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Papers of C W Bartley comprising typescript copies of 'Lambeth Poor Law and Workhouse Infirmary, 1552-1878 - a study in the evolution of the National Health Service'; and a different version of the same work 'Lambeth Hospital - from Poor Law Workhouse to Teaching District Health Authority - a study in the evolution of the National Health Service'.

Printed annual reports, 1867-1869, 1871, of the York Place Ragged School, Mission, and Boys' Home, comprising first, second, fourth and fifth reports, the first with a loose insert on the new home for boys; view of frontage of premises in Of Alley, c1867.

One volume containing papers of William Beveridge relating to the family allowance, including correspondence with Eleanor Rathbone (1872-1946) and the Family Endowment Society.

Comprises: Bequests, Wills and Probate; Church Fabric; Constable and Scavenger; Certificates; Churchwardens; Finance; Images and Press Cuttings; Militia; Parish Appointments; Parish Boundaries; Poor Law; Printed Material; Plans of the Church; Parish Property; Parish Registers; Parish Maintenance; Loose Rate Assessment Papers; Registers of Services and Preachers; Tithes; Vicar and Hospitaller; Vestry.

Photocopies of documents concerning the squatter problem at Orlando, [Soweto], 1946 including records of meetings between the Department of Non European Affairs and deputation from Orlando Advisory Board; record of joint meeting of General Purposes, Non European Affairs and Special Housing Committees; minutes of Sub-Committee on squatter movements, and minutes of meeting of Native Advisory Boards with Non European Affairs Committee.

Letter from Richard Frankland, Overseer of the Poor, of Hawes, [North Riding of Yorkshire] to the Overseer of the Poor in Darlington. Stating the cost of maintaining Isabella Scafe for 20 weeks at 3s per week and Elizabeth Harrison for 23 weeks as 1s 6d per week; asking for an extra shilling per weeks for Isabella, who 'still continues very poorly and is confined too [sic] her bed ... she has a very bad cough and is not likely for getting better ... please send the money as soon as possible'.

Autograph, with signature. A note written in another hand beside the figure of £4 14s 6d reads 'Amt sent p[er] T. Craddock' (18 October 1810).

Minutes and papers of the Government Committee on the Prevention and Relief of Distress consequent to the outbreak of the First World War.

Papers of Audrey Harvey, [1960]-1996, mainly comprising drafts of articles, offprints, correspondence and press cuttings relating to social welfare, housing, and homelessness.

Staff regulations for attendants on the patients at Metropolitan Asylums Board imbecile asylums, 1905.

Letter from William Hale of 4 Wood Street, Spitalfields, [London] to [Patrick] Colquhoun, 22 Nov 1806. Covering letter enclosing a copy of Hale's open letter to Samuel Whitbread MP on the subject of the poor of Spitalfields. Expresses 'a deep sense of the infinite obligations this parish is under to you'.

Autograph, with signature.

Volumes 1-2. Westport Union, minute book of the Board of Guardians 1840-1846. Volumes 3-4. Castlebar Union, minute book of the Board of Guardians 1845-1847. Volume 5. Poor law account book. (No locality given but note on end paper "Cork") 1814-1823. Volume 6. General account of expenditure at the House of Industry, Cork.

Manuscript of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell [Robert Noonan], c 1910, with a short history of the original manuscript, and its publication history by Fred Ball

Letter from John Richards of the Sun Fire Office to Andrew Beckett, Esq, 17 Dec 1816. 'I return you for your handsome present my sincere thanks & rely on it if it is in my power to do the publication good I will do it ...'.

Autograph, with signature. Endorsed: 'As to plan for raising Fund for the Poor'.

Administrative records, Chaplaincy records, financial records and patient records.

Papers relating to the Royal Commission on the Poor Law, the Minority Report and the National Committee for the Prevention of Destitution, including a paper by Sidney Webb "Suggestions and Hypotheses".