and working parties and joint meetings, 1892-1996; general meeting records, 1856-1997; attendance books, 1872-1965; financial records, 1892-1996; members lists, 1895-1997; publications and official publicity, 1856-1997; historical material, 1866-1908; comments and evidence c 1879-1998; miscellaneous files, c 1879-1998; records of special interest groups, 1920-1997; papers, minutes and publications relating to the Society's Faculty of Community Health, 1988-1998; public health literature and sources, 1902-1997; files relating to the journal The Medical Officer, 1897-1973; non-Society records documenting public health measures, policies and issues in the first half of the 20th century; and minutes, files, transcripts of papers, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera relating to the regional Branches and Groups of the Society, 1875-1997.

The collection comprises two papers on obstetrical practice.

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).

Papers of the Malaria Research Laboratory, 1939-1967, relate to the work of the laboratory and the collation of data concerning documented cases of malaria within Britain. The collection notably includes correspondence and other documentation between P G Shute and G Covell, Assistant Director and Director of the Laboratory, and various hospitals and other medical institutions regarding blood films examined by the Laboratory for malarial parasites, 1939-1963; Public Health Laboratory Service yearly reports of malaria cases, 1954-1966 and annual reports of the Malaria Research Laboratory, 1957-1967.

Papers of Rachel Pinney on the technique of Creative Listening, correspondence, transcript of an article, press cuttings concerning her court appearance on a kidnap charge.

The archive consists of reading copies of tapes, summaries and transcriptions of fourteen individual interviews. The National Life Stories (formerly National Life Story Collection (NLSC)) was established at the British Library in 1987 to 'record first-hand experiences of as wide a cross-section of present-day society as possible'. This small collection focuses on the lives of pioneering career women, each of whom made their mark in traditionally male-dominated areas such as politics, the law and medicine. The project was supported by the Women's Library and the Friends of The Women's Library (formerly known as the Fawcett Society Library).

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.

Papers of Melville William Hilton-Simpson including:

MS 65

Journals of the Congo expedition: containing narrative of the journey, [1907-1909]. 7 volumes.

MS 66

Manuscript and typescript drafts of Among the hill-folk of Algeria: Journeys among the Shawia of the Aurcs Mountains, by Hilton-Simpson. (London: T. Fisher Unwin. 192I), including 17 photographs and a map.

MS 66A

Annotated proofs of Algiers and beyond: by Hilton-Simpson (London, Hutchinson, 1906).

MS67

Notes by Hilton-Simpson taken in Algeria including on magic, arts and crafts, medical magic, villages, geography, buildings and textiles, 1913-1925.

MS 68

Ethnographical and bibliographical notes by Hilton-Simpson in Algeria, arranged by subject, c 1914-1926.

MS 69

Typescript and manuscript notes used for an article by Hilton-Simpson, 'Some Arab and Shawia Remedies and Notes on the Trepanning of the Skull in Algeria'

The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 43, (Jul. - Dec., 1913), pp. 706-721.

MS 70

Manuscript and typescript drafts of a paper on Berber and Arab surgery for the Royal Society of Medicine, Oct. 1919.

MS 71

Manuscript and typescript drafts for a book entitled 'The wandering Arabs of the Sahara: a sketch of life among the Nomads of the great African desert', by Hilton-Simpson. c 1921.

MS 72

Manuscript and typescript papers on material culture in Algeria including on the modern use of the 'water-clock' in Algerian irrigation, oil mills and the pole-lathe in Algeria and England.

MS 73

Manuscript, typescript and printed papers on the Congo by Hilton-Simpson, [c1910], including 'At the court of an African King', 'Sport at a Congo mission station', 'Two years among strange tribes', 'Buffalo shooting in the Belgian Congo', 'Loango to Kasai' and corrected proofs of introduction and index to Land and Peoples of the Kasai, (London, Constable, 1911-17) with copy of agreement with Constable.

MS 74

Manuscript and typescript papers and notes on North Africa, [1906-1920s] on topics including the cave dwellers of Southern Tunisia; a sandstorm in the Sahara; Algerian children's games and toys; some Algerian superstitions noted among the Shawia Berbers of the Aures Mts and their nomad neighbours; magical medicine; medicine among the Berbers of the Aures; purges and laxatives; charms and superstitions; Shawia festivals; folklore of the Algerian hills and deserts; big game and Tuareg warfare.

MS 75

Notebook containing sketches and notes on Shawia and Arabs.

MS 76

Manuscript and typescript notes on the material culture of the Shawia, [1920s], including on villages, habitations and dwellings; textiles; pottery; woodwork; basketry; leather work; agriculture; irrigation and time measurement; corn milling; olive oil; war and weapons.

Papers and photographs of Mary Frances Lucas Keene, 1911-1994, comprising:
Personal papers, including diplomas and certificates awarded to Lucas Keene, 1904-1973; personal correspondence including letters from the RFHSM and the University of London, mainly concerning her retirement, and appointment as Emeritus Professor, 1950-1975; letters from Lucas keen to Prof John W S Harris and his wife, Sonia, 1971-1978; notes for speeches, mainly given at London (RFH) School of Mediicine for Women ceremonies, 1933-1954; papers on anatomy teaching and research, including notes, diagrams and photographs, 1921-1951; notebooks containing case notes on dissections of human embryos and foetuses, 1921-1951; Emphemera including Royal Free Hospital Pharmacopoeia and Journal of tje Medical Women;s Federation, July 1951, containing an appreciation of her work; photographs of Lucas Keene, her family and fiends, 1924-1974; group photographs of Anatomical Society meeting, Edinburgh, 1947 and Staff and Students of RFHSM, 1950; album of photographs of the medical school, staff and students, presented to Lucas Keene on her retirement as Professor of Anatomy, 1951

Records relating to the career of George Qvist, surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital (RFH), 1946-1975, and Surgical Tutor, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine (RFHSM), and and also his wife Dame Frances Violet Gardner, Consultant Physician, RFH, and Dean of the RFHSM, comprising:

Correspondence and papers of George Qvist, relating to his surgical and teaching career, including personal correspondence, photographs and press cuttings, 1952-1979; job applications and testimonials, 1933-1952; copies of articles, lectures and papers by Qvist, 1941-1979, on surgical subjects, and on the National Health Service, particularly the problems facing General Practitioners, 1964-1966; patient photographs from hospitals in the Royal Free Group, 1949-1974, illustrating a wide variety of medical conditions, used by Qvist for teaching and research, including chest photographs, slides and X-Rays acquired by Arthur Tudor Edwards FRCS (d 1946), Surgeon-in-Charge, Department of Thoracic Surgery, London Hospital; obituaries of Qvist, 1981; papers on memorials to Qvist, including the opening of George Qvist Ward in the Accident and Emergency Department at the RFH, and the George Qvist Lectures at RFH, 1986-1990;

Correspondence and papers of Dame Frances Violet Gardner, on her career as a cardiologist at the RFH and as a teacher and administrator at the RFHSM; including personal correspondence and photographs, 1946-c.1981; copies of articles by Gardner on cardiology; photographs and cuttings on Gardner's visit to Saudi Arabia, to advise on the establishment of a School of Medicine at the University of Riyadh, 1966; obituaries, 1989.

Tape recording and transcript of H P Greenberg's memories of Richard Hunter and Ida Macalpine and his correspondence with them; obituaries of, articles by, reviews of Hunter and Macalpine and Hunter's job applications, 1950-1996.

Papers of Mary Louisa Drabble, 1917-1931, comprising notebooks as a medical student at the University of Edinburgh, 1920-1925, testimonials; certificates; photograph; personalia. The collection also contains nursing notebooks of her sister Margery Drabble, was a nurse at Guy's Hospital during early 1920s (notebooks spanning 1922-1925).

Four volumes of notes made by E J Thomas from lectures to trainee nurses at the Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum, Bromley by Bow, East London, c 1905-1910.

Papers of Henry Edward Crooks, [1967-1998] including reminiscences relating to his work as radiographer entitled 'Shaftesbury Military Hospital: A Radiographer's World War II recollection of 21st Company, RAMC Military Hospital, Dorset (with map and photographs)', Nov 1998; extract from 'Once Upon A Ward: VADs' own stories and pictures of Service at Home and Overseas 1939-1946', compiled by Doreen Boys, containing further information about Shaftesbury Military Hospital; paper by Crooks, 'The Introduction of the Copper-Reference X-Ray Pentameter', Oct 1998; United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Research Group Memorandum, 'Diagnostic X-Ray Beam Quality', by GM Ardran and Crooks, 1967 and Curriculum Vitae of Crooks.

Prescription books, Martindale and Co chemists, 1936-1970.

Papers of Professor James Walter McLeod, [1940-1945], including minute book of the Central Penicillin Committee, Leeds, Oct 1944-Apr 1945, and photographs of laboratories, University of Leeds, c 1940s.

Papers of Ernest George Pringle including lecture notes and case notes (while at St Bartholomew's Hospital) and personal items c 1900-1913.

Papers of Moya Woodside including leaflets of the Society for Constructive Birth Control, Belfast, with some National Birth Control Association material, c 1937-1942, reminiscences of work in birth control, 1981, 1984, and histories of the Edinburgh Brook Centre.

Papers of Norah Woodman, 1906-1938, comprising an account of her training as a nurse in 1906; miscellaneous material on the Lambeth Infirmary/Hospital, including annual reports, 1921-1938; financial statements of the Parish of St Mary, Lambeth Board of Guardians, 1910-1929.

Case transcripts, press cuttings, memoranda, reports and correspondence acquired by Henry Hillyard, Sanitary Inspector to Malvern UDC, relating to cases concerning responsibility for polluted water at a hydropathic establishment and a school in Malvern, 1898-1910.

Correspondence and financial papers of P A Gordon (alias James Kasper) relating to Sequah Ltd, 1890-1892 and his work as a Sequah agent selling quack medicines, including a variety of advertising material and copies of the Sequah Chronicle.

Papers relating to Montague Knapp's service as Fleet Surgeon, Senior Medical Officer to XI Destroyer Flotilla, HMS Blake, 1915-1917; medical records (largely relating to syphilis), 1910-1917; documents from German naval surgeon; photographs.

Lecture notes, miscellaneous correspondence and "memoirs" (short stories, often with an autobiographical element) covering his career, 1909-1976. The collection comprises 7 series: 1: file on career, 1920s-1976; 2: 'memoirs' - short stories, composed at various times during Hartridge's life which he intended to publish on his retirement, 1909-1976. His daughter selected those stories which had an autobiographical element in them; 3: Notes, 1947-1953; 4: Corrrespondence, 1928-1951; 5: Lectures, 1920s-1950s; 6: Publications, 1949-1950; 7: Photograph and painting, 1920s-1970s.

Thirteen slides of interior views of Lakeside Health Centre [1975-1976].

Papers of Richard Henry Hardy, 1952-1992, including records of cases and correspondence, general practice, Exmouth, 1952-1970, and Hereford General Hospital Accident and Emergency Department, 1971-1984, with reprints and unpublished writings, 1948-1992.

Papers of Julian Tudor Hart, including patient records from practice, microfilms, administrative files and card index, 1961-1997.

Papers of Keith Hodgkin, 1939-1994, including index cards of lecture, ward round and case notes made while a student at the Radcliffe Infirmary and the Hammersmith Hospital 1939-1943, and patient records from his practice 1954-1979. There are also reports and surveys illustrating the use of practice records in research. His Family Record contains reminiscences and evaluation of his professional, as well as family life, and material relating to his grandfather's uncle, Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866).

Practice accounts of Dr Alfons Letchner, 1935-1974 and a brief history of the practice by Letchner's daughter.

Cash books, ledgers and day books, of general practice in New Cross, London SE4, 1918-1933.

Papers of David Hutchison, 1942-1980, including copies of partnership accounts, 1951; plans and photographs of 1960s alterations to practice premises; audio tapes of reminiscences: description of general practice pre- and post-war, mainly relating to record keeping and surgery, description of alterations to premises (with transcripts), school and student days, service in the RAF medical service in South East Asia during the Second World War and gypsum 'wart stones' .

Papers of Dr Alfred Model, 1890-1968, including cash book, 1939-1948, from Model's GP practice in Reddish near Stockport; reprints of journal articles, 1957-1968 and dissertation by Dr Model's father, Lehmann (1864-1918) on Bronchitis Fibrinosa, 1890.

Notes, cards, forms and other papers accumulated over the years by Dr David Greig and his predecessors at Somerset General Practice, 1916-1949.

Medical, cookery, and household receipts and prescriptions. There are many blank leaves, and a large number of the receipts are inserted loose. Among the latter are 17 holograph receipts, dated between 1830 and 1832 by Jules Sichel [1802-1868], the ophthalmologist. These were all prescribed for Lady Julia.

Papers of Sir George Ballingall, 1808-1852, including correspondence and papers collected by Ballingall, used to illustrate his lectures at Edinburgh University; correspondence with David Barry (1780-1835) FRS, on colon inflammation and other matters; letters, memoranda and case studies on venereal disease, amputations and other surgical procedures, army and navy punishments, hospital conditions and tropical medicine including with Sir Andrew Halliday (1781-1839) and Joshua Brookes (1761-1833) and printed material with diagrams of litters for troops in India.

Material relating to Stuart Craddock's research while working with Alexander Fleming, 1909-2000, in particular on penicillin and acne, a personal manuscript memoir of Fleming, and correspondence with Fleming, Lady Fleming, Ronald Hare, Prof F Bustinza of Madrid, Norman Heatley and others, also some personalia.

One notebook on practical chemical analysis while at St Hilda's School Cheltenham, notebooks of lectures and courses while a student at London School of Medicine for Women, notes of cases seen while medical student, some later notebooks on matters of medical and surgical interest, and accounting lectures, diploma from the Comité Britannique de la Croix Rouge Française for service to France during the First World War, resolution from the Medical Women's Federation congratulating her on being made a Dame of the British Empire.

MS. 3352: Copy dated c1805 of a journal of a voyage from London to Cochin-China, 11 September 1792-15 June 1793. Note on verso of leaf 2 signed 'J.B.' (Sir John Barrow (1764-1848), Secretary to the Admiralty, and founder of the Royal Geographical Society) states 'This journal was written by Lord Macartney on board the Lion merely for his own amusement and to pass away a few heavy hours on a very long sea voyage'. MS. 5746: Correspondence and papers relating to medical services in Madras, 1782-1787, comprising 2 letters to Macartney from John Ruding, surgeon, Chingleput, 1782, 1783; letter to Macartney from James Hodges, Masulipatam, 1783; letter to Macartney from George Bell (d.1789), surgeon, Tanjore, 1783; Committee Minute on a proposal by Macartney for a fixed establishment of surgeons, 1784; letter to Macartney from Terence Gahagan, surgeon, enclosing a copy of his plan for the reform of the medical department, Vellore, 1787 (the plan is addressed to Macartney's successor as Governor of Fort St George, Madras, Sir Archibald Campbell).

Rogers' holograph manuscript. Volume 1 is entitled 'Obituaries of eminent persons'. Volume 2 (dated on the title 1847) is entitled 'Obituary of eminent persons and private friends', and is illustrated by 32 tinted photographs. Among the photographs are those of: Sir Charles Hastings (1774-1866); Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865); and Sir Joseph Paxton (1804-1865). The volumes contain numerous biographies of doctors and scientists who died during the period of the record. The obituaries include various figures of Australasian interest such as Sir Stamford Raffles (1781-1826); Rev. Daniel Tyerman, missionary; George Bennet, missionary (fl.1812-1841); Rev. Thomas Slatyer, missionary, Samoa; and Colonel Robert Torrens (fl.1837).Each volume contains a stipple engraved portrait of the compiler, and his armorial book-plate.

Correspondence and papers of Thomas Bickerton, 1884-1927, mainly concerning professional matters. The papers reflect Bickerton's interest in colour blindness, and his studies of seamen and railwaymen in this respect. Also his work at Liverpool Medical Institution is well documented, with details of opthalmic surgery and case photographs surviving.

Two volumes of notes, on medical and chemical books, and on diseases and their treatment, c 1800-1823.