Papers of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Sub-committee on the gynaecological aspects of health of women war workers during World War Two, 1942.

Correspondence, minutes and papers relating to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Nutrition Committee, 1944-1947.

Correspondence between the Ministry of Health and the RCOG concerning the Ministry of Health and Scottish Home and Health Department working party on ambulance training and equipment; a copy of the report; drafts of the RCOG's comments on the report, 1966-1967.

Correspondence between the RCOG President, Sir John Peel, and the Simon Population Trust concerning the enquiry into the sterilisation of women; statistical results of the survey; draft and final copies of the subsequent report, 1967-1969.

Minutes, papers and correspondence relating to the RCOG working party on unplanned pregnancy, drafts and comments on the report and the report itself, 1988-1992.

Report of the Hospital Visiting Working Party (May 1993).

Correspondence relating to various aspects of the work of the Working party on continuing medical education, papers agenda and minutes and the final report, 1988-1992.

Minutes and correspondence of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists LOGIC (Learning in Obstetrics and Gynaecology for In-Service Clinicians) working party, (formerly PROLOG working party) correspondence with drug companies and data research services and obstetrics answer books, 1984-1988. The minute book only goes up to 1985.

Survey questionnaires of obstetric flying squads, a summary of the survey and correspondence regarding hospital call-out team insurance, 1980-1987.

The series comprises the report of the working party, 1991, on Membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (MRCOG).

Final report of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists working party on structured training, 1993.

Agenda, minutes, papers and final report of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists working party to audit structured training, 1998-2000.

The series at present comprises only the final report of the Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (DRCOG) working party, 1993.

Agenda, minutes and papers, correspondence, background material and the draft report of the Reproductive Health/Community Gynaecology working group of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1991-1993.

Correspondence, minutes and final report of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) working party on unplanned pregnancy, 1970-1972.

Agenda, minutes and papers and the draft report of the working party on effective representation within the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1995-1996.

Copies of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Press Publications, 1993-2002, comprising publications and serials produced since 1993, namely RCOG Press miscellaneous publications, 1994-2002, including information pamphlets; The Yearbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1993-2001; The Diplomate, 1994-1999; RCOG Guidelines ("Green Top" Guidelines), 1994-1999; Evidence-based Clinical Guidelines, 1998-2001; Personal Assessment in Continuing Education (PACE) Reviews, 1997-1999; The Obstetrician and Gynaecologist,1999-2002.

Photographs and pictures of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1633-2001. The majority of photographs depict the membership and social history of the College and include presidential portraits and photographs of Fellows and Members, prominent obstetricians and gynaecologists, visitors to the College, meetings and study groups. There is also a class of photographs of College buildings. Donated and deposited material also includes photographs and slides of clinical disorders and specimens.

Records comprise portraits, pictures and other memorabilia relating to William Blair-Bell, 1920-1996; presidential portraits, 1927-1995; portraits of Fellows, 1935-1991; photographs of Honorary Fellows, 1921-1997; photographs of annual dinners, 1931-1954, 1998; photographs of admission ceremonies, 1931-1992; College buildings, 1930-1991; Royal visits, 1931-1990; Council and officers, 1934-1992; photographs of meetings, members and artefacts of the Gynaecological Visiting Society, 1911-1973; British congresses of obstetrics and gynaecology, 1933-1999; photographs of overseas groups and other photographs relating to the profession overseas, 1935-1997; RCOG study groups and educational courses, 1979-1995; photographs and paintings donated to the College by Professor Preston Maxwell, 1898-1935; presentations, awards and lectures, 1949-1995; Strachan collection of portraits of eminent medical men, c1693-c1847; ceremonial and related paraphernalia and artefacts and gifts to the College, 1931-1992; miscellaneous photographs relating to the history of the College and of obstetrics and gynaecology, 1929-1999; decorative pictures, 1633-1957; photographs of pathological subjects transferred from the College Museum, 1950s-1978; photographs and drawings presented to the College by Professor John Chassar Moir, 1932-1957; photographs of eminent medical men collected by Sir Anthony Alment, transferred from the College Library, 1921; photographs and memorabilia relating to Sir Norman Jeffcoate, 1946-1975;

undated portrait photographs of eminent medical persons; Donald Whatley Roy photographs donated to the College Archives by A D Roy, 1903-1935;

collection of miscellaneous photographs transferred from the College Library, undated.

Records of the College Archives primarily covering the period of office of the first Archivist, Claire Daunton, who established the Archives and created the cataloguing system. Records include material relating to accessions and deposits (1987-1988), cataloguing, records management and departmental policy (1989-1997). They include correspondence with the Vice-President's office (1993-1996) and regarding the indexing of Committee minutes (1990). Also includes papers of Dr Ornella Moscucci's unpublished history of the College (1989) and the College Archives Subject Guides (1999).

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Staff Committee and predecessors, 1976-2003, comprising the constitution and terms of reference for the Staff Committee, as well as minutes, agenda and papers from 1976 onwards. Also included is a programme for the Staff Christmas Party in 1999.

Court of Patrons papers includes correspondence and papers of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists President, the College Secretary and the Deputy College Secretary concerning the establishment of the Court of Patrons. The series also contains meeting minutes and papers (1982-1988), as well as records regarding the admission of M V Blank to the Court in 1996.

Personnel file for one College Secretary only.

Records relating to the internal management and administration of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1999-2004, comprising notes from Heads of Departments' meetings (2001-2004) and records relating to the organisational structure of the College (1999-2001).

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Honorary Treasurer including correspondence of the Honorary Treasurer, reports of trips to Pakistan and Nepal and meetings between the Treasurers of the Royal Colleges (1997-2000).

Honorary Secretaries' correspondence for 1942 and 1950, then for each Honorary Secretary running from 1960-2004; subject files 1985-2002.

Correspondence files which reflect the changing responsibilities of the College Secretary, with records relating to the Journal, gifts and donations, and correspondence with other royal colleges and related bodies. College papers regarding Dr Ornella Moscucci's unpublished history of the RCOG (1987-1999). Also records concerning the Faculty of Family Planning (1976-1992) and Birthright, later Wellbeing (1985-2003), and papers of College Secretary's meetings (1996-2003).

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Standing Committees, 1926-2008. In addition to the official agenda, minutes and papers of the committees, their sub-committees and working parties, this sub-fonds contains correspondence, papers and subject files relating to particular committee work.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Examination Committee, 1929-2006, comprising committee minute books (1929-1988); correspondence, agenda, minutes and papers (1929-1996); examination regulations for Members and Diplomates, regulations for the admission of Fellows (1942-2001); blank and completed samples of log books for the MRCOG examination (1982-2002); samples of case notes and commentaries submitted for the MRCOG examination dating between 1940-1954; sample examination papers for the DRCOG dating between 1937-2001; sample examination papers for the MRCOG (2006); examination results for the MRCOG and DRCOG (1934-1949); assessors' reports on examinations (1943-1950); attendance book for the examiners of the diploma in obstetrics dining club (1960-1961).

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Scottish Standing Committee / Scottish Executive Committee, 1950-2006, comprising copy minutes and papers held by the College in London, 1950-1990 and a publication on the future of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Scotland, 2006.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Ethics Committee, 1981-2005, comprising agenda, minutes, papers and correspondence; reports on specific issues.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' European Committee, 1991-1998, comprising agenda, minutes and papers of the Committee.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' External Affairs Committee, 1932-1950, comprising correspondence and related papers covering a wide variety of issues reflecting the Committee's broad terms of reference, for example: maternity hospitals, midwifery, female circumcision, pregnancy in wartime, maternal mortality and nutrition in pregnancy. It should be noted however, that much of the material included in the series appears to have been placed here in error simply because it relates to the external affairs of the College. As well as containing records of the External Affairs Committee, this fonds also has records related to the general external affairs of the college. Some of these records are concerned with obstetrics and gynaecology during the period of the Second World War.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Academic Committee, 1996-2007, comprising agenda, minutes and papers.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Consumers Forum, 1993-2007, comprising agenda, minutes and papers, 1993-2007.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Clinical Effectiveness Standards Board, 1998-2000, comprising minutes, agendas, papers and associated correspondence, 1998-2000.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Education Board, 1992-2007, comprising agenda, minutes and papers, 1992-2007; correspondence of the Secretary to the Board, 2001-2007; records of the Implementation Group to Audit Structured Training, 1993-1998.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Publications Management Committee, 1993-2004, comprising the first minute book of the Committee (1993-1997); loose copies of Publications Management Committee minutes, memoranda and correspondence (1993-1998); Committee correspondence regarding the Diplomate Journal; correspondence, contributors' agreements, authors' details and declarations of interest relating to the production of RCOG information pamphlets and publications (1993-2004).

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Guidelines and Audit Committee, 2000-2004, comprising minutes, agenda and circulated papers; clinical governance and consent advice publications.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' House Committee, 2003, comprising minutes of two meetings of the short-lived House Committee, May 2003.

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

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Fellowship Selection Committee, 1930-1998. This series contains minute books of the Committee for its period of existence, also minutes, agenda and related papers running 1990-1997.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Services Board, 2000-2003, comprising correspondence relating to the remit and membership of the Services Board (2000-2002) and agenda and minutes running from 2000 to 2003.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Clinical Directors Forum, 2000-2002, comprising files of the Development Manager, Clinical Governance (later Head of Clinical Governance), including administrative correspondence and papers, speakers' presentations and summaries of proceedings.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Removal and Re-instatement Committee, 1999-2001, comprising file of the College Secretary on the establishment of the Committee.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Continuing Medical Education Committee, 1992-1998, comprising minutes, agendas and circulated papers.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Equivalence of Training Committee, 2005-2008, comprising committee files including agendas, circulated papers and associated correspondence, including decisions about recommendations on individual doctor's applications to the Specialist Register.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Services Committee, 2003, comprising committee papers defining the remit and membership; agenda and minutes for 2003.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' International Executive Board, 2005-2008, comprises agenda, minutes and papers for the Board, 2005-2008 and agenda, minutes and papers of the International Advisory Group from 2006.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Library, Library Committee and successors, 1926-2006. This series mainly comprises papers of the College Librarian relating to acquisitions, gifts and Library administration. Also included are Library (later Information Services Committee) minutes and papers, 1961-2003.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Overseas Committees and Councils, 1946-1984. The series contains: correspondence, minutes and papers of regional councils in Australia (1946-1980), New Zealand (1947-1976) and Canada (1948-1964); minutes and papers of the Dominion Committee (1952-1958); minutes, papers and reports from the Overseas Policy Committee (1946-1971); correspondence, minutes and papers of the South African Reference Committee and Regional Council (1953-1976); correspondence and papers of the Overseas Representative Committees in Ceylon, India and Pakistan (1962-1977); minute books of the international Regional Councils and Overseas Committees (1946-1984).