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Papers relating to local government deposited by Professor Kenneth Young, 1945-1985, comprising: Memoranda of evidence sent to the 1986 Committee of Inquiry into the Conduct of Local Authority Business (Widdicombe Committee), 1985. Kenneth Young acted as research director and adviser to the Committee (6 boxes). Also includes papers relating to the 1947 Local Government Boundary Commission, 1945-1954, including minutes of meetings, memoranda, statements submitted to the Commision, correspondence, statements of reasons and public relations bulletins. The papers were given to Kenneth Young by 2nd Baron Silsoe, son of the chairman of the Commission, Malcolm Trustram Eve (1 box).

Records of the Corporation of London relating to administration, 1275-1998, including letter books, 1275-1689 (please note that these records can only be consulted on microfilm); index to Repertories, Journals and letter books, 1416-1750; parchment letter rolls, 1350-1370; merchants' letter books, 1672-1674 and 1746-1749; various correspondence, 1604-1911; Ward Presentments (returns of inquests held in each ward), 1668-1998; City and private petitions to Parliament, 1721-1948; City and private petitions to the Throne, 1649-1865; Resolutions of Greetings from the Mayor on the occasion of visits from foreign dignitaries, 1882-1980; addresses to King Charles II, 1681-1689; addresses to the Throne, 1842-1864 and papers relating to Royal addresses, including letters of thanks, 1816-1981; documents relating to Corporation of London reform, 1834-1992, Corporation of London annual reports, 1981-1997; Corporation of London annual review, 1991-1998; Digest of Work, 1961-1980; information leaflets, cards and fact packs explaining the work of the Corporation, 1972-1993; newsletters including the 'Guildhall', 1965-1976, the 'City View', 1991-1998, 'The Leader' (staff paper), 1995-1998 and the 'European Newsletter' (European department newsletter), 1993-1996; reports of the City Research Project on economic matters, 1992-1995.

Also artifacts including the official grant of Corporation of London armorial bearings, 1957; a sound recording of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's Honorary City Freedom ceremony, 1943; a sound recording of General Dwight D Eisenhower's Honorary City Freedom ceremony, 1945; badge of a drover at the Metropolitan Cattle market, 19th century; badge of the City of London National Guard, 1914-1918; medal commemorating the visit of the Sultan of Turkey, 1867 and of the Shah of Persia, 1873; White Ensign from HMS LONDON, 1906; plate commemorating the 800th anniversary of the Mayoralty, 1989; and Royal seals of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Charles I and Charles II, which have become detached from documents.

The collection comprises confidential constituency files of Austen Harry Albu, Labour MP for Edmonton, 1954-1974.

Papers relating in particular to Alfred Sherman's activities at the Centre for Policy Studies in the period from 1974 to 1983.

Ephemera, badges related to the Alternative Vote Referendum, 2011.

Pamphlets, papers, manifestos and constitutions issued by the Antigua-Barbuda Democratic Movement, the Antigua Caribbean Liberation Movement, the Antigua Labour Party, the Antigua People's Party, and the Progressive Labour Movement (Antigua).

The manuscript is entitled Memoranda on the State and Resources of Great Britain., 1751.

Argentina: Political Pamphlets Collection comprising reports, conference reports, pamphlets and histories, 1944- issued by Anglican Council of South America, Asamblea Permanente por los Derechos Humanos (Argentina), Asociación de Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, Comisión Argentina para los Refugiados, Comité de Défense des Prisonniers Politiques Argentins, Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in the Southern Cone, Foro de Buenos Aires por la Vigencia de los Derechos Humanos and Juan Domingo Perón.

Papers of Jeremy John Durham (Paddy) Ashdown, [1970]-1999, including material relating to the working of the Liberal Democrat Party (including files on the merger of the Liberal and Social Democratic Parties in 1988), campaigns, and relations with related Liberal groups, such as campaigning within ethnic minorities, the Liberal Youth and Student Office, the Liberal Movement, the European Liberal Democratic and Reform Parties, and Liberal International; material relating to Social and Liberal Democrat and Liberal Democrat conferences, 1989-1993, comprising programmes, agenda and correspondence; files relating to the administration of party political broadcasts and press releases, 1988-1992; papers relating to general, by, local and European elections, 1988-1993, including the 1991 report on general elections, and the European Election Task Group and ASLDC reports on local government elections; files on parliamentary procedure, 1989-1992; financial and administrative papers of the Liberal Democrat Party, 1986-1992, notably relating to fund raising; material concerning the organisation of local parties, 1988-1993, including those in Scotland and Wales; Liberal Democrat correspondence, 1982-1993, mainly with party members; constituency correspondence, 1985-1994, relating to Yeovil; general correspondence, 1983-1994, with members of the public, on subjects including animal rights, the arts, blood sports, capital punishment, constitutional and electoral reform, defence, education, energy, the environment, Europe, foreign affairs/policy, health, housing, human rights, legal aid, minority rights, the Poll Tax, taxation, trade and industry, and transport; correspondence relating to issues in individual constituencies, 1988-1994; files of information and correspondence on particular subjects, 1984-1993; personal material relating to work by Paddy Ashdown, 1983-1994, including books, articles, speeches and details of programmes; files on the employment of staff in Paddy Ashdown's office, 1984-1992. Also: files created by Ashdown as leader of the Liberal Democrats, c1991-1999 (AccNo: M1981); Paddy Ashdown's diaries, July 1988-April 1997 (AccNo: M3059); personal and party correspondence, 1987-1998 (AccNo: M3322); diaries and emails, 1999-2006 (AccNo: M3348).

Most of the Ashmead-Bartlett collection are papers of the younger Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett (1881-1931), though there are papers relating to his father, Sir Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett (1851-1921).
Sir Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett: correspondence - album of letters replying to an appeal for financial assistance for his newspaper England and letters of congratulation on knighthood (1892-93) and album regarding speaking engagements for Conservative Party (1892-93); articles - account of trip to South Africa and Swaziland (1900-01); press cuttings - album on activities (1891-95) and album of obituary notices (1902); miscellaneous items (ref. F/1), including letters, press cuttings, voting card from 1900 election.
Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett - There is a substantial amount of material relating to Ashmead-Bartlett's involvement in the Gallipoli campaign spread throughout the collection, as well as other material relating to the rest of his career: diaries and autobiographical sketches (1897-1925), including descriptions of Turkey (1897), South Africa (1900), France, England (1901) London and visit to West Indies (1902), life in England (1906-09, 1911), Morocco (1908), visits to America and Tripoli (1911), Dardanelles (1915), lecture tour of America, Australia and New Zealand (1916), Hungary (1919-20); correspondence (1892-1930, predominantly 1907-1930), relating mainly to journalistic activities, particularly in the Dardanelles, and with Daily Telegraph and William Burdett-Coutts; articles and writings (1900-1930) written by Ashmead-Bartlett, mainly as war correspondent, but also [unpublished?] material on foreign affairs at Westminster, including his maiden speech to the House of Commons; photographs
(c1890-1930), including Ashmead-Bartlett and family members, and pictures of South Africa, siege of Port Arthur, North Africa, Dardanelles, France, including picture agency material; press cuttings (1908-33) on conflicts which Ashmead-Bartlett reported on; drafts of publications, including The Uncensored Dardanelles and The Tragedy of Central Europe; research material - pamphlets and maps.

Political papers of Lieutenant Commander Brian Ashmore, Liberal parliamentary candidate for Carlisle, 1941-1992, including material relating to Liberal Assemblies, 1950-1965; the Liberal Party Organisation and the Liberal Candidates Association, 1947-1975; the Oxford Liberal Club, 1941-1992; the Carlisle Liberal Association, 1962-1976; the Yorkshire Liberal Federation, 1950-1958; the North West Liberal Federation, 1950-1969; the Radical Reform Group, 1956-1959; the Penrith and Border Liberal Association, 1955-1965; correspondence, leaflets, speech notes, election addresses, campaign bulletins and leaflets, 1952-1974.

Papers of Ludwig Bamberger, economist and politician, [1865-1900], comprise correspondence, and a pamphlet biography of Bamberger by Otto Hartwig.

Letters, press cuttings, manifestos, constitutions, resolutions and pamphlets issued by the Bangladesh Scheduled Castes' Federation and the Commission for Justice and Peace, reflecting the interests of Bangladesh political pressure groups.

Notebooks of Sir Gerald Barry, record conversations with Carl Goerdeler (a member of the German opposition to Hitler) and notes on British politics before and after World War Two; correspondence concerning editorial responsibilities at the 'News Chronicle'; texts of wartime broadcasts; diaries of Sir Gerald Barry's visits to France, Greece, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland and the United States of America; a small section on the Festival of Britain consisting of a file of correspondence on the setting up of an International Design Centre and a file of correspondence on the redevelopment of Crystal Palace; one file of correspondence on censorship reform; and articles and speeches by Sir Gerald Barry and notes and drafts for his autobiography.

This collection contains the personal papers of Reginald Bassett, and consists of notes for addresses and speeches on politics, articles on politics, and lectures on political theory, international relations and economics. There are also smaller quantities of correspondence, Labour Party material, press cuttings, and essays on politics and social problems.

Personal papers of James Beal, local government reformer. The collection comprises correspondence with and concerning James Beal. Except where stated to the contrary, the letters refer to governmental matters: those in F/BL/12 refer to the presentation made to James Beal for his services to Local Government. The presentation volume includes press cuttings, invitations, menus and similar printed ephemera.

Minute books and financial records of the Bedford Constituency/Divisional Labour Party, 1923-1970, including minutes of the Executive Committee, 1923-1925, 1952-1969; minutes of the Sub-Committee, 1923-1925; minutes of the Organisation and Propaganda Committee, 1923-1925, 1938; minutes of the Organisation Committee, 1923-1925; minutes of the Conference of the Bedford Divisional Labour Party, 1923-1925; minutes of the Individual Members Meeting, 1923-1925; minutes of the Joint Trade Union Meeting, 1923-1925; minutes of the Finance Committee, 1923-1925, 1952-1956; minutes of the Literature and Propaganda Committee, 1923-1925; minutes of the Bedford Town Council Labour Group, 1939-1947; minutes of the General Committee and Annual General Meeting, 1947-1957, 1967-1969; minutes of the Women's Section, 1925-1934; minutes of the meetings of the Bedford Constituency Labour Party Young Socialists, 1966-1968, with correspondence; expenditure account books, 1949-1970; press cuttings book, 1954-1958; and attendance register, 1956-1961.

Papers relating to Conservative Councillor Nicholas Bennett's activities in Lewisham, 1977-1981, mainly concerning the problems of local residents.

Papers of Jeremy Bentham, 1750-1885, consist of drafts and notes for published and unpublished works, and cover many subjects including: Bentham's codification proposal, a plan to replace existing law with a codified system, an idea which manifested itself in Constitutional Code (London, 1830), a blueprint for representative democracy and an entirely open and fully accountable government, 1815-1832; penal code, which involved penal law giving effect to the rights and duties of civil law, [1773]-1831; punishment, to certain actions which, on account of their tendency to diminish the greatest happiness, would be classified as offences, [1773-1826]; Bentham's Panopticon, a way of maintaining and employing convicts in a new invented building, 1785-1813; Chrestomathia, the secondary school designed by Bentham, 1815-1826; evidence in law, [1780]-1823; religion, and the Church, 1800-1830; logic, ethics, deontology (the science of morality), morals, utilitarianism and the greatest happiness principle, 1794-1834; political economy, [1790]-1819; Supply without burthen or Escheat vice taxation, a proposal for saving taxes, 1793-1795; legislation, including law amendment and law reform, [1770-1843]; procedure, and procedure codes, [1780]-1830; law and issues in other countries, including Greece, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium and Tripoli, 1810-1830; A Comment on the Commentaries, being a criticism of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, also Bentham's and Blackstone's views on civil code, [1774]-1830; sexual nonconformity, [1774]-1816; Scotch reform, 1804-1809; Court of Lords delegates, 1807-1821; parliamentary papers, and parliamentary reform, [1790]-1831; poor law, and poor plan, 1796-[1845]; correspondence, 1761-1866, including a corrected draft letter to James Madison, President of the United States of America, in which Bentham made an offer to draw up a complete code of laws for the USA, 1811.

Material relating to political parties in Bermuda including press cuttings, platforms, conference reports, constitutions, and election materials issued by the National Liberal Party of Bermuda, the Progressive Labour Party (Bermuda Islands) and the United Bermuda Party.

Records of Bethnal Green Labour Party consists of:
Minute book 1910-1911, folio 2 to folio 50.
Flyer advertising open-air demonstration at Mansford Street, Bethnal Green, 14 Aug [1910], folio 39.
Flyer advertising a procession from Mile End to Bethnal Green Road, 1910, folio 40.
Second annual report of 1909 dealing with the history and administration of the branch, folio 42 to folio 46.

Personal papers of William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge of Tuggal, and his family, [1880]-1963, comprising the following.
Family and personal papers, 1869-1963, including genealogical material; correspondence, books and royalty statements relating to the work of Beveridge's parents, Annette Susannah and Henry Beveridge, 1901-1959; papers concerning Beveridge's education, 1891-1903; personal ephemera including birthday cards, programmes, academic notes, and invitations, [1884]-1961; personal diaries, 1903-1905, 1929-1934, 1949-1952, 1959 and 1961; engagement diaries, 1933-1961; material relating to grants and degrees, 1916-1961, notably honorary degrees, the KCB and his barony; papers concerning household affairs, 1906-1963; personal financial papers, such as personal account ledger, 1907-1920, income tax papers, 1907-1961, correspondence, bills, receipts and insurance papers, 1903-1962; photographs of family and friends, 1884-1958.
Correspondence, 1883-1963, including Beveridge family letters and letters to and from friends and colleagues.
Papers relating to unemployment and Labour Exchanges, 1902-1960, notably material of the Mansion House Unemployed Fund, 1904-1905, the London Unemployed Fund, 1904-1905, and the Central (Unemployed) Body for London, 1905-1908; correspondence, notes and statistics concerning unemployment insurance and labour exchanges in Germany, 1907, and Britain, 1908; notice and syllabus of lectures by Beveridge on 'The economics of unemployment', 1908; material relating to the publication of Unemployment: a problem of industry (Longmans and Co, London 1909), 1907-1934, notably correspondence with Longmans, royalty payments, reviews, and notes and drafts relating to later editions; papers relating to his work at the Board of Trade, 1908-1960, including correspondence and memoranda concerning juvenile employment, 1910-1911, reports and speeches concerning labour exchanges in Ireland, 1910-1919, and Ghant, Belgium, 1913-1914, and various memoranda on the working of labour exchanges, 1915-1916; material concerning the unemployment insurance scheme, 1907-1944, including memoranda and drafts, reports, statistics, committee minutes, press cuttings and Beveridge's notes about unemployment insurance by industries and casual labour; working notes and correspondence for Insurance for all and everything (Daily News, London, 1924); Ministry of Labour reports, notes and memoranda on unemployment insurance, 1910-1929; Government Acts, reports and publications on unemployment, 1902-1930.
Papers relating to Beveridge's work during World War One, 1914-1921, including material relating to the Ministry of Munitions, 1915-1916, such as correspondence, memoranda and reports on manpower problems, and memoranda concerning the history and activities of the Ministry; papers of the Manpower Distribution Board, 1916; material relating to post-war reconstruction, including schemes for demobilisation, and papers relating to the post-war prospects of trades and industries; correspondence, minutes, memoranda and reports created by the Ministry of Food, 1916-1921, on subjects including food rationing, family budgets, and the staffing of the Ministry.
Material collated during Beveridge's time as Director of the London School of Economics, 1895-1958, notably correspondence with Sir Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay Steel-Maitland, Chairman of Governors, 1924-1925; memoranda and correspondence mainly relating to LSE prizes and scholarships, 1924-1952; Director's reports, 1924-1937; lecture notes and texts of speeches, 1920-1937; programmes, 1920-1937; correspondence relating to his resignation from LSE, 1936-1937; correspondence and papers concerning his role as a member of the Senate of the University of London, 1923-1958, notably papers relating to the purchase of the Bloomsbury site, 1923-1933.
Papers relating to Beveridge's post as Master of University College, Oxford University, 1937-1962, including correspondence and reports concerning the National Institute of Economic and Social research, the Institute of Statistics, and Nuffield College.
Material relating to politics, 1943-1963, including correspondence, speeches, press cuttings, and reports created whilst MP for Berwick on Tweed, 1944-1945; papers concerning the General Election of 1945, mainly comprising pamphlets, election addresses, press cuttings and correspondence from candidates, constituents, and the Berwick Division Liberal Association; Beveridge's speech notes and Hansard extracts from parliamentary debates in the House of Lords, 1946-1963, on subjects mainly related to welfare, unemployment, and economics; papers concerning the Liberal Party Organisation, 1945-1962, including correspondence with the LPO and other Liberal organisations. Material concerning other interests and activities of Beveridge, 1920-1962, notably papers relating to the health services, pensions, and old age; New Towns, including material on the Peterlee Development Corporation and the Newton Aycliffe Development Corporation; traffic and preservation problems in Oxford; population and fertility, including articles, pamphlets and correspondence; weather periodicity; World Government and peace aims, 1944-1962, including minutes and correspondence of the Crusade for World Government, Britain in Europe Ltd, the European-Atlantic Group, the Federal Educational and Research Trust, the Federal Union, One World Trust, the Parliamentary Group for World Government, the World Parliament Association, and the United Nations; correspondence and other papers relating to broadcasting and television.
Papers created during the writing of reports, 1925-1950, including the report of the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry, 1925-1930; the report of the Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee, 1934-1944; the report of the Sub-Committee of Committee of Imperial Defence on Food Rationing, 1936-1937; report of the Manpower Survey, 1940, and Committee on Skilled Men in the Services, 1941; report of the Fuel Rationing Enquiry, 1942; report of the Interdepartmental Committee on Social Insurance and Allied Services (Beveridge Report), 1941-1945; report on Social Insurance, 1924, 1941-1951; report of the Broadcasting Committee, 1951.
Material relating to publications, 1901-1963, including manuscripts of books, pamphlets and articles, correspondence with publishers, royalty statements, working notes, research papers and memoranda; reviews, letters to the press and obituaries, 1909-1962; texts of lectures, speeches and broadcasts, 1901-1963.
Papers concerning working visits abroad, 1918-1961, to Austria (the Inter-Allied Commission on Relief of German Austria), Canada, the USA, Germany, France, India, Spain, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy, mainly comprising correspondence, diaries, lecture notes, press cuttings and photographs.
Press cuttings, 1870-1963, including Morning Post leaders written by Beveridge, 1905-1908, and cuttings concerning his death.
Miscellaneous material, including inventories of papers in the Beveridge collection.

Papers, 1927-1986, of Gledhill Stanley Blatch, comprising correspondence, press cuttings, reports and political propaganda material collected by him. The material relates largely to the Ethiopian situation in the 1970s and 1980s and covers topics such as the famine and refugee situation, questions of religious discrimination and the Mengistu regime.

Archives of Andrew Blick and George Jones. Includes transcribed interviews with officials who worked at No 10 Downing Street from 1912 to the late 1990s. In addition there are journal, magazine and press articles about British Prime Ministers back to the early 18th Century; reports of seminars and conferences about them, and news cuttings; and working papers, including unpublished drafts of articles and conference papers.

Records of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, 1760-2002. The archive is central to the history of the modern Jewish community in Britain. It covers virtually every facet of Jewish life in Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - assimiliation, education, political emancipation, Shechita, anti-Semitism. The archive is particularly interesting on the conditions of Jewry outside the UK - there is a lot of information, for example, on the rise of fascism in mainland Europe in the 1930s and the Holocaust.

Bolivian political pamphlets sollection comprising pamphlets, reports, government publications, programs, bulletins, conference proceedings, dossiers, leaflets, communiqués, histories, declarations and manifestos, 1965-[2005], issued by ACLO (Organization), ANPROCA, Anti-Slavery Society for the Protection of Human Rights, Asamblea Permanente de Derechos Humanos de Bolivia, Asociación de Educación Radiofónica de Bolivia ERBOL, Association for Education in Journalism, Bolivian Government Ministries, Carrefour International, Catholic Church, Central Obrera Boliviana (COB), Centre d'Information Bolivie, Centro de Información y Documentación de Bolivia, Centro de Investigación y Promoción del Campesinado, Centro de Producción Minera (Bolivia), Centro Dermatológico de Monteagudo, Centro Internacional de Cooperación para el Desarrollo Agrícola, Comisión de Estudios y Acción Social de la Conferencia Episcopal Boliviana, Comité de Solidaridad para la Defensa de la Democracia en Bolivia, Confederación Independiente de Campesinos de Bolivia, Confederación Nacional de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia Tupaj Katari, Congreso de Pueblos y Organizaciones Indias de Sud América (2nd : 1983 : Tiahuanacu, Bolivia), Consejo Indio de Sudamérica, Congreso Nacional Minero (XVI : 1976 : [La Paz]), Corte Nacional Electoral (Bolivia), DIAL, Federación Departamental de Trabajadores Campesinos de Cochabamba, Frente de Unidad Democratica y Popular (Bolivia), Instituto Promotor de Inversiones en Bolivia, MIR (Revolutionary movement : Bolivia), Movimiento Indio Tupaj Katari, Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (Bolivia), Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario Auténtico (Bolivia), Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario de Izquierda (Bolivia), Partido Comunista de Bolivia, Partido Demócrata Cristiano (Bolivia), Partido Socialista-1 (Bolivia), Plenaria Nacional Sindical, Programa Khana Educación - Promoción - Radio, Radio San Gabriel (La Paz, Bolivia), Segundo Encuentro de Pequeños Productores (1979 : La Paz), Sindicato Minero de Siglo XX, Studie-Aksie Groep Oosterveld v.z.w.(SAGO), Unesco, Unión Nacional de Instituciones para el Trabajo de Acción Social, Unión Nacionalista del Pueblo (Bolivia), United Nations, Universidad Boliviana Tomas Frias' de Potosi, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Vanguardia Obrera Comunista, Washington Office on Latin America.

Personal papers of Hartley Booth, MP. The majority of the archive is concerned with Hartley Booth's parliamentary career. LMA/4021/01 relates to Booth's parliamentary responsibilities, in particular European affairs. In addition there are files containing correspondence and background material which relate to Private Members' Bills promoted by Booth. LMA/4021/01 also contains subject files on national issues that emanated from constituents' cases.

LMA/4021/02 contains constituents' correspondence and case files as well as subject files relating to local issues. LMA/4021/03 contains Conservative Party material and subject files which relate to the period when Booth was a prospective parliamentary candidate. These files relate to both local and national issues.

As the collection consists of parliamentary and constituency material, there is a closure period of 30 years. There is no closure period on the published material in LMA/4021/04.

Material relating to politics in Botswana including constitutions, platforms, manifestos, leaflets, election results, speeches, party histories, letters, telegrams, membership cards, interviews and other materials issued by the Bechuanaland Liberal Party, the Bechuanaland National Democratic Party, the Bechuanaland People's Party, the Bechuanaland United Progressive Party, the Botswana Congress Party, the Botswana Democratic Party, the Botswana Independence Party, the Botswana National Front, and the Botswana People's Party.

Letter from Richard Brash of 4 Printers Place, Spa Road, Bermondsey, London to Mr Joseph Hume MP of 6 Bryanston Square, Oxford Street, London, 13 Sep 1826. Accompanying 2 copies of Brash's books. 'The first was intended to arouse the minds of the people in favour of the Greeks, and the second to overturn Cobbett's misleading principles.' On the dorse is written: 'his books are mere nonsense', and (in another hand) 'Recd and ansd 13 Sept. 1826. thanks for his pamphlets and that I cannot assist him'.

Autograph, with signature. Bears a seal marked: R B.

Archive of the British Humanist Association, including: papers of the British Humanist Association and it's predecessors bodies, The Union of Ethical Societies, The Ethical Union and the Humanist Association,1887 - c.2001; papers of the Humanist Trust, 1958 - 1996; papers of groups affiliated to the British Humanist Association and it's predecessor bodies, The Union of Ethical Societies and The Ethical Union, 1892 - 2007; Uncatalogued material of the British Humanist Association, c.2000-2014. (1887-2014)

Tapes and transcripts of interviews with leading British civil servants and administrators collected for the purposes of the British Oral Archive of Political and Administrative History (BOAPAH) project, 1980. The subject matter of the interviews covers the period from 1920 to 1980, and includes details of the lives and work of the interviewees, namely Philip Allen, Baron Allen of Abbeydale; Derick Heathcote Amory, Viscount Amory; Edward Charles Gurney Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth; Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor; Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden; Leonard Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley; Douglas Albert Vivian Allen, Baron Croham; Sir Charles Cunningham; Sir Goronwy Hopkin Daniel; Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde of Barskimming; Dr Sir George Edward Godber; William David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech; Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of The Hirsel; Frederick Robert Hoyer Millar, 1st Baron Inchyra; Lt Gen Sir Edward Ian Claud Jacob; John Scott Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel; Sir Frank Cyril Musgrave; Sir Anthony Alexander Part; Sir Arthur William Peterson; Sir Edward Wilder Playfair; John Enoch Powell; Sir Richard Royle Powell; Sir Arthur Hilton Poynton; Robert Lowe Roberthall, Baron Roberthall; Sir Robert Heatlie Scott; Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton, Baron Shackleton; Roger Mellor Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield; Sir John Walley; and Sir Richard George Kitchener Way.

Papers of H B Williams, the secretary of the British Socialist Party Birmingham section. Correspondence from British Socialist Party members including Leonard Hall and Ralph Parr, also leaflets bills and press cuttings. There is also an index which gives names of correspondent and the folios on which they appear.

Material relating to the politics of the British Virgin Islands including platforms, posters, election leaflets, constitutions and manifestos issued by the People's Party (British Virgin Islands), the Third Electoral District Committee (British Virgin Islands), the United Party (British Virgin Islands), the Virgin Islands Party and various independent candidates.

Brixton Conservative Association Finance Committee minutes and press cuttings.

Correspondence, mainly to the Rt Hon Henry Broadhurst, MP, 1873-1910, from correspondents including the Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister; the Rt Hon Joseph Chamberlain, MP; the Rt Hon Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon-Harcourt, MP; John Duke, 1st Baron Coleridge; Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke; Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford; Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys; George H Croxden Powell; Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery; and Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire. There is a name index in the catalogue.

4 letters from Henry Peter Brougham to Richard Sharp MP, 1807-1820. Relating to political topics. All letters are autograph, with signatures.

10 letters from Henry Peter Brougham to various correspondents, [1809]-1863. Including an admission slip to the House of Lords, 1854. Autograph, with signature.

Papers, 1877-1985, of Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant and his family. Family papers include correspondence, private and official, and diaries of his parents, (Sir) Francis Morgan and Lady Bryant, 1877-1938, and other papers, 1899-1979, including Bryant's correspondence with his parents and brother Philip. Bryant's own papers include his extensive correspondence, 1919-1985, with over 170 correspondents, among them politicians including the Rt Hon Leo Amery, Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Sir John Buchan, R A Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, Frederick James Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton, and Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven; literary figures including Sir John Betjeman; other public figures including William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook of Beaverbrook, New Brunswick and Cherkley, Surrey, and John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith; historians including Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs of Lewes, Godfrey Elton, 1st Baron Elton of Headington, Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier, Sir John Neale, A L Rowse, G M Trevelyan and Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton. The correspondence reflects the diversity of Bryant's interests and touches upon the development of Conservative thought and British right wing politics in the mid twentieth century, attitudes towards the Spanish Civil War in Britain, the appeasement movement of the 1930s, and, in the 1960s, the merits of Britain's entry to the Common Market and her role in the postwar world. Other papers relate to literary, political and teaching matters, including Bonar Law College, Ashridge, 1929-1946; Bryant's literary output, including fan mail, 1931-1984; diaries, notebooks, account books and letters to the press, 1916-1982; notes; proofs, pamphlets, reviews and articles by Bryant, 1929-1984; book manuscripts, 1929-1984; reviews of Bryant's works, mid 1920s-1970s; pageants, invitations and honours, 1924-1984; clubs, societies and committees, 1939-1984; film scripts, certificates, and miscellanea, 1930-1954; other papers relating to personal business and financial affairs, 1920-1985.

Papers of George W Burger, 1932-1939, comprise five booklets of political stickers and flyers from Austria and Hungary including Nazi material.

The collection contains correspondence, books and personal papers relating to Emile Cammaerts, geographer, playwright and Professor of Belgian Studies and Institutions in the University of London. The papers fully document Cammaert's activities. They relate to Belgian and British affairs (art, literature, theatre, politics, the Press, religion and the two world wars).

Manifestos, speeches, pamphlets, leaflets, letters, newsletters, journals, posters and miscellaneous election material at federal, state and youth levels issued by the Alberta Social Credit League, the Bloc Québécois, the British Columbia Social Credit Party, the Canadian Communist League (Marxist-Leninist), the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), the Communist Party of Canada, the Communist Party of Canada (Ontario), the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, the Feminist Party of Canada, the Green Party of Canada, the Groupe marxiste révolutionnaire, the Liberal Party of Canada, the Liberal Party of Canada (Ontario), the Libertarian Party of Canada, the Labor-Progressive Party (Canada), the League for Socialist Action/Ligue socialiste ouvrière (Canada), the Mouvement national des Québécois, the Mouvement socialiste, the National Progressive Conservative Women's Federation, the New Democratic Party, the New Democratic Party of Alberta, the New Democratic Party of British Columbia, the New Democratic Party of Manitoba, the New Democratic Party of Ontario, the National Liberal Federation of Canada, the Parti nouveau démocratique du Québec, the Nova Scotia Liberal Association, the Ontario Progressive Conservative Youth Association, the Parti acadien, the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, the Progressive Conservative Association of Canada, the Progressive Conservative Association of Ontario, the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta, the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, the Progressive Conservative Student Federation, the Progressive Conservative Youth Federation, the Parti libéral du Québec, the Parti québécois, the Parti Rhinocéros, the Parti des Travailleurs du Québec, the Rassemblement pour l'Indépendance Nationale, the Reform Party of Canada, the Revolutionary Workers League, the Social Credit Association of Canada, the Social Credit Party of Canada, the Social Credit Rally, the Socialist Labor Party of Canada, the Voice of Women, the Western Canada Concept, the Western Canada Party, the Workers Communist Party (Canada), the Young Communist League, the Young Progressive Conservative Association of Canada, and the Young Socialists.

Leaflets, letters, newsletters, journals, posters and pamphlets at federal and state level issued by the British Columbia Federation of Women, the Canada West Foundation, the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, the Canadian Alliance in Solidarity with the Native Peoples, the Canadian Association in Support of the Native Peoples, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, the Canadian League of Rights, Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, the Committee of Anglophones for Sovereignty-Association, the Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform, the Comité pour le réveil indépendantiste, the Conseil du patronat du Québec, the Elector's Action Movement (Vancouver), the Fondation des Québécois pour le Oui, the Groupe socialiste des travailleurs du Québec, Human Action to Limit Taxes, In Struggle!, the Ligue des droits de l'homme, L'organisation des jeunes indépendantistes pour un Québec communautaire, the Mouvement etudiant pour le oui, the Mouvement québécois pour combattre le racisme, the National Council of Women of Canada, the National Women's Liberal Commission, the Progressive Youth Movement, the Public Service Alliance of Canada, the Vancouver Status of Women, the Workers' Defence Alliance.

Correspondence of William Carey, John Campbell, Jospeh Hume, Thomas Babington Macaulay and John Philips, 1805-1847, comprising a letter from Joseph Hume to John Campbell, Apr 1843, regarding the petition from Montrose against the Factory Bill; a letter from Thomas Babington Macaulay to an unknown recipient, 6 Apr 1847, regarding the probable loss of his seat in Parliament; a letter from John Philips of Aberdeen to his brother, 19 Apr 1815; a letter from William Carey of Calcutta, to his father, 31 Dec 1805, describing conditions in India; and a letter from John Campbell to his "Christian Brethren" in Copenhagen, 7 Jan 1807.

Constitution and conference report issued by the Caribbean Congress of Labour and the Caribbean Union of Teachers.

Papers of Ann Carlton, primarily relating to her work as Local Government Officer for the Labour Party between 1967 and 1974. There are also some papers from the late 1950s and early-mid 1960s when Michael Ward and later Joan Bourne were Local Government Officer. The collection primarily consists of papers from various groups and committees Carlton and her predecessors were involved with, particularly the Labour Party Home Policy sub-committees relating to local government, which the Local Government Officer was Secretary of. These were the Local Government Sub-Committee (papers from 1959-1960 and 1963-1964), the Regional and Local Government Advisory Committee (papers from 1965-1970), and the Regional and Local Government Sub-Committee (papers from 1970-1971). Carlton was also Secretary for the Association of Municipal Corporations Labour Group (papers from 1963-1973). Other papers relate to a Study Group on the Maud Report on the Management of Local Government (papers from 1964 and 1967), the Association of Education Committees and its future (papers from 1973-1974), and the reorganisation of local authority associations (papers from 1973). There are also copies of papers circulated to Labour groups from 1968-1972, and correspondence and press cuttings relating to Ann Carlton's work.

The papers have a particular focus on proposals to reorganise local government in the 1960s and 1970s, and the impact of this on local authority associations. The topics of housing and town planning, local government conferences and local elections also feature heavily.

Papers and correspondence concerning the work of the Labour Party, Fabian Society and the role of women in politics, 1965-2004, including papers relating to a study of Deptford Labour Party, 1984-1985; Special Advisers pay and meetings, Royal Institute of Public Administration 1974-1992; leadership and deputy leadership elections, 1983-1988; Broadcasting bill 1989; Labour common market safeguards and Euro safeguards campaign, 1986-1995; John Silkin's reselection and Deptford CLP membership 1983-1986; evidence to Fabian Society 1992; NHS Support Federation 1990-1991; devolution, c 1976; Labour Solidarity Campaign 1982; Defence Spokesmen resignations 1983-2004; defence, 1983; Parliamentarians for World Order, peace initiative 1982-1984. Also unpublished articles, c 2003-c2004; Carlton's correspondence as Labour Party Local Government Officer 1967-1973, and copies of PARTNERSHIP: Newsletters for Labour Councillors, Volumes 1965-1972

Pamphlets, reports, statements and bulletins, 1976-1985, issued by Agencia de Noticias del Istmo S.A. (ANI), Comisión para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos en Centroamérica, Congreso Centroamericano de Sociología, Socialist International, Taller Continental de Trabajo, and War on Want Parliamentary and Trade Union delegation to Central America.

Papers of the Central-Verein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens, 1903-1938, relate to the central organisation including the constitution and notably comprise management and committee minutes, reports and plans regarding the organisation's aims and objectives and finance records; files on the activities of the state and regional level sub-groups; files concerning women's organisations, youth organisations, members and officers, publication and propaganda, activities of other Jewish organisations, Zionism, emigration to Palestine, training for Jewish youth, Anti-Semitism, political, economic and legal situation for Jews in Germany, CV's relationship to religion and religious organisations, and the attitudes of writers and politicians to Jews.

Scrapbook containing:

• poster, William Burt declaring Captain Studholme Hogson as a "scoundrel and a coward", by William Burt, published by William Burt (1p) (n.d)

• pamphlet, 'Copies of several ancient acts of Parliament, in reference to county and borough elections, are here re-published, for the information and guidance of the public', by Samual Cook, published by Eagle Press (4p) 15 March 1859)

• portrait, [Daniel O'Connell], (n.d.)

• portrait, 'The [...] of radical reform is this, that every man reform himself; and then, and not till then, shall we have universal reformation...', printed by B. Shillgford, engraved by S. Allen (n.d.)

• portrait, 'J. Mitchel: sanctioned by the Confederation Committee. The profit of this publication to go towards the defence fund for the political victims. All others are spurious' (n.d.)

• portrait, [Richard Oastler], (n.d.)

• portrait, 'George Dawson, M.A.', drawn by H. Anelay, from The People's Journal (n.d.)

• press cutting, 'Dudley Representation', describing the political persuasion of the working class and impact of the Reform on the town of Dudley, from the Daily News (1p) ([1845])

• portrait, 'Feargus O'Connor', engraved by W. Read (n.d.)

• portrait, [James Bronterre O'Brien?], (n.d.)

• portrait, 'W. Frost', engraved by W. Read from an original painting (n.d)

• portrait, 'Joseph Raynor Stephens' (n.d.)

• portrait, 'John Collins', (n.d.)

• portrait, 'Daniel ', engraved by G. J. Stodart (n.d.)

• portrait, 'Your faithful servant Daniel O'Conell', engraved by W. Holl., printed by T. Carrick (n.d.)

• portrait, 'Daniel O'Conell, the great catholic emancipator' (n.d.)

• portrait, 'Daniel O'Connell', from the painting by T. Carrick (n.d.)

• portrait, 'Joseph Hume' (n.d.)

• portrait, 'Jospeh Hume', from a painting by G.P.A. Healy, engraved by W. Holl. (n.d)

• portrait, '[..] William Scholefield', presented to the subscribers of the Birmingham Mercury, Oct. 6th 1849, produced by R.B. Moody 7 Co. (6 October 1849)

• portrait, 'William Scholefield, ESQ. M.P. Birmingham', engraved by D.J. Pound from a photograph by Whitlock of Birmingham (n.d.)

• presscutting, 'Parliamentary portraits : Mr. Scholefield, M.P' (1p) (n.d.)

• portrait, 'The late Joseph Sturge', engraved by D.J. Pound from a photograph by Whitlock of Birmingham (n.d.)

• portrait, 'Richard Oastler, Esq.', published in the British Churchman (May 1844)

• portrait, press cutting, 'Mr Muntz, MP for Birmingham' (n.d.)

• illustration, press cutting, 'Presentation of the Chartist petition by Mr Fergus O'Connor' (n.d.)

• portrait, press cutting, 'Mr. Feargus O'Connor' (n.d)

• illustration, 'The National Convention. As it met on Monday the 4th of February 1839 at the British coffee house' (n.d.)

• illustration, 'Great meeting of the political unions, on New Hall Hill, Birmingham, May 1832' (n.d.)

• illustration, 'Bristol during the riots 1831', engraved by R. Dawson from an old print, published by William Mackenzie, London (n.d.)

• illustration, press cutting, 'Charist riots at Newport' (n.d.)

• illustration, 'Living made easy. Charity tubes to convey the smell from the tables of the rich for the benefit of the poor operatives' (n.d.)

• portrait, 'Henry Hunt, ESQ. M.P. for Preston' (n.d.)

• portrait, 'Thomas Attwood, ESQ. M.P. for Birmingham' (n.d.)

• handbill, 'Address to the middle and working classes of Birmingham and surrounding districts, from the committee appointed at a public meeting of the Friends of the People's Charter, held in the large room, back of the Ship Inn, Steelhouse Lane, December 23rd, 1885' (1p) (30 December 1855)

• poster, 'Cobbett's address to the men of Staffordshire!' (1p) (25 May 1833)

• handbill, 'To the people, ought all laws made by national authority to be obeyed? This subjected will be discussed in the Dudley Chartists' room, at six o'clock on Sunday evening, July 26th, 1848', by Samuel Cook (1p) (26 June 1848)

• handbill advertising a public meeting on 10 September 1857 discussing the People's Charter, by D. Wallwork (1p) (1857)

• handbill, 'Reform! Reform! Reform! The manifesto of the National Reform Association', re-published by the order of the committee of the Dudley Mutual Improvement Society (1p) (26 January 1852)

• handbill, 'Preservation of the peace. At a special meeting of the Dudley Political Union, held at the Swan Inn, on Friday evening, November 18th 1831', by Jospeh Pitchfork and Samuel Cook (1p) (1831)

• illustration, 'The Political Drama no. 57', 'Interior of an English workhouse under the new poor law act' (n.d.)

• handbill, 'The result of the glorious struggle of the radicals of Dudley, with the Tories of Dudley', by Samuel Cook (1p) (7 January 1835)

• handbill, 'Peel and his ministry have resigned!', by S. Cook, (1p) (12 December 1845)

• handbiil, 'Political unions', by a political unionist (1p) (n.d)

• handbill, 'The Bury Parliamentary reform proclamation', by Saml. Cook, re-published by order of the Dudley Religious Political Union (1p) (7 December 1851)

• handbill celebrating the dissolution of the Austrian and Prussia empires in to democratic states, 'Amen! Says Samuel Cook', taken 'from the Standard of Jan 16, 1849' (1p) (1849)

• handbill, 'At a special meeting of the Dudley Political Union, held on tuesday evening, Dec. 2. , 1834', by Samuel Cook (1p) (2 December 1834)

• handbill, 'The six points of the People's Charter' (1p) (1837)

• satirical poster about the 'Weakly Times' (1p) (n.d.)

• handbill, 'Copy of S. Cook's letter to General Garibaldi, and translation of the general's reply; with Mr. Jaffrays commentary' (1p) (n.d.)

-handbill advetising a lecture entitled 'No church rates!' to be given by J. Kingsley (1p) (n.d.)

• handbill with quote from the Quarterly Review, September 1845, 'presented to them by a poliltical dissenter' (1p)
  (3 October 1845) (2 copies)

• handbill, stating a request by Samuel Cook for the working men and women of Dudley attend several town meetings (1 p) (5 February 1848)

• handbill, 'To all people, especially religious. Was it a serpent, or was it a chimpanzee, or orang outang, or some other similar creature that beguiled Eve to take the forbidden fruit?, by Samuel Cook (1p) (15 July 1848)

• handbill, 'What saith the scriptures about neutrals?' (1p) (n.d.)

• handbill, 'Another horrible! Horrible! Horrible mine explosion', by Samuel Cook (1p) (8 March 1847)

• handbill, 'Mine accidents, their causes and remedies', by Samuel Cook (1p) (5 Novmeber 1845)

• poster, 'As the public meeting of the inhabitants of Dudley, held in pursuance of a requistion signed by more than one hundred electors..' (1p) (17 December 1834)

• handbill, 'Another horrible! A most horrible mine disaster!, by Samuel Cook (1p) (18 November 1846)

• handbill, 'The miners of the Walsall district are respectfully informed that a public meeting will be held on business of importance to their welfare...', meeting will be addressed by W.M. Daniells (1p) (n.d)

• handbill, 'Mine accidents, their causes and remedies!' , by Dr. Murray, (1p) (n.d.)

• handbill, 'The Liverpool meeting' (1p) (15 October 1845)

• poster, 'Religion! Loyalty! and Himley!', by T. Hawkes (1p) (2 December 1819)

• handbill, 'Who are the most valuable members of society, labouring men, or gentlemen and soldiers?' (1p) (n.d.)

• handbill, 'Copy of a notice on the door of Saint Thomas's Church', by Samuel Cook (1p) (8 May 1858)

• handbill, 'Five of the first principles of Dudley radical political philosophy', by Samuel Cook (1p) (18 December 1835)

• handbill, 'The bible is the best political book in the world!', by Samuel Cook (1p) (1 September 1836)

• handbill, 'Another Easter parish blunder', by Samuel Cook (1p) (24 March 1856)

• handbill, 'The word "Easter" in the 4th verse of the 12th chapter of acts, is a notorious lie', by Samuel Cook (1p) (20 April 1848)

• handbill, 'Politics', by Samuel Cook (1p) (22 September 1817)

• handbill, 'Public charities and the annual presentation of their accounts to the churchwardens', by Samuel Cook (1 p) (1 December 1860)

• handbill, 'To the rate payers of Dudley' (1p) (12 September 1845)

• handbill, 'Christ-mass', a poem by Mr. Wright (1p) (2 January 1827)

• handbill, 'Extracts from the will of the late Rev, Henry Antrobus' (1p) (9 December 1766?)

• handbill, 'Women of Dudley, and women of the United Empire of Great Britain, prepare for the approaching election!', by Samuel Cook (1p) (4 July 1947)

• handbill, 'To the inhabitants of the world', concerning the Poor Law Guardians, by Samuel Cook (1p) (21 August 1854)

• handbill, 'Church rates! Seizures in Dudley during the year 1837' (1p) (n.d.)

• handbill, 'Bible politics', by Samuel Cook (1p) (10 May 1836)

• handbill, 'To rate payers of Dudley' (1p) (12 December 1845)

• handbill, 'Bibile politics' (1p) (1 July 1845)

• handbill, 'To the people. No government in its corporate capacity as a government, has legitimate right to interfere with the Christian religion of a people', by Samuel Cook (1p) (20 March 1847)

• poster, 'Statement of the churchwarden's accounts, for the parish of Dudley, form October 10th, 1830 to Easter 1831' (1p) (2 March 1832)

• large handbill, 'Why are you a dissenter?' (1p) (n.d.)

• handbill, 'A second edition of S. Cook's letter, with an additional extract from a late Act of Parliament, in reference to the mode of serving summons to the magistrates of Dudley', by Samuel Cook (1p) (14 August 1837)

• handbill, 'Dudley toryism verus Dudley radicalism, 6 or 8 tories aganist 1 radical' (1p) (1 February 1836)

• handbill, 'Some of the princples of Dudley radicalism', by Samuel Cook (1p) (n.d.)

• handbill, 'S. Cook's broken window' (1p) (2 December 1834)

• handbill, 'Grand fracas between Rough Joe and Nimble Dick' (1p) (n.d.)

• handbill, 'Bravo!!! Three cheers and one cheer more for the Establishment in France, of a republican form of government', by Samuel Cook (1p) (26 February 1848)

• handbill, '40s to £20' (1p) (n.d.)

• handbill, 'Westry meeting, Thursday, March 1st, 1860. The new assessment of property!' (1p) (25 February 1860)

• illustration, 'Bristol - charge of the 3rd Dragoon Guards at the Bristol riots, October 29-31, 1831' (n.d.)

• illustration, 'Manchester - the Manchester adn Cheshire yeoman charging the mob, August 16, 1819' (n.d.)

Papers of Donald Piers Chesworth, [1906]-1991, comprising family papers, including photograph album of scout camp attended by his father, Frederick Chesworth, [1929-1936]; diaries of his mother, Daisy Chesworth, 1942-1981, giving brief entries; family holiday photograph album, [1936], stamp albums; files relating to Daisy Chesworth's death and estate, 1987;

volume of notes and lectures relating to the National Fire Service, [1939-1945];
papers relating to Chesworth's standing as a Parliamentary candidate, 1945, 1950, including posters, press cuttings, photographs with Clement Attlee campaigning in Rangoon; notes on rallies of Oswald Mosley (standing for Parliament in North Kensington), 1959;
correspondence, reports and papers relating to Notting Hill housing and social conditions, [1957-1963], including interviews with tenants and local people, housing waiting lists, minutes of Notting Hill Social Council, 1963; population survey of Kensington, [1961]; rent tribunals; papers, probably preparatory notes for a book by Chesworth, "Anatomy of Notting Hill"; paper entitled "Community Struggles in North Kensington 1966-1974";
correspondence and papers of the Association of Neighbourhood Councils, 1971, (a local government pressure group), particularly with MPs;
correspondence, reports, photographs and papers relating to Chesworth's work with War on Want, 1963-1986, including the Mahiwa project, Tanzania, 1970-1973; Bangladesh War of Independence, 1971;
minutes and papers relating to the World Political Action Trust, 1970-1973;
reports and papers relating to wage fixing in Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika), [1961-1967]; reports and correspondence, 1962-1989, relating to the Sugar Wages Council and education in Mauritius; correspondence and papers relating to the assassination of the vice-president of Zanzibar, 1973 (Zanzibar Treason Trial);
papers relating to the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) Labour group, including correspondence relating to secondary schools, 1973; papers relating to his work in Tower Hamlets, including Tower Hamlets Training Forum, [1962], 1986-1989; Tower Hamlets ILEA Tertiary Education Council, [1987-1990]; Spitalfields Heritage Centre, 1983-1991; papers relating to the opening of the Thames Children's Beach (Tower Hill), [1980s];
correspondence, reports and papers relating to Chesworth's work as Warden of Toynbee Hall, [1906-1987], including papers of the Management Committee, articles on the history of the Hall, annual reports, [1970-1988];
papers and correspondence relating to his work as Consultant to Kumagai Gumi UK, 1987-1991.