Records of the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, including minutes and papers of the Board; National Hospital Reserve Sub-Committee; Establishment Committee; Medical Staffing Sub-Committee; Nursing Sub-Committee; Finance Committee; Finance Committee Investments Sub-Committee; Drugs Expenditure Sub-Committee; Medical Advisory Committee; Planning Committee; Planning and General Purposes Committee; Planning and General Purposes Committee Building, Land and Works Sub-Committee; Planning and General Purposes Committee Clinical Research Sub-Committee; Mental Health Committee; Planning and General Purposes Committee Mental Health Sub-committee and Steering Committee.

North West Metropolitan Regional Committees including minutes and papers of the North West Metropolitan Area Nurse Training Committee; North West Metropolitan Area Nurse Training Committee Finance Sub-Committee; Joint Consultative Committee for Inner London Hospitals in the North West Metropolitan Hospital Region minutes and papers; Joint Working Group of the Metropolitan Joint Consultative Committees; North West Metropolitan Hospital Regional Staff Advisory Committee, and the Regional Staff Committee.

North West Thames Regional Health Authority minutes and Departmental Records, including papers of the Regional Centres for Specialised Treatment; Major Accidents Procedure; Joint Consultative Committee for Inner London Hospitals; Planning: Central London Area and Planning: Regional Joint Liaison Committee for transfer to new authorities.

National Hospital Service Reserve, including papers of Mrs Grieb, Regional Coordinating Officer comprising scrapbook and photographs.

The collection includes minutes (with the exception of three volumes for 1837-1843, 1866-1884 and 1896-1905 which are noted as missing in the later minute books), rules and papers from the society including reference to insuring the society silver and stories from members.

The minutes are very detailed and provide an exception insight into the pawnbroking trade; shared stories reflect concerns of the time. There are accounts of losing money on pledges, bulgaries, fraud as well as discussions on the impact of legislation on the business and the state of the trade generally. References to the type of items being pawned also show the changing value of goods over the period of time.

The minutes cover both the First World War and the Second World War and show how the pawnbroking businesses were affected during these period of time, for example during the First World War it was recorded in October 1916 that one member raised the question of whether field glasses could be taken in pledge, in February 1919 a discussion was had on the effects of demobelisation and wages and in March of 1920 they discussion the issue of being offered firearms as a pledge items and how one member had recently sold to the Ministry of Munitions two army revolvers.

The Second World War saw meetings abandoned for a short time with members raising concerns about holding what could be deemed as a 'social gathering' in war time being recorded in the February of 1940 and in May 1941 there are detailed discussions between the members concerning the effect of fire, caused by air raids on jewellery and valuables in safes which was following the next month by discussions of the position of pawnbrokers regarding war damage insurance in respect of goods that they were holding on pledge. An entry from November 1941 shows the effect of not wrapping purchased goods when a member, Mr Norris remarked that the about of pilfering by the public in the sales shops had increased since the order prohibiting the use of paper for wrapping up goods sold to customers which meant that it was not easy to detect thieving as there was noting to show at a glance whether the article had been purchased or not.

Records of the North-Western Fever Hospital (NWFH), (later the Lawn Road or North-Western Branch of the Royal Free Hospital), 1887-1972, comprising: Nursing Staff Registers, containing service records for nurses and ward orderlies, 1887-1951; Nurse training records, for probationer and student nurses trained at NWFH, 1937-1946; Domestic Staff Registers, containing service records for domestic staff, including housekeeping, laundry and catering staff, 1887-1923.
Royal Free Hospital, Lawn Road (or North Western) Branch: In-patient Registers, 1965-1972; Patients Property Register, 1944-1962; Joint Consultative Staff Committee minutes, 1951-1954.

Records of the Manor of Harrow alias Sudbury, including court books (court leet and court baron); minute book and custumal. Records of the Manor of Harrow Rectory, including court books (court leet and court baron) and minute book. Records of both manors including quit rent books; account books; steward's papers; voters lists and enclosure records. Also sales particulars for premises at Roxeth, Alperton and Northolt.

Letter dated August 24, 1976, from Douglas M Haines to C J Dewhurst, PRCOG, describing how the gavel presented by Emil Novak was made from wood from the house of Ephraim McDowell of Kentucky, USA (McDowell performed the first successful ovariotomy in 1809). Included are facsimiles of papers relating to McDowell, and an explanatory leaflet.

Brochure advertising cart lamps which accord with bye-laws, 1897-1898.

Records, 1955-1974, of the Nuffield Foundation A-level Physical Science (ALPS) course, comprising draft proposals for the A-level in Physical Sciences and contents of the course, 1966-1971, including report on general entry requirements to universities, 1967, progress report, 1968, information for pupils, 1968, and papers relating to course content, 1969-1971; Nuffield Foundation administrative papers relating to the A-level in Physical Sciences, 1964-1973, mostly correspondence; working party papers, 1965-1968, relating to structure of the course; papers relating to meetings and conferences, 1964-1970, including meetings of the Joint Committee on Physical Sciences and the Physical Sciences consultative committee and correspondence with the GCE (General Certificate of Education) Liaison Committee and the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate; papers relating to trial schools, 1966-1968, including question papers, correspondence concerning admission to universities, and summary of comments received; correspondence with schools, Local Education Authorities and colleges of further education, 1965-1974, the subjects including different kinds of schools, feedback, and teaching materials; newsletters, 1967-1971, including information on the teacher's guide and student's workbook; schools questionnaire, 1971; papers relating to examinations, 1966-1971, including details of candidates, sample papers, result sheets and requirements for university entrance; papers on projects submitted by candidates, 1967-1971; papers relating to apparatus and scientific developments for the A-level in Physical Sciences, 1966-1971; correspondence with universities, polytechnics, and UCCA (later the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service), 1965-1972, including acceptance of ALPS for entry; introductory teachers' guides and course contents, 1967-1970; publications and articles, 1965-1971, including correspondence with publishers of textbooks and other materials; miscellaneous papers, 1955-1968, including correspondence with the Civil Service Commission and the armed forces concerning acceptance of ALPS candidates for entry; papers written by members of the Physical Sciences Group, 1965-1968 and undated, on various scientific topics, including preparatory material on their drafting; teachers' guides and papers prepared by teachers in trials schools, 1966-1967 and undated, on various scientific topics, with introductory sections and questions and answers.

Records, 1963-1972, on the Nuffield Foundation Science Teaching Project Biology A-level course, comprising administrative files, 1965-1970, including minutes of meetings, notes on topics and project work, discussion papers and copies of letters; correspondence files, 1965-1972, the subjects including topics, trials schools, acceptance of pupils with BAL at universities, colleges of advanced technology and medical schools, and requests for information; papers relating to meetings and conferences, 1963-1971, including minutes of the consultative committee, 1964-1968, and papers of the working party, area meetings, and various committees; papers on course contents and Topics Reviews, 1965-1970; papers on publications, 1966-1972, including publishers' introductory pamphlets, correspondence with publishers, and reviews of publications; Teachers' Guide and related papers, 1964-1971; papers relating to examinations, students, and students' texts, 1964-1971, including comments on examinations and results; papers on apparatus and materials, 1964-1971, including correspondence with suppliers; papers relating to questionnaires, 1966-1967, including returns from pupils and teachers' comments on course topics, known as Chapter Feedback.

Records, 1962-c1973, on the Nuffield Foundation Science Teaching Project (NFSTP) Biology O-level course, comprising general papers and correspondence, 1962-1971, including course contents and Five Year Trial Course; papers relating to meetings and conferences, 1962-1971, including the consultative committee; correspondence with schools, 1964-1966; papers relating to publications and visual aids, 1964-1967; Nuffield Foundation Biology O-level Texts, published by Longmans/Penguin Books, and related papers, 1963-1973, including NFSTP progress reports, 1964-1966, NFSTP Biology Newsletter, 1963-1964, and students' textbooks, 1966-1969; papers relating to examinations and projects, 1963-c1973, including question papers and reports on examinations, marking schemes, analyses of results and data on pupils' ability; Teachers' Guides to courses and information/teaching papers, 1963-1972; questionnaires and comments on Biology O-level including papers relating to revision of the course, 1963-1971; papers relating to apparatus and equipment, 1964-1968.

Records, 1962-1974, on the Nuffield Foundation Science Teaching Project Chemistry A-level course with some papers relating also to the Chemistry O-level and to the Chemistry Project overall, comprising papers on Chemistry O- and A-level, 1964-1967, including papers on trials by schools and training courses; Chemistry A-level general files and correspondence, 1966-1971, including general framework of a proposed course, 1966, circulars to schools, and papers relating to meetings, including the headquarters team; correspondence files, 1963-1971, including team leaders and trials schools; administrative correspondence, 1964-1974, including finance and enquiries; teachers' courses and correspondence with schools offering A-level Chemistry, 1968-1974; papers relating to examinations, 1966-1972, including statistics, question papers, and marking schemes; papers relating to examinations, 1964-1974, including sample examination papers and correspondence with schools concerning examination papers and past pupils and with universities concerning admissions; papers relating to examinations, 1966-1972, including examinations meetings and reports; trial school briefing conferences and meetings, including agendas and minutes, 1966-1969; A-level Chemistry reports and documents, 1965-1966, including objectives, apparatus and materials, experiments, topics, teaching materials, training and trial schools; A-level chemistry correspondence and topic 17, 1966-1973, including correspondence with the Schools Council and papers relating to the topic on thermodynamics; papers on publications, apparatus and equipment, A-level Chemistry, 1965-1974; papers on Special Studies, 1965-1972, including papers of the working groups, outline and intention of Special Subjects, and correspondence with schools; files, 1965-1972, relating to various Topics; guides to Topics, A-level Chemistry, 1967, mostly Teachers' Guides, and Information for Pupils; other guides and programmed texts, on various Topics, c1967-1969; Chemistry O- and A-level general papers, 1962-1973, including papers relating to accommodation of the Chemistry section of the Nuffield Foundation Science Teaching Project, 1962, papers relating to the establishment of the chemistry project, 1962-1964, and papers and correspondence on apparatus, the distribution of texts, and examinations; Chemistry Project Notes for Discussion, 1962; Chemistry Project Memoranda, 1962.

Records, 1962-1974, of the Nuffield Foundation Science Teaching Project Chemistry O-level course, comprising general papers and correspondence, 1962-1974, including staff appointments, training, interested schools, teaching materials, and revision of the course; papers relating to committee meetings and conferences, 1963-1972, including the revision committee; papers relating to examinations, c1964-c1974, including examination entrants; papers relating to revision of the course, including questionnaire, 1971-1974; publications and films, 1964-1968; drafts for the teachers' guides, 1960s-1972; drafts for pupils' handbook, c1970-1972, on various topics; revision of topics, 1971-1974 and undated, including drafts and final papers on various topics.

Records, 1964-1970, of the Nuffield Foundation Combined Science Project, including general correspondence and a preliminary survey, 1964-1965; synopsis of course contents, 1965; progress report, 1966; correspondence relating to trials schools; papers relating to a conference of 1966; apparatus lists; consultative committee minutes and correspondence, 1967-1970; lists of trial schools and teachers, 1968.

General administrative and reference papers, 1961-1974, of the Nuffield Foundation Science Teaching Project, comprising correspondence and other papers, 1962-1973, including progress reports relating to dependent projects, correspondence on trustees, circulars to schools, material on teachers and teaching materials, staffing, curriculum development and training, correspondence with other bodies including the Association for Science Education and the Schools Council, and papers on trials, coordinators, and budgets for projects; papers relating to meetings and conferences, 1961-1972, including sixth-form science teaching, educational aid overseas, training science teachers, and Nuffield O-levels and A-levels; papers relating to publications and films, 1963-1973, including correspondence on films with Unilever Ltd and the BBC and on text books, and correspondence with publishers; papers relating to apparatus and equipment, 1964-1974, including correspondence with manufacturers, orders, papers on safety, laboratory design and storage of apparatus, equipment trials, and lists of suppliers; papers relating to teaching materials and examinations, 1964-1973, including examination papers on O- and A-level physics, physical sciences, chemistry and biology, papers relating to CSE examinations, correspondence on the acceptance of pupils with Nuffield qualifications at universities, and papers on programmed learning, multiple choice testing, and pupils' responses.

Records, 1960-1974, of the Junior Science Project or Section of the Nuffield Foundation Science Teaching Project, including teaching notes and materials, 1960-1967; paper on the teaching of science in primary schools, 1963; draft press announcement on the teaching of mathematics to pupils between the ages of 5 and 13, 1964; correspondence, including staff appointments, 1963-1964; papers relating to invitations to serve on the consultative committee, 1963-1967; papers relating to planning on subjects in the Primary Science project including teaching aids, 1964; correspondence on Junior Science, including textbooks, 1964-1967; pilot project; Junior Science consultative committee meetings papers, 1964-1966, including minutes; consultative committee policy papers and correspondence, 1964-1965; papers on safety procedure and storage of equipment, 1965; mathematics teaching, 1965-1966; report on pilot stage of Junior Science and proposals for continuation project, 1965-1966; correspondence relating to equipment and apparatus, 1965-1967; correspondence relating to publications, 1965-1967; papers relating to the Junior Science film 'Into Tomorrow', 1966-1967.

Records, 1965-1974, of the Secondary Science Education Programme of the Nuffield Foundation Science Teaching Project, comprising general papers, 1965-1973, including correspondence, papers on meetings of the Secondary Science consultative committee, papers on the launch of the project, lists of schools participating, and enquiries; correspondence files of Hilda Misselbrook with individuals concerned with compilation of course materials, 1965-1974; papers on conferences, training courses and meetings for teachers, lecturers, school inspectors and others, 1965-1973; examination answer papers from two schools, 1969-1971; papers relating to apparatus, film loops and publishers, 1965-1974; correspondence with schools, including teachers' comments on the course, 1966-1973; papers relating to course themes, trials and evaluation, including questionnares, comments and reports, 1965-1972; final rewrite files on various subject fields and themes, including comments and additions, 1969; feedback and information from teachers on themes and fields, with comments including ability of pupils, apparatus, and level of difficulty of subjects, 1967-1968.

Collection of pamphlets, journals and papers relating to nursing. Includes: Guild of Nurses Quarterly Review, 1940s; Recruitment of Nurses and Midwives to Training Institutions, 1945; The Association of Nurses, 1937; The Jewish Nurse in Palestine, 1947; Nurses Salaries Committee, 1940s; Government publications; International Labour Office Publications relating to employment and conditions; Queen's Nursing Institute annual reports. Also material relating to the Royal College of Nursing.

Certificate of Appointment of John Nussey as Apothecary in Ordinary to King George IV, 25 Feb 1825.

A pair of trousers and a waistcoat belonging to John Nussey, physician, mid 19th century.

Records of the Oakhill Brewery Company Limited, comprising annual general meeting minute books and agendas.

Typescript draft, with corrections, of paper 'The Piltdown Problem Reconsidered' by Dr Kenneth Page Oakley, [1972]. Paper describes the circumstances of the original Piltdown discovery by Charles Dawson and recounts Oakley's involvement in proving that the affair was a fraud.

Business and social correspondence of Edward Oates, attorney, of Leeds and Furnival's Inn.

Records of Octagon Brewery Limited, including Directors' minute book; Board agenda book; Annual and other general meeting minutes, including reports and accounts; register of seals and wages book.

Records relating to Officers of the Corporation of London, including Act of Common Council that 'no office within the city be granted in possession on reversion unless to freemen', 1572; receipts for gifts given to Officers of the Crown and Government Officers, 1664-1744; order of the Court of Aldermen that the Head Officers shall perform their duty in walking before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen when they ride through the Streets on days of solemnity, 1680; papers relating to fees and gratuities claimed by Officers, 1666-1803; certificates of the admission and swearing in of City Officers in the Court of Aldermen, 1699-1782; papers relating to the sale and alienation [transferral of ownership] of Offices, 1700-1829; lists of the names of Officers, 1777-1947 (with gaps); papers relating to life insurance offered by the Corporation to Officers, with records of payment, 1760-1818; papers regarding the ceremonial precedence of Officers, particularly in processions, 1788-1948; reports presented to the Common Council regarding the roles of various Officers, and reports by Officers, 1762-1862; payments to City Officers, 1713-1729; papers relating to the applications and appointments of Officers, 1852-1991 (these papers are closed from 1932 onwards); ballot books for the election of Officers by the Common Council, 1833-1880; papers of the Officer's Guarantee Fund, 1903-1938; report of Town Clerk on organisational policy, 1957 and papers relating to the Local Government Training Board Grants Scheme, 1968-1976.

Also records relating to individual Offices including memoranda relating to the Accountant-Auditor, 1943-1973; certificate of the Attorney of the Sheriff's Court, 1752; lists of the City Auditors, 1409-1431 and 1603-1756; names and duties of the various Bridge House Officers, 1824-1877; papers relating to the Bridge House Comptroller, 1755-1839; papers relating to the Bridgemasters, 1596-1942; notes regarding prison and compter Chaplains, 1816-1825; appointment of Chronologer, 1660; papers relating to Officers' Clerks, 1673-1679, the Clerk of the Common Council, 1772-1838, the Clerk of the Works, 1658-1852, the Clerk of the Peace, 1801-1881; bills relating to the Common Cryer, 1677-1790; correspondence regarding the Common Cryer and Serjeant-at-Arms, 1907-1938; papers relating to the Common Pleader, 1673-1763; extracts and reports relating to the Common Serjeant, 1319-1850; applications for office of Executioner, 1883; papers regarding the office of Garbler [an official who 'garbled' spices, removing refuse from them], 1525-1708; papers relating to Law Officers, 1671-1741; papers relating to Marshals, 1589-1876; applications for the post of Medical Officer of the Port of London, 1873; reports relating to the office of Outroper [auctioneer], 1674-1710; papers relating to Polemen, 1689-1707, including warrant to arrest unlicensed Nightmen, Polemen and Carters carrying night-soil, 1689; extracts and papers relating to the Recorder, 1298-1922; papers relating to the office of Secondary, 1497-1937; extracts and notes regarding Serjeants, including Serjeants-at-Mace and Serjeants of the Chamber, 1475-1850; papers relating to the Swordbearer, 1665-1874; papers relating to the City Waits, 1689-1968 [watchmen, particularly those armed with wind-instruments to sound alarms, later musicians who accompanied the Mayor on ceremonial and festive occasions]; papers relating to the Water Bailiff, 1663-1847 and papers relating to Yeomen, 1493-1766.

Letter from A Offley, c 1790. No address. To Mrs Walker. Supplies a character reference for a servant, Mrs Stent, who had among her recommendations that she 'stayd with ye dificall lady Manchester [Elizabeth Montagu, Duchess of Manchester] longer than most of her sarvents do but as to her [Mrs Stent's] temper it is warm and pashonat and she cant allways commande it ...'.

Autograph, with signature.

Collection of various legal and financial records, including papers regarding court proceedings, receipts, notes, assignment, insurance policy, bonds and papers relating to chemists and druggists, including letters requesting supplies and a trade card. The documents refer to locations in Covent Garden and the City of London.

Records of Old Street Magistrates Court, 1905-1980, including court registers; Married Women Act orders; Guardianship of Infants Act orders; bastardy complaints and bastardy arrears 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.

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.

Out-letter book of John Oldbury and Henry Stanley, merchants, containing copies of letters to ships' masters, agents, contacts and consignees, relating to business and private affairs.

Please note these are photostat copies; the whereabouts of the original is unknown.

Copies, possibly made in the first half of the 18th century and presented to the Court of Aldermen, of surveys and plans originally made 1667-1687 by John Oliver and Peter Mills, City Surveyors, after the 1666 Great Fire.

This archive consists of annual reports (1926-1938, 1941, 1947-1956, 1959, 1961, 1963-5); agendas and resolutions of Annual Meetings (1948-1963); memoranda (1929-1957); printed leaflets and pamphlets (1926-c.1947)

Abbreviations used include:

Cmd - Command Paper;

ILO - International Labour Organisation (United Nations);

ODC - Open Door Council;

ODI - Open Door International;

UNESCO - United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation.

This archive consists of minutes of board meetings (1947-1973), reports and conference resolutions (1929-1966), conference papers (1952-1957), constitutions and charters (1929-1970), correspondence files of president and honorary secretary (1947-1974); incomplete series of the publication Open Door (1929-1938), circular letters (1949-1959), leaflets and pamphlets (1929-1964), headed stationery, reports and publications of other organisations including United Nations commissions and International Labour Organisation. Most of the papers originate from the organisation's Honorary Secretaries.

Records relating to the management of open spaces in and around London, 1703-1999, including issues of Ashtead Common News, 1991-1997; histories and guidebooks, transcriptions of inscriptions, tomb surveys, bills for maintenance work and financial accounts for Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, 1703-1991; guidebooks, photographs, papers on pollard and tree management and newsletters for Burnham Beeches, 1883-1998; issues of West Wickham and Coulsdon Commons newsletter, later renamed Kent and Surrey Commons newsletter, 1989-1997; pamphlets, guidebooks and newsletters for Hampstead Heath, 1990-1999; guidebooks, pamphlets and histories of Highgate Wood, 1974-1986; financial accounts, brochures and photographs for Queen's Park, Kilburn, 1884-1987; reports, administrative papers, histories and list of war staff for West Ham Park, 1901-1991 and general papers regarding open spaces, churchyards and gardens maintained by the Corporation of London, including brochures, guidebooks and 'Britain in Bloom' certificates, 1870-1993.

Papers, 1853-1946, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Acton, including mortgages, leases, conveyances and reconveyances.

Cassette copies and transcripts of recordings of unedited interviews assembled, 1972-1974, for the radio series 'Plain Tales from the Raj', including material not included in the broadcast programmes, and comprising c200 hours of material. The 82 subjects interviewed, including men, women, adults and children, lived and worked in India from the late 19th century to Independence (1947) and the interviews cover a wide range of civilian and military experience between 1876 and 1949. Military personnel range from the Commander in Chief of the Army in India to Army privates. Civil servants of various ranks and members of the business and commercial world, for example tea planters, are also included. Women mainly comprise wives and daughters, but also include a few nurses and governesses. The project covered the lives of the British in India and, although the material touches upon the effect of the Raj on India and its indigenous inhabitants, only a small number of Indians and Eurasians were interviewed. Subjects covered include accommodation and living conditions; daily routine; social life and recreation; health and sanitation; the effects of India postings on family life; relations between the British, other Europeans, Indians and Eurasians in social and work environments; events such as riots and earthquakes; the fauna and landscape of India; and political events. Full typescript transcripts (including inaccuracies in some cases) exist for most, but not all, of the recordings.

Tapes and transcripts from Wellcome Trust funded project, 1980s, to derive information from individuals who entered general practice between c 1936 and c 1940 and c 1946 and c 1952, and some additional tapes relating to general practice.

Records of the Ordinary Meetings of the Geological Society of London, 1807-current, comprising:

Minutes of Ordinary Meetings, 1807-current; Printed notices and meetings cards giving dates of the forthcoming Ordinary Meetings and later other meetings organised by the Society and its specialist groups, 1810-1996 [incomplete]; Agendas for Ordinary Meetings, 1855-current; Attendance books containing signatures of Fellows and their visitors attending Ordinary Meetings of the Society, 1858-1991 [incomplete].

Minute book of the Oriental Rubber Company.

Political papers of Stanley Orme, 1974-2004, comprise papers relating to his work as a government minister in the Northern Ireland Office and subsequently the Department for Health and Social Security (1974-1979), Labour Party Opposition Spokesman on Trade and Industry (1979-1983), Energy (1983-1987), and Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party (1987-1992). Papers from Orme's period in the Northern Ireland Office are related mainly to his work on industrial democracy in Harland and Wolff shipyard, and also contains reports of visits to USA to meet politicians to discuss Northern Ireland politics. Section 2 contains many articles and speeches by Orme relating to health and social security. Section 3 consists mainly in correspondence, and includes discussions of industrial policy and unemployment. Orme's role as Opposition Spokesman on Energy has been divided into two sections. Section 4 covers the general policy area of energy, dealing with such issues as fuel poverty, nuclear power, and industrial relations in the energy sector, whilst Section 5 is devoted to the significant amount of material relating to the 1984-1985 miners' strike. Section 6 contains material from Orme's Chairmanship of the Parliamentary Labour Party, and Section 7 contains articles and speeches written throughout Orme's career.

Letter from Edward Osler, student of the United Hospitals (Guy's and St Thomas's, London), to an unidentified correspondent ('my dear James'), containing and account of Sir Astley Cooper's case of ligature of the abdominal aorta, 5 Jul 1817.

Records of Bergman Osterberg Physical Training College, later Dartford College of Physical Education, comprising meetings of the Committee of Management, [1916-1960]; minutes of Governors meetings, 1962-1965; minutes of the Governing Body, 1970-1976; ?minutes of College Committee meetings, 1927-1937; minutes of College and Council meetings, 1955-1964; minutes of the College Council, 1968-1969; minutes of the Academic Board, 1969, 1972-1975;

minutes of Library Committee meetings, 1956-1962; minutes of the Games Committee, 1919; minutes of Games meetings, 1949-1955; Games Executive meetings, 1979-1983; minutes of the Bergman Osterberg Union of Trained Gymnastic Teachers, 1916-1917; minutes of staff meetings, 1951-1959, 1969-1973; minutes of the Staff Council, 1972-1977; minutes of Dartford Sports Association, 1980-1981; minutes of the B.Ed Honours (Physical Education) Course Committee, 1980-1985; minutes of the Staff/Student Advisory Committee, 1982;

students' book, 1900-1914, giving lists and details of students; card indexes recording details of former students; pass lists and examiners reports, 1971-1986; Thames Polytechnic examination papers, 1980-1986; student assessments and reports, 1935-1938, 1946-1962; individual student records, 1915-1921; student entry files, 1921-1947; uniform lists, 1911-1950s; rules of residence at the College, 1947; papers relating to staff appointments;

papers relating to the College remedial clinic for children, [1900-1964], including details of treatment and exercises, case histories and photographs of patients; patient record cards, 1950s-1960s; record book, containing photographs and clinical details; correspondence; patient case book, 1916-1921;

volumes recording sports matches, notably lacrosse, cricket, hockey, swimming, netball and tennis, some with photographs, 1904-1985;

plans, maps and drawings of site buildings, [1895-1995]; letters and plans relating to the site and buildings, 1950s; papers relating to college properties; papers relating to the amalgamation of Dartford College with Thames Polytechnic, [1975-1976]; prospectuses, 1891-1982; programmes, 1891-1977;

papers relating to the College during the Second World War, [1939-1945]; College papers relating to the removal of the College to Newquay, Cornwall, [1941]; papers relating to establishment of the University of London Diploma in Physical Education, 1930-1939; correspondence, 1945-1948; correspondence and press cuttings relating to proposals on teacher training, 1982; papers relating to proposal to close teacher training courses at Thames Polytechnic, 1982;

financial records, notably staff pay salary books, 1953-1961; Games Association accounts, 1969-1986; Principals' account, 1944-1951; Bergman Osterberg Trust financial records, notably accounts and ledgers, 1922-1960; correspondence of the College Bursar and Treasurer, 1950s-1960s; papers relating to staff salaries and other expenditure, 1946-1960; deeds and correspondence relating to Pauline Ada Starling Memorial Fund, 1928, and the Bergman Osterberg Trust;

photographs of College life (loose and in albums), including views of College buildings, staff and students, student activities, the remedial clinic, sports and sports teams, classrooms, outdoor activities, dance and gymnastic displays, royal visits, 1890s-1970s; photographs of principals, 1891-1978, including Madame Bergman Osterberg;

letters to Madame Bergman Osterberg, 1906-1915 (in Swedish); notes by Madame Bergman Osterberg, 1887-1911, including notes on the Theory of Movement; scrapbook of College history compiled by Madame Bergman Osterberg, [1885-1915];

certificates awarded to students, [1914-1948]; information files, [1902-1985], relating to individual students and staff, College administration and management, buildings, curriculum and syllabuses;

records relating to the Bergman Osterberg Union, namely Committee Meeting minutes, 1940-1987; magazines, 1917-1996; Bergman Osterberg Trust, anniversaries and celebrations, finance;

memoirs relating to the College, 1900s-1970s; essays by old students relating to College life between 1892-1914; letters from old students who attended the College between 1891-1981; press cuttings relating to the College, 1932-1975; scrapbook of royal visit, 1918;

notes by E A Macleod, relating to theory of education and movement, biology, theory of games, practical science, anatomy, physiology, undated; notes (in Swedish) by Miss A Wikner, relating to pedagogical gymnastics, symptamology, gymnastic exercises, history, physiology, [1904]; exercise books of Katharine Lewis, 1930s, relating to various subjects taught at the College; course notes and lesson plans prepared by Margaret E Welch, 1964, on anatomy, physiology, remedial work; student notes by Cath Martineau, 1948-1951, including notes on anatomy, physiology, pathology, theory of movement.

Report of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) working party on overseas affairs, Nov 1995.

Papers of Sir Richard Owen, [1831-1873], comprising papers relating to his scientific research and as Curator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Papers largely relating to Owens' research and publications, including work on specimens of the Hunterian Museum and other institutions, namely original illustrations for plates published in his works and proof sheets; notes of dissections performed at the Zoological Society; report of preparations in comparative anatomy from animals which have died at the Zoological Gardens, 1831; report on the dugong received by the Zoological Society, 1831; paper on metamorphosis of insects; notes and sketch on python and boa; papers relating to a variety of subjects, including temporal mastoid-mammals; viscera and muscles of the myrmecophaga jubata (anteater); distinction of an animal from a vegetable; animal kingdom; order ophidia; serpents from British Fossil Reptiles, [c1850s]; list of 'Mr Cumming's Mollusca'; notes on birds closest in structure to mammalia; classified list of D Bennet esq's specimens of natural history, [1836]; notes on the hyoid, with sketches on the salamander; illustrations of cetacea; notes on the fore-foot, megatherium (giant sloth); loose notes on generation; notes on homologies; plates and notes on histology of animals; description of a malformed foetal heart; notes on composition of vertebral segments; notes on the dermo-skeleton, operculum and of a lecture on digestion; notes on belemites; memoranda on various subjects, including harpa ventricosa and Ehrenberg's classification with letters from naturalists; description of the skeleton of an extinct gigantic sloth, [c1842], and megatherium; report of preparations in comparative anatomy from animals which have died at the Zoological Gardens; report on the dugong received by the Zoological Society, 1831; notes on the giraffe, 1837; notes and sketches on a dugong, 1838; notes on the incubation and development of the chick; notes and plates on odontography, 1844; printed papers on Dinornis maximus (moa), with annotations by Owen, 1848-1851; memoir of William Clift, [c1850]; report on the dissection of the chimpanzee, 1844; notes taken at the Garden of Plants, Paris, 1847;

papers largely relating to the administration of the museum collection, namely lists of specimens, additions to the collection from other collections and reports to the Board of Curators of the Museum, including list of Hunterian documents handed by Owen to the Museum Committee; list of duplicate specimens in the College; selection from the collection of M Verraux; report to the Board of Curators, 1833; report on the present state of the museum, 1833; list of second selection of specimens from Mr Langstaff's collection, 1835; list of preparations in spirit presented by F D Bennett, 1836; donations from the Army Medical Departments; donations since July [1843]; report on duties of officers and servants of the Museum, 1852; plans for additional museum space, 1831; report to the Board of Curators on the Museum of Comparative Anatomy in the Garden of Plants, Paris, 1831; observations on the state of the College Museum, 1833; general account of specimens of comparative anatomy and natural history presented to the Museum by George Bennett, 1834; list of specimens proposed to be transferred to the British Museum and specimens of osteology proposed in place of the transfers, 1833-1834; report to the Committee on the chimpanzee, and copies of related correspondence, 1840; report on the physiological catalogue, 1840; list of duplicate preparations from the museum of Sir Astley Cooper not desirable for the College Museum, 1843; list of specimens selected for the College from Dr Buckland's series of bones of dinornis, 1844; report on additional space required for the collection, 1845; list of osteological specimens purchased at Steven's Auction Room, 1847; list of donations from Sir Thomas W Wilson, 1852;

papers relating to catalogues of the Hunterian Museum, including sketches and notes for an osteological catalogue, [?1840s]; notes and classifications referring to specimens in the Museum, [1827-1856]; Catalogue of Hunterian Osteological specimens, [?1853]; notes made whilst producing the catalogue of comparative anatomy, ?1831; printed histological catalogue of the Museum, with annotations, 1850; papers prepared for publication of descriptive catalogue of the fossil organic remains of invertebrata in the museum, 1856;

papers relating to the Hunterian lectures delivered by Owen at the College, including museum lectures on the animal kingdom, (Owen's first course of Museum lectures) c1837; notes for lectures delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons, 1830s-1850s; memorandum concerning Museum lectures, 1823-1833; lecture on the comparative anatomy and physiology of the vertebrate animals, 1844; notes, plates and drawings relating to mammalia and Owen's lecture, 1844;

notes taken by William W Cooper on lectures on comparative anatomy delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1838-1839, revised and corrected by Owen; notes on lectures on comparative anatomy delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1837, in Clift's hand; notes taken by T E Bryant on Owen's lectures on comparative anatomy, 1839; notes taken by Frederick Hoare Colt on lectures on physiology and morbid anatomy by Owen, 1845; Lady Owen's common-place book, [c1835-1873].

Accounts ledger and cash book of an unidentified furrier, possibly P R Poland and Sons.

Outgoing letter book of Peter Bond Burgoyne and Company, wine importers.

Two volumes of manuscript notes on geographers with an index to voyagers, travellers and authors and an index to countries and subjects.

Sir James Paget's index to references for medical biographies, intended for the Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1842-44), c.1844.

Recovery between Edward Boodle, demandant and Moses Hoper, tenant, relating to the manors of Hanworth and East Bedfont, 1792 (vouchees: Aubrey Beauclerk, earl of Burford and Aubney, Duke of St. Albans); and conveyances relating to land in Upper Halliford, Sunbury, 1844 and 1857.

Papers, 1930s-1980, of Dr Bishwa Nath Pandey, including his correspondence, photographs and notes, mainly relating to his book Nehru (1976), as well as early manuscript and typescripts drafts of the work itself.

Papers, 1851-1898, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Harlesden and Willesden, including mortgages, leases and correspondence.

Records of Parker, Garrett and Company, solicitors, including ledgers, 1928-50; cash books, 1935-1938, and petty disbursement ledgers, 1927-1929. Also records of Rivington and Son, solicitors, including letter book, ledgers, account books and scrapbooks of material relating to the firm.

Papers, 1774-1820, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising a lease and release, an assignment, a marriage settlement, a will and legal correspondence relating to premises in Bloomsbury, Mile End and Ham Common, Richmond upon Thames.