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GB 0096 MS 588 · c1611-1639

Manuscript volume lettered 'Memoire de Finance' containing two works written in the same hand, probably mid 17th century, and attributed by an inscription on the fly-leaf to Charles de Marillac, Archbishop of Vienne (c 1510-1560) and his nephew, Michel de Marillac (1563-1632). The first section of the volume comprises three Gallican tracts, namely 'De patrimonio ecclesie', in Latin and French (latest date mentioned is 1646), arguing that secular patronage was the source of ecclesiastical wealth; 'Cura et authoritas in his quae pertinent ad fidem', defending control of the church by the Chritian prince, with much reference to the early church; and 'La Jurisdiction en generale est un pouvoir et autorite publique', arguing that independent ecclesiastical jurisdiction was confined to spiritual matters, citing papal and royal legislation up to 1639.
The second part of the manuscript contains a treatise entitled 'Du Conseil du Roy', in French and dated to [1611], being a discussion of the personnel, functions and rules of the King's Council (begins on folio 110 + 2, latest date 1629).
The attribution to the Marillacs is made in a later hand than that of the main text.

Unknown
GB 0096 MS 19 · c1600 [1397, 1450]

Manuscript volume containing transcripts, [1600], from the Parliament Rolls of the trials of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in 1450, and of John de Cobham, 3rd Baron Cobham, in 1397, the latter translated from the original French.

Unknown
TOWER WARD SCHOOL
GB 0074 CLC/215-16 · Collection · 1836-1862

Records of Tower Ward School, comprising trustees' minute books; Ladies' Committee minute books and boys' attendance register.

Tower Ward School
TOWER WARD
GB 0074 CLC/W/NA · Collection · 1832-1955

Records of Tower Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise minutes and accounts, rate assessments, wardmote papers and other administrative and legal papers, and papers of the benevolent fund. The records were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.

Tower Ward , Corporation of London
RLHTC · Fonds · 1974-1993

Minute books, annual reports, plans and reports (taken from LT Chief Executives files).

Tower Hamlets Community Health Council
LMA/4012 · Collection · 1861-1912

Clerk's Report Book, 1882-1886; notices to provide cisterns to boilers, urinals and water closets, by regulation of the Board under the 1871 Metropolis Water Act, 1873-1873.

Also Tottenham Urban District Council attendance book, 1907-1912 and Tottenham Parish Rifle Grounds (33rd Middlesex Rifle Volunteers): minutes of Lammas Meetings and Marsh Road Committee, 1861-1867.

Tottenham Local Board of Health
GB 0120 GC/36 · 1942-1964

Minutes and connected papers of dental professional bodies: Incorporated Dental Society Head Council, 1942-1957; British Dental Association Representative Board, 1944-1951; Joint Advisory Dental Council, 1946-1947; and papers relating to Appeals under Regulation 18 of the National Health Service (Service Committee and Tribunal) Regulations, 1948 and 1956, 1948-1964. The papers cover the period just before, during and immediately after the introduction of the National Health Service and deal very largely with its impact on the dental profession. They consist of the minutes and circulated papers of the three bodies representing the profession, with which R G Torrens was associated (the three later amalgamated), with a little connected correspondence, and papers concerning appeals under Regulation 18 of the National Health Service (Service Committee and Tribunal) Regulations in which R G Torrens was involved (dealing with the legitimacy or otherwise of fees charged for treatment).

Torrens , Robert George , 1903-1981 , dentist
Tooting Parish
GB 0347 TP · Collection · 1661-1900

Records of the administration of the parish of Tooting. Includes: minutes of the parish Vestry; accounts of the Overseers of the Poor; Workhouse Committee minutes; Examination of Paupers records; and the accounts of the Surveyor of Highways for the parish.

Please contact the Archive for further information.
GB 0097 TITMUSS · c1938-1973

Papers and correspondence regarding finance and tax (Labour Party); papers and notes from Titmuss' social administration related research; papers and correspondence relating to the London School of Economics; official papers and notes from Titmuss' involvement with advisory committees and international organisations; overseas research papers and notes.

Titmuss, Richard Morris, 1907-1973, Professor of Social Administration
THORNTON, Ernest and Annie
GB 0402 EAT · 1905-1908

Documents relating to Afghanistan comprising letter from Annie Thornton to the Amir of Afghanistan and his reply, 1 Dec 1905; regulations regarding the new leather work in Kabul from the Amir, 1 Aug 1905 and diary of Ernest Thornton, 1908, containing letters.

Thornton , Ernest , fl 1905-1910 , English official
Thornton , Annie , fl 1905-1910 , wife of Ernest
GB 0097 R SR 1094 · 1835-1861

Letters by Thornely to his fellow MP for Wolverhampton, Charles Pelham Villiers (1802-1898) including some letters by Villiers, bound typescript transcript. Also includes a letter from Thornely to his father announcing his election, 10 Jan 1835, a brief biography of Thornely, and photographs of both Villiers and Thornely.

Thornely, Thomas, 1781-1862, politician
GB 0074 LMA/4261 · Collection · 1887-1919

This short series of scrapbooks cover the period 1887-1912 and contain invitations, cuttings and information on many of the social events that William Whitaker Thompson and his wife attended during his years in office.

Thompson , William Whitaker , 1857-1920 , chairman of London County Council
GB 0096 AL148 · Fonds · [1850]

Forged letter pertaining to be from William Makepeace Thackery to an unknown recipient, [1850]. 'When I said that I could do no more for you for the present I meant it literally: I never once said it as a simple excuse... When I find that your views on hard work are different I may perhaps have something to say to you. Believe me a lazy life is a curse to any man.

Written and signed in an unknown hand, as if by Thackeray.

Unknown
GB 378 LDGSL/1073 · Series · 1876-1926

Two scrapbooks of documents, newspaper cuttings and photos collected by Sir Jethro Justinian Harris Teall and his wife Harriet, 1876-1926.

Many items relate to Teall's life, with events including his honorary degrees, lectures he gave, dinners he attended, and invitations to occasions such as the funeral of Edward VII and the coronation of George V. There is also a great deal of material relating to his younger son Frederick Teall, particularly his time in the Cambridge University Athletic Club and his subsequent career in the Egyptian civil service and participation in tennis tournaments in Cairo. There are a few items relating to Teall's wife, Harriet, and his elder son, George Teall, who was in the army.

The first volume mostly dates from Teall's time as director of the Geological Survey, while the second relates to the latter part of Teall's directorship of the Geological Survey and his subsequent retirement activities.

Teall , Sir , Jethro Justinian Harris , 1849-1924 , Knight , geologist
Taylor, Bernard (b 1926)
GB 0120 GP/6 · 1940s-1970s

Papers of Bernard Taylor comrising case notes of deceased patients, c 1940s-1970s and files relating to administration of practice, 1962-1976.

Taylor , Bernard , b 1926 , general practitioner
GB 0074 LMA/4433/C · Collection · 1759-1972

Records of Taylor Walker and Co Ltd, brewers, 1759-1972. This collection contains corporate, staff, premises and miscellaneous records. Corporate records include minutes of directors' meetings, articles of association and copartnership, registers of seals and supply agreements. Staff records include minutes of Employees Representative Committee meetings. Premises records include early title deeds for brewery premises as well as for individual public houses and mortgage records. The miscellaneous series comprises an album of advertising cuttings.

Taylor Walker and Co Ltd , brewers
ACC/2155 · Collection · 1895-1971

Records of Sunbury Urban District Council, 1895-1971, including presented reports; correspondence, memoranda and copies of bye-laws, relating to the adoption of certain provisions of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1907; deeds, agreements and other documents relating to The Cedars Estate, Sunbury; papers relating to a dispute between the owners of Sunbury Park Estate and the Council; agreements and contracts for various works to be carried out, particularly road maintenance works, sewer and drainage works, housing construction, civil defence structures and war damage repairs.

Sunbury Urban District Council
GB 0074 CLC/B/192/DE · Collection · 1780-1919

Records of the Sun Insurance Office Limited relating to staff, including firemen's bonds; questionnaires relating to local fire-fighting forces in the UK; correspondence relating to branch staff and salaries; and papers relating to staff who died in the First World War.

From about 1696 there is evidence that the Fire Offices were employing watermen as firemen. The Sun appointed firemen (i.e. watermen) from the time of its establishment in 1710. In 1711, 30 firemen were maintained. In 1833 the independent bodies of firemen maintained by the Fire Offices were amalgamated into the London Fire Engine Establishment. These records include only a few records relating to firemen (many of whom served an apprenticeship in the Company of Watermen and Lightermen).

THESE RECORDS ARE SUBJECT TO A 50 YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD. LIFE POLICY REGISTERS, CLAIMS REGISTERS AND EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY POLICY REGISTERS ARE CLOSED FOR 75 YEARS.

Sun Fire Office x Sun Insurance Office Ltd x Sun Alliance Insurance Ltd x Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance Group
GB 0074 ACC/2305/07-3 · Collection · 1938-1965

Staff records for Style and Winch Limited, brewers, including papers relating to the pension scheme; and staff record sheets.

Style and Winch Ltd , brewers
GB 0120 GC/98 · Collection · 1982

Tapes of interviews used as the basis for a BBC Radio 3 programme entitled 'Stuffing their Mouths with Gold', on the origins of the National Health Service, broadcast in 1982. A total of ten tapes, interviewees include Rt Hon Enoch Powell, MP, Minister of Health, 1960-1963, Frank Honigsbaum, historian of the NHS, Rt Hon Michael Foot MP, biographer of Aneurin Bevan.

Neve , Michael (Michael Raymond)
GB 0097 STREATFEILD · 1881-1950

Papers of Lucy Anne Evelyn Streatfeild (Deane), 1891-1950, including unofficial business diaries recording her work as an inspector of workshops and factories for Kensington Vestry and the Home Office, 1893-1897, incorporating cuttings and memoranda relating to conditions of employment, 1891-1914; correspondence concerning work for the Boer War Concentration Camp Commission, 1901-1902, with press cuttings and photographs; material relating to work on other committees, 1893-1930, including the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps Commission of Enquiry, the Kent War Agricultural Executive Committee, the Kent Billeting Committee and the Westerham National Service Committee; personal material, 1881-1950, notably a memoranda book containing press cuttings and photographs relating to her family, articles and papers, family photographs, letters of sympathy on her death in 1950, and appreciations of her life and work by various, including Violet Markham.

Streatfeild , Lucy Anne Evelyn , d 1950 , neé Deane , public servant
GB 106 7PHS · Fonds · 1909-1968

The archive consists of papers relating to organisations and societies with which Philippa Strachey was involved as part of her activities promoting equal pay, employment and training for women. For some she was the representative of the London and National Society for Women's Service (later the Fawcett Society), while others represent her direct work for education (Cambridge University Women's Appointments Board) and employment (the Women's Service; for which is held notes and correspondence with various trade associations).

There is also a series of personal papers and ephemera. These appears to have been collected by Philippa and includes obituaries, notes on the history of the women's suffrage movement, order of service for Millicent Garrett Fawcett's memorial and a typescript of a play by George Bernard Shaw.

Strachey , Philippa , 1872-1968 , feminist activist and organiser
GB 0099 KCLMA Stern · Created 1914-1959, 1964, 1994

Papers relating to his role in the development and production of armoured fighting vehicles, dated 1914-1959, 1964, 1994, principally comprising correspondence, memoranda and minutes relating to the Landships Committee, 1915-1916, and the Tank Supply Committee, Tank Supply Department (later Mechanical Warfare Supply Department) and Mechanical Warfare (Overseas and Allies) Department, 1916-1918; progress reports and memoranda on design and construction of landships, 1915; plans, drawings and blueprints for landships and tanks, 1915-1916; 'Notes on the employment of tanks' by Col Ernest Dunlop Swinton, printed at the Foreign Office, 1916; 'Mechanical warfare, a summary of British tank development, 1914-1918', typescript text by Stern, [1925]; papers relating to the establishment of the Allied Tank Factory at Neuvy Pailloux, Chateauroux, France, dated 1917-1918; notes and reports by Lt J Rackham and George Watson relating to the use of tanks on the Western Front, 1917; 'The tactical employment of tanks in 1918', unofficial report by Col John Frederick Charles Fuller, 1917; correspondence and memoranda relating to Ministry of Supply Special Vehicle Development Committee and the Tank Board, 1939-1943, and the design and development of TOG heavy tanks, 1939-1944, including correspondence with Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, 1939-1940, Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, 1940, Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply, 1940-1941 and 1942, Rt Hon William Maxwell Aitken Beaverbrook, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Minister of Supply, 1941-1942, Sir James Lithgow, Chairman of the Tank Board, 1941, and Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill 1940-1942, Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister of Defence, Sir William Tritton of Tritton, Foster and Co, and Cdr R H Stokes-Rees, 1943-1944; official reports by Lt Col Gordon Hall on British and Italian use of tanks in the Middle East, 1940-1941, dated 1941; specifications and technical reports relating to tanks, 1939-1944; minutes of Special Vehicle Development Committee, 1939-1942; papers relating to investigation of Stern's position in the Ministry of Supply, 1942, dated 1939-1942, including transcriptions of interviews with Stern, 1942; correspondence and memoranda relating to Stern's evidence before the Sub-Committee on National Production and Supply of the House of Commons Select Committee on National Expenditure; publications and printed material relating to tanks, 1915-1919, 1939-1946, 1959; photographs, 1915-1918, 1939-1945, principally comprising British, French and Canadian photographs of tanks, 1915-1918; photographs of TOG tanks, 1939-1942; films concerning the development of the tank, 1918, 1941-1942, 1957. Other papers relating to his life and career, notably including photographs relating to his service with the Royal Naval Air Service, 1914-1915; copies of personal correspondence, 1918-1919.

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STEPNEY BOARD OF GUARDIANS
STBG · Collection · 1836-1943

Records of the Stepney Poor Law Union (called the Limehouse Poor Law Union from 1921-1925), 1836-1936, including minutes of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; correspondence; orders of removal to and from other Unions; registers for the Limehouse Children's Establishment, the Mile End Old Town Workhouse, the Ratcliffe Workhouse and Bromley House; registers of admission for the Stifford Children's Homes; financial accounts and staff records.

Records of Parish of Stepney Poor Law Union, 1910-1936, including minutes of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; correspondence; admission orders for lunatics; registers for Bromley House and the South Grove Institution; registers for Gray Scattered Homes and Stifford Homes; financial accounts; staff records; plans of Gray's Children's Homes and contract works ledger.

Records of the Mile End Old Town Poor Law Union, 1848-1930, including minutes of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; correspondence; settlement examinations; orders of removal to and from other Unions; registers for the Mile End Workhouse and Infirmary; apprenticeship indentures; registers for the Bancroft Road School and the Mile End Scattered Homes; financial accounts; staff records and monthly returns of infant deaths.

Records of Saint George in the East Poor Law Union, 1836-1927, including minutes of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; correspondence; settlement examinations; orders of removal to and from other Unions; registers of lunatics in asylums; registers for the Saint George in the East Workhouse and Infirmary and the Raine Street Workhouse and Infirmary; registers for the Plashet School and Drouet's Home, Tooting; financial accounts; staff records and tradesmen's accounts.

Records of Whitechapel Poor Law Union, 1837-1943, including minutes of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; correspondence; orders of removal to and from other Unions; admission orders for lunatics; registers of lunatics in asylums; registers from the Whitechapel Infirmary and the South Grove Workhouse; registers of children; financial accounts and staff records.

Limehouse Poor Law Union x Limehouse Board of Guardians Mile End Old Town Poor Law Union x Mile End Old Town Board of Guardians Saint George in the East Poor Law Union x Saint George in the East Board of Guardians Stepney Poor Law Union x Stepney Board of Guardians Whitechapel Poor Law Union x Whitechapel Board of Guardians
GB 0097 STEEL · 1966-1999

Papers of David Martin Scott Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood, 1966-1999, including correspondence, 1976-1999, relating to his role as Liberal Party leader, Liberal Party funding and party political broadcasts, European monetary union and foreign affairs; material concerning elections, 1975-1987, notably correspondence and reports by the Joseph Rowntree Social Services Trust Ltd on tactical seats and seat assessments, papers of the General Election Committee concerning policy and election strategy, and correspondence and publications relating to by-elections; papers relating to the Lib-Lab Pact, 1977-1978, including notes on shadow administration committees and correspondence with Labour politicians; material concerning the Liberal/SDP Alliance, 1982-1988, including minutes and working papers of the Joint Leaders Advisory Committee, the Alliance Planning Group and the Alliance Strategy Committee, correspondence concerning the Alliance defence policy and the Alliance Fund; papers concerning the Liberal Party and SDP merger, 1987-1988, notably general correspondence and memoranda concerning the merger negotiations, and media coverage; constituency (Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale) correspondence and casework, 1971-1994; subject files, 1986-1995,comprising correspondence and papers on subjects including agriculture, defence, environment, housing, health, education, transport and Scottish home affairs; general party papers, 1970-1993, relating to party policy, election campaigns and conferences; correspondence and papers regarding foreign affairs c1989-1999, including papers regarding democratic elections, government and human rights in Malawi 1991-1999 and Kenya 1992-1997; desk diaries, 1966-1998; papers concerning Liberal International meetings, 1981-1995; correspondence and papers relating to EDLR meetings 1982-1992; papers regarding Scottish home rule, including the work of the Scottish Constitutional Convention 1969-1994; membership of organisations and charities 1978-1994; audiotapes and videotapes with appearances by Steel c1978-1999; and speeches, articles and press releases (1974-1993).

Steel , David Martin Scott , b 1938 , Baron Steel of Aikwood , politician
Steedman, James
GB 0120MSS.4702, 4703 · 1758-1827

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.

Steedman , James , fl 1758-1827 , physician
Standards Board
GB 1538 RCOG/B29 · Fonds · 1999-2005

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Standards Board, 1999-2005, comprising agenda, minutes and circulated papers.

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
ACC/3408 · Collection · 1921-1974

Staines Urban District Council general accounts ledgers, 1921-1974.

Staines Urban District Council
ACC/1524 · Collection · 1781-1953

Records of Staines Local Board of Health, 1883-1929, comprising minute books, notice of bye-laws relating to Staines Commons and petition to Parliament for exclusion from Coal and Wine Duties Bill.

Records of Staines Urban District Council, 1894-1946, including minute books of various Committees including the Highways Committee and the Cemetery Committee; copies of agreements; reports and inquiries; financial accounts and town planning schemes including plans.

Records of Staines Rural District Council, 1894-1934, including Council minute books; Committee minute books; Parochial Committee minute books; reports; correspondence; housing scheme plans and town planning meetings.

Records of parishes in Staines, 1803-1953, including poor rate books; papers relating to tithes; papers relating to maintenance of roads, including plans; minute books of various Committees; and bills for maintenance work done.

Records of other bodies, 1828-1930, including the Commissioners of Staines Bridge; Staines Poor Law Union; Staines Joint Hospital District; Sunbury Hall Company Limited and Staines School Board.

Staines Local Board of Health Staines Urban District Council Staines Rural District Council
ACC/1747 · Collection · 1876-1961

Records of the Staines Local Board of Health, Urban District Council and Rural District Council relating to road and bridge maintenance, provision of utilities and sewer and drainage works, 1876-1961, including correspondence; agreements; memoranda; contracts; deeds; copies of legislation; petitions; orders of the Local Government Board and licences.

Staines Local Board of Health Staines Urban District Council Staines Rural District Council
STAINES FIRE STATION
ACC/3093 · Collection · 1894

Specification of works required by the Staines Local Board for repairs to the fire station at Market Place, Staines, 1894.

Staines Local Board of Health
GB 0074 ACC/3477 · Collection · [1978-1988]

Records of the Staines branch of the Citizens' Advice Bureau, including case files and administrative papers such as press packs, day sheets, correspondence and consumer sheets.

Citizens' Advice Bureau , Staines branch
STAINES BOARD OF GUARDIANS
BG/S · Collection · 1905-1930

Records of Staines Poor Law Union Board of Guardians, 1905-1930, comprising relief order book containing lists of out-relief cases; financial accounts and registers of persons undertaking nursing and maintenance of infants.

Staines Poor Law Union x Staines Board of Guardians
ACC/1427 · Collection · 1868-1965

Records of Littleton and Shepperton Parish, 1897-1965, including rate books, valuation lists, collecting books and balance sheets.

Records of Sunbury Urban District Council, 1895-1965, including rate books, collection books, valuation lists, rate collectors books and financial accounts.

Records of Ashford Parish, 1915-1927, comprising rate books.

Records of Staines Parish, 1897-1925, comprising rate books.

Records of Staines Urban District Council, 1868-1965, including rate books, valuation lists and financial accounts.

Sunbury Urban District Council Staines Urban District Council
GB 0098 GS, GT · Created 1907-2000 (ongoing)

Records relating to Imperial College staff, 1907-2000, comprising administrative, staff clubs and association records, namely staff handbooks, 1963-1973; terms of service, 1918-1963; correspondence relating to superannuation schemes, 1909-1971, including City and Guilds College, 1912-1925; absence regulations, 1929-1939; gratuities, 1931-1971 (GSA);
papers relating to Chairs and Readerships, including correspondence relating to inaugural lectures policy, 1955; lectureships, 1967-1969; Academic and related Staff Joint Committee, 1976-1977; retirement arrangements, 1955-1982; Student Demonstrators, 1973-1979; lists of Research Assistants, 1921-1967; papers relating to Pro-Rectors, 1956-1980; minutes and papers of the Deans and Advisory Committee, 1942-1957, including papers relating to the office of Dean, 1958-1966, wardens' posts, 1957-1984; papers of the Fellowships and Emeritus Professorships Committee, 1932-1979; correspondence of the Honorary Associateship of Imperial College, 1936-1980; papers of the Academic Staff Assembly, including minutes, 1971-1977, correspondence, 1970-1975; papers of the Working Group on the Federal University, 1975-1978;
Canteen Committee minutes, 1960-1962; papers relating to secretaries and clerical staff, 1940-1969; correspondence with the Holland Club, including a history, 1956-1973; correspondence relating to the Newsletter, 1955-1971; Rector's Bulletin, 1950-1971; Rectors' papers, 1938-1981; papers relating to Technical Staff, notably Technician's Committee, including minutes, 1949-1966; University of London sub-committee on training, 1963-1971; pensions, 1955-1968; Training committee, including minutes, 1950-1976; appointments and promotions, 1967-1970; laboratory assistants, 1907-1909 (GSJ);
papers relating to Departmental Superintendants, including minutes, 1962-1970; religious services, 1963-1975; Staff Christian Association, 1955-1972; personnel notes and circulars, 1986-2000; correspondence relating to the Consort Club, 1965-1978; Yacht Club, 1968-1978; Imperial College Wive's Club (later Women's Club), 1975-1998;
papers relating to staff working for external bodies, 1939-1977; correspondence with St Mary's Hospital concerning patents and royalties, 1958-1959; papers relating to the representation of the College at Congresses, 1950-1958; National Fruit and Cider Institute Governing Body, 1925-1983 (GTR).

Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
GB 0505 RHC AL100-110 · 1889-1985

Minute books, 1889-1985; Reports to the Governing Body, 1912-1965; agendas and notices of meetings, 1940-1967; memoranda, letters and circulars, 1921-1971, on subjects including the constitution and membership of the Academic Board, the Library Committee, the election of staff to the Governing Body, the Post-War Policy Committee, and staff salaries; reports of the London University Committee on Academic Organisation and the Academic Council on Academic Organisation, 1965-1967; Minutes of the Recognition Committee, 1963-1967.

Royal Holloway College , Staff Meeting; Royal Holloway College , Academic Board
Staff: Establishment Books
GB 0813 POST 59 Series · Series · 1691-1985

Within this class are volumes and files that contain basic information about established Post Office staff and about the principal Post Office branches in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. This class also contains details of Post Office establishments abroad, packet boat services, deceased officers, vacancies and committee reports regarding the Post Office Establishment, amongst much else. There are 24 volumes (POST 59/1-24) covering the period 1691-1798, but the majority of the material consists of lists of salaried officers at various British Establishments for the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The class is divided into eight Sub-series, a few of which should be mentioned at the outset. Sub-series 1 is the largest of these and contains the main Establishment books and lists of officers from 1691-1983, published annually from the late eighteenth century (bound copies for this series for the period 1869-1980 can be found in the BPMA search room). Sub-series 3 contains the Establishment books for provincial postal regions across Britain and so is naturally considerable in size, although the period covered for these books tends to be late nineteenth and early twentieth century only. By contrast, Sub-series 4 and 5 contain major and minor Establishment books for the London Postal Region, spanning nearly a 200-year period from 1800. The only series that does not contain lists of basic information (which is the essence of most of the Establishment books) is Sub-series 6, which contains 20 papers and committee reports for the period 1793-1923 that describe changes that have occurred and have been proposed to the Establishment system; a useful starting point for understanding the organisational development of the Establishment structure.

The sort of information included has changed over this 300-year period, but a large proportion of the information found in any particular Establishment book is likely to include an employee's name, their department or location, date of appointment, and yearly salary (or weekly wage). Similarly, the type of employee that has been included in the yearly establishment books has changed over time (and some consideration of the difference between 'established' and 'unestablished' staff will follow), but as a rule of thumb, in the main Establishment books that were published annually (which can be found in Sub-Series 1), it is staff who have been occupied in more senior positions within the Post Office hierarchy who are likely to be found. As a consequence, most of the yearly establishment books within this class will only ever list by name a modest proportion of the entire Post Office workforce for any given year. (It may be helpful for prospective researchers to note that the best starting point in searching for records relating to 'rank and file' employees are the appointments indexes and pensions indexes. A guide to these sources can be downloaded from the BPMA website and a printed version can be found in the BPMA search room, entitled 'Guide to Family History Research'.) POST 59/ 26, 28, 32, 33, 34, 37, 39, 40, 42 and 91 include brief summaries of duties performed by officers. POST 59/ 7, 11, 18 and 20 give complements of Packet Boats.

No further information available
GB 0101 TU.CE · 1963-1992

Reports, rules and regulations, manifestos, resolutions, statements, constitutions and addresses issued by the All Ceylon United Workers Congress, the Ceylon Bank Employees' Union, the Ceylon Federation of Labour, the Ceylon Workers' Congress and the Government Clerical Service Union.

Institute of Commonwealth Studies
SPEARING, Nigel (b 1930)
GB 0366 NS · Collection · 1962-2002

Papers of Nigel Spearing relating to education and government, 1962-2002, including files on educational provision for children with special needs, 1960s-1970s; educational reconstruction, 1979-1980; Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) reorganisation (especially relating to the amalgamation of Holland Park, Isaac Newton and Ladbroke schools, 1980-1981); examination reform, 1978 and the Socialist Educational Association (SEA), 1990s.

Annotated published government sources on educational matters, including briefing papers, draft bills, Hansard and related press cuttings on topics including: the comprehensive system, 1965; London education, 1972; the Education (No. 2) Bill, 1980; assisted places, 1980; the abolition of the HMI, 1991; and school governing bodies, 1999.

Spearing , Nigel , b 1930 , politician
GB 0120 PP/FGS · 1908-1980

Papers of Frederick Gordon Spear, 1908-1980. These papers fall naturally into several distinct groups; items pertaining to his radiological research conducted in Cambridge at the Strangeways Laboratory, materials about the Strangeways Laboratory as an institution, presumably accumulated during his many years as deputy director, papers relating to his connections with other bodies associated with radiology, such as the Hospital Physicists Association and the British Institute of Radiology, of which he was president in 1961, publications and unpublished papers by him, and also some publications by others on subjects related to the work he was doing.

A very small amount of material, not classifiable under these headings, has been put together in a 'Personal' section.

While Spear originally studied tropical medicine, and spent some time at the Baptist Mission Hospital at Yakusu in the Belgian Congo in the early 1920s this aspect of his career is not represented in these papers.

Received along with Spear's papers were a number of notebooks formerly belonging to his first wife Ada Louisa Sowerby, which she kept during her nurse and midwifery training in London in the later 1920s.

Spear , Frederick Gordon , 1895-1980 , radiologist
SOUTHWARK BOARD OF GUARDIANS
SOBG · Collection · 1798-1933

Records of Saint George the Martyr Poor Law Parish, 1835-1873; including minutes of the Board of Guardians; orders of removal; admission and discharge registers; and registers of children admitted.

Records of Saint Mary Newington Poor Law Parish, 1867-1874, comprising Board of Guardians minute books and Newington Sick Asylum District manager's minute books.

Records of the Southwark Poor Law Union (formerly the Saint Saviour's Poor Law Union), 1798-1933, including minutes of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; byelaws and regulations; property documents including deeds; correspondence; settlement examinations; removal orders; report books; admission and discharge registers and creed registers; registers of children admitted and boarded out; register of boys sent to the Training Ship Exmouth; registers of children sent to the Hanwell Schools, Central London Schools District; financial accounts; staff records; plans made as part of survey for rating valuation of property in Saint Saviour's Union; and notices of marriage.

Saint George the Martyr Poor Law Parish x Saint George the Martyr Board of Guardians Saint Mary Newington Poor Law Parish x Saint Mary Newington Board of Guardians Southwark Poor Law Union x Southwark Board of Guardians x Saint Saviour's Poor Law Union x Saint Saviour's Board of Guardians
GB 0074 ACC/2558/SV/03 · Collection · 1877-1904

Staff records of the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company, including wages books; expenses books; time books and applications, testimonials and correspondence.

Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company
SOUTHGATE
ACC/0999 · Collection · 1800-1960

Papers of the Edmonton Local Board of Health relating to a legal case at Queen's Bench, 1871; papers of Southgate Local Board of Health relating to the Edmonton Local Board (Division of District) Bill, 1881-1890; and various deeds, leases, assignments, conveyances, mortgages and other property documents for the Southgate area, 1800-1960.

Edmonton Local Board of Health Southgate Local Board of Health
GB 0101 ICS 77 · 1984

Transcripts of interviews by Roger Southall with South African trade union and political leaders, 1984, comprising: T Adler, National Automobile and Allied Workers Union; Neville Alexander, National Forum Committee; Saleem Badat, Grassroots; Jane Barrett, Transport and General Workers Union; Graeme Bloch, United Democratic Front; Andrew Boraine, United Democratic Front; Phiroshaw Camay, Council of Unions of South Africa; Moss Chikwane, United Democratic Front; Sathasican Cooper; Charles Daris, US Consulate, Johannesburg; Des T East, Motor Industry Combined Workers Union; Alec Irwin, Federation of South African Trade Unions; Brian Fredericks, National Automobile and Allied Workers Union;Dirk Hartford; Paddy Kearnly; M P Lekota, United Democratic Front; Lybon Mabasa, Azania Peoples Organisation; M Maluk, National Union of Mineworkers; Jeff McCarthy, Geography Department, Durban University; Ismael Mohammed; Curnick Ndlovu, United Democratic Front; Jemma Payne, National Union of Textile Workers; Ebrahim "Cassim" Saloojee, United Democratic Front; L Tsholi, United Democratic Front; Theo Van Der Bergh, Personnel Manager, Toyota; A J Van Der Watt, South African Boilermakers' Iron and Steel Workers, Shipbuilders and Welders Society; Zac Yaccoob, Natal Indian Congress.

Southall , Richard , fl 1975-1983 , author
SOUTHALL LABOUR PARTY
GB 0074 ACC/1267 · Collection · 1923-1971

Records of the Southall Labour Party, comprising minutes, financial accounts and membership records for the Uxbridge Divisional Labour Party, the Southall and Norwood Trades Council and Labour Party, and the Southall Divisional/Constituency Labour Party.

Southall Constituency Labour Party
SOUTH WEST LONDON SESSIONS
GB 0074 SWLS · Collection · 1966-1971

Records of the South West London Quarter Sessions, 1966-1971, comprising stopping up and diversion orders under the Highways Act 1959. The files usually contain a signed order, plans and correspondence. They relate to highways in Richmond, Kingston upon Thames, Surbiton, New Malden, Morden, Mortlake and Sutton.

South West London Quarter Sessions
GB 0074 HA/ST · Collection · 1947-1992

Records of the South Thames Regional Health Authority and predecessors, 1947-1992. This collection consists of minutes and papers of various committees including: Mental Health Committee; Finance and General Purposes Committee; Regional Management Team; Regional Medical Advisory Committee; Advisory Appointments Committee; Regional Manpower Committee; Regional Research Committee; Regional Pharmaceutical Committees; Regional Capital Planning Team; London Ambulance Committee.

Also papers relating to various aspects of management of health services including regional strategic planning; reports; correspondence; copies of The Hospitals Year Book and directories of Hospital and Specialist Services; statistical booklets; papers regarding disaster management and major incidents; papers regarding staffing and personnel management; papers relating to building maintenance; and financial accounts.

South Thames Regional Health Authority
SMSD · Collection · 1849-1905

Records of the South Metropolitan School District, 1849-1905, including minutes and reports of the Board of Management; annual reports and statements of accounts; standing orders of the Board and its Committees; correspondence with and orders from the Poor Law Board; papers relating to building works and maintenance; admission and discharge and creed registers for Brighton Road School, Banstead Road School, Witham School and Herne Bay School; registers of apprentices and servants; and staff records.

South Metropolitan School District
GB 0074 HA/SE · Collection · 1947-1995

Records of the South East Thames Regional Health Authority, 1947-1995. This collection includes minutes, agendas and papers of the meetings of various Committees, including the Regional Health Authority, the Regional Health Authority Chairman, the Regional Hospital Board Finance Committee; Area Nurse Training Committee; Regional Team of Officers; Clinical Consultative Committee; Nursing Sub-Committee; Regional Medical Advisory Committee; Treasurer's Group; Cancer Committee; Corporate Advisory Team; Regional Management Team; Regional and Chief Nursing Officers; Legal Action Working Party; Regional Planning Group; Regional Programming Group; Capital Investment Group; Building Committee; Capital Executive Group; and Sub-Committees for various specialities including cardiology, dermatology, general practice, dental surgery, radiology, ophthalmology and so on.

Also annual statistical returns; financial accounts; maps and plans; papers of the Kent County Council Public Assistance Department; papers relating to buildings and maintenance; papers of study groups; papers relating to public health and other administrative papers.

South East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board , 1947-1974 South East Thames Regional Health Authority , 1974-1994