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Records of the parish of Saint Barnabas, Lavenham Road, Southfields, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; registers of church services; statistics; faculties, correspondence and plans relating to the maintenance of the church building; Parochial Church Council minutes and reports; financial papers; parish magazines; photographs; and papers of church societies.

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Union Grove, Clapham, including registers of baptisms, marriages and confirmations; registers of church services; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Saint Faith, Ebner Street, Wandsworth, including baptism registers (1880-1948); marriage registers (1884-1964); banns registers (1933-1963); service registers (1883-1991); Vestry minutes, Parochial Church Council minutes (1962-2004); school managers' minutes (1984-1988); accounts; correspondence; magazines; service sheets; plans; and photographs.

Records of the parish of Saint John the Evangelist, St John's Avenue, Putney, including registers of marriages; registers of church services; minutes of the Annual Congregational meeting; minutes of the Management Committee; and church rate book.

Records of the parish of Saint James, Mitcham Lane, West Streatham, including registers of baptisms and marriages; minutes of the Parochial Church Council; financial accounts; minutes of the Church Building Fund Committee and other papers relating to the church construction and maintenance; papers relating to parish boundaries and papers relating to church societies.

Records of the parish of Saint Leonard, Streatham High Road, Streatham, including papers relating to a legal dispute; financial accounts; registers of baptisms, marriages, burials and banns; papers relating to tithes; Parochial Church Council minutes; church services registers; papers relating to parish boundaries; papers relating to the construction and maintenance of the church including faculties and specifications; administrative papers; and papers relating to the parish schools.

Records of the parish of Saint Mary Magdalene, Trinity Road, Wandsworth Common, including registers of baptisms, banns and marriages; registers of church services; financial accounts; papers relating to alterations and maintenance of the church building; administrative papers; Parochial Church Council minutes; papers of the Churchwardens; papers relating to parish charities and societies.

Records of the parish of Saint Mary, Balham High Road, Balham, including registers of baptisms, marriages and confirmations; registers of church services; preachers' books; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minute book; financial accounts; parish magazines; administrative records; faculties and plans relating to the construction and maintenance of the church; papers relating to parish boundary alterations; papers relating to tithes; records of the parish schools; orders of service and photographs.

Records of the parish of Saint Nicholas, Church Lane, Tooting Graveney, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; burial fees books; Parochial Church Council minutes; Churchwardens records; faculties, plans and other papers relating to the maintenance of church buildings; and papers of Tooting Educational Charities.

Records of the parish of the Holy Redeemer, Streatham Vale, comprising registers of marriages and registers of baptisms.

Records of the parish of Holy Trinity, Clapham Common North Side, Clapham, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; church services registers; Trustees minutes; Vestry minutes; annual parochial reports; papers relating to the construction of the church; financial and administrative papers; papers relating to tithes; records of the parish schools; parish magazines; curates' licences; papers relating to parish boundaries; papers of the Parochial Church Council.

Papers relating to the workhouse; settlement examinations; poor rate assessments; financial accounts of the Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor and Highways Surveyors; and other papers relating to poor relief.

Records of the City of London Maternity Hospital, including Governors and Management Committee minutes, 1750-1948; Court of Governors minutes, 1883-1948; Finance Committee minutes, 1905-1948; lists of governors and annual reports, 1764-1948; reports concerning Brockett Hall Emergency Maternity Hospital, 1939-1940; new hospital charter and related papers, 1918-1935; Acts of Parliament concerning the hospital, 1773-1869; architects plans for alterations and modernisation, 1937; admissions registers, 1750-1948; registers of baptisms, 1813-1978; Matrons' case books, 1921-1949; out-patients admission registers, 1872-1953; district case books, 1913-1942; prospectus for the midwifery training school, 196-; salaries and wages books, 1912-1940; register of wills and legacies, 1754-1965; playbill for Sir Richard Steele's The Conscious Lovers to be performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, for the benefit of the Hospital, 17 Dec 1776; programme of concert at Mansion House arranged by the Ladies' Association in aid of the City of London Lying-in Hospital on 23 June 1914; includes photographs of exterior of hospital, interior of ward and chapel; issues of Onward, journal of the City of London Maternity Hospital, 1924-1944; history of the hospital, 1922 and guide for expectant mothers, [1950s].

Records of the Hanwell Asylum, 1831-1960, including draft minutes and presented papers, 1845-1891; indexes to resolutions of the Committee of Visiting Justices, 1845-1895; indexes to resolutions of the London County Council Asylums Committees and Hanwell Sub-Committee, 1895-1936; annual statements of account, 1856-1866; annual reports, 1840-1889; reports from officers of the Asylum, 1832-1948; reports of visiting Justices and remarks of Boards of Guardians, 1862-1918; rules and regulations, 1844-1930; annual and half-yearly returns of lunatics, 1860-1872; quarterly returns of lunatics, 1869-1870; returns of criminal lunatics, 1841-1867; correspondence of the Clerk to the Committee of Visitors, 1869-1889; correspondence of other officers of the Asylum, 1839-1945; building plans, 1831-1843 and minutes of the Medical Advisory Committee of St Bernard's Hospital, 1962-1966. Legal records including case papers and inquiries, 1858-1876; contracts and tenders, 1860-1886 and divorce papers, 1938-1961.

Patient records including registers of female admissions, 1831-1845; registers of female admissions, 1839-1877; registers of male admissions, 1831-1845; registers of male admissions, 1839-1877; registers of admissions, 1853-1906; registers of admissions of private patients, 1894-1906; civil registers, 1907-1948; registers of criminal lunatics, 1831-1949; discharge books, 1840-1954; registers of discharges, removals and deaths, 1845-1906; registers of female discharges and removals, 1865-1954; registers of male discharges and removals, 1880-1955; registers of discharges and transfers, 1907-1922; registers of female deaths, 1839-1948; registers of male deaths, 1839-1948; registers of deaths, 1907-1922; inquest papers, 1861-1872; female casebooks, 1831-1940; male casebooks, 1845-1942; clinical journals (male cases), 1854-1873; medical registers (female cases), 1907-1948; medical registers (male cases), 1907-1948; registers of mechanical restraint and seclusion, 1892-1967; tuberculosis registers, 1907-1935; autopsy records (female cases), 1861-1908; records of female post-mortem examinations, 1900-1941; autopsy records (male cases), 1863-1904 and records of male post-mortem examinations, 1904-1950.

Staff records, including registers of officers of the Asylum, 1840-1904; letters of recommendation and testimonials for Asylum staff, 1860-1923; Matron's report book, 1839-1852; fine books (female attendants), 1840-1935; fine books (male attendants), 1838-1935 and artisans' wages books, 1912-1923. Financial records, 1831-1960, including parish and union accounts, patients' fees and banking records. Also 'Brief History of Hanwell Mental Hospital From 1831-1931' by Dr A W Daniel, Medical Superintendent (1919-1936).

Records of the Queen Adelaide Fund, including declarations of trust, 1839-1870; letter from Dr J Connolly calling for the expansion of the fund, 1840; reports of the Committee for Increasing the Queen Adelaide Fund, 1840; funeral sermon for Colonel James Clitherow, 1841; regulations for management of the fund, 1842; list of subscribers, 1845; financial accounts, 1840-1973; recommendation books (listing patients put forward for grants), 1842-1933; photograph of a portrait of Colonel James Clitherow, 1960. Also book of recommendation for the London (Surrey) Benevolent Fund, 1892-1899.

Records of the British Hospital for Mothers and Babies, Woolwich, London, including Home for Mothers and Babies Executive Committee minute books, 1904-1915; Managing Committee and Advisory Committee minute books, 1915-1972; annual reports, 1906-1970; diaries kept by Alice Gregory, secretary, comprising a record of events in the hospital, including the admission, delivery and discharge of patients (usually, except in the later diaries, naming the patients), visits to the hospital, clinics, lectures and services in the chapel, with lists and memoranda concerned with midwifery pupils, fund raising events, such as flag days and sales, and presents received by the hospital, 1905-1945; letter book, 1939-1945; papers relating to founding of hospital, amalgamation with British Lying-In Hospital and purchase of Samuel Street site, 1905-1929; admission registers, 1947-1958; case books, 1905-1948; maternity register, 1949; medical report books, 1933-1947; out-patients' case book, 1939-1946; record of district midwifery practices, 1906-1915 and financial records, 1905-1961.

Records of the South Western Hospital, including House Committee minutes, 1948-1959; Catering Sub-Committee minutes, 1950-1962; architect's drawings of Stockwell Fever Hospital, 1869; architect's drawings of Stockwell Smallpox Hospital, 1869; admission and discharge registers for Stockwell Smallpox Hospital, 1871-1876; mortuary register, 1947-1963; register of staff, [1889]-1904 and photographs of the Geriatric Day Unit, 1973-1990.

Records of Hendon Group Hospital Management Committee, including Management Committee and Standing Committee signed minutes, 1948-1974; Management Committee minutes and papers, 1948-1974; Finance and General Purposes Committee minutes and papers, 1948-1967; Staff and Establishment Committee minutes and papers, 1948-1967; Finance and Staff Committee minutes and papers, 1967-1974; Planning Committee minutes and papers, 1949-1955; Works and Building Committee and Planning and General Purposes Committee minutes and papers, 1956-1974; Visiting Committees and Hospital Committees minutes, 1949-1970; Joint Consultative Committees minutes and papers, 1948-1960; meeting attendance registers, 1948-1974; standing orders, 1948-1969; annual reports, 1949-1970; papers from annual open meetings including Chairman's reports, 1953-1962; papers regarding Hospital redevelopment, 1961-1968; papers relating to opening ceremonies, 1952-1971; Hendon Group HMC handbook giving information on hospital and other medical and social services available in area, including a history of Edgware General Hospital and photographs of group hospitals, 1958; staff handbooks, 1966-[1973] and publication Colindale Hospital, 1898-1948: An unauthorised history censored from the memories and musings of many people, compiled by the Rev R W Townsend, AKCL, Chaplain and Rural Dean of Hendon, 1948.

Records of the parish of Saint Andrew, Court Road, Mottingham, comprising altered apportionments of tithe rent charges.

Registers of baptisms and marriages for the parish of Saint Saviour, Middle Park Avenue, Eltham.

Records of Bow Street Magistrates Court, 1724-2004, including court registers; domestic proceedings registers; gaoler's records; applications for warrants; club licensing; matrimonial case registers; extradition registers; registers of applications for adoption abroad, adoption abroad procedural and case files; papers relating to magistrates' salaries; files of the Chief Clerk; Poor Box financial accounts, bequests and correspondence; papers relating to trust funds and bequests; Committee files and office administration.

Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate.
Matrimonal cases: A married woman under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 and subsequent Acts could go to a magistrates' court and apply for orders which in certain circumstances would enable her to separate from her husband, have custody of any children and receive maintenance from him.

Records of Clerkenwell Magistrates' Court, 1893-1987, including court registers; registers of adoption applications; probation order applications; means enquiries; court minutes recording charges and summons; court note books; probation orders; domestic proceedings including matrimonial cases and bastardy orders; registers of endorsements of driving licences; cash books; gaoler's index of defendants and clerk's papers.

Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.

Domestic proceedings: A married woman under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 and subsequent Acts could go to a magistrates' court and apply for orders which in certain circumstances would enable her to separate from her husband, have custody of any children and receive maintenance from him. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1844 a mother expecting a bastard child or who had given birth to one could obtain a maintenance order against the putative father.

Records of Greenwich Magistrates Court, 1914-1968, 1974-1975, including court registers; maintenance arrears cases; motoring offences and civil debt cases.

Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate.

A married woman under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 and subsequent Acts could go to a magistrates' court and apply for orders which in certain circumstances would enable her to separate from her husband, have custody of any children and receive maintenance from him. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1844 a mother expecting a bastard child or who had given birth to one could obtain a maintenance order against the putative father.

Records of Hampstead Petty Sessional Division, 1867-1991, including court minute books; court registers; registers of summonses and orders; registers of offenders placed on probation; juvenile court registers; adoption registers; licensing registers and justices signing-in books.

Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.

Records of Holborn Petty Sessional Division, 1845-1956, including court minute books, court registers and licensing registers.

Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.

Records of the Royal Northern Hospital, 1885-1991, including minutes, annual reports, secretary's reports, register of seals and deeds, constitution and regulations; registers of road traffic accidents, births, deaths, operations, and maternity cases, case papers; matron's reports, registers of nurses and pupils, salaries and wages, correspondence, journals; ledgers and accounts; Plans of the Whittington Hospital; Chaplain's reports; Photographs; Ladies Association papers; Related documentation including histories, programmes, newspaper cuttings and publications.

Case registers from the North Western Hospital, Hampstead, 1896-1948, providing the following information - number, date of admission, name, sex, age, address, parish or area, disease certified on admission, disease diagnosed in hospital (except for the 1st register), complications, and date of discharge, transfer or death.

Records of Acton Hospital, 1895-1973, comprising minutes of various committees including Council and Management Committee minutes; the House, Finance and General Purposes Committee; the Ladies Committee; the Honorary Medical Staff; the Medical Advisory Committee and the Unit Staff Committee.

Records of Hither Green Hospital, 1897-1976, including case notes, registers of admission and discharge, creed, post-mortems, operations, and casualties; records of staff service and conduct and Chaplain's records.

Records of the Royal Dental Hospital including papers of Committee of Management and Board of Governors, 1883-1948; papers of the School Council, 1948-1983; papers of the Medical Committee and Academic Board, 1886-1983; papers of the Finance Committee, 1948-1977; annual reports, 1859-1983; obligation books, 1897-1982; calendars, 1922-1983; papers of Appliance Committee, 1890-1922; publications and administrative files on a variety of subjects including annual dinners, patient statistics, inventories, scholarships, property, lectures, articles, prize-givings, seals, correspondence, grants and awards, the amalgamation with Guy's, superannuation schemes, registers of students and the gazette, 1878-1962; papers of Dental Advisory Committee, 1973-1985; papers regarding closure of the Hospital, 1982-1985; Apportionment Agreement, 1975-1980; rules, bye laws and standing orders, 1970s; Ethics Committee papers, 1980-1985; correspondence and papers relating to complaints and legal cases, [1970]-1985; patient treatment statistics, 1955-1987; deeds, 1838-1921; photographs, prints and slides of the Hospital, staff and students, 1958-1985 and file of correspondence and papers relating to the history of the Royal Dental Hospital belonging to Ernest Smith who was writing history with Beryl Cottell, 1986-1992.

Records of the Metropolitan Ear Nose and Throat Hospital, 1875-1966, and Saint Mary Abbots Hospital, 1872-1993. Papers include committee minutes, reports, patient registers, correspondence, inventories, staff records and histories.

Records of Caterham Asylum, later Saint Lawrence's Hospital, 1870-1990, including minutes, reports, visitor's books, NHS Trust application, registers of admission and discharge, creed patients, deaths, pathological samples, post mortems, injections, cases of dysentery and TB, casualty registers, ward books, medical journals, lists of reception orders, case books and case files, registers of baptisms and burials, papers about the centenary of the hospital, staff magazines and plans of the building.

Records of the South London Hospital for Women and Children, 1911-1987, including board of management and various other committee minutes; Lambeth Group Hospital Management Committee minutes; South West London Group Hospital Management Committee minutes; annual reports; constitution and laws; correspondence; papers relating to building including tenders, plans and designs; fund raising and publicity files; nursing and staff records; photographs of the exterior and interior of the Hospital, staff, special occasions and events; Hospital magazines; programmes for events; scrapbooks and newspaper cuttings; histories of the Hospital including a dissertation on the architectural history of the South London Hospital, with copies of plans and photographs of original hospital buildings and photographs of hospital in 1978.

Patient records comprise a radiographic register, 1916-1921 and baptism registers, 1973-1983. Later clinical records are believed to have been destroyed.

Records of Normansfield Hospital, 1853-1983 and Saint John's Hospital, Battersea, 1872-1987. Papers include correspondence, articles of association, prospectuses, patient records including admissions and discharge registers, staff records, financial records, papers relating to the Normansfield Enquiry, 1970-1977, photographs, histories, newspaper cuttings, minutes, reports, plans and papers regarding pupil nurses.

Records of Saint John's Hospital, Battersea, 1872-1987, including medical advisory committee minutes, reports, agreements, plans, admission and discharge registers, creed rgisters, registers of births, deaths, operations, case books, dental surgeon's registers, physiotherapy registers, tuberculosis notifications, mental health admissions, register of mechanical restraints, registers of nurses and domestic staf, registers of staff leaving, pupil nurses, and photographs of the hospital and special occasions.

Medical Superintendent's monthly report book, Saint Ann's Hospital, Tottenham, 1931-1934.

Records of Lambeth Magistrates Court, 1877-1964. This collection contains court registers, court minutes, and proforma complaints and orders related to domestic proceedings. Other miscellaneous records have also survived from Lambeth Magistrates Court. While these have not survived in sufficient numbers to elucidate fully the record-keeping activities of the Court, they have been preserved as examples of the kinds of records maintained by the Court Officers, including the Clerk, Gaoler and Warrant Officer.

Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.

Domestic proceedings: A married woman under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 and subsequent Acts could go to a magistrates' court and apply for orders which in certain circumstances would enable her to separate from her husband, have custody of any children and receive maintenance from him. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1844 a mother expecting a bastard child or who had given birth to one could obtain a maintenance order against the putative father.

Records of Marlborough Street Magistrates Court, 1896-1991, including court registers; rates registers; registers of means enquiries; registers of ex-parte cases; registers of applications for time to pay; Married Women's Act orders; Guardianship of Infants Act orders; Affiliation orders and domestic proceedings registers.

Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate.

Domestic proceedings: A married woman under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 and subsequent Acts could go to a magistrates' court and apply for orders which in certain circumstances would enable her to separate from her husband, have custody of any children and receive maintenance from him. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1844 a mother expecting a bastard child or who had given birth to one could obtain a maintenance order against the putative father.

Records of the North London Magistrates Court, comprising court registers, 1909-1965. Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate.

Records of Feltham Magistrates Court (part of Spelthorne Petty Sessions Division), 1873-1962. Records include court registers; registers of matrimonial cases; juvenile court registers; adoption files (closed); court notes; Justice's Meeting minute books; licensing registers; Probation Committee minute books and plans.

Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.

Matrimonial cases: A married woman under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 and subsequent Acts could go to a magistrates' court and apply for orders which in certain circumstances would enable her to separate from her husband, have custody of any children and receive maintenance from him. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1844 a mother expecting a bastard child or who had given birth to one could obtain a maintenance order against the putative father.

Records of the South Western Magistrates Court, 1891-1981, including court registers; probation orders; Married Women Act orders; Guardianship of Infants Act orders; bastardy complaints; matrimonial case registers and indexes; separation and maintenance orders; warrants for desertion; and motoring offences records.

Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate.

Matrimonial cases: a married woman under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 and subsequent Acts could go to a magistrates' court and apply for orders which in certain circumstances would enable her to separate from her husband, have custody of any children and receive maintenance from him. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1844 a mother expecting a bastard child or who had given birth to one could obtain a maintenance order against the putative father.

Records of Tower Bridge Magistrates Court, 1889-1953, comprising court registers and court minute books. Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.

Records of courts within Willesden Petty Sessional Division, 1873-1986. Records include court registers for Harlesden Magistrates Court; court registers, juvenile court registers and court minute books for Willesden Magistrates Court; court registers, juvenile court registers and court minute books for Acton Magistrates Court and licensing registers for Willesden, Acton and Chiswick.

Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.

Records of Westminster Magistrates Court, 1896-1943, including court registers; rates registers; means enquiry summonses; summonses indexes; Married Women Act orders; bastardy complaints and letter book.

Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.

Domestic proceedings: A married woman under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 and subsequent Acts could go to a magistrates' court and apply for orders which in certain circumstances would enable her to separate from her husband, have custody of any children and receive maintenance from him. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1844 a mother expecting a bastard child or who had given birth to one could obtain a maintenance order against the putative father.

Records of Woolwich Magistrates Court, 1898-1979, including court registers; court minute books; Married Women Act orders; Guardianship of Infants Act orders and bastardy complaints.

Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.

Domestic proceedings: A married woman under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 and subsequent Acts could go to a magistrates' court and apply for orders which in certain circumstances would enable her to separate from her husband, have custody of any children and receive maintenance from him. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1844 a mother expecting a bastard child or who had given birth to one could obtain a maintenance order against the putative father.

The collection presents an integrated record of US decision making during the 1962 nuclear confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. Much of the documentation focuses on the period from Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs McGeorge Bundy's 16 Oct 1962 briefing of President Kennedy on the discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba to Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev's 28 Oct 1962 decision to withdraw the weapons. Papers include intelligence reports, diplomatic cables, political analyses, military situation reports, and meeting minutes relating to the immediate backdrop to the crisis, the crisis (16 Oct-28 Oct 1962), and its aftermath. Papers concerning the background to the crisis relate to US attempts to overthrow Cuban Prime Minister Dr Fidel Castro following the Bay of Pigs invasion, Apr 1961; US and Soviet nuclear capabilities and doctrine in the early 1960s; the deployment of US Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBMs) to forward bases in Europe; and the concern over the resurgence of Soviet military aid to Cuba in the summer of 1962. Papers relating to the crisis include US intelligence reports confirming the construction of Soviet missile bases in Cuba; National Security Council minutes relating to a potential invasion of Cuba by US conventional forces, possible US air attacks against Cuba and the resultant Cuban casualties, the possibility of imposing an economic blockade around Cuba, the maintenance of US U-2 High Altitude Reconnaissance Aircraft flights over Cuba, and the possibility of Soviet retaliatory military actions against North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) states in the event of US attacks on Cuba, 16 Oct 1962; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) daily intelligence reports concerning Soviet missile bases and possible Soviet surface to surface SS-4 ('Sandal') nuclear missiles in Cuba; reports from the UN Security Council and General Assembly from the US Ambassador to the UN Adlai Ewing Stevenson; meetings between Kennedy and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Andreevich Gromyko; US estimates of Cuban ground forces; articles from Soviet news agency TASS denouncing American motives in Cuba; reports from US Secretary of Defense Robert Strange McNamara regarding the possible withdrawal of US missile bases in Italy and Turkey in exchange for Soviet withdrawals from Cuba; discussions of the possible US 'Naval Quarantine' of Cuba; CIA estimates relating to possible Soviet first strike military capability with missiles in Cuba; NSC reports relating to the construction of IRBM and Medium Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM) bases in Guanajay and San Cristóbal, Cuba, 21 Oct 1962; President Kennedy's announcement to world heads of state regarding the US 'Naval Quarantine' of Cuba (24 Oct-20 Nov 1962) to prevent further Soviet arms shipments of offensive weapons and development of further missile bases, 23 Oct 1962; message from Khrushchev to Kennedy stating that the US 'Naval Quarantine' is an act of aggression against both Cuba and the Soviet Union, 23 Oct 1962; statements by US Ambassador Stevenson, Cuban Ambassador Mario Garcia Incháustegui, and Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin in the UN Security Council, 23 Oct 1962; documents relating to the operational readiness of US continental nuclear forces; minutes from UN Security Council meeting, 25 Oct 1962; letter from Khrushchev to Kennedy suggesting that the Soviet Union would withdraw missile bases in return for a US 'non-invasion commitment' towards Cuba, 26 Oct 1962; negotiations over verification of the Soviet missile withdrawal; the US non-invasion 'guarantee' to Cuba and the Soviet Union; and, the question of Soviet Ilyushin IL-28 ('Beagle') bombers and troops remaining in Cuba. The collection also includes retrospective studies of the missile crisis, including the US Department of State internal history of the crisis, US Department of Defense comprehensive reports describing the actions of military commands and units during the missile crisis, and US government records relating to the US-Soviet rapprochement developed in the 1970s and 1980

The Soviet Estimate: US Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991 is a themed microfilm collection which presents an integrated record of US intelligence estimates and studies relating to Soviet strategic projections, military capabilities, science and technology, economics and internal politics, 1946-1991. The estimates and studies were produced either collectively as national intelligence products or by individual agencies, and include contributions from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); the Director of Central Intelligence; the US Defense Intelligence Agency; and, the US State Department. The collection includes CIA and British Secret Intelligence Service debriefing transcripts of former Soviet Gavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravleniye (GRU), Chief Intelligence Directorate, Soviet General Staff, operative Oleg V Penkovskii, relating to Soviet military organisation and plans for nuclear war, Soviet nuclear targets and deployments in Europe, missile technology and launch sites, Soviet military personnel, the capture of Capt Francis Gary Powers, US Air Force U-2 High Altitude Reconnaissance Aircraft pilot, 1 May 1960, profiles of Soviet military officers, locations of Soviet nuclear weapons tests, Soviet intelligence organisations and Soviet chemical and biological weapons programs, Soviet development and deployment of Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), positions of Soviet divisions in East Germany, and the Berlin Crisis (1958- 1962), 20 Apr-14 Oct 1961; yearly US estimates of Soviet strategic capabilities, 1947- 1983, including the 'missile gap' National Intelligence Estimates, 1957-1961; detailed estimates of the Soviet space program, including National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) relating to lunar exploration, manned space flight, reconnaissance satellites, space exploration, space weapons and weapons development, 1962-1967; US Air Force report entitled 'A History of Strategic Arms Competition: Volume 3, A Handbook of Selected Soviet Weapons and Space Systems', including data relating to Soviet air to surface missiles (AS), Tupolev bomber aircraft, M-4 / Mya-4 / 2M Myasishchev ('Bison') aircraft, space weapons, communication satellites, electronic intelligence capabilities, surface to surface (SS) theatre missiles and ICBMs, Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBMs), Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs), Jun 1976; US intelligence community experiment in competitive analysis conducted by the CIA 'B Team' relating to US misperceptions of Soviet strategic objectives and offensive and defensive forces, Dec 1976; report from the US Department of State entitled 'History of the Strategic Arms Competition 1945-1972, parts 1 and 2', including detailed surveys and analyses of Soviet and US decision making on nuclear forces, force deployments, and nuclear strategies, Mar 1981; Special National Intelligence Estimate relating to Soviet support for international terrorism and revolutionary activities, including mention of arms transfers, military training, political violence, and terrorist activities in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East, May 1981; reports from the CIA concerning Soviet perspectives on research and development in energy-directed weapons and involvement in space weapons and Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) research, 1985; National Intelligence Estimates relating to General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev's prospects for reforming the Soviet economic and political system, including mention of his economic agenda and its implications for the Soviet military program, the dynamics of Soviet civil-military relations, the impact of reforms on labour production, health, standards of living and technological development, and the rise of civil unrest and nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1985- 1989; CIA report concerning the probabilities of a coup d'etat in the Soviet Union and the growing influence of Chairman of the Russian Republic Supreme Soviet, Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, May 1991.

Papers relating to his service with the Commandos, 1942-1945, dated [1942-1981]comprising:
papers on service with No.4 Commando, May-Dec 1942, principally on the Dieppe Raid, Aug 1942, including report by Mills-Roberts on training exercise on the Isle of Arran, 25-26 Jun 1942; reports on Orange Beach landing; report on destruction of 6 inch gun battery at Varangeville; detailed report 'Lessons Learned on Combined Operations'; and letters of congratulation on award of MC;
papers on service with No.6 Commando, Apr-May 1943, North Africa, including letters from General Dwight D Eisenhower and Maj-Gen Robert Laycock and letters of congratulation on award of DSO;
papers on service with 1st Special Service (Commando) Bde, Jun 1944 - May 1945 including: account of part taken by No 1 Special Service Brigade in Operation OVERLORD, 6 Jun - 26 Aug 1944; narrative by Mills Roberts on action from 16-21 Aug 1944; report of No 1 Special Service Bde operations around Dozule and L'Epine, 19-21 Aug 1944; report of operations by 1st Commando Bde east of the River Maas, 19 Jan - 1 Feb 1945; 'Five Rivers' - account of 1st Commando Bde in Germany, 1945, on the avdance from the Meuse to the Baltic, crossing the Meuse, Rhine, Weser, Aller and Elbe; 'United We Stand' diary of L Cpl Cliff Morris, No 3 Troop, 6 Commando, detailed personal account of action from 6 Jun 1944 - 7 May 1945; papers relating to the arrest of FM Erhard Milch in 1945, dated 1946, 1969; maps of Ouistreham, St Aubin, Caen, Dozule;
papers on commando training, 1942-1950 including account of 6 Commando training by Mills-Roberts, 1943-1944;
manuscript of Clash by Night (William Kimber, London, 1956) and notes to Simon Christopher Joseph Fraser Lovat, 17th Lord Lovat, concerning Lovat's book March Past (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1978), dated 1977-1981;
photographs, 1942, 1944-1945, 1947, including German propaganda photographs of Dieppe Raid, 1942, and photographs relating to Commando service in World War Two, 1944-1945, dated 1944-1945, 1947, including Normandy, Jun 1944, and Germany, 1945.

3 copies, 1 original sepia and two modern, of photograph, probably taken by Maj Edward Warren Caufeild Sandes, of Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia, before the siege of the British garrison, 1916

Collection includes four copies of printed leaflets, 'No 1 Workshop Group, REME, Chillwell', relating to the organisational structure of the Royal Electical and Mechanical Engineers, 1945; printed leaflet, 'The Part a British Oil Company played in the War', reprinted from the Petroleum Times, 28 Apr 1945, concerning asbestos compound waterproofing of Allied tanks and vehicles for Operation OVERLORD, the Allied invasion of France, 1944; reprint of photograph of US Sherman tank approaching French beachhead, 1944

Manuscript letter written in Afrikaans by Boer soldier A J Tapper to the Boethma family, Groenfontein, 7 Nov 1899, detailing Boer attitudes and expectations during the Siege of Ladysmith, Second Boer War, South Africa, with English translation of letter supervised by Brig William Francis Kynaston Thompson, 1966, and correspondence between Thompson and former holder of the letter Mrs L K Dodderidge, widow of Sgt Dodderidge, 1966