Part of Wellcome Collection
 
 
NEW! Discover what the Wellcome Library has for you





Sources Guides list

Local History, outside London (A&M):

Archival and manuscript material relating to specific areas


Sources of very general local history interest

England

South-East

South-Central
South-West

West Midlands and the Marches
South Midlands and the Fens
East Anglia and Essex
East Midlands
North-West
Yorkshire
North-East

Scotland
Wales
Ireland


Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue

In some cases full catalogues of archive collections are not yet available online Hard copy versions can be found in the Library’s Rare Materials Room or by request to archs+mss@wellcome.ac.uk

The Library's holdings of printed and pictorial materials also contain items of relevance.

Attention is also drawn to the Wellcome/National Archives Hospital Records Database, which provides information on the whereabouts of records of specific hospitals.

Sources of very general local history interest

Prior Philip de Thame: transcript of manuscript at Malta, compiled by order of Prior Philip, giving the extent of the Knights Hospitallers' estates in England, 1338 (transcribed 1839)

MSS.3881–82

Royal Army Medical Corps Muniment Collection: records from C17th to late C20th include much material relating to specific UK localities, in particular Home Front operations during the two World Wars

RAMC

William Stukeley, physician and antiquary: notes on British antiquities and the Druids, 1725– 62

MS.4720

Thomas Robinson: notes on mineral waters at various places in England 1734–42

MS.4229

Hodgkin family: extensive papers and correspondence of members of the Hodgkin, Rickman and Howard families, 1737–1980. Areas with which family members have particular connections and other relevant local links are listed under specific headings below

MSS.5680–6
& PP/HO

Norman Comben collection of veterinary miscellanea: bills, correspondence and other material relating to veterinary surgeons, farriers, blacksmiths and chemists. The items originate from a wide variety of places in the United Kingdom, 1796–1933. A detailed list of practitioners and customers is available (Handlist 29)

MSS.7562–9

Nicholas Carlisle, antiquary: notes and correspondence for an unpublished second edition of his A concise description of the endowed grammar schools in England and Wales (London, 1818), covering numerous English counties, and Wales, 1818–24 and n.d.

MSS.5373–4

Florence Nightingale: copious copy correspondence includes material relating to her relatives the Verney family of Claydon, Buckinghamshire, and public health initiatives in this and other areas, 1827–1905

MSS.8991–9109

Cholera: letters concerning the cholera epidemic of 1832, largely from local physicians to the Central Board of Health, 1831–2

MS.6793

Edmund Waterton, antiquary: compilation of material relating to British and Irish Knights Hospitallers, 1859–81

MS.4976

William Job Collins, campaigner against smallpox vaccination: scrapbook, originally a case ledger, used to hold newspaper cuttings on vaccination and on hunting. Numerous specific localities under each topic, c.1863–78

MS.7626

B.W. Lara & Co., agents for the sale of medical practices and partnerships: letterbook, 1881

MS.3170

Sir Thomas Barlow (1845–1945), physician: the extensive papers of Sir Thomas Barlow contain many items of local relevance. Particularly noteworthy items listed under relevant localities. The dates span Barlow's entire career

PP/BAR

Society of Medical Officers of Health (f. 1856): records of branches and regions, 1870s–1980s

SA/SMO

a very substantial collection of reports by local authority Medical Officers of Health, 1850s–1970s, is held in the Library and can be accessed via the main Library catalogue: http://catalogue.wellcome.ac.uk

 

Queen's Nursing Institute (f. 1889 as Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses): records relating to local district nursing associations, 1890s–1960s

SA/QNI

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: correspondence with many institutions, societies, museums, businesses, and individuals throughout the UK, 1900s–80s

WA/HMM

Louisa Martindale, surgeon: diaries of motor tours, from London to Sussex and Hampshire, 1912, and from London via Oxford and Stratford to the Lake District, Glasgow and Edinburgh, returning via Berwick, Durham, Harrogate and Cambridge, 1920

MS.3471, 3474

British Medical Association: 'Groups' files include reports on public health services provided by individual local authorities, material on local Sick Funds and Health Clubs, also on spas and clinics, 1900s–60s

SA/BMA

Sir Bernard Spilsbury: notes on autopsies performed by him 1905-33 include a number from various parts of the UK outside London

PP/SPI

James Randal Hutchinson (c.1880–1955) and William Henry Bradley (1898–1975), of the Ministry of Health: files on infectious and epidemic, food– and water–borne diseases, include material on localised outbreaks

PP/JRH

Family Planning Association (f. 1930 as National Birth Control Association): records of local branches and clinics, correspondence with local authorities and reports on their activities in relation to birth control provision, 1920s–70s

SA/FPA

Eugenics Society: reports by paid lecturers on lectures, meetings, Health Weeks and Exhibitions, conferences, throughout UK, 1925–40 [permission from Galton Institute required]

SA/EUG/G

National Birthday Trust Fund: maps, surveys, etc of comparative regional data relating to maternal mortality, 1930s, illegal abortion, 1930s, perinatal mortality, 1958, and British Births Survey of 1970

SA/NBT

Robert Rutson James F.R.C.S. (1881–1959), medical historian: correspondence with other medical historians including a transcript from apprentice books at Barbers' Hall and lists of doctors found in wills covering the period 1671–1801, 1934–8 and n.d.

MS.7493

Sir Graham Selby Wilson (1895–1987): material relating to the development of Public Health Laboratory services throughout the UK, 1930s–70s

PP/GSW/C

Alec William James Haggis (1889–1946), Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: papers relating to medical licensing in England and Wales prior to the Act of 1858, including lists of licences by diocese, c.1937–46

MSS.5328–55

Lilian Gertrude Ping, Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: research notes on the lives and miracles of various medieval figures: Henry VI, including material on his tomb at Windsor; St. William of York and St. Cuthbert, including accounts of the window illustrations of their lives in York Minster; and St. Thomas of Canterbury, including an account of the window illustrations of his life in Canterbury Cathedral, 1938

MSS.8272–8275

Sir Robert Macintosh, Nuffield Professor of Anaesthetics: diaries of visits to anaesthetics departments in UK hospitals, 1930s–60s

PP/RRM

Hugo Rast: files relating to his tours of Prisoner of War camps in various parts of the UK, under the auspices of the Mixed Medical Commission, 1941–5

PP/RAS

Professor Donald Hunter: Notebooks of visits to factories in connection with occupational health, 1947–70

PP/HUN

Multiple Sclerosis Society (f. 1953): records of local branches, 1950s–80s

SA/MSS

Sir Zachary Cope: materials for a history of dispensaries in Great Britain, 1957–65

MSS.1863–70

Biochemical Society: files relating to local meetings, conferences, etc, throughout the UK

SA/BIO

Professor Sir George Pickering: material on British university medical schools and other institutions, in connection with Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust Survey, 1970s

PP/GWP

Sources of very general local history interest

England; South-East; South-Central; South-West; West Midlands and the Marches; South Midlands and the Fens; East Anglia and Essex; East Midlands; North-West; Yorkshire; North-East
Scotland
; Wales
; Ireland

England

South-East

Kent, Surrey, Sussex (East and West). Areas falling within the county of Greater London as set up in 1965 (i.e., those falling within one of the modern-day London Boroughs) are excluded from this handlist and are covered in Subject Guide No.5, Sources for the history of London.

John Langley (fl.1494–1510), gentleman, Knowlton, Kent: record of payments, 1494–1510

MS.399

Waylett family, Kent: recipe books compiled by William Waylett (1636–?1702) and his grandson William Waylett (1728–1815), man–midwife, Lydd, Kent, 1657–1815

MS.4979–80

Miscellaneous papers of William Waylett (1728–1815) and of his nephew and successor in practice Thomas Sargent (d.1823), chiefly accounts, bills and material concerning the administration of Waylett's estate, 1717–1826

MSS.5625–7

Papers on the life of William Waylett (1728–1815), man–midwife, Lydd, Kent, by the physician and antiquary Frederick William Cock (1858–1943) (see also under Cock, below) c.1895–1931

MSS.1698, 4979, 5625 & 5628

Sir George Ent (1604–1689), physician: indenture between Lettice Ride of Chertsey, Surrey, and Sir George Ent, for the mortgage of land and property belonging to Ride at Chertsey; plus document transferring Ent's interest to Edward Chapman of Chertsey, 1666–72

MS.5649

Benjamin White (1632–1713), physician, Lewes: letter to the accoucher and court physician Hugh Chamberlen the elder (fl.1634–1720), giving details of the preparation of a pill and mentioning the death of Juliana Gage, third wife of Thomas Gage of Bentley in Framfield, East Sussex, 1674

MS.7671/6

William Day (fl.1688), surgeon, Faversham, Kent: deposition as part of a Chancery case, concerning an operation carried out by Thomas Elvy, surgeon, of Ashford, 1688

MS.2070

Sandwich, Kent: order from Henry Sidney, Earl of Romney, to the mayor and jurats of Sandwich, to release Alexander Mills and Nicholas Greenwood from prison unless they are justly confined, 1695

MS.7072/22

Recipe book, possibly with a Kentish provenance (authorities cited include a Mr Weeks of Maidstone), 17th – early, 18th centuries

MS.7818

Medical apprentices, Sussex: list of Sussex medical apprentices, 1710–1752, compiled by Alec William James Haggis (1889–1946) c.1937–46

MS.5353

See material relating to Haggis's work in the General section

 

Nicholas Gaynsford (fl.1712–13), Hartfield, East Sussex: case notes and medical recipes written by Nicholas Gaynsford, apparently apprenticed to Dr George Willett (d.1729) at Groombridge and recording Willett's treatment of patients in Sussex and Kent; mentioning other medical practitioners in the area, apparently including Thomas Fuller (1654–1734) of Sevenoaks, 1712–3

MS.6919

George Bayly (1694–1771), physician, Chichester: casebook, 1716–57

MS.1110

George Fawler Tilsley (b.1695), Rector of Chartham, Kent: commonplace book, later used as a recipe book c.1720–90

MS.4116

John Milner M.D. (1687–1724), Aylesford, Kent: papers concerning lawsuit arising from Milner's dying intestate, 1729

MSS.3550–1

Alfriston, Sussex: medical account owed by the parish to Richard Alchorne, 1743

MS.5269/7

Samuel Prescott (fl.1745), apothecary, Kent: bill settled by executors of Thomas Osborne Esq, bound with Waylett family papers, 1745

MS.4979

Robert Abbot (1616–1643), Vicar of Cranbrook, Kent: sermon preached at the funeral of William Rogers, apothecary; date not specified: part of a collection of material transcribed and assembled in the, 18th century c.1750–1803

MS.6083/4

Alexander James (d.1813), Perpetual Curate of Buckland and Vicar of St Margaret's–atte–Cliffe, Dover, Kent: diary, focusing primarily on events at Dover, 1752–1812

MS.3012

Pyott family, Canterbury: papers, 1779–1813 and n.d.

MS.7443

General Sea–Bathing Infirmary, Margate: letters from John Anderson (d.1804), physician to the Infirmary, to the Rev John Pridden, Secretary of the Infirmary, 1791–8 and n.d.

MS.6118

Ticehurst House, mental hospital, Ticehurst, Sussex: extensive archive including case notes and administrative documentation Permission from Ticehurst House Hospital may be necessary before consulting material, 1792–1975

MSS.6245–6790

Hodgkin family archive: includes family connections to Sussex via relatives in the Rickman family (Lewes), Thomas Hodgkin's apprenticeship to the apothecaries Glaisyer and Kemp (Brighton) and John Hodgkin's retirement to Lewes; John Hodgkin's autobiography describes visits to Sussex and to Southend (Essex) in the early nineteenth century See General section

PP/HO

Rickman family, Lewes, East Sussex: various family members represented in the Hodgkin family archive See General section

PP/HO

Medical Poetry, Dover, Kent: "The Cross–Wall Ode", a lampoon aimed at William S, a recently–arrived or newly–qualified medical man in Dover, by his rivals in the town; named other medical figures include Edward Broderip FLS, George Folkes, George Hannam, Francis Thatcher and Thomas Mantell FSA (1751–1831), later Mayor of Dover c.1800

MS.7018

John Glaisyer (fl.1809), pharmacist, of the Brighton pharmacists' firm of Glaisyer & Kemp: letter placing an order with John Gibson at the pharmacy of William Allen FRS (1770–1843), Quaker chemist and philanthropist, in Plough Court, London, 1809

MS.7825/7

Thomas Couchman Barrett (b.1784), Kent: recipes, plus some farm accounts, 1800–c.1810

MS.1074

Naval provisioning: orders from the Commissioners of the Victualling Board to Samuel Lewes, victualling agent at Sheerness, Kent, for the supply of His Majesty's ships; plus some accounts, 1804–15

MS.6816

Establishment of the victualling department, HMS Irresistible, Sheerness, 1802

MS.6817

Orders and letters to Lambert Middleton and Samuel Lewes junior, successive victualling agents in the Downs; plus some accounts, 1807–1815

MS.6818

Dr. Thomas Martin (d.1851), Dorking, Surrey: recipe book, n.d.

MS.7530

Photocopy of diary detailing patients seen, original dated,1805–15

MS.7531

Royal Army Medical Corps Muniment Collection: material on Fort Pitt/Army Medical School, Chatham, 1805–1974

RAMC

John Rennie F.R.S. (1761–1821), civil engineer: letter on a projected Admiralty dockyard at Northfleet, 1810

MS.7478/4

Rymer family, surgeons, Surrey: indenture (parchment, seals removed) binding James Rymer junior of Dorking as apprentice to the surgeon–apothecaries Caleb Woodyer and William Newland of Guildford, plus a print portrait of James Rymer senior (d.1829), naval surgeon, died at Reigate, 1810 and n.d.

MS.7655/7

Fort Pitt, Chatham: document requesting medical supplies, signed by the military surgeon Sir James McGrigor (1771–1858), 1817

MS.7847/30

Ship's surgeon: journal compiled by the surgeon of the East India Company vessel William Miles, including description of passing the Devil's Punch Bowl at Hindhead, Surrey, in, 1820 (p258), 1819–21

MS.7114

Kent and Canterbury Hospital: catalogue of books, 1820–33

MS.4855

Mrs M. H. Turnbull, Chobham, Surrey, later Abingdon, Berkshire: collection of culinary, household and medicinal remedies, many collected whilst in India c.1820–78 and n.d.

MS.5853

Sir Matthew John Tierney (1776–1845), royal physician practising in Brighton, supporter of vaccination: letters, including note to the Brighton apothecaries Glaisyer and Kemp, 1821–31

MS.7734/58–59

A. Scott M.D. (fl.1827), Winchelsea, Sussex: letter to Mr Franklin, surgeon, of Lisson Grove, London, describing the case of Sarah Hazel, sent home to Winchelsea by Franklin after a week in his service only to die of typhus on arrival, and asking Franklin to compensate her family and send them her belongings, 1827

MS.7578/46

Thomas Sunderland Harrison F.R.C.S. M.R.C.P. (1800–1864): papers include letters and resolutions of thanks from the governing committee of the Brighton Dispensary on Harrison's resignation as surgeon, 1831

MS.6887/4–6

Linton, Kent: account book recording taxation in Linton area, later used to record recipes and a list of books, 1832–c. 1838

MS. 7729

William Newnham (1790–1865), general practitioner, Farnham, Surrey: letter concerning a life assurance application by his friend John Paine, 1837

MS.7780/3

Folkestone Grocer/Druggist's Ledgers: Three accounts ledgers and one 'want book' kept by an unidentified grocer and druggist living in the Folkestone area, 1839-c.1867

MSS.7968-71

Alfred King M.D. (fl.1813–1875), general practitioner based in Brighton and in South London: certificates, 1840–75

MS.7519

John Flint South F.R.C.S. (1797–1882), surgeon: letters to South concerning his candidature as Medical Visitor to the Kent County Asylum, 1845

MS.7662/24–27

Joseph Henry Shorthouse M.D. M.R.C.S. (d, 1883), surgeon, Tonbridge, Kent: unpublished manuscript work on the extraction of teeth, 1846

MS.7202

J.D. Robinson (fl.1853–1859), coal–merchant, Dover: book of recipes and accounts, 1853–9

MS.4228

Stephen Monckton F.R.C.P. (1824–1885), physician to West Kent General Hospital: testimonial in favour of his brother David Henry Monckton (physician, Staffordshire), 1854

MS.7337/50

The Alembick: anonymous mock medical journal, whose author appears to have lived in Kent and claims to have relations who were buried in 'Chichester Church–Yard', 1854

MS.6801

George Edward Shuttleworth (1842–1923), specialist in mental deficiency: case notes and post mortem notes taken at Earlswood Asylum, Surrey, 1869–70

MS.4567–8

Horsmonden Benefit Society, Horsmonden, Kent: minute book, 1869–96

MS.6993

Sir Henry Head (1861–1940): manuscript autobiography includes his schooldays at Charterhouse, Goldalming, Surrey, c. 1870s

PP/HEA/A.1

Mrs Thomas Thoms, Henfield, Sussex: cookery recipes, with a few personal and household accounts c.1870–78

MS.7731

James Adam M.D. (1834–1908), Asylum Medical Superintendent: diaries as superintendent of the Metropolitan District Asylum at Caterham, Surrey, 1872–9

MSS.5510–16

Two leaves from his diary as proprietor and physician of a private asylum at West Malling, Kent, inserted into a volume dating from his time in Dumfries, 1884

MS.5519

Thomas Frederick Isaacson Blaker M.R.C.S. (d.1941?), Brighton, Sussex: notes on cases and midwifery; including two cases as honorary surgeon to the Brighton & Hove Lying–In Institution and an attendance list and minute of a BMA meeting at Lewes, 1872–85

MS.6923

Charles Roach Smith (1807–1890), chemist and antiquary: letter to the dramatist and herald James Robinson Planché (1796–1880), mentioning the erection of a theatre for the marines at Chatham, 1879

MS.7655/62

Wellcome Foundation: one of main establishments was at Dartford: records include, besides business activities, much on locality generally, 1880s–1990s

WF

Holloway Sanatorium Hospital for the Insane, Virginia Water, Surrey: casebooks, 1889–1926 (with gaps)

MSS.5157–63

Sir Henry Wellcome: files relating to The Nest, Hayes, Kent, 1891–1911, and The Cottage, Surbiton, 1899–1901, as well as to business activities in Dartford, 1890s–1930s

WA/HSW

Charles Brodie Sewell M.D. (1817–1900), physician: journal of holiday in Sussex and the Isle of Wight, 1892

MS.4515

Queen’s Nursing Institute: records of relations with affiliated local branches, 1890s–1970s; some deposited material from local district nursing associations

SA/QNI

No 2 (Inspector’s) District (Kent and Sussex) Workhouse Masters’ [and Matrons’] Association: Minutes (including Rules), 1897–1929

SA/AHR/A.33–34

Frederick William Cock (1858–1943), physician and antiquary: extracts from Canterbury records on Kent physicians c.1900

MS.1697

See also Waylett family, above

 

Lionel Henry de Barri Crawshay (1882–1928), naturalist: notebook recording bicycling excursions, mainly in Surrey and Sussex, 1900–11

MS.1912

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: files relating to Dartford (at which the firm Burroughs Wellcome was based), 1900–1980s

WA/HMM

British Medical Association: material on Public Medical Services in all areas of the UK, also on specific local friendly/medical aid societies, medical institutions, etc 1900s–60s

SA/BMA

Medical Women’s Federation: material on the New Sussex and Lady Chichester Hospitals, Brighton and Hove, n.d.; correspondence with local Associations, 1960s–80s

SA/MWF

Research Defence Society: records of Brighton and Sussex branch, c. 1908–19

SA/RDS/D.1

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy: photographs of Queen Mary’s Hospital for Children, Carshalton, Surrey, 1923–51; physiotherapist working with children at Chailey Heritage Craft School, Sussex, 1972; physiotherapist at Joint Services Rehabilitation Centre, Chessington, Surrey, 1976; photograph albums of Georgina Maud Weller at Eastbourne Military Hospital, 1915–6

SA/CSP/Q.1, Q.2

Haslemere Branch of the Eugenics Society: one file, c. 1915 [permission from Galton Institute required]

SA/EUG/E.17

Edith Cavell Home of Rest for Nurses, Coombe Head, Haslemere: records of the Edith Cavell Homes, 1917–84

SA/NFN/C

National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis: minutes, etc, relating to its Farm Colony at Burrow Hill, Frimley Green, Surrey, 1917–45

SA/NPT/A

Nurse Rachel Barnes: material reflecting her employment as health visitor by Surrey County Council Public Health Dept, 1918–46, mainly at East and West Molesey and the Dittons and area

SA/HVA/G.1

Archer House Convalescent Home for Nurses, Ramsgate: minutes, accounts, etc, 1919–73

SA/NFN/D.1

Wellcome Entomological Field Laboratories, Wisley, Surrey: reports, correspondence, other materials, 1919–23

WA/BSR/Efl

Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories: moved to Langley Court, Beckenham, Kent, 1922; records 1903–27

WA/PRL

Grantly Dick–Read (1890–1959): material relating to his general practice in Eastbourne, 1921–2, and group practice in Woking, 1923–34

PP/GDR

Cancer Research Campaign: file on Kent Council of Campaign, 1923–55, and Sussex Council, 1926–49

SA/CRC/F.1/8, 20

Robert Henry Stewart Thompson (1912–1998): material relating to his association with Epsom College, 1925–83

PP/RHT/A

Dr Lawrence Dulake (1901–1987), general practitioner, Reigate, Surrey: practice and partnership agreements, c.1926–65

GP/1

Wathen Waller, general practitioner, Rustington, Surrey: valuation for insurance of his house, and Testimonial to services as Medical Officer, Tortington Park Girl's School, Arundel, 1929–40

GC/93/1

Society of Medical Officers of Health: records of Home Counties Branch, later London and Home Counties Branch and Thames Regions, 1929–81

SA/SMO/N.4–5

John Chassar Moir (1900–1977): letters of appreciation from colleagues in Redhill and Reigate, where he was in general practice, 1929

PP/JCM/13/4

Family Planning Association (formerly National Birth Control Association): records of its dealings with its own regional federations, area organisation, local branches and clinics, correspondence with local authorities, 1930–74; records of its regional administration, 1965–1991; records of the following branches: Maidstone,, 1954–75, Mitcham/Carshalton, 1935–69; Sutton and Cheam, 1954–69; Orpington, 1955–64; Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells, 1957–60, Gravesend, 1958–68; Hastings, 1962–4, Beckenham and Penge, 1966–9

SA/FPA

National Birthday Trust Fund: correspondence with Bearsted Memorial Hospital (Jewish Maternity Hospital), 1930–51, and Zachary Merton Convalescent Home, Sussex, 1936–8

SA/NBT/F.6/1, 8

Edward Fyfe Griffith (1985–1988): various materials relating to his activities in birth control and sex education in Aldershot, Guildford and area, 1930s

PP/EFG

Professor Norman Ashton: file relating to holidays with friends at Pagham, 1930s

PP/ASH/G.3

Ernest Thomas Ruston (d.1970), pathologist, Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford: diaries, 1935, 1953 and, 1956

MSS.4319–21

Derek Richter (1907–1995): copies of his scrapbooks on the Neuropsychiatric Research Centre, following move from Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff, to Carshalton, Surrey, and earlier history of hospital; and autobiography, 1900s–80s

GC/175

Norman Ashton (1913–2000): papers relating to Kent and Canterbury Hospital, including its history, and discussions on setting up county laboratory service, 1940–1982

PP/ASH

Mental Aftercare Association: material (including some photographs) on residential homes and hostels for former mental patients at Bromley, Cliftonville, Dartford, Folkestone, Margate, Rochester, Sandgate, Sevenoaks, Tankerton (nr Whitstable) , Wellinborough, Westerham, and Westgate–on–Sea, in Kent, at Ashtead, Blindley Heath, Cheam, Esher, Godalming , Sutton and Thames Ditton in Surrey, and at Bexhill, Broadbridge Heath, Eastbourne, Hastings, Hove, Littlehampton and Seaford, in Sussex, 1940s–80s

SA/MAC

East Surrey Mobile Physiotherapy Unit: records, 1942–84

SA/CSP/M

The Caldecott Community, Smeeth, Kent: correspondence between its founder, Leila Rendel, and Eugenics Society, 1943–53 [permission from Galton Institute required]

SA/EUG/D.51

Wellcome Veterinary Research Station, Ely Grange Estate Frant, Sussex: records, 1944–56

WF/CA/P/12

Tyburn Project: production of scrub typhus vaccine, World War II, at Wellcome Foundation laboratories, Tyburn Farm, Frant, East Sussex, 1945

GC/12

William Walters Sargant (1907–1988): file on Roffey Park Rehabilitation Centre, Horsham, 1948–9; and minutes of South West Metropolitan Psychiatric Advisory Board Working Party and Subcommittee on Neurosis

PP/WWS/B

Fennings Pharmaceuticals: in 1948 moved its HQ to Horsham, West Sussex: records of activities 1948–96

SA/FEN

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy: South West Metropolitan and Wessex Local Board, 1948–71

SA/CSP/J.4/4

Lord Moran: file relating to Marshalls Manor, his country house nr Uckfield, Sussex, 1951–73, including historical notes

PP/CMW/M.2/3

Sir Graham Selby Wilson (1895–1987): photographs of Brighton Public Health Laboratory, n.d. ?1950s

PP/GSW/H.16

Multiple Sclerosis Society: files on Association of London and Home Counties Branches, and specific local branches, 1950s–70s

SA/MSS/C

Rudolph Karl Freudenberg (1908–1986): files relating to his activities in the following organisations: Disablement Income Group, Godalming, 1967–9; Industrial Therapy Organisation (Epsom) Ltd, 1967–70; Orpington Mental Health Association, 1971; Reigate and District Association for Mental Health, 1972; Surrey Group of National Schizophrenia Fellowship, 1977; Surrey Council for Mental Health, 1978–9

PP/RKF/D

David Stafford Clark (1916–1999): Plans and two leases relating to property on the Varndean Park Estate in Brighton, 1970s

PP/DSC/A.4

Serge Keys: “50 Years Development of the Pathology Services in the Guildford and Godalming Area”, c. 1973

GC/273

Sir James Keith Ross (1927–2003): file relating to King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst, 1977–81

GC/238/3/13

Biochemical Society: files relating to Harden Conferences of the Society held at Wye College, 1980s-90s

SA/BIO/E.1

Medical Pilgrims: records of ‘Pilgrimage’ to Leeds Castle, Kent, 1985

SA/PIL

BACUP: files relating to South East and South West Thames Regional Cancer Organisations, 1985–7

SA/BAC/H.22–23

Oral History of General Practice, 1935–52: tapes and transcripts of interviews with Edward Carew–Shaw, Horley; Manny Tuckman, St Pauls Cray Estate/Orpington/Sidcup; Arthur Griffiths, Hove, 1992–4

GP/29

Travelling Surgical Society: visit to Canterbury, 1994

SA/TSS

Sources of very general local history interest

England; South-East; South-Central; South-West; West Midlands and the Marches; South Midlands and the Fens; East Anglia and Essex; East Midlands; North-West; Yorkshire; North-East
Scotland
;
Wales
; Ireland

South-Central

Berkshire (including Vale of White Horse), Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire. Also the Channel Islands.

Southampton Guild Rules and Charter: facsimiles of an early, 15th century document giving rules and regulations for Southampton's guilds and regulating the sale and prices of food, drugs and spices, and of a short charter granted to the town about, 1200 Copy taken c.1850

MS.8070

John Moulton (d.1623) of North Waltham, Hampshire, vicar of St Bartholomew the Less in London: commonplace book with sermons, expenses and some recipes c.1620

MS.571

Portsmouth: estimate of the necessary repairs to the Round Tower, Portsmouth, 1656

MS.7072/14

Wishford, Wiltshire: cookery book, including advertisement for "Dredge's Heal–all" dated at Wishford Late, 17th century–1839

MS.1792

Jenner, Davies and Seely families, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire: materials relating to Edward Jenner, his forebears and relatives Accounts, inventories, diaries, poems, sermons and other material relating to numerous individuals at Arlingham, Berkeley, Cheltenham, Cirencester, Cowley, Dursley, Eastington, Frampton, Hill, Painswick, Quedgeley, Randwick, Rockhampton, Slimbridge, Standish (Gloucestershire); Oxford; Appleton, Drayton, Little Coxwell and Shillingford (Berkshire) Material on the Jenner family and their connections is the subject of Western Manuscripts Handlist No6, 1708–1893

MSS.2048–69, 3015–72, 3587–8, 4487–9, 5222–49

Hampshire Deeds: deeds recording the sales of the manors of Harbridge and Empshott, Hampshire, 1734 &, 1745

MS.6230

Mr. Mortimer, apothecary, Trowbridge, Wiltshire: prescription, possibly drawn up by a surgeon named Shrapnell of Gloucester, 1749

MS.7525/1

Anna Maria Reeves, Berkshire: recipe and cutting book, continued from an earlier compiler c.1750–1800

MS.2363

Dr. Cooper, East Hendred, Berkshire: address label n.d.

MS.7313/1

Rev. Stephen Jenner (1732–1797), elder brother of Dr Edward Jenner: certificate of institution to the Rectory of Fittleton, Wiltshire, signed by John Hume, Bishop of Salisbury, 1773

MS.5225

See also other Jenner material

 

Odiham, Hampshire: prescription book of an unidentified chemist and apothecary, probably based at Odiham, 1774–80

MS.3974

Hans Sloane [later Hans Sloane–Stanley] (1739–1827), MP for Southampton: letters and papers, involving affairs of Southampton and of Jersey, 1778–1818

MS.7675

Yates family, possibly from near Reading, Berkshire: recipes and notes, including specimen menus for club dinners and notes on severe frosts, 1788–1812

MS.5099

Rev. Lewis Evans (1755–1827), Vicar of Froxfield, Wiltshire: cookery and medical recipes collected by the Evans family, 18th century

MS. 7724

John Taylor (fl.1799–1800), physician, Reading: letters to Mr Roberts, attorney, Wokingham, concerning the sale of a local estate, 1799–1800

MS.7674/9–12

Rev. Thomas Pruen (c.1772–1834), Aldbourne, Wiltshire: correspondence from, and papers relating to, his friend Edward Jenner, 1802–22 and n.d.

MS.5240

George Rose M.P. (1744–1818): papers concerning smallpox vaccination at Ringwood, Hampshire, 1807–8

MS.4257

Chemists' business, Southampton: prescription book including recipes for medicines, varnishes, dyes, etc; the business possibly run by a JP Gillmore c.1810–63

MS.2522

Mrs M. H. Turnbull, Chobham, Surrey, later Abingdon, Berkshire: collection of culinary, household and medicinal remedies, many collected whilst in India c.1820–78 and n.d.

MS.5853

Ship's surgeon: journal compiled by the surgeon of the East India Company vessel William Miles, including description of a visit to Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight in summer, 1820, 1819–21

MS.7114

Transportation: warrant signed by the King authorising removal of named convicts from gaols in Suffolk, Ipswich (listed separately from Suffolk), Norfolk and Cornwall, and from the Old Bailey in London, to the hulks at Portsmouth prior to transportation to Australia, 1823

MS.7830/14

Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), nursing pioneer: copy letters concerning the church and school at Wellow, Hampshire, 1840–55

MSS.9035–6

See General section and also Florence Nightingale A guide to sources in the Wellcome Institute Library

 

Charles Kingsley (1819–1875), author and Rector of Eversley, Hampshire: sermon preached at Eversley on Day of Humiliation for Cholera, 1849

MS.3018

Letters to his friend Dr William Henry Ackland (c.1825–1898), of Bideford, Devon (see West Country section for further material on the Ackland family), 1860–71

MS.5420

Fennings Pharmaceuticals: in 1850 this firm moved its operations to Cowes, Isle of Wight: records of its activities, 1850–1948

SA/FEN

Royal Victoria Hospital and Army Medical School, Netley: various items, 1850s–1970s

RAMC

Netley Hospital, Hampshire: letter, signed by B Willcox, asserting that construction of the hospital will proceed as planned despite rumours to the contrary, 1859

MS.7326/6

James Bankart: material relating to his investigations into tin-mining in Devon and Cornwall for the Mines Commission, 1862; some papers relating to his later career as surgeon and ophthalmologist in Exeter, 1869-1902

PP/JBA

Veterinary Notebook, Berkshire–Oxfordshire area: farmer's notebook containing veterinary cures and tips, a few medical and household recipes, mid to late C19th

MS.7026

Rabies, Maidenhead, Berkshire: summons issued by the Justices of the Peace for Maidenhead against the Rev A H Drummond (1843–1925), accused of allowing a dog to be at large in contravention of rabies bye–laws, 1878

MS.7019/6

Sir Thomas Barlow (1845–1945), physician: journal of a tour of Brittany and the Channel Islands, 1878 See also General section

PP/BAR/A/10

Charles Roach Smith (1807–1890), chemist and antiquary: letter mentioning a connection between his father, John Smith of Landguard Manor, Shanklin, Isle of Wight, and the play Speed the Plough by Thomas Morton, 1879

MS.7655/62

Dr. James Mann Williamson (c.1849–1901), general practitioner, Ventnor, Isle of Wight: medical case registers with numerous inserted letters and notes, including registers relating to his positions as Honorary Surgeon to the Royal National Hospital for Consumption at Ventnor, and Honorary Medical Officer to the convalescent home at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, attached to the Royal Hampshire County Hospital (one register, for example, consists chiefly of patients from Winchester and other localities in mainland Hampshire), 1883–1900

MSS.7502–7514

Charles Brodie Sewell M.D. (1817–1900), physician: journal of holiday in Sussex and the Isle of Wight, 1892

MS.4515

Society of Medical Officers of Health: records of Southern Branch and Wessex Region, 1894–1979, and of Home Counties Branch, later London and Home Counties Branch and Thames Regions, 1929–81

SA/SMO/N.4–5, 12

Queen’s Nursing Institute: records of relations with affiliated local branches, 1890s–1970s; some deposited material from local district nursing associations

SA/QNI

British Medical Association: material on Public Medical Services in all areas of the UK, also on specific local friendly/medical aid societies, medical institutions, etc 1900s–60s

SA/BMA

Research Defence Society: records of Bournemouth, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southsea branches, c. 1908–19

SA/RDS/D.1

A E Mourant: personal, biographical and family materials reflect his origins and continuing connection with Jersey, 1919–96

PP/AEM

Home of Rest for Nurses, Bonchurch, Isle of Wight: f. 1920, some material among files of Nation’s Fund for Nurses

SA/NFN

Sir Ronald Ross (1857–1932): establishment and incorporation of the British Mosquito Control Institute, Hayling Island, Hampshire, 1924–7

GC/59/C

Family Planning Association (formerly National Birth Control Association): records of its dealings with its own regional federations, area organisation, local branches and clinics, correspondence with local authorities, 1930–74; records of its regional administration, 1965–1991; records of Salisbury branch, 1952–3

SA/FPA

Fallers' Pharmacy, Lymington, Hants: Prescription books, 1932–79

GC/13

James Randal Hutchinson (c.1880–1955) and William Henry Bradley (1898–1975): enteritis outbreak, Portsmouth, 1939–40; enteric fever at Bournemouth and Poole, 1936–7; enteritis at West Stowell Nursery Wilts, 1943; measles serum jaundice at Lambrook School, Bracknell, 1937, and in Horton and Sutton, 1943; Portsmouth, 1938

PP/JRH

Research Board for the Correlation of Medical Science and Physical Education: files on the ‘Slough Investigation’ of problems of adolescents in industry, 1948–50

SA/RBC/E.3–4

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy: minutes of South West Metropolitan and Wessex Local Board, 1948–71; photographs of treatments at hospital at Alton, Hants, c. 1955, new facilities at Basingstoke General Hospital, c. 1974, Activity centre, Salisbury General Hospital, c. 1975

SA/CSP/J.4/4, Q.1

Richard Henry Hardy (1921–1999), general practitioner, Exmouth: papers relating to his work in general practice, 1950s–70

GP/12/B

Multiple Sclerosis Society: file on the Association of London and Home Counties Branches, and on specific local branches, 1950s–70s

SA/MSS/C

Travelling Surgical Society; visits to Portsmouth, 1958, Institute of Naval Medicine, Portsmouth, 1970, Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, 1992

SA/TSS

Sir Robert Macintosh (1897–1989): travel diaries of visits to Salisbury and Southampton, 1964, Bournemouth, 1965

PP/RRM/C.74, 85

Barlow Gallery, Sussex University: copy of Nora Lady Barlow's address at the opening, 1974

PP/BAR/Z/41

See also General section, under Sir Thomas Barlow

PP/BAR

Dr Graham M. Robertson, general practitioner, Bournemouth: material relating to examinations for Mobility and Disability Allowance, 1970s–80s

GP/57

Birth Control Campaign: files of Portsmouth and Southampton local groups, 1971–4, Radio Brighton discussion of abortion, 1973

SA/BCC

ASH (Action on Smoking and Health): Solent Branch, 1976–88

SA/ASH/E.1/6

John Cary Gilson (1912–1989): correspondence, reports etc, relating to MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Southampton, 1980–5

GC/237/D.3

BACUP: correspondence with Portsmouth Disability and Advice Line (DIAL), 1985; also files on Jersey BACUP, 1986–9; press–cuttings re Southampton free helpline, 1989

SA/BAC

Biochemical Society: file on Southern Regional section, 1992-5

SA/BIO/B.22

Oral History of General Practice, 1935–52: tapes and transcripts of interviews with Graham Robertson, Bournemouth; Lewis Gavin, Slough; Bill Dean, Christchurch, 1992–4

GP/29

Sources of very general local history interest

England; South-East; South-Central; South-West; West Midlands and the Marches; South Midlands and the Fens; East Anglia and Essex; East Midlands; North-West; Yorkshire; North-East
Scotland
;
Wales
; Ireland

South-West

Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset.

John Gostlin (1566–1626), Exeter physician, later Master of Gonville & Caius College Cambridge: collection of medical notes Early, 17th century

MS.315

Charles Morton (1627–1698), Puritan divine, later Vice–President of Harvard: transcript of his paper on possible improvements in Cornwall, 1686

MS.3637/5

Transcripts of his System of Physics made by Robert Darch (d.1737), non–conformist minister, Somerset, and Benjamin Mills, pupil at Taunton Academy, 1694–1709

MS.3636

Caleb Lowdham or Loudham (fl.1665–1712), surgeon, Exeter: recipes and a few case histories compiled by Caleb Lowdham with Jane Lowdham, his wife or daughter Late, 17th–early, 18th centuries

MS.7073

James Yonge F.R.S. (1647–1721), retired naval surgeon practising at Plymouth (later Mayor): paper on uses of terebinth and various other aspects of military surgery c.1710

MS.5101

Arscott family, Arscott, Devon: recipe book c.1725–66

MS.981

Alexander Wolcott (fl.1712–1727), surgeon, Fowey, Cornwall: lease of a property in the parish of Lansallos, Cornwall, 1727

MS.5988

Mary Harrold, Charterhouse Hinton, Somerset: quitclaim, to Dorothy Ponting of Wotton under Edge, Gloucestershire, 1744

MS.5249/1

Anne Lisle (fl.1748), possibly Anne Lisle [née Carey] from Upcern, Dorset: recipes, 1748

MSS.3294–5

Richard Polwhele (1760–1838), clergyman and writer, Cornwall: book of memoranda and accounts, including some by earlier owners (perhaps including his father Thomas Polwhele (1724–1777)), 1748–1819

MS.3949

John Smeaton F.R.S. (1724–1792), civil engineer: note of inscriptions placed at various points on his Eddystone Lighthouse plus calculations concerning total cost of the light in money and time c.1759

MS.7642/7

Rudolph Erich Raspe (1737–1794), German mineralogist, archeologist and author: letter, in English, concerning a forthcoming publication and a visit to Cornwall to study smelting processes, 1763

MS.7476/1

Rabies, Bath: advertisement for a cure for the bite of a mad dog, brought from Tonquin by Sir George Cobb and available from Will Frederick, Bookseller, Bath c.1764

MS.7019/2

Devon: collection of medical, veterinary and household recipes, apparently compiled by a Devonshire medical practitioner, mentioning numerous Devon medical figures such as Dr Huxham, Dr Downman and Dr Harvey, 1776–c.1781

MS.7365

Evens family, Saltash, Cornwall: recipe and commonplace book c.1788–c.1831

MS.7732

Bath Casualty Hospital: rules and orders, account book and register of wills in favour of the hospital, 1788–1840

MSS.1094–1097

Milton Abbot, Devon: book of culinary and medical recipes, 1788–c.1830

MS.1828

Dr. William Fraser (fl.1795), Bath: letter mentioning the dangers of Bath to "youths approaching to an inflammatory age", 1795

MS.7396/2

James Nooth (fl.1796–1804), surgeon, Bath: papers including bill and receipt concerning expenses incurred by Richard Phillips, 1796–1804

MS.7368/2–4

Parody: letter in Dorset dialect, purportedly from John Green, West Lulworth, Dorset, to "Mr Basket, Surjon, Potticary, Warham", requesting medicine for his wife; from an album of chiefly non–medical items assembled by Dr Josiah Cheston of Gloucester Late, 18th – early, 19th centuries

MS.7704

Parry family, physicians, Bath: letters by the physicians Caleb Hillier Parry FRS (1755–1822) and his son Charles Henry Parry (1779–1860), 1802–41 and n.d.

MS.7400/21–26

– Material is also held on Caleb Hillier's other son the Arctic explorer Sir William Edward Parry (1790–1855): see resource guide for the history of the Polar Regions

 

William Hasledine Pepys F.R.S. (1775–1856), chemist: letter to the chemist and philanthropist William Allen FRS (1770–1843) giving an analysis of the waters at Bath, 1804

MS.7400/73

John Rennie F.R.S. (1761–1821), civil engineer: letter commenting in detail on works affecting the River Avon in Bath in connection with the Kennet and Avon Canal, 1811

MS.7478/6

Mrs Meade, Chatley Lodge, near Bath: letters from Edward Jenner (1749–1823), mainly concerning the treatment of her husband for inflammation of the eye, 1812

MS.5238

John Haddy James (1788–1869), army surgeon, later surgeon to the Devon and Exeter Hospital and mayor of Exeter: letter to his brother Henry James at Exeter, 1814

MS.7825/10

Edward Gardner (1752–1823), poet and friend of Edward Jenner, Gloucestershire: poems by Gardner and his friend Dr French Lawrence of Bath, 1818

MS.2471

Hannah Sheppard [née Pollett] (fl.1818), Keyford House, Somerset: recipe book, 1818–63

MS.4520

Ackland and Littlewood families, general practitioners, Bideford, Devon: papers relating to four generations of medical practitioners, and to their practice in Bideford, 1819–1970 and n.d.

MSS. 5410–20 & 7205–16

Recipe book: collection of cookery, household and medical recipes in various hands, apparently compiled in the West Country; later owned by a Mrs Hill, of Henbury, Gloucestershire c.1820–76

MS.7733

Transportation: warrant signed by the King authorising removal of named convicts from gaols in Suffolk, Ipswich (listed separately from Suffolk), Norfolk and Cornwall, and from the Old Bailey in London, to the hulks at Portsmouth prior to transportation to Australia, 1823

MS.7830/14

James Prew (d.1846), surgeon–dentist, Bristol and Bath: account books and bills, 1830–47 and n.d.

MSS.5208–14

George Alfred Ellis (fl.1832), physician, Weymouth: letter to the Central Board of Health concerning the cholera epidemic. 1832

MS.6793/1

Charles Hawkes Mules, LSA, MRCS, and Henry Burnard, LSA, MRCS., general practitioners, Ilminster, Somerset: accounts of Mules and Burnard's medical practice, including payments by various parishes, sickness clubs, and the Chard Poor Law Union, 1834–9; plus household accounts, probably of the Mules family, 1845–9

MS.5653

Robert McCormick (1800–1890), naval surgeon, explorer and naturalist: diary of a walking tour in Devon, 1834–5

MS.3364

Nicholas Littleton M.R.C.S., Saltash, Cornwall: printed questionnaire sent by the Mutual Life Assurance Office enquiring about the health of RJ Bryant, completed and returned by Littleton, 1835

MS.7657/4

Thomas Wake Smart, general practitioner, Cranborne, Dorset: British Medical Almanac for, 1838, with Smart's annotations dealing with interesting medical cases, events in Smart's own life, natural history, meteorology and local historic events, 1837–43 and n.d.

MS.7586

John Henry Parker (1806–1884), architectural historian, bookseller and Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum: letter concerning the Historical Survey of Cornwall by Charles Sandoe Gilbert (1760–1831) and Parker's own work on ancient buildings, 1838

MS.7400/6

Henry Frederick Augustus Goodridge F.R.C.P. (1823–1906): indenture apprenticing Goodridge to the surgeon–apothecary Richard Thomas of Bath, plus testimonials to Goodridge as a candidate for a job at the Bath Eastern Dispensary, 1839–47

MS.5145

Mark Wood (fl.1846–1853): documents demonstrating "writing without hands", one dated at Exeter, 1846–54 and n.d.

MS.7276

Henry Richard Lobb Veale M.D. (1832–1908), army surgeon, originally from Devon: various formal documents, including indenture binding Henry Veale of Maker, Devon, as apprentice to David Raymond Robinson, surgeon, of St Austell, Cornwall, 1848–81

MS.7515

Fox family, Falmouth: Hodgkin family archive includes correspondence with various members of the Fox family See General section

PP/HO

Annabella Irvine (fl.1854–1856), inmate in an asylum at Brislington, Somerset, run by Drs Francis Ker Fox and Charles Fox: papers relating to her care and to the administration of her affairs, 1854–6 and n.d.

MS.7676

Edward Evan Meeres (1835?–1908), consulting physician to the Plymouth Public Dispensary: testimonials and letter, 1858–1905

MS.6234

Charles George Thomas Williams (fl.1868), chemist and druggist, Bath: indenture apprenticing Frederick Williams to Charles Williams, 1868

MS.5468

N.H. Symons (flc.1870), chemist, Penzance: recipe book c.1870

MS.7771

Taunton pharmacy: prescription books, account books, ledgers, and note book from a pharmacy run by R Woollatt until, 1906, and thereafter by J Boyd, 1880–1944

MSS. 5661–73

Sir Thomas Barlow (1845–1945), physician: sketchbook, with notes and sketches of a tour of the West Country, 1883

PP/BAR/A/13

See also General section

PP/BAR

Marwood family, Honiton: notes on the family's history and on a manuscript held by them describing the last illness of James I; compiled by William Munk (1816–1898), 1885–1933

MSS.3649–50

John Grenfell Moyle (fl.1888), Scilly Isles medical man: letter to Auguste Roscorla (née Lemon, one of Florence Nightingale's first trainees at St Thomas's Hospital), discusssing the health of a Mrs Hall and describing visits by George Eliot, GH Lewes and Alfred Tennyson; plus envelope and late twentieth–century note on Auguste Roscorla, 1888

MS.7337/94

Medical Women’s Federation: file on Walker Dunbar Hospital, Bristol, n.d.; Bristol Health Committee and advert for Lady Medical Inspector, 1912; amalgamation of Associations of Registered Medical Women into Federation, 1916; Medical Officer of Health, Cornwall, 1962; correspondence with local Associations, 1960s–80s

SA/MWF

Sequah: papers relating to James Kasper’s activities on behalf of Sequah Ltd in Somerset, 1890

GC/69/1

Joseph Lister (1827–1912), surgeon, 1st Baron Lister: holiday diary, including tour to Swanage, 1894

MS.3303

Queen’s Nursing Institute: records of relations with affiliated local branches, 1890s–1970s; some deposited material from local district nursing associations

SA/QNI

British Medical Association: material on Public Medical Services in all areas of the UK, also on specific local friendly/medical aid societies, medical institutions, etc 1900s–60s

SA/BMA

Research Defence Society: records of Bath, Barnstaple and North Devon, Bristol, Plymouth and Torquay branches,

SA/RDS/D.1

Drs. George and Violet Alabaster, Dartmouth: announcement that the Alabasters' practice has temporarily been transferred to Dr Sparrow and that Dr George Alabaster has rejoined the RAMC. 1916

MS.7285/1

University of Bristol Department of Physiology: Order and account books, 1910–80

GC/108

John Bowlby: material from his period as cadet at Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, 1921–5

PP/BOW

Wellington General Practice: Record Envelopes, 1923–91

GP/28

Family Planning Association (formerly National Birth Control Association): records of its dealings with its own regional federations, area organisation, local branches and clinics, correspondence with local authorities, 1930–74; records of its regional administration, 1965–1991; includes records of following branches: Taunton, 1961–71, Devon and Cornwall, 1966–75

 

Herbert Davies Chalke (1897–1979): Medical Officer of Health, Dorset, 1934–6: papers on miscellaneous public health matters

GC/200

James Randal Hutchinson (c.1880–1955) and William Henry Bradley (1898–1975): case of death after scarlet fever immunisation, Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, 1939; enteritis and food poisoning, inCornwall, 1941; influenza at Canford School, Wimbourne, Dorset, 1946; food poisoning at St Austell, 1945; hepatitis among US troops at Bristol, 1944

PP/JRH

S H Foulkes (1898–1976): a few files relating to his period working as a psychiatrist in Exeter, early 1940s

PP/SHF/C.2

Shaftesbury Military Hospital: accounts of its history during World War II

GC/250

Eugenics Society: correspondence relating to Problem Families survey, Bristol, 1947–52 [permission from Galton Institute required]

SA/EUG/D.171

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy: minutes of South West Metropolitan and Wessex Local Board, 1948–71; photographs of apparatus and treatment at University of Bristol, c. 1950s, Winford Orthopaedic Hospital, 1974, Poole Hospital Physical Medical Department, 1974

SA/CSP/J.4/4, Q.1

Sir Graham Selby Wilson (1895–1987): photographs of Taunton Public Health Laboratory, n.d. ?1950s

PP/GSW/H.18

Mental Aftercare Association: material (including photographs) on residential homes and hostels for former mental patients in Bournemouth and vicinity, Devizes, Swindon, and Weymouth, 1950s–80s

SA/MAC

Multiple Sclerosis Society: files on specific local branches, 1950s–70s

SA/MSS/C

Cancer Research Campaign: files on attempts to establish local committee in Bristol, and relations with other Bristol organisations, 1950–4

SA/CRC/F.1/5–6

Abortion Law Reform Association: Bristol local group, 1963–7; ; also annual reports of Avon (formerly Wessex) branch of Brook Advisory Centres, 1965–81

SA/ALR

Society of Medical Officers of Health: records of West of England Branch and South West Region, 1965–83

SA/SMO/N.14

Horfield Health Centre, Bristol: Midwifery register, 1954–62, and visits diaries, 1963, 1979–83

GP/20

Sir Robert Macintosh (1897–1989): travel diaries of visits to see South–Western Society of Anaesthetists, 1960, to Bath and Bristol, 1964, Torquay, Plymouth and Exeter, 1965

PP/RRM/C.76, 87, 96

Society of Medical Officers of Health: records of West of England Branch and South West Region, 1965–83

SA/SMO/N.14

Sir James Keith Ross (1927–2003): Wessex Cardiac Surgery Follow up Survey, 1976–81; files relating to Wessex Regional Hospital Southampton, 1976–90, mainly Cardiothoracic Unit

GC/238

Medical Pilgrims: records of ‘Pilgrimage’ to Bristol, 1981

SA/PIL

BACUP: correspondence with Cancer Help Centre Bristol, 1985–6; correspondence with Help for Health, Wessex Regional Library Unit, 1987, Prof JMA Whitehouse of Wessex Regional Oncology Unit, 1987; press–cuttings re Plymouth free helpline, 1989

SA/BAC

Bristol ethnic minorities health investigation: Questionnaires, interview transcripts, cassette tapes, and published results of survey of concepts of illness, use of health services, etc, among Punjabi–speaking women in Bristol, 1986–7

GC/210

British Health Care Arts Centre: Astra Arts Award to West Dorset Hospital, Dorchester, 1990–1

SA/BHC/G.1

Biochemical Society: file on Wales and West Regional Section, 1992-5

SA/BIO/B.21

Oral History of General Practice, 1935–52: Garnet Hemsted, Torquay; David E Granger, Poole; David Ferguson, St Blazey, 1993–4

GP/29

Dr Stefan Cembrowicz: Transcripts of oral history interviews with elderly general practitioners in the Bristol area: Dr Freddie Morgan, formerly Morgenbesser, 2000, and Dr Ivor Ernest Doney, 2004

GP/58

Sources of very general local history interest

England; South-East; South-Central; South-West; West Midlands and the Marches; South Midlands and the Fens; East Anglia and Essex; East Midlands; North-West; Yorkshire; North-East
Scotland
;
Wales
; Ireland

West Midlands and the Marches

Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire.

Medical Recipes, Worcestershire: collection written in the Worcestershire area, including a prayer to St Kenelm, the patron saint of Winchcombe Abbey, Gloucestershire, 15th century (first quarter)

MS.5262

Henry Fowler (1583–c.1643), rector of Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire: commonplace book compiled by Fowler and others c.1530–1641

MS.757

Anne Brumwich, possibly Anne Bromwich (d.1628), daughter of Edward Trotman of Gloucester: recipe book, 17th century

MS.160

John Ward (c.1629–1681), Vicar of Stratford–on–Avon and medical practitioner: incomplete transcript of Ward's diary (now in the Folger Shakespeare Library – MSS Va 284–299) made by Sir D'Arcy Power (1855–1941), 1648–81

MSS.6170–6

St John's Hospital (almshouses), Cirencester, Gloucestershire: note of rents belonging to the almshouses Mid, 17th century

MS.5375

Elizabeth Peircy (fl.1687), midwife, Worcester: certificate issued by diocesan authorities, 1687

MS.3544/1

Henry Head (1664–1739), Vicar of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, grandfather of Edward Jenner: sermons, 1690–1727

MSS.2802–19

William Brewster (1665–1715), physician, Hereford: licence to practise medicine, issued by the University of Oxford, 1692

MS.5427

Ann Cooke (fl.1693), midwife, Pensax, Worcestershire: certificate issued by diocesan authorities, 1693

MS.3544/3

Frances Thomas (fl.1693), midwife, Stretton–in–le–Dale, Worcestershire: certificate issued by diocesan authorities, 1693

MS.3544/2

Thomas Pountney (fl.1694), physician and surgeon, Fladbury, Worcestershire: certificate, signed by his father Thomas Pountney, rector of Fladbury, and four others, stating him to be of good character and to conform to the established church, 1694

MS.7671/2

Mary Cooper (fl.1695), midwife, Liddon, Herefordshire: certificate issued by diocesan authorities, certified by Charles Baldwyn (1652–1706), former MP for Ludlow, 1695

MS.3544/4

Recipe book: compilation, possibly from the Worcestershire area Late, 17th – early, 18th centuries

MS.7745

Jenner, Davies and Seely families, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire: materials relating to Edward Jenner, his forebears and relatives Accounts, inventories, diaries, poems, sermons and other material relating to numerous individuals at Arlingham, Berkeley, Cheltenham, Cirencester, Cowley, Dursley, Eastington, Frampton, Hill, Painswick, Quedgeley, Randwick, Rockhampton, Slimbridge, Standish (Gloucestershire); Oxford; Appleton, Drayton, Little Coxwell and Shillingford (Berkshire) Material on the Jenner family and their connections is the subject of Western Manuscripts Handlist No6, 1708–1893

MSS.2048–69, 3015–72, 3587–8, 4487–9, 5222–49, 7825/8 & 11–13

Thomas Watkins, Stow (probably Stowe, Staffordshire): commonplace book including recipes (some copied from Mrs Mary Power of Uttoxeter), notes on law, gardening and history, prayers, etc. 1710–32

MS.4977

Jane Mulliner (fl.1713), midwife, Aymestrey, Herefordshire: certificate issued by diocesan authorities, certified by Charles Fenton (b.1664), Rector of Ludlow, 1713

MS.3544/5

Martha Herring (fl.1714), midwife, Burghill, Herefordshire: certificate issued by diocesan authorities, certified by Thomas Gwillim (b.1665), Canon of Hereford, 1714

MS.3544/6

Letitia Owen (flc.1715–1749) [later Mytton], daughter of Roger Owen of Condover, Shropshire: recipe books c.1715–49

MSS.3730–1

Mary Howells (fl.1715), midwife, probably from Shropshire: certificate issued by diocesan authorities, certified by Simon Browne MD (b.1661) whose practise was in Shropshire, 1715

MS.3544/7

Warwickshire: medical commonplace book formerly owned by Robert Dalby [né Blunt], vicar of Belton, and Dr Otho Wyer of Leamington c.1725

MS.1751–1752

Richard Wilkes M.D. (1691–1760), Wolverhampton: notes on cases treated by Wilkes, gathered and written up by his cousin Thomas Unett (1732–1785), Stafford bookseller and Prebendary of Lichfield, 1737–c.1780

MS.5005

Dr. Parrott (fl.1741), Birmingham: letter to Parrott from Dr E Kenwrick of West Bromwich to Dr Parrott, asking him to examine a woman with an ulcerous condition in the mouth, with prescription by Parrott attached, 1741

MS.7396/5

Robert Bristow (d.1776) of Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire: recipe book, possibly by Bristow, 1741–76

MS.1357

Dorothy Ponting, Wotton under Edge, Gloucestershire: quitclaim, from Mary Harrold of Charterhouse Hinton, Somerset, 1744

MS.5249/1

Rev. Charles Mason F.R.S.: manuscript of paper sent to the Royal Society on 'spelter, melting iron with pig coal and a burning well at Broseley', 1746

MS.5403/37

Mr. Shrapnell, surgeon, Gloucester: prescription, possibly drawn up by Shrapnell, 1749

MS.7525/1

Cookery book, Gloucestershire: cookery book supposedly found in a Gloucestershire abbey, 18th century

MS.1790

Warwickshire: various medical items from the papers of a Warwickshire solicitor, all relating to the Coventry–Rugby area, 1754–5 and n.d.

MS.5657

Physician, Warwickshire: recipes and list of patients drawn up by an unidentified physician; patients from Coventry, Stratford, Kenilworth etc. 1755–8

MS.4118

Midwifery, Staffordshire: photocopy of midwife's account book, South Staffordshire area, 1765–1824

MS.8965

Rev. John Stone [later St John Stone] (1720–1796), Rector of Slimbridge, Gloucestershire: account book including material relating to lands rented from the Rev William Davies (Rector of Eastington) near Kelvedon, Essex, 1766–95

MS.4717

Thomas Mister (d.1780), surgeon–apothecary, Shipston–on–Stour, Warwickshire: account book, 1766–71

MS.3584

Batt family, surgeon–apothecaries, Witney, Oxfordshire: ledgers recording accounts and medicines dispensed; patients include the Herefordshire militia, 1774–99

MSS.5201–2

Meteorology, Bristol: meteorological observations by an anonymous writer, 1774

MS/MSL/111

George Tollet (1725–1779), barrister and Shakespearean critic, Betley, Staffordshire: papers relating to Tollet's treatment by the Royal physician Sir George Baker (1722–1809), 1779

MS.7737

John Cook, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire: recipe against rabies sent by Cook to the Gloucester Journal Late, 18th century

MS.7019/4

John Yardley (fl.1716), Worcester glover: transcript of an account by Sigismond Bacstrom (fl.1790–1794) of how Yardley was stated to have discovered the Philosopher's Stone c.1790 (transcribed mid, 19th century)

MS.3657

Richard Pearson L.R.C.P. (1765–1836), Birmingham physician and antiquary: miscellaneous documents, 1799–1836

MS.7492

Swythamley Hall, Staffordshire: book of accounts and veterinary recipes, 1799–1821

MS.7455

Joseph Oliver (flc.1800), church clerk, Flash, Staffordshire: collection of religious homilies, notes on exploration, geography, astronomy, astrology etc c.1800

MS.3713

Gloucester: material extracted from an album of chiefly non–medical items assembled by Dr Josiah Cheston of Gloucester Late, 18th/early, 19th century

MS.7704

Recipe book, Coventry: collection of medical, veterinary, culinary and household recipes, with some verses and commonplaces, apparently compiled by a Coventry housewife; including press cuttings primarily from the Coventry Mercury Late, 18th/early, 19th century

MS.7366

Hodgkin family archive: includes family connections to Shipston–on–Stour and Brailes (Warwickshire) See General section

PP/HO

Sir Robert Herries (fl.1731–1808), merchant and financier: letter written from Cheltenham to his younger brother the merchant John Herries (Colonel in the Light Horse Volunteers), describing his health and his asking for a consultation with the physician Edward Jenner (1749–1823), 1808

MS.7825/8

Gloucestershire Vaccine Association for promoting cowpox and discouraging smallpox inoculation: resolutions, 16 Ap 1811

SA/RDS/A.1

Morgan Family, surgeon–apothecaries, Lichfield, Staffordshire: various formal documents and certificates, 1815–61

MS.6884

Henry Hill Hickman M.R.C.S. (1800–1830), surgeon and pioneer of anaesthesia, Herefordshire: original material, facsimiles and research notes relating to the "rediscovery" of Hickman's work and the exhibition on him held at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in, 1930, 1816–1976 and n.d.

MSS.7625 & 8506–7

Edward Gardner (1752–1823), poet and friend of Edward Jenner, Gloucestershire: poems by Gardner and his friend Dr French Lawrence of Bath, 1818

MS.2471

James Bridgwater (fl.1820), surgeon, Oswestry: commonplace book compiled by Bridgwater and by Edward Vernon Mainwaring, surgeon, of Llandrinio, Montgomeryshire, 1820–c.1835

MS.7740

Mrs Hill, Henbury, Gloucestershire: collection of cookery, household and medical recipes in various hands, apparently compiled in the West Country and later owned by Mrs Hill c.1820–76

MS.7733

Henry C. Boisragon (1777–1852), physician, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: volume containing prescriptions written by Boisragon for his wife, with notes on their use, 1820–32

MS.5489

Sir James Edward Smith (1759–1828), botanist: paper for the Linnean Society describing a tour from London to Liverpool, Matlock and Arley (Worcestershire), 1820

MS.7641/4

John Lechmere (1793–1866), half–pay naval officer, living at Hereford, 1821–1825, then at Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire: notebook with brief diary entries, including reference to his marriage at Newent in, 1823 and a visit to Henry Hill Hickman at Ludlow in, 1822, 1821–8 and n.d.

MS.6107

Richard Roscoe (fl.1821) of Barton, Staffordshire: letter requesting vaccination material, 1821

MS.7545/31

Henry Jones Shrapnell (1792–1834), surgeon, Gloucester: correspondence and papers mainly as secretary to the committee for erecting a memorial statue to Edward Jenner in Gloucester Cathedral, 1823–8 and n.d.

MS.5241

John Francis Woody (d.1894) and John Thompson, pharmacists, Tamworth: prescription book, 1824–5

MS.5094

Henry Peart (d, 1867), surgeon and apothecary, Feckenham, Worcestershire: notebook, 1827–39 and n.d.

MS.5263

Miscellaneous papers: agreement to purchase the practise of Samuel Bourchier Ferris, surgeon apothecary, of Feckenham; accounts; journal recording visits to patients, 1834–53

MS.5264

James Prew (d.1846), surgeon–dentist, Bristol and Bath: account books and bills, 1830–47 and n.d.

MSS.5208–14

John E. Peel (fl.1830), medical practitioner, Bristol: published Bristol pharmacopoeia (1816) interleaved with additional recipes c.1830

MS.7218

David Corbet (fl.1832), physician, Worcester: letter to the Central Board of Health concerning the cholera epidemic. 1832

MS.6793/2

Thomas Mitchell (fl.1832): letter describing his attendance on Captain Squire at the Bristol Hot Wells and cases of cholera in Bristol, 1832

MS.7780/2

John Roberts (fl.1832), physician, Wickwar, Gloucestershire: letter to the Central Board of Health concerning the cholera epidemic. 1832

MS.6793/3

St. Mary's Priory, Benedictine convent at Princethorpe, Warwickshire: practical compendium of dietary and medical advice compiled by Powell Charles Blackett (fl.1809–1843), naval surgeon, for the convent; dedicated to Sister Hilda, apothecary at Princethorpe, and including a letter from Blackett to the Mother Superior, 1836–9

MS.7028

Joseph Owen (fl.1837–1847), surgeon, Staffordshire: records of courses taken whilst training and a copy of his will, 1837–47

MS.7272

Lloyd family, Birmingham: Hodgkin family archive includes correspondence with various members of the Lloyd family See General section

PP/HO

William Palmer (1824–1856), surgeon, Rugeley, Staffordshire: letters to Annie Brookes, whom he later married and poisoned, plus associated material c.1847 and n.d.

MS.7364/69–72

Birmingham General Hospital: note signed by Oliver Pemberton, house surgeon, requiring that Francis Handley produce an in–patient note; endorsed with request that he be allowed to continue an in–patient, signed by Sir Robert Peel (1788–1850), 1848

MS.7326/4

George Robert Ridley M.R.C.S. (1841), Ryton on Dunsmore, Warwickshire: letter from the Society of Apothecaries to JC Blanshard MRCS LSA, of Wolston, Warwickshire, permitting proceedings to be taken against Ridley for practising as an apothecary without legal qualification to do so, 1850

MS.7684/1

Norman Comben collection of veterinary miscellanea: areas particularly well–represented include Herefordshire See General section

MSS.7562–9

David Henry Monckton (1829–1896), Staffordshire physician: letters, 1853–1882 and n.d.

MS.7337/43–49

Testimonial in Monckton's favour from his brother Stephen Monckton FRCP (1824–1885), physician to West Kent General Hospital, 1854

MS.7337/50

Father B.H. Crosbie (fl.1853), Roman Catholic priest, Baddesley Green, possibly in Warwickshire: letter sending Christmas greetings and describing the state of his chapel, 1853

MS.7524/2

Annabella Irvine (fl.1854–1856), inmate in an asylum at Brislington, Somerset (suburb of Bristol), run by Drs Francis Ker Fox and Charles Fox: papers relating to her care and to the administration of her affairs, 1854–6 and n.d.

MS.7676

Octavius William Hoffman M.R.C.S. (fl., 1854–1899), Poor Law Medical Officer in Suffolk then in Herefordshire: testimonials and other papers, 1854–84

MS.7149

William Fletcher, surgeon, Uttoxeter: account of medicines and services supplied to Mr Myers, jeweller, 1860

MS.7526/8

General practice, Ross–on–Wye: notebooks generated by William Edward Green MRCS (fl.1861–1922), Walter Holcroft Cam MRCS (fl.1905–1938), Arthur Llewellyn Baldwin Green MRCS (fl.1902–1970) and George Marner Lloyd MRCS (fl.1934–1995), all members at various times of the same Ross–on–Wye practice, 1861–c.1945

MSS.7521–3

Thomas Acraman Coate (fl.1861–1864), dispensing chemist and perfume factor, Bristol: recipe book, 1863

MS.6954

William Samuel Symonds (1818–1887), clergyman, geologist and author, Rector of Pendock, Worcestershire: slip requesting a copy of the Transactions of the Severn Valley Naturalists Field Club.1872

MS.7684/53

Rev. William Henry Bloxsome (1809–1877), Rector of Stanton, Gloucestershire: catalogue of sale of belongings, 1873

MS.1271

Mr. Birch, Kidderminster, Worcestershire: notes and correspondence on Mr Birch's case, in the papers of the dermatologist James Startin (1851–1910), 1877–80 and n.d.

MS.6026/1–14

Thomas Fletcher (fl.1877), needle manufacturer, Redditch, Worcestershire: patent for improvements in needles for surgical and other purposes, 1877

MS.5273

Hedges & Son, wholesale chemists, Birmingham: notebook recording turnover of patent medicines and other products, 1881–96

MS.7813

Charles Firmin Cuthbert (1858–1939), senior surgeon, Gloucester Children's Hospital: papers, including some read to various local societies, 1885–1926

MSS.1982–97

Correspondence and papers, mainly as President of the Gloucestershire Branch of the British Medical Association (1904–1905), 1904–24 and n.d.

MS.5631

Sequah: papers relating to James Kasper’s activities on behalf of Sequah Ltd in Gloucestershire, 1890

GC/69/1

John Bartlett Webb (fl.1886–1932), Bristol general practitioner: certificates, 1886

MS.7516

Christopher Martin F.R.C.S. (1866–1933), consulting surgeon, Birmingham Hospital for Women: certificates and other papers relating to Martin's career, 1887–1929

MS.6886

Queen’s Nursing Institute: records of relations with affiliated local branches, 1890s–1970s; some deposited material from local district nursing associations

SA/QNI

Henry Hillyard, Sanitary Inspector to Malvern UDC: cases concerning polluted water at a hydropathic establishment and a school in Malvern, 1898–1910

GC/63

British Medical Association: material on Public Medical Services in all areas of the UK, also on specific local friendly/medical aid societies, medical institutions, etc 1910s–60s

SA/BMA

Sir James Sawyer (1844–1919), physician: letters include postcard with a picture of Birmingham General Hospital, 1903

MS.7578/30

Robert William Hanbury (d.1803), President of the Board of Agriculture: letter mentioning cases of anthrax in Kidderminster carpet factories, 1903

MS.7825/15

Mr. and Mrs. Weaver, Loppington, Shropshire: accounts for medicines and attendance supplied by Charles R Leader, physician and surgeon, J Dallewy, surgeon, both of Wem, and an unidentified person, apparently called Morgan and probably a hospital administrator rather than a medical practitioner, 1904–26

MS.7526/9–13

Research Defence Society: records of Birmingham branch, 1908–26, and Gloucester, Shropshire and Shrewsbury, and Worcestershire branches, c.1908–19

SA/RDS/C.15, D.1

Lillias Hamilton (1858–1925): material relating to her later career as Warden of Studley College for Women, Warwickshire, 1910s–20s

PP/HAM

Sir Henry John Moreton, 3rd Earl of Ducie (1827–1921): letters concerning the supply of a glass eye by the Bristol Eye Hospital to a local girl, 1915–6

MS.7337/70–71

Edith Cavell Home of Rest for Nurses, Adderley: records of the Edith Cavell Homes, 1917–84

SA/NFN/C

Dr [Wilfred] Brian Gough (1909–1999), Birmingham GP and anaesthetist: Personal, professional and patient correspondence, including material about local institutions with which he was involved, 1920s–90s

GP/62

Cancer Research Campaign: minutes of, 1937–69, and files on, the Birmingham branch, 1923–68

SA/CRC

Family Planning Association (formerly National Birth Control Association): records of its dealings with its own regional federations, area organisation, local branches and clinics, correspondence with local authorities, 1930–74; records of its regional administration, 1965–1991; includes records of the following branches: Birmingham, 1934–74, Shrewsbury, 1959–72

SA/FPA

James Randal Hutchinson (c.1880–1955) and William Henry Bradley (1898–1975): case of immunisation accident, Sutton Coldfield, 1935; Birmingham CB and closure of and exclusion from schools, 1936–42; trichinosis at Wolverhampton, 1941; enteritis at Birmingham, 1940; measles serum jaundice, Barlaston, 1942–3

PP/JRH

Society of Medical Officers of Health: records of Birmingham and Midland Association, Midland Branch, and West Midland Region, 1937–79

SA/SMO/N.1

Gloucester and Hereford Consistory Courts: extracts from records of the courts relating to physicians, surgeons and midwives; compiled by Alec William James Haggis (1889–1946), Wellcome Historical Medical Museum c.1937–46

MS.5350

See other material relating to Haggis's work in the General section

 

Robert Ranyard West (1900–1986): candidature as Liberal MP for Shrewsbury, 1941–2

PP/RRW/A.4

S H Foulkes (1898–1976): files relating to his work in the Military Neurosis Centre and Psychiatric Training Centre at Northfield Military Hospital near Birmingham, 1942–5

PP/SHF/C.3

Thomas Lionel Hardy F.R.C.P. (1887–1969), gastroenterologist, Birmingham General Hospital: letter, discussing a patient, 1943

MS.7847/8

Coventry Family Health Club and Housing Society: set up by Dr Kenneth Barlow along the lines of the Pioneer Health Centre, Peckham; miscellaneous items, late 1940s

SA/PHC/B.5/25

Philip Willison (1912–1990) Prison Welfare Officer: materials relating to work with Worcester City and County Probation and After–care Service, 1947–67, including courses at University of Birmingham

GC/162

Donald Hunter (1898–1977): reports on visits to Midlands factories, 1947–70, in connection with occupational health

PP/HUN/D

Research Board for the Correlation of Medical Science and Physical Education: file re assessment of schoolboys at Millichope School Physical Development Centre, Shropshire, 1938–52

SA/RBC/E.5

Multiple Sclerosis Society: files on specific local branches, 1950s–70s

SA/MSS/C

Medical Pilgrims: records of ‘Pilgrimages’ to Birmingham, 1951, 1971, 1984

SA/PIL

Hugh Mervyn Emrys–Roberts (b.1915), general practitioner, Stratford upon Avon: Indexes and notes on, 1951–2 morbidity study of general practice patients

GP/10

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy: photographs of St Andrews Brine Baths, Droitwich, c. 1955, and also tape recording, c. 1969; exercises for asthmatic children, Children’s Hospital, Birmingham, c. 1972

SA/CSP/Q.1, Q.3/3

Medical Women’s Federation: correspondence with local Associations, 1960s–80s

SA/MWF

Richard Maurice Armstrong Moore (fl.1960s–1990s): general practitioner, Shrewsbury: Draft partnership agreement, 1962, financial statements, 1962–93 and notes on the history of the practice, 1996

GP/26

Abortion Law Reform Association: Birmingham local group, 1963–7; also annual reports of Birmingham branch of Brook Advisory Centres, 1969–78

SA/ALR

Sir Robert Macintosh (1897–1989): travel diaries of visits to Birmingham, 1963, Burton–on–Trent, 1964

PP/RRM/C.73, 78

Travelling Surgical Society: visits to Birmingham, 1964, 1974

SA/TSS

Richard Henry Hardy (1921–1999): papers relating to his work in Hereford General Hospital Accident and Emergency Department, 1970s–90s

GP/12/C

Peter Maxwell Daniel (1910–1998): correspondence and papers relating to the Jenner Trust and the Jenner Appeal, re setting up Jenner Museum in Berkeley, Gloucs, and purchasing The Chantry as a permanent memorial, 1976–89

PP/DNL/2

BACUP: press–cuttings re Birmingham free helpline, 1989, and photos

SA/BAC/M.6/3, N.6

British Immunology Society: files concerning their involvement with the Jenner Education Trust which runs the Jenner Museum in Berkeley, Gloucs, 1990–6

SA/BSI/L.3

Oral History of General Practice, 1935–52: tapes and transcripts of interviews with Scott Grice, Sutton Coldfield; Margaret Norton, Worcester; Allan Laidlaw, Worcester; Richard Moiser, Coventry; Malcolm House, Walsall, 1992–4

GP/29

Sources of very general local history interest

England; South-East; South-Central; South-West; West Midlands and the Marches; South Midlands and the Fens; East Anglia and Essex; East Midlands; North-West; Yorkshire; North-East
Scotland
;
Wales
; Ireland

South Midlands and the Fens

Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire (including the Isle of Ely), Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire (including the Soke of Peterborough), Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire. Material relating to the Vale of White Horse area, now in Oxfordshire but prior to 1974 in Berkshire, is filed under Berkshire in the South-Central region.

Hospital of the Holy Trinity, Walsoken, Cambridgeshire: photograph of deed admitting Thomas Hustton to the fraternity of the hospital, with transcription and translation Location of original deed not recorded Date of original deed, 1481; date of photograph and supporting documentation not recorded

MS.7903/6

Felicia Whitfield (flc.1700), St Albans: recipe book owned by Mrs Whitfield and compiled by her and by earlier figures, 1647–1722

MS.751

Thomas Willis (1621–1676), physician, at that time practising in Oxford: casebook, plus details of expenses, 1650–1

MS.799A

John King (fl.1652), physician, St Albans, Hertfordshire: letters and papers relating to a petition seeking to remove King as a Justice of the Peace for speaking against Parliament and abuse of his office, 1652 and n.d.

MS.6076

Bate Family, Maid's Moreton, Buckinghamshire: recipe book, including many recipes by Dr George Bate FRS (1608–1668), physician to Oliver Cromwell and Charles II, whose family lived in Maid's Moreton, and apparently compiled by a relative of his, 1665

MS.6990

Nathaniel Dalton (1641–1708), clergyman, Cambridgeshire: recipes, notes for sermons, and theological commonplace book, 1668

MS.2031

Commonplace book, Kidlington, Oxfordshire: medical commonplace book containing names of various individuals (Samuel Smith, Joseph Smith, and Ann Peake of Kidlington) c.1700

MS.1750

Jenner, Davies and Seely families, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire: materials relating to Edward Jenner, his forebears and relatives Accounts, inventories, diaries, poems, sermons and other material relating to numerous individuals at Arlingham, Berkeley, Cheltenham, Cirencester, Cowley, Dursley, Eastington, Frampton, Hill, Painswick, Quedgeley, Randwick, Rockhampton, Slimbridge, Standish (Gloucestershire); Oxford; Appleton, Drayton, Little Coxwell and Shillingford (Berkshire) Material on the Jenner family and their connections is the subject of Western Manuscripts Handlist No6, 1708–1893

MSS.2048–69, 3015–72, 3587–8, 4487–9, 5222–49, 7825/8 & 11–13

William Griffin (fl.1730), physician and surgeon, Deddington, Oxfordshire: licence to practise granted by William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1730

MS.6229

Philip Doddridge (1702–1751), non–conformist divine, Northampton: letter from John Roebuck (1718–1798), physician, chemist and inventor, giving a description of his medical studies at Watson's College, Edinburgh, 1739

MS.7544/7

Thomas Parrott M.D. (fl.1740–1741), Huntingdonshire: grant of an annuity to his son, secured upon property at Offord Darcy, Huntingdonshire, 1740

MS.7396/4

Mental illness, Hertfordshire: letter from Philip Vincent to Sir James Johnstone (d.1772) discussing the care of a mentally–ill young man (probably George Johnstone (1720–1792), 3rd Marquess of Annandale), and the suitability of the Hertfordshire country house in which he is being kept, 1745

MS.7477/1

Charles Heygate (fl.1752–1773), chemist, probably based at West Haddon, Northamptonshire: account book, 1752–73

MS.2833

Batt family, surgeon–apothecaries, Witney, Oxfordshire: ledgers recording accounts and medicines dispensed, 1774–99

MSS.5201–2

Humphrey Sibthorpe M.D. (1712–1797), botanist: fragment from a botanical diary, describing fungi found in his brother's copses at Skimpans, Hertfordshire n.d.

MS.7605/7

Dolben family, Finedon, Northamptonshire: medical and culinary recipe books c.1785–1860

MSS.2201–3

John Bolding (fl.1786), surgeon–apothecary, Ampthill, Bedfordshire: testimonial to Timothy Watkins, journeyman surgeon–apothecary, pasted into the latter's midwifery notes, 1786

MS.5109

Watkins family, Towcester, Northamptonshire: account book of a medical practitioner, probably a member of the Watkins family, possibly Timothy Watkins; containing material relating to deliveries of children by the owner and his business associates Messrs Grant and Deacon of Towcester, plus other professional and domestic financial detail, 1790–1804

MS.6883

Student midwifery notes taken by Timothy Watkins, with testimonial by John Bolding of Ampthill, Bedfordshire c.1780

MS.5109

John Ring (1752–1821) and William Blair (1766–1822), surgeons and supporters of vaccination: report for the Royal Jennerian Society concerning a supposed failure of vaccination at Cambridge, 1808

MS.4220

Huntingdonshire: medical account for medicines supplied to the parish overseer of Leighton Bromswold by Andrew Fernie, surgeon, Kimbolton, 1810

MS.5269/13

Grant David Yeats (1773–1836): Handbill 'To the Nobility, Clergy and Inhabitants of the County and Town of Bedford and Neighbourhood', on his leaving the Bedford Infirmary, 1814

MS.8584/2

Peck family, Northamptonshire, including Thomas Peck, surgeon, Wellingborough: letters, 1818 &, 1848

MS.7400/53–54

Archibald Robertson M.D., physician, Northampton: prescription, 1820

MS.7655/6

Thomas Telford (1757–1834), engineer: letter mentioning locks on the Rivers Cam and Lark (Mildenhall River), 1820

MS.7690/2

Lister Institute: deeds relating to its premises at Queensbury Lodge, Elstree, 1820–1971; and photographs, C20th

SA/LIS

John Lechmere (1793–1866), half–pay naval officer, living at Hereford, 1821–1825, then at Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire: notebook with brief diary entries, 1821–8 and n.d.

MS.6107

James Rumsey (1778–1856), Amersham physician, author of a life of his brother–in–law Thomas Bateman (1778–1821): letter to his sister (possibly sister–in–law) Mrs Rumsey of High Wycombe, n.d.

MS.7454/57

Northampton General Infirmary: letter by George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758–1834), politician, appointing an unnamed individual as House–Visitor to the Infirmary, 1823

MS.7655/158

Cooper McDougall and Robertson, manufacturers of veterinary products based at Berkhamstead, Herts: collection includes significant amount of Cooper family papers relating to local activities and connections, as well as business records, c. 1824–c. 1989

WF/C

Cholera, Bicester, Oxfordshire: notebook containing details of cholera cases in Bicester, possibly compiled by William Dawson, a surgeon in the town, 1832

MS.7219

William Stone M.D. (d.1852), Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire: recipes, prescriptions and notes, 1836

MS.4718

William Burrows Buller (fl.1841), apothecary, Cambridgeshire: autograph letter from JC Davie MRCS of Haddenham, Cambridgeshire, to the Court of Examiners at Apothecaries' Hall, London, stating that Buller is practising medicine and has obtained contracts with benefit societies at Wilburton and Stretham, despite having failed the Society of Apothecaries' examination, 1841

MS.7655/3

Richard Rickman Shillitoe, surgeon–apothecary, Hitchin: indenture apprenticing Aldborough Lloyd Williams to Shillitoe, 1848

MS.7277/2

The names Rickman and Shillitoe also both occur frequently in the Hodgkin family archive (PP/HO); it is not known if there is a connection

 

William Cuttriss, chemist, Bedford: manuscript bill (with illustrative printed letterhead), listing purchases by Rev Thomas Grimshawe (1778–1850), vicar of Shuttleworth, 1849

MS.7290/3

Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), nursing pioneer: copious copy correspondence includes material relating to her relatives the Verney family of Claydon, Buckinghamshire See General section, and see also Florence Nightingale: A guide to sources in the Wellcome Institute Library

MSS.8991–9082

Mary Susan Selby Lowndes (d.1891), Bletchley, Northants: medical recipe book Mid, 19th century

MS.3339

Veterinary Notebook, Berkshire–Oxfordshire area: farmer's notebook containing veterinary cures and tips, with a few medical and household recipes Mid to late C19th century

MS.7026

Sir Henry Head (1861–1940): manuscript autobiography includes his period as an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, early 1880s

PP/HEA/A.1

Sir Walter Morley Fletcher (1873–1933): material relating to his period in Cambridge, including items on Trinity College, 1890s–1910s

PP/WMF

Queen’s Nursing Institute: records of relations with affiliated local branches, 1890s–1970s; some deposited material from local district nursing associations

SA/QNI

John Paul Roughton and Arnold George Tolputt, surgeons, Kettering, Northamptonshire: material relating to the partnership between Roughton and Tolputt, 1898–1933

MS.7529

Barbara Evans: material on Helena Wright’s education at Princess Helena College, Hitchin, Herts, 1898–1901, and correspondence with the headmaster, 1986

PP/PRE/J.1/3, J.3

British Medical Association: material on Public Medical Services in all areas of the UK, also on specific local friendly/medical aid societies, medical institutions, etc 1900s–60s

SA/BMA

Research Defence Society: records of Oxford branch, c. 1908–33, and Cambridge branch, c. 1908–19

SA/RDS/C.17, D.1

Cambridgeshire Tuberculosis After–care Association: minutes, with some press–cuttings, 1916–35

SA/NPT/F

No 4 District (Beds, Herts, Leics and Middlesex) Master and Matrons’ Association: Minutes, 1918–36

SA/AHR/A.35

Beit Memorial Fellowships for Medical Research: papers re Balfour Laboratories, Cambridge, 1919–20, and proposed Cambridge Fellowship for Sir F Gowland Hopkins, 1927

SA/BMF/F.1/2, 4

Sir Thomas Barlow (1845–1945), physician: fragmentary draft of an address at the launch of a campaign to build a sanatorium for tuberculous children at Harpenden n.d. (20th century)

PP/BAR/G/22

Commonplace books, including material on Barlow's home near Wendover, Buckinghamshire, local churches and other sites of interest in the locality, 1920–37

PP/BAR/M/1–2 & 4

Correspondence of Barlow and his wife with sons at university at Oxford, 1900–4

PP/BAR/B/4 & PP/BAR/V/4

See also General section

PP/BAR

James Alan Noel Barlow (1881–1968): papers include material relating to time as an undergraduate at Oxford, 1900–4

PP/BAR/B/4 & PP/BAR/W

See also General section, under Sir Thomas Barlow

PP/BAR

Sir James Cantlie (1851–1926), tropical medicine pioneer: paper on Fotheringay Castle, 1901

MS.1497

Frederick Gordon Spear (1895–1980): historical materials on the Cambridge Research Hospital, later the Strangeways Research Laboratory, 1908–73

PP/FGS/C

Strangeways Research Laboratory: founded as Cambridge Research Hospital; records, including photographs, and relations with other Cambridge institutions, 1900s–80s

SA/SRL

Physiological Society: Additional deposited papers: account of life at Cambridge University in early C20th in autobiography of Vernon H Mottram (1882–1976); short reminiscence of the Cambridge Physiology Department, 1935 by Archibald Todrick (1912–1992)

GC/151/7–8

Ronald Hare: unpublished autobiography includes account of education at Royal Masonic Institution, Bushey, Herts, which he attended 1910–17

PP/HAR

Cambridge Eugenics Society: material relating to its activities, 1911–33 [permission from Galton Institute required]

SA/EUG/E.6, 23

Dorothy Waller: Photograph album '3rd Southern Hospital, Oxford, and other material relating to Red Cross and VAD activities, 1912–20

GC/93

Society of Medical Officers of Health: records of Eastern Branch, East Anglian Branch and East Anglian Region, 1921–72, East Midland Branch and Trent Region, 1930–81, Home Counties, later London and Home Counties Branch and Thames Regions, 1965–81, and Oxford Region, 1974–81

SA/SMO/N.2–5, 10

Thaddeus Robert Rudolph Mann (1908–1993): photographs of the Molteno Institute of Biology and Parasitology, Cambridge, 1925–60

GC/64

William John O'Connor (1899–1976), general practitioner, High Wycombe: Partnership records including accounts, 1929–59, and practice day–books, 1941–46

GP/5

Napsbury Mental Hospital, St Albans: Procedure book, reports from Pathological Department, investigation into typhoid carriers in the Hospital, study of, 16 cases of cerebral tumour, 1930s

GC/135

Harold Burnett Hewitt (b.1915): biographical memoir includes early career in Northampton public health service, 1930s

GC/222

Family Planning Association (formerly National Birth Control Association): records of its dealings with its own regional federations, area organisation, local branches and clinics, correspondence with local authorities, 1930–74; records of its regional administration, 1965–1991; includes records of following branches: Northampton, 1933–73, St Albans, 1956–73, Dunstable, 1960–9, Chilterns, 1966–72

SA/FPA

Robert Henry Stewart Thompson (1912–1998): materials relating to his connections with various Oxford colleges and institutions, 1931–83

PP/RHT/A

James Randal Hutchinson (c.1880–1955): complaints over slackness of authorities at Oxendon RD over scarlet fever outbreak, 1931; scarlet fever at Oxford Maternity Home c. 1936; outbreak of diarrhoea and vomiting at Haileybury College, Herts, 1935–6; outbreak of ‘spots’ in infants at Northampton General Hospital, 1940; typhus in Amersham RD, 1945; Sonne dysentery in Hemel Hempstead, 1941; epidemic heptatis at Christchurch Cathedral School Oxford, 1942; tinea cruris at Radley College, 1931

PP/JRH

National Birthday Trust Fund: correspondence with Mr J E Elam, including investigations into use of gas and air machines at Wellhouse Hospital, Herts, 1933–41, reports on use of various different machines at hospital, 1946, 1950; donation of trilene inhaler to Chiltern Nursery Training College, 1954–6

SA/NBT/F.10/1, H.2/4, H.3/14

Hans Georg Epstein (1909–2002): correspondence, etc, with and about colleagues in Oxford (mainly anaesthetists), 1937–90

PP/HGE

Sir Thomas Lewis (1881–1945): files as First Aid Commandant, Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, 1938–42

PP/LEW/C.3/1–2

Sir Robert Macintosh (1897–1989): material on his involvement with the Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, Oxford, 1938–88; travel diary of visit to Cambridge, 1965

PP/RRM

Professor Thomas Richard Parsons (1892–1961): Cambridge Air Raid Precautions and Civil Defence notices, c. 1939–40

GC/31

Robina Addis: material relating to child guidance, Northampton, 1939–40

PP/ADD/C.4

Sir Ludwig Guttmann (1899–1980): a little material on his period in Oxford, 1939–43; his work at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury, and the development of paralympic sports there, 1943–80

PP/GUT

Sir Alexander Haddow: autobiographical notes and material include some on Pollards Wood, Amersham, to which Cancer Research Institute was evacuated during World War II

PP/HAD

John Chassar Moir (1900–1977): material relating to his connections with Oxford and the Radcliffe Infirmary, 1940–70s

PP/JCM

James Randal Hutchinson (c.1880–1955): file on diphtheria outbreak in Wycombe RD, 1943

PP/JRH/A.32

Mental Aftercare Association: material on residential homes for former mental patients in Weedon, Northants, 1945–70

SA/MAC

Jesse Robert Garrood (1874–1959): register of vaccinations performed in Alconbury District, Huntingdon, 1947–8

GP/43/4

Donald Hunter (1898–1977): reports on visits to Midlands factories, 1947–70, in connection with occupational health

PP/HUN/D

Biochemical Society: files, including photographs , on First International Congress of Biochemistry, Cambridge, 1949; file on Anglo-Chinese Colloque in Oxford 1982

SA/BIO/E.3, E.9

Medical Women’s Federation: Minutes of Northampton and District Association, 1949–89

SA/MWF/P.3

Multiple Sclerosis Society: files on specific local branches, 1950s–70s

SA/MSS/C

Medical Pilgrims: records of ‘Pilgrimages’ to Oxford, 1952, 1975, 1988, Cambridge, 1977

SA/PIL

Sir George White Pickering (1904—1980): correspondence and other material from his period as Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford, and other involvement in University matters, 1956–71

PP/GWP

Barbara Evans: material relating to Brudenell House, Quainton, Bucks, purchased by Helena Wright, 1957–83

PP/PRE/J.1/8

Sir William Drummond Paton (1917–1993): Some material relating to his associations with Oxford, membership of societies, etc, 1950s–80s

PP/WDP

Bedford Hospital: Staff Occupational Health Department, minutes and reports, 1960s–70s

GC/136

Medical Women’s Federation: correspondence with local Associations, 1960s–80s

SA/MWF

Philip Willison (1912–1990), Prison Welfare Office: material relating to period of his career as Welfare Officer, Grendon Prison, Buckinghamshire, 1960s–70s

GC/162

Sir Richard Doll: files as Regius Professor of Medicine Oxford, 1964–79

PP/DOL/A

Abortion Law Reform Association: correspondence and related papers about Luton and Dunstable gynaecologists, 1967

SA/ALR/A.7/4

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy: minutes of North West Metropolitan/Thames Local Board, 1969–88; Physiotherapy display in Aylesbury Town Hall, 1956; Hydrotherapy at ? Northampton General Hospital, c .1960; Georgina Maud Weller’s photograph albums of Mongewell Military Hospital, Oxfordshire, 1918–28

SA/CSP/J.4/5, Q.1, Q.2

Cicely Williams: some material relating to life in Oxford and associations with colleges and institutions in Oxford, 1970s–80s

PP/CMW

Association for Research into Restricted Growth: file on courses at Castle Priory College, Wallingford, 1976–9

SA/RRG/B.1

Dame Honor Fell (1900–1986): some correspondence, etc, on history of Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, 1979–85

PP/HBF/D.25–6

Travelling Surgical Society: visits to Oxford, 1981, RAF Halton, 1985, Cambridge, 1986

 

Peter Maxwell Daniel (1910–1998): file on memorial to Sir Hugh Cairns at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, 1987–90

PP/DNL/6

Medical Portraits, Oxford: papers relating to the medical triptych in the rooms of the Regius Professor of Medicine, 1989 and n.d.

MS.7163

Oral History of General Practice, 1935–52: tapes and transcripts of interviews with John Hawkey, Wantage; John Clubb, Oxford/Cowley; Elizabeth Clubb, Oxford/Cowley; Harold Harley, Oxford; Jean Gavin, Northampton, 1992–4

GP/29

Sources of very general local history interest

England; South-East; South-Central; South-West; West Midlands and the Marches; South Midlands and the Fens; East Anglia and Essex; East Midlands; North-West; Yorkshire; North-East
Scotland
;
Wales
; Ireland

East Anglia and Essex

Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk.

Bacon family, Shrubland Hall, Suffolk: deeds (copies of court rolls) relating to land at Redenhall, Norfolk, acquired by Francis Bacon Mid, 16th century – late, 17th century

MS.6079

Abdy family, Essex: letters, plus brewing and wine accounts from the family seat of Albyns in Essex, 1664–1749

MS.812

Benjamin Allen (1663–1738), physician and naturalist, Braintree, Essex: notes on his observations in comparative anatomy, 1693–5 n.d.

MS.5635

Repps family, Norfolk: recipe book, most of the named sources of recipes having Norfolk connections Early, 18th century

MS.7788

Great Dunmow, Essex: medical notebook by an anonymous practitioner in the Great Dunmow area, 1704–6 and n.d.

MS.6991

Sir Benjamin Wright[e] (d.1706), Cranham Hall, Brentwood, Essex: letters patent granting custody of Sir Benjamin Wright[e], a lunatic, to Sir Benjamin Hudson (matriculated Cambridge, 1683), and the management of his estate to his son Nathan Wright[e] (d.1727) and to Hudson, 1705

MS.7467

Elizabeth Prayes (fl.1719), midwife, Brandon, Suffolk: certificate issued by diocesan authorities, certified by Matthew Goodrich (1688–1742), Rector of Brandon, 1719

MS.3544/8

Thomas King (d.1737), schoolmaster, Norfolk: letter book, begun by King while at Yarmouth and continued by his wife Lydia King at Norwich and elsewhere, 1719–45 and n.d.

MS.5313

Timothy Sheldrake M.D. (fl.1740–1756), Norwich: commonplace book c.1740

MS.4518

John Murray M.D. (1720–1792) of Wells and Norwich, Norfolk, ship's surgeon: commonplace book including meteorological and medical observations taken in Norfolk, 1751/2–9

MS. 7840

Recipe book, probably originating in Essex: medical recipes, extracts and cuttings including one from the Chelmsford Chronicle (1818), 1785–1818

MS.3656

Naval provisioning: orders from the Commissioners of the Victualling Board to Thomas Pitt and Samuel Lewes, victualling agents at Yarmouth, Norfolk, for the supply of His Majesty's ships, 1796–1802

MSS.6814–5

Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758–1805), naval commander: facsimile of letter from Nelson to the Mayor of Norwich in, 1797, presenting a Spanish Admiral's sword captured at St Vincent n.d.

MS.7362/4

Richard Paxton (fl.1753–1799), surgeon, Maldon, Essex: casebook, including material on his acrimonious partnership with Dr John Thorp of Maldon (1797–1799), 1799

MS.3820

Bethel Hospital, Norwich: receipt, printed with manuscript additions, of money for the maintenance of William Nixon, 1813

MS.7280/1

Emily Harriott Jermyn (1793–1824), botanist, Sibton, Suffolk, daughter of Suffolk antiquary Henry Jermyn: notes on botany, 1818

MSS.3074–7

John Green Crosse (1790–1850), surgeon to Norfolk and Norwich Hospital: obstetrical casebooks, 1819–25 and, 1833–43

MS.1916–7

Notebook recording patients admitted by Crosse to the hospital, 1849–50

MS.5675

Robert Hull (1795–1856), physician to the Norwich Hospital: notes, including case–notes c.1820–47

MSS.2956–7

Thomas Telford (1757–1834), engineer: letter mentioning locks on the Rivers Cam and Lark (Mildenhall River), 1820

MS.7690/2

Horatio Goodday, Terling, Essex: indenture apprenticing Goodday to George Fincham, apothecary, of Spring Gardens (London), 1822

MS.7277/1

Transportation: warrant signed by the King authorising removal of named convicts from gaols in Suffolk, Ipswich (listed separately from Suffolk), Norfolk and Cornwall, and from the Old Bailey in London, to the hulks at Portsmouth prior to transportation to Australia, 1823

MS.7830/14

Fleetwood Buckle (1841–1917), naval surgeon: album, including numerous voting slips relating to his appointment as House Surgeon at the West Norfolk and Lynn Hospital, 1863–1864, 1824–65 and n.d.

MS.5656

Gurney family, Norwich: Hodgkin family archive includes correspondence with various members of the Gurney family See General section

PP/HO

Joseph Thomas Clover F.R.C.S. (1825–1882), anaesthetist: papers include: mathematical copy–book commenced by Clover at Gray Friars' Priory School, Norwich, 1838

MS.6944

Certificates from Gray Friars' Priory School, Norwich, 1837–1838

MS.6951/1–2

Case notes and records of post–mortem examinations, including a post–mortem on Edward Lubbock MD (1805–47) of Norwich, 1842–53 and n.d.

MS.6946

Norwich Free Hospital for Incurables: message of support for the proposed hospital, signed by many important medical men Mid–19th century (during JA Paris' Presidency of the Royal College of Physicians, 1844–1856)

MS.7326/8

Thurston family, Ipswich: 2 letters, 1854 and n.d.

MS.7734/54–55

Charles Williams (1829–1907), House–Surgeon, Norfolk and Norwich Hospital: commonplace book c.1854–78

MS.8638

Octavius William Hoffman M.R.C.S. (fl., 1854–1899), Poor Law Medical Officer in Suffolk then in Herefordshire: testimonials and other papers, 1854–84

MS.7149

Thomas Joseph Pettigrew F.R.S. (1791–1865), specialist in medical jurisprudence: paper on the Norfolk rebellion of Robert Kett (d.1549), read to the British Archaeological Association, 1857

MS.3867

B. Scott (fl.1862), chemist, North Walsham, Norfolk: invoice, 1862

MS.7578/47

Great Yarmouth Gas Company: order from the Company to pay a sum of money to Lady Pleasance Smith (1773–1877), 1874

MS.7641/11

James Murie M.D. (1832–1925), Leigh–on–Sea (previously member of expedition to relieve Speke and Grant in Central Africa): papers including medical certificate for a worker at Messrs Kynoch, Stanford–le–Hope, and letters from the secretary of the Essex Field Club, 1882–1916

MS.3655

Queen’s Nursing Institute: records of relations with affiliated local branches, 1890s–1970s; some deposited material from local district nursing associations

SA/QNI

Walter John Payne (fl.1880–1900), builder, carpenter and carter, Fobbing, Essex: recipes for human and veterinary medicine (reproduction of item held at Essex County Record Office) Original item c.1899

MS.8501

British Medical Association: material on Public Medical Services in all areas of the UK, also on specific local friendly/medical aid societies, medical institutions, etc 1910s–60s

SA/BMA

Severalls Mental Hospital, Essex: taped interviews (and transcripts) with former staff and inmates, plus associated materials, 1905–98, collected by Dr Diana Gittins for her book Madness in its Place (London: Routledge, 1998)

GC/244

Walter Pickett Turner M.D. (d.1934), Leytonstone: notes for lectures, including one on Epping Forest c.1905

MS.4882

Grantly Dick–Read (1890–1959): correspondence to and from his family living in East Anglia, 1905–42

PP/GDR/A

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy: photographs of Massage Dept, King George’s Hospital, Ilford, c. 1916

SA/QNI/Q.1

Florence Jane Watkins (fl.1916–1919): papers documenting service as a VAD nurse during the First World War, including certificates recording work at Finborough, Newmarket and West Suffolk General Hospitals, 1916–9 and n.d.

MS.7891

Sir Thomas Lewis (1881–1945): material on training of US medical officers at Colchester Military Hospital, 1917–8

PP/LEW/C.1/4–8

Society of Medical Officers of Health: records of Eastern Branch, East Anglian Branch and East Anglian Region, 1921–72, and Home Counties, later London and Home Counties Branch and Thames Regions, 1965–81

SA/SMO/N.3–5

Medical Women’s Federation: material on Nayland Sanatorium and Dr Jane Walker, 1920s–50s; correspondence with local Associations, 1960s–80s

SA/MWF

Family Planning Association (formerly National Birth Control Association): records of its dealings with its own regional federations, area organisation, local branches and clinics, correspondence with local authorities, 1930–74; records of its regional administration, 1965–1991; historical note on Southend branch, 1974

SA/FPA

National Birthday Trust Fund: correspondence re experimental distribution of Ambrosia Milk Food to expectant mothers in Pitsea, 1937–8; file relating to Lady Rhys–Williams’ involvement in Gosfield Hall Appeal, 1954

SA/NBT/T.10/2/2, U.14/6

Norwich Chemist: `Poison book', 1933–52

GC/29

S Ruthven Mackay: register of Dangerous Drugs purchased by and dispensed in his Southend general practice, 1938-75

GP/65

Mental Aftercare Association: material (including photographs) on residential homes and hostels for former mental patients in Braintree and Loughton, Essex, and Ipswich and Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1944–90

SA/MAC

Harold Burnett Hewitt (b.1915): biographical memoir includes post at Colchester Military Hospital, 1945

GC/222

Multiple Sclerosis Society: files on Association of Essex Branches, the Mid–Essex, North East Essex and South East Essex Groups, and on specific local branches in Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk, 1950s–70s

SA/MSS/C

Sir Graham Selby Wilson (1895–1987): photographs of Norwich Public Health Laboratory, c. 1954

PP/GSW/H.15

Sidney Chave: notebooks of his PhD study of mental health in Harlow New Town, published (with Lord Taylor), as Mental Health and Environment in, 1964; other papers and publications concerning, 1957–66

GC/178

Travelling Surgical Society: visits to Norwich, 1961, 1984 (Diamond Jubilee), Bury St Edmunds, 1993

SA/TSS

Sir Robert Macintosh (1897–1989): travel diary to vist to Southend for British Dental Association meeting, 1963

PP/RRM/C.72

Birth Control Campaign: file of Chelmsford local group, 1972–3

SA/BCC/A.27

ECHS: European Collaborative Hospitals/Health Service Study: Colchester was one of the regional centres for comparing the input and outcome of Health Services in different European countries, 1980–95

GC/191

ASH (Action on Smoking and Health): Norfolk Branch, 1980–8

SA/ASH/E.1/1

BACUP: press–cuttings re Norwich free helpline, 1989

SA/BAC/M.6/1

Oral History of General Practice, 1935–52: tapes and transcripts of interviews with Walter Taylor, West Suffolk; Roger Sauvan–Smith, Colchester; Norman Paros, Colchester; Arnold Elliott, Ilford; Arnold Briscoe, Woodbridge; Leonard Cane, Bungay; Arthur Douglas–Jones, Norwich; Norman Eastwood, Lowestoft, 1992–4

GP/29

Sources of very general local history interest

England; South-East; South-Central; South-West; West Midlands and the Marches; South Midlands and the Fens; East Anglia and Essex; East Midlands; North-West; Yorkshire; North-East
Scotland
;
Wales
; Ireland

East Midlands

Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland.

Banks family, Revesby Abbey: in papers of the naturalist Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820), naturalist, material relating to Lincolnshire, including copy of a grant of property to Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, in, 1609, and correspondence and papers concerning excavations at Revesby, Banks' appointment as Sheriff of Lincolnshire and the Livings of Barrow and Northcoates, Hemingby Hospital (see also MS 2826), and the water supply of Boston, 1609–1806 and n.d.

MS.5215

Order probably issued by Joseph Banks (1665–1727), on behalf of the Lindsey Quarter Sessions, for watches to be kept on the Lincolnshire coast for ships from places infected with plague, 1721

MS.7250/1

For extensive further Banks material not related to Lincolnshire specifically, see catalogue indices

 

Saleby, Lincolnshire: receipt dated at Saleby, relating to "Married Soldiers House of Correction", 1657

MS.7382/5

Moore family, Appleby, Leicestershire: letter from John Moore (1620–1702), London merchant and later Lord Mayor, to his brother Charles Moore at Appleby, describing the course of the Plague in London, 1665

MS.7382/3

Eusebius Ashby (1662–1741) and others, Blaby, Leicestershire: two books of remedies for horses, 1705–40

MS.993–4

Mary Fidgeon (fl.1728), midwife, Apethorpe, Nottinghamshire: certificate issued by diocesan authorities, certified by William Wake (1657–1737), Prebendary of Lincoln cathedral, 1728

MS.3544/9

Spalding Gentlemen's Society: note on recent proceedings, sent by the President to the Royal Society, 1748

MS.5403/58

Robert Petrie (fl.1762), physician, Lincoln: letter giving an account of an influenza epidemic at Lincoln, 1762

MS.7396/14

Hemingby Hospital, Lincolnshire: account book, signed by Sir Joseph Banks, 1792–1801

MS.2826

– See also Sir Joseph Banks papers

MS.5215

Ann Palmer (fl c.1810), wife of Robert Nelthorpe Palmer (1765–1821), Vicar of Redbourne, Lincolnshire: recipes c.1810

MS.3739

Buxton: notebook compiled by a visitor to the spa at Buxton, in search of a cure for his rheumatism; including maps, observations on medicinal waters, descriptions of Buxton and of excursions in the surrounding area, and a poem in rhyming couplets entitled 'Buxton in both seasons, 1817', beginning 'Buxton thou washpot of the North', 1817

MS.6108

Sarah Ellis (flc.1820), Mansfield, Nottinghamshire: recipe book c.1820

MS.2291

Sir James Edward Smith (1759–1828), botanist: paper for the Linnean Society describing a tour from London to Liverpool, Matlock and Arley (Worcestershire), 1820

MS.7641/4

Mr. Baines (flc.1825), silk–dyer, Boston, Lincolnshire, and others: books of recipes and general notes c.1825

MS.1032

Derbyshire: daybook of an unidentified general practitioner working in the Winster area (majority of patients from Winster, Elton, Birchover, Wensley and Darley Bridge), 1836–7

MS.7644

Miss Fulsham and Richard Fulsham, surgeon, East Shilton, Leicestershire: culinary recipes, apparently collected by Miss Fulsham; a few items written on envelopes addressed to Richard Fulsham, 1842–50 and n.d.

MS.5854/8–56

John Sloane M.D. (1829–1891), Milford Place, Leicester: letters received by Sloane, 1848–92

MS.6820

Thomas Hodgkin (1798–1866), physician and philanthropist: certificate of marriage to Sarah Frances Scaife at Friends' Meeting House, Nottingham, 1850

MS.5680

Chemist's prescription book, Nottinghamshire: mainly prescriptions for named individuals from the northern fringes of Nottingham, also medical, veterinary and household recipes and notes, 19th century

MS.7791

James Patterson (fl.1858–1859), teacher at the Deaf and Dumb Institution, Manchester: diary, including account of visit to London travelling via the Peak District, Sheffield and Grantham, 1858–9

MSS.7352–3

John Ward M.D. (d.1901), Glossop, Derbyshire: commonplace book, containing notes and extracts from medical books and journals plus religious material, written in part prior to Ward's graduation (MD St Andrew's, 1862), and in part while in practice at Glossop, 1861–7

MS.6039

Thomas Stiles, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire: medical report to the Standard Life Assurance Company, concerning the Rev Marmaduke Conolly, 1861

MS.5658/4

Brigg, Lincolnshire, general practice: articles of partnership between Robert Haldane Paterson, surgeon and apothecary, and James Titley MD, physician and surgeon, 1864

MS.7962

Lincoln General Hospital: register of obstetric cases compiled by William Arthur Carline, later Surgeon to the hospital, 1872–1912

MS.1509

Chesterfield, Derbyshire: letter discussing a whale or mammoth bone in Chesterfield church, known as the "Dun Cow's Rib", mounted on the back of a letter by the chemist Sir Lyon Playfair (1818–1898), 1879

MS.7431/1

Fennings Pharmaceuticals: had a manufacturing plant at Mabelthorpe, Lincolnshire

SA/FEN

Queen’s Nursing Institute: records of relations with affiliated local branches, 1890s–1970s; some deposited material from local district nursing associations

SA/QNI

Vernon John Greenhough M.R.C.S. (1853–1907), Chapel–en–le–Frith, Derbyshire: diary and accounts, 1897–1902

MS.6921

Research Defence Society: records of Leicester and Nottingham branches, c. 1908–19

SA/RDS/D.1

British Medical Association: material on Public Medical Services in all areas of the UK, also on specific local friendly/medical aid societies, medical institutions, etc 1900s–60s

SA/BMA

No 4 District (Beds, Herts, Leics and Middlesex) Master and Matrons’ Association: Minutes, 1918–36

SA/AHR/A.35

Phrenology: letter by "Professor" Thomas Timson of the International Phrenological and Psychological Institute, Leicester, describing the spread of phrenology there, 1922

MS.7713

Eugenics Society: files relating to Leicester Intelligence Survey, 1949, and Leicestershire Insurance Committee (Eugenics Services), 1931–4, and correspondence with C Killick Millard (Medical Officer of Health), 1920–35, and C J Bond, 1922–49 [permission from Galton Institute required]

SA/EUG

Society of Medical Officers of Health: records of East Midland Branch and Trent Region, 1930–81

SA/SMO/N.2

Family Planning Association (formerly National Birth Control Association): records of its dealings with its own regional federations, area organisation, local branches and clinics, correspondence with local authorities, 1930–74; records of its regional administration, 1965–1991; includes records of following branches: Chesterfield, 1942–71, Newark and District, 1962–9, Sutton in Ashfield, 1965–8, Alfreton, 1967–70

SA/FPA

Mary Louisa Drabble (1900–1972): items re her position as Public Vaccinator, Matlock District, 1931

GC/227/A.5

Voluntary Euthanasia Society: f. 1935 in Leicester by C Killick Millard (Medical Officer of Health) and C J Bond, and had its HQ there until 1954

SA/VES

James Randal Hutchinson (c.1880–1955) and William Henry Bradley (1898–1975): influenzal pneumonia at Scunthorpe, 1938; outbreak of food poisoning in Scunthorpe, 1940; measles serum jaundice, Leicester, 1942–3

PP/JRH

Sir George Godber (b.1908): ‘Hospital Survey of Sheffield and East Midlands Area’, draft and letters, 1944

GC/201

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy: Buxton Sub–Branch minutes, 1945–79; photographs of physiotherapy at Nottingham General Hospital, 1935, opening of Nottingham School of Physiotherapy, 1965; physiotherapists instructing in lifting at John Player and Sons, Nottingham, 1974; photograph albums of Diamond Jubilee Celebrations in Nottingham, 1980

SA/CSP/J.4/1. Q.1, Q.2/8–9

Donald Hunter (1898–1977): reports on visits to Midlands factories, 1947–70, in connection with occupational health

PP/HUN/D

Cancer Research Campaign: file on the Lincolnshire Council of the Campaign, 1926–60, and the Nottinghamshire Council, 1949–66

SA/CRC/F.1/9,18

Multiple Sclerosis Society: files on East Midlands Branch, 1976, and other specific local branches, 1950s–70s

SA/MSS/C

Sir Robert Macintosh (1897–1989): travel diary of visit to Lincoln. 1954

PP/RRM/C.92

Medical Women’s Federation: correspondence with local Associations, 1960s–80s

SA/MWF

Medical Pilgrims: records of ‘Pilgrimage’ to Nottingham, 1975

SA/PIL

BACUP: correspondence with Coping with Cancer, Leicester, 1985

SA/BAC/E.2/13

Psychiatry Interviews: Tapes and transcripts of interviews conducted in, 1988 by Sam Sussman with three Nottingham psychiatrists (AD Douglas, ED Oram and A Minto)

GC/132

Travelling Surgical Society: visit to Nottingham, 1990

SA/TSS

Sources of very general local history interest

England; South-East; South-Central; South-West; West Midlands and the Marches; South Midlands and the Fens; East Anglia and Essex; East Midlands; North-West; Yorkshire; North-East
Scotland
;
Wales
; Ireland

North-West

Cheshire, Cumberland, Lancashire, Westmorland. Also the Isle of Man.

Westmoreland: Medical Compendium, 15th century: 'The boke of marschalse' and other texts, in various hands: compiled in the Westmorland area, C15th.The flyleaves are from a rental for Appleby and the surrounding area (Milburn, Kirkby Thore, Murton, Newbiggin etc); possibly a rental of lands belonging to the church of St Michael, Appleby, since most places named are within that parish, C15th–17th

MS.5650

Isaac Gilpin (fl.1626): collection of information on land–tenure customs in Westmorland and Cumberland, contained in a collection of transcribed miscellanea n.d.

MS.805/29

Theodosia Henshaw, Middlewich, Cheshire: recipe book Late, 17th century

MS.7849

Medical commonplace book, Cheshire: commonplace book by various physicians, including the Cheshire–born Thomas Hayes (MD, Cambridge, 1747) and William Currie (fl.1768–1805) of Chester, 1737–87 and n.d.

MS.6907

Joshua Dixon (d.1825), apothecary's assistant, later a physician at Whitehaven: letterbook describing life in Liverpool as assistant to Edward Parr, apothecary and merchant with interest in the slave–trade, 1764–5

MS.2196

Halton family, Cumberland: commonplace book, including pedigree, 1768–81

MS.2720

Jeremiah Ainsworth (fl.1743–1784), mathematician, Manchester: letters to the Rev John Lawson (1723–1779), mathematician, 1777

MS.5642

Amicable and Charitable Society, Newchurch, Rossendale, Lancashire: regulations and membership book, 1778–1805

MS.5654

Joseph Partridge (fl.1724–1782), curate of Baddiley, Cheshire: letter applying to a charity for assistance to support his mentally–ill daughter Sarah; with a supporting note by W Gorst MD and R Wicksted, surgeon, of Nantwich, 1782

MS.7674/2

Charles Taylor M.D. (d.1816), physician and chemist, Manchester: letters, 1790–1808

MS.7689

John Gough, naturalist, Kendal: correspondence with Luke Howard (1772–1864), chiefly on meteorology, in Hodgkin family archive, 1805–1821 and n.d. See General section

PP/HO/K/A1–A23

Thomas Howitt (d.1846) and his son Thomas Howitt F.R.C.S. (d.1881), surgeons, Lancaster: official papers, including an indenture apprenticing the son to the father, 1807–31

MSS.5195–5196

Hargreaves family and others, Lancashire: biographical notes (contained in rulebook of the Amicable and Charitable Society, Newchurch, Rossendale), 1812–70

MS.5654

John Grundy, Sons & Wood, Lancashire: accounts (contained in rulebook of the Amicable and Charitable Society, Newchurch, Rossendale), 1815–21

MS.5654

Liverpool: miscellaneous items relating to Liverpool in the, 19th century, 1816–1864 and n.d.

MS.7823

Francis Newbold and William Binley Dickinson, surgeon–apothecaries, Macclesfield, Cheshire: indenture apprenticing Major Butler Morgan of Lichfield to Newbold and Dickinson, 1820

MS.6884/2

Sir James Edward Smith (1759–1828), botanist: paper for the Linnean Society describing a tour from London to Liverpool, Matlock and Arley (Worcestershire), 1820

MS.7641/4

Mrs. Whitworth, apparently from Manchester: recipe book, including prescription issued by John Moss Kirkman (d.1876) of Manchester Royal Infirmary, 1822–6

MS.4998

William Roscoe M.P. (1753–1831), historian and botanist: ticket of admission, probably to Liverpool Royal Institution (of which Roscoe was the first President), 1824

MS.7545/33

Dr. W. Thackray (fl.1824), Chester: prescription, 1824

MS.7734/4

Henry Peart (d.1867), surgeon and apothecary: notebook including containing case notes recorded at the Liverpool Infirmary, 1827–39 and n.d.

MS.5263

Cheshire Lunatic Asylum, Chester: prescription book, with a few clinical notes, 1832–9

MS.1587

William Gelder (fl.1832–37), chemist and druggist, Clayton West, Yorkshire: notebook including tour through the Isle of Man, Dublin, Anglesey (including a sketch of Beaumaris church), and Lancashire (visiting Liverpool and various places in the Manchester area), 1834–7

MS.5872

James Brocklehurst (fl.1835–45), chemist and druggist, Hyde, Cheshire: prescription and invoice books, 1835–73

MSS.5946–8

Macclesfield, Cheshire: day book of a general practitioner practising in Macclesfield and the surrounding area, 1835–7

MS.5507

Emma Tate (fl.1843), ?Cheshire: collection of cookery, household and medical recipes c.1837–43

MS.7730

Walter Scott MD (d.1866), Clitheroe, Lancashire: set of testimonials written for Scott, in connection with a vacant post in the Poor Law Union of Clitheroe n.d.

MS.6025/1

Joseph Powell Swanwick M.R.C.S. (1825–1909), Clerk to the Physicians, Manchester Royal Infirmary: pharmacopoeia, including revised list of medical staff at Manchester Royal Infirmary, 1847–50

MS.6953

Norman Comben collection of veterinary miscellanea: areas particularly well–represented include Cheshire, Cumberland and Westmorland See General section

MSS.7562–9

Stidd, Lancashire: design for restoration of the preceptory of St John of Jerusalem at Stidd c.1850

MS.1721/11

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810–1865), novelist: letter to Ann Scott (wife of Alexander Scott (1805–1866), Principal of Owens' College), discussing the uterine tumour suffered by a Mrs Glover of Bury c.1854

MS.7141

Manufacturers of surgical lint: correspondence regarding the supply of surgical lint to the London chemists Savory & Moore (for the war in the Crimea), including letters and samples from Manchester manufacturers, 1854–5

MS.7874

James Patterson (fl.1858–1859), teacher at the Deaf and Dumb Institution, Manchester: diary, including account of visit to London, 1858–9

MSS.7352–7353

James Woolley (1811–1858), manufacturing chemist, Manchester: diary of Woolley's illness, treatment and dath, written by his partner Henry Davis Pochin (1824–1895), 1858

MS.5949

Thomas Young Baker (1837–1901), military surgeon: diary, chiefly of journey to India but also covering previous six months spent in England, including tour of the Lake District, 1861–2

MS.1038

Sir George Buchanan F.R.C.P. F.R.S. (1831–1895): report to Privy Council on the health of cotton–mill workers unemployed as a result of the American Civil War's disruption of the cotton trade, 1862

MS.1393

Sir Thomas Barlow (1845–1945), physician: journal and notebook containing case notes, some from Pendlebury Children's Hospital, Manchester, 1878–9

PP/BAR/A/12

Cutting from the Bolton Chronicle (Barlow's home town) on a congratulatory address by workers of Messrs Barlow and Jones, 1866

PP/BAR/Q/1

– See also General section

 

Dr. Pollard (d c.1878), Chorley, Lancashire: memorandum book listing items sold and prices realised at sale of the late Dr Pollard's effects, 1878

MS.7278

George Edward Shuttleworth (1842–1923), specialist in mental deficiency, Superintendent of the Royal Albert Asylum, Lancaster: rules, staff lists etc for the asylum, 1880–9

MS.4569

Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston (1862–1944), physician: papers include photograph album, containing pictures taken at Lancrigg, Grasmere, former home of the family friend John Richardson (1787–1865), 1888–9

MS.6123

Society of Medical Officers of Health: records of North Western Branch and North West Region, 1894–1981

SA/SMO/N.7

Queen’s Nursing Institute: records of relations with affiliated local branches, 1890s–1970s, including the Isle of Man; some deposited material from local district nursing associations; records of the William Rathbone Staff College, Liverpool, 1957–76

SA/QNI

Bootle, Lancashire: reports by the Medical Officer of Health (office–holders including Robert John Sprakeling MRCS (d.1901), Thomas William Naylor Barlow MRCS LRCP (fl.1896–1945) and Frank Thomas Herbert Wood (fl.1902–78)) to Bootle Borough Council, 1895–1903 and, 1924–6

MS.7130–3

Letterbook of Frank Thomas Herbert Wood as Medical Officer of Health for Bootle, 1928–9

MS.7134

Mrs. Powell, nurse, Widnes: letter to a Dr Brentnall of Warrington, setting out her dire financial straits and asking for employment Late, 19th or early 20th century

MS.7545/5

British Medical Association: material on Public Medical Services in all areas of the UK, also on specific local friendly/medical aid societies, medical institutions, etc 1900s–60s

SA/BMA

Frank Taylor J.P., Bolton, Lancashire: printed memorial publication marking Taylor's death, in the papers of Sir Thomas Barlow, 1902

PP/BAR/T/6/3

Liverpool Royal Infirmary: poem, "Thornton Corridor", by JME n.d.

MS.7326/7

Research Defence Society: records of Liverpool and Norther Counties branches, c. 1908–19

SA/RDS/D.1

Medical Women’s Federation: files on Duchess of York’s Hospital for Babies, Manchester, n.d., and on movement for admission of women doctors at Infirmary, Manchester, 1909; proposed amalgamation of local Associations for Registered Medical Women into Federation, 1916; correspondence with local associations, 1960s–80s

SA/MWF

Thomas Herbert Bickerton (1858–1933), ophthalmic surgeon, Liverpool: material relating to medicine in Liverpool, comprising a paper 'The Liverpool Medical Institution – what is it?', a speech to the Liverpool Medical Institution, and a speech as President of the Liverpool Royal Infirmary, 1911–23

MS.5999

Sir Allen Daley (1887–1969): material relating to early career as MOH, Bootle, 1911–20, and Blackburn, 1920–5, and personal and educational associations with Liverpool

PP/AWD

Manchester Branch of the Eugenics Society: one file, n.d. [permission from Galton Institute required]

SA/EUG/E.14

Dr Francis Blacklay (b.1919) general practitioner, Nantwich: history of joint practice of Drs Blacklay and Turner; records including articles of partnership, 1922–69, financial records, 1917–77, visits registers, 1930–71, and minutes of practice meetings, 1960–76

GP/24

Edith Cavell Home of Rest for Nurses, The Crossways, Windermere: records of the Edith Cavell Homes, 1917–84

SA/NFN/C

Manchester (later East Lancashire) Centre of the Nation’s Fund for Nurses: minutes, correspondence, accounts, 1918–79

SA/NFN/D.3

British Social Hygiene Council: Manchester (Ablution Centres) Enquiry Committee, 1921–2

SA/BSH/G.3

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy: photographs at Manchester Royal Infirmary School of Physiotherapy, 1922; physiotherapy students at Ancoats, c. 1950s; treatment pool, School of Physiotherapy, Liverpool; exercises at Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport, c. 1965; students at Manchester Royal Infirmary, 1974; new physiotherapy department, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, 1975

SA/QNI/Q.1

H C Croadsell, Chemist, Cockermouth: Prescription books and ledgers, 1923–51

GC/75

Cancer Research Campaign: files on local committees and branches, and other cancer research and education organisations in the North West, 1924–65, including two files on the rival organisation, the Liverpool Radium Institute, 1930–63

SA/CRC

National Birthday Trust Fund: correspondence with Liverpool Maternity Hospital, 1929–36, and study at hospital of use of Minnitt gas and air machines, 1934–7; files relating to schemes for distributing Marmite to expectant mothers in Oldham and Liverpool, 1937–40

SA/NBT/F.6/1, H.2/1, T.10/2–3

Family Planning Association (formerly National Birth Control Association): records of its dealings with its own regional federations, area organisation, local branches and clinics, correspondence with local authorities, 1930–74; records of its regional administration, 1965–1991; includes records of following branches: Manchester and Salford, 1926–68, Liverpool (later Merseyside), 1931–71, Preston, 1949–71, Stockport and District, 1951–62, Blackburn, 1952–72, Altrincham and District, 1953–62, Wilmslow and District, 1961–9

SA/FPA

Eugenics Society: meetings and lectures in Liverpool, 1935–7 [permission from Galton Institute required]

SA/EUG/G.8

James Randal Hutchinson (c.1880–1955): death from anaphylactic shock after injection of scarlet fever antitoxin, Barrow–in–Furness, 1938

PP/JRH/A.81

Sir Robert Macintosh (1897–1989): travel diaries of visits to Manchester Royal Infirmary, 1938, 1956; to Liverpool, 1958, Manchester, 1963, 1964, Warrington, 1964

PP/RRM/C

R A McCance (1898–1993): diary of wartime self–experimentation on effects of proposed rationing diets in combination with exercise, with Elsie Widdowson and other members of his research team, in the Lake District, 1939–40

GC/97/B.3

Dr Alfred Model (1906–1979): general practitioner, Stockport, Cheshire: Cash book, 1939–48; journal articles about practice, 1957–68

GP/50

National Birthday Trust Fund: correspondence with Medical Officer of Health, Salford, about use of analgesia in domiciliary confinements, 1945–54

SA/NBT/H.4/3

Medical Pilgrims: records of ‘Pilgrimages’ to Manchester, 1949, 1986

SA/PIL

Multiple Sclerosis Society: file on North West Association of Branches, 1968–73, and files on specific local branches, 1950s–70s

SA/MSS/C

Fennings Pharmaceuticals: some of their products manufactured and distributed by J. Waterhouse & Co. Ltd., Ashton–under–Lyne, Lancashire, 1964–96

SA/FEN

Abortion Law Reform Association: Manchester local group, 1964–7; also annual reports of Merseyside branch of Brook Advisory Centres, 1975–8

SA/ALR

Travelling Surgical Society: visits to Manchester, 1967, 1988, Liverpool, 1982, Lake District, 1985

 

Sir Thomas Dalmahoy Barlow (1883–1964): catalogue of exhibition of paintings from Barlow's collection at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 1968

PP/BAR/Z/46/8

See also General section, under Sir Thomas Barlow

 

Birth Control Campaign: files on Manchester and Merseyside local groups, 1971–3

SA/BCC/A.31–32

ASH (Action on Smoking and Health): North West Branch, 1977–83

SA/ASH/E.1/4

Harold Edgar Vickers: '”An impression of Walton Hospital, Liverpool” during his years as consultant pathologist, 1951-77, c. 1979

GC/269

British Health Care Arts Centre: correspondence between J H Baron and Dr Linda Moss, who was involved in arts in hospitals and healing in Manchester, 1984–91

SA/BHC/A

BACUP: correspondence with Liverpool Personal Services Society, 1985; information leaflets from Manchester Regional Committee, n.d.; photos of launch of free helpline, Manchester, 1989

SA/BAC

Haydock (Lancs) Health Centre: annual reports of practice, 1987–95

GP/19

Biochemical Society: file on Northern Regional Section, 1991-6, files on meetings held in region, etc

SA/BIO

Oral History of General Practice, 1935–52: tapes and transcripts of interviews with Henry Waters Bisset, Bolton; Jean Margaret Bisset, Bolton; Robert Clarke, Bolton; Jean Hugh–Jones, St Helen's; John Hopkinson, Ulverston; Richard Oddy, Westmorland; Thomas McQuay, Blackburn; Bertie Dover, Liverpool; Margarete Samuel, Manchester, 1992–4

GP/29

Sources of very general local history interest

England; South-East; South-Central; South-West; West Midlands and the Marches; South Midlands and the Fens; East Anglia and Essex; East Midlands; North-West; Yorkshire; North-East
Scotland
;
Wales
; Ireland

Yorkshire

All areas covered by the pre-1974 county of Yorkshire, including the relevant sections of the post-1974 entities of Cleveland and Humberside.

Kingston–upon–Hull Corporation: minute book, including material on plague and quarantining ships, 1668–70

MS.3109

Correspondence of the Mayor and Aldermen; correspondents include the Members of Parliament for Hull (John Ramsden and Sir Willoughby Hickman), and Thomas Windsor, 1st Earl of Plymouth, Governor of Hull, 1660–98 and n.d.

MSS.5801–8

Edward Langdale [or Langsdale] (1610–1683), physician, Leeds: book of recipes and prescriptions by Langdale and others c.1675–c.1750

MS.3164

Lowther family, Marske: recipe book Late, 17th century

MS.3341

Nathaniel Johnston (1627–1705), physician and Yorkshire antiquary, and his sons Cudworth Johnston, physician, York, and Charles Johnston, physician, Pontefract: correspondence and papers, 1680–1732

MS.6080

Bartholomew Towers (fl.1697), citizen of Leeds: letter, dated at York, to Robert Mason Major at Hull, stating that he is too ill to travel to Hull to be elected as sheriff and endorsed by John Nicholson, physician; with, on conjoint leaf, an autograph letter from Robert Mason Major to Towers, 1697

MS.7382/6

Apothecary's cashbook: belonging to an apothecary practising in the the West Riding of Yorkshire, centring on the area immediately to the south of Bradford, 1704–10

MS.7500

Hemsworth, West Riding: notebook containing sermons, the first two dated at Hemsworth c.1718

MS.5364

Elizabeth Whiteaker (fl.1729), apparently from Yorkshire: recipe book, including an obituary notice for the Rev Thomas Scott, Vicar of Wakefield c.1725–9

MS.4997

Rabies, North Yorkshire: anonymous compilation of Richard Mead's recipe against the bite of a mad dog with relevant case notes from Guisborough and Upleatham in Cleveland, relating the use of Scarborough waters, 1736 and n.d.

MS.7019/1

Carr family, surgeon–apothecaries: notebooks kept by three generations of the family: William Carr (b.1715), of Settle; William Carr (1745–1821), apothecary to the Leeds Infirmary, 1774–1781, surgeon apothecary at Elland and later at Gomersal, Birstall; and William Carr (1785–1861), general practitioner, of Gomersal, 1739–1861

MSS.5203–7

John Smeaton F.R.S. (1724–1792), civil engineer: letter reporting on the progress of the Calder and Hebble Navigation, 1766

MS.7642/8

John Binns, Skipton area: collection of medical, veterinary and household recipes c.1776–c.1792

MS.7852

Commonplace book apparently compiled by a farmer in the West Riding c.1801–11

MS.7739

Rolleston family, Maltby: letters and papers collected by the family, together with a few items of Rolleston family papers, including a letter concerning Sheffield General Infirmary, 1805–81 and n.d.

MS.6127

H. Taft M.D. (fl.1802–1824), South Yorkshire physician: letter to Mr Everett at the Methodist Chapel, Barnsley, concerning a medical case referred to Taft by Everett, 1811

MS.7684/55

Harland family, Scarborough: letters by or concerning Dr William Harland (1786?–1866), a Scarborough native who practised in the town and was three times Mayor, and his son Dr William Aurelius Harland (1822–1858), who made his career in Hong Kong, 1818–58

MSS.7681–3

Charles Waterton (1782–1865), traveller and naturalist of Walton Hall, Wakefield: letters and cuttings, including reference to his lawsuit against a factory polluting the local water, 1824–65 and n.d.

MS.7806

– For material compiled by his son Edmund Waterton see the General section

 

William Pannell Marshall (fl.1828), surgeon, apothecary and accoucheur, Hutton Rudby: photocopy and typed transcript of autograph letter to his father, William Marshall (architect at Northallerton), describing his training in London, plus photocopy of two trade cards announcing Marshall's commencing practice in Hutton Rudby, 1828 and n.d.

MS.7312/10–12

Jonathan Martin (1782–1838), fanatical Wesleyan who attempted to burn York Minster: drawing of a vision seen by Martin, plus printed obituary, 1829–38

MS.7312/17

Carter family, Scarborough: correspondence and papers, focusing primarily on Henry Vandyke Carter (1831–1897), Deputy Surgeon–General, Indian Medical Service, 1830–1916 and n.d.

MSS. 5809–5826

Charles Turner Thackrah (1795–1833), Leeds surgeon–apothecary: letter, 1830

MS.7734/3

Leeds: collection of medical, culinary and household recipes compiled in the Leeds area during the early decades of the, 19th century; authorities cited including newspapers such as the Leeds Mercury and Bradford Observer c.1830

MS.7647

Moor family, Thorne: collection of recipes for cakes and puddings Early–mid, 19th century

MS.7727

Scarborough: collection of cookery, household and medical receipts and prescriptions (the latter including two by George Peckitte Dale FRCS (1821–1893), who practised at Scarborough) c.1831–78

MS.7728

William Gelder (fl.1832–1837), chemist and druggist, Clayton West, Yorkshire: letters to his parents from London and Edinburgh, 1832–4

MS.5871

Notebook begun in Edinburgh and continued on a tour through the Isle of Man, Dublin, Anglesey (including a sketch of Beaumaris church), and Lancashire (visiting Liverpool and various places in the Manchester area), and in trade back in Yorkshire, 1834–7

MS.5872

Mrs. Hinks, Breckenborough, North Riding: 3 letters from Henry Jenner MD (1767–1851), nephew of the vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner, concerning dispatches of smallpox vaccine, 1838–9

MS.7825/11–13

Howard family, Ackworth: Hodgkin family archive includes correspondence with various members of the Howard family, in particular Luke Howard (1772–1864) See General section

PP/HO

Backhouse family, Cleveland area: Hodgkin family archive includes extensive correspondence with their relatives the Backhouses See General section

PP/HO

Pease family, Cleveland area: Hodgkin family archive includes correspondence with various members of the Pease family See General section

PP/HO

York Charity Trustees: petitions to the Charity Trustees of the City of York for the relief of needy townsfolk and for elections to hospital vacancies, 1846–61

MS.6244

John Mercer (1791–1866), Oakenshaw, Bradford: report written by Mercer's son, describing his improvements to the process of calico printing, 1847

MS.3531

William Armitage (fl.1847–1892), grocer and retail chemist, Thorne, Yorkshire, and others: account book, 1847–99

MS.978

John Dixon (1832–1930), Hemsworth, later Medical Officer of Health for Bermondsey: indenture apprenticing John Dixon of Hemsworth to William Wood Wiseman, surgeon and apothecary, of Ossett, 1848

MS.5191/1

William Stott Maude M.R.C.S. L.S.A. (fl.1832–65), general practitioner, Elland: commonplace and scrapbook c.1849–65

MS.7115

W.R. Brumet, Cocksford, Tadcaster: notebook of recipes for animal cures, apparently compiled by Brumet, 19th century

MS.7653

William Lennard (1803–1866), general practitioner, Sheffield: prescriptions and memoranda, 19th century, plus some 20th century material about Lennard

MS.7815

Scarborough Poor Law Union Hospital: letter, signed by the president of the fishermens' organisation of Fécamp, Normandy, to the president of the Hospital, thanking him for taking in some Fécamp seamen suffering from cholera and sending a plaque recording the event to be erected in the Hospital, 1867

MS.7548/1

Scarborough: prescription book of an unidentified chemist c.1875– c.1900

MS.3994

‘Doctor Lucy’: unpublished biography of Lucy Naish (1876–1969), born at Scarborough, educated in Bridlington, and spent most of her married life in medical practice in Sheffield

MS.8034

Edmund Hargreaves (fl.1874–1923), general practitioner, Sheffield: diary, 1879

MS.7520

R. Bellamy (late Edward Fowler), chemist, Bedale, North Riding of Yorkshire: bill, 1879

MS.7825/3

Henry Umpleby M.D. (d.1886), Bedale, North Riding of Yorkshire: bill for medical attendence upon the late Mrs J Hincks, 1879

MS.7825/24

Charles McIvhor Goyder (fl.1875–81), House Surgeon at Sheffield General Infirmary and later Newcastle–upon–Tyne Infirmary: casebook, 1879–81

MS.7393

Leeds: notebook containing recipes and accounts compiled by an unnamed Leeds apothecary, 19th century

MS.7111

Ilkley area: prescription book kept by an unidentified dispensing chemist, 1881–1909

MS. 6035

James Kerr (d.1941), Schools Medical Officer: chart prepared by Kerr while Medical Superintendent, Bradford School Board, showing the ages and heights of, 1500 school children in Bradford, 1894

MS.5651

Queen’s Nursing Institute: records of relations with affiliated local branches, 1890s–1970s; some deposited material from local district nursing associations

SA/QNI

Society of Medical Officers of Health: records of Yorkshire Branch and Yorkshire Region, 1903–80

SA/SMO/N.15

Research Defence Society: records of Harrogate, York, and Northern Counties branches, c. 1908–19

SA/RDS/D.1

Medical Women’s Federation: file on Public Health – Dr May Thorne, Huddersfield, and unequal pay, 1908; proposed amalgamation of local Associations for Registered Medical Women into Federation, 1916; correspondence with local Associations, 1960s–80s

SA/MWF

British Medical Association: material on Public Medical Services in all areas of the UK, also on specific local friendly/medical aid societies, medical institutions, etc 1910s–60s

SA/BMA

Sir Edward (1884–1955) and Lady (May) Mellanby (1882–1978): material relating to period during which Mellanby was Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Sheffield, 1920–33

PP/MEL

Travelling Surgical Society: inaugural meeting in Leeds, 1924; visits to Sheffield, 1973, Leeds, 1979

SA/TSS

Sir Allen Daley (1887–1969): some material relating to period at MOH, Hull, 1925–9

PP/AWD

Marie Stopes (1880–1958): files relating to birth control clinic set up under the auspices of her Society for Constructive Birth Control at Leeds, 1928–36, and legal papers relating to burning of her Caravan Clinic at Leeds, 1928–9

PP/MCS

National Birthday Trust Fund: correspondence with Leeds Maternity Hospital, 1928–39; correspondence about schemes to distribute Marmite and yeast to expectant mothers in Sheffield and Bradford, 1937–8

SA/NBT/F.6/1, T.10/3

Family Planning Association (formerly National Birth Control Association): records of its dealings with its own regional federations, area organisation, local branches and clinics, correspondence with local authorities, 1930–74; records of its regional administration, 1965–1991; includes records of following branches: Scarborough, 1949–73, Doncaster, 1950–62, historical notes on Halifax, 1973

SA/FPA

James Randal Hutchinson (c.1880–1955): cases of immunisation accidents, 1930s; gastro–enteritis outbreak at Knaresborough, 1943

PP/JRH/A.44

William Norman Pickles (fl.1918–1937), physician, Aysgarth: letters, 1935–37

MS.7430/16–17

Sir Robert Macintosh (1897–1989): travel diaries of visits to Leeds Hospital for Women, 1938; and to Leeds, 1954

PP/RRM/C.6, C.23

Henry McIlwain (1912–1992): files relating to employment in Sheffield at University, 1940s

PP/MCI

Harold Burnett Hewitt (b.1915): biographical memoir includes period in Leeds while in Army medical service, 1940s

GC/222

Sir George Godber (b.1908): ‘Hospital Survey of Sheffield and East Midlands Area’, draft and letters, 1944

GC/201/A.4

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy: Yorkshire Board, separated off from North Eastern Local Board, 1944–1983, in 1983; photographs at Bradford Royal Infirmary, c. 1948, School of Physiotherapy, Bradford, c. 1958, Hospital treatment pool. Sheffield, c. 1950s, ,Rotherham Mobile Physiotherapy Service, 1965

SA/CRC/J.4/2–3, Q.1

Professor James Walter McLeod (d.c,1978): Minute book of the Central Penicillin Committee, Leeds, 1944–5, and photographs of laboratories, University of Leeds, c.1940s

GC/268

Eugenics Society: Marie Stopes’ correspondence with Leeds Clinic for Constructive Birth Control, 1946–58; [permission from Galton Institute required]

SA/EUG/K.6, 11–15

Donald Hunter (1898–1977): reports on visits to factories in Yorkshire, 1947–70, in connection with occupational health

PP/HUN/D

Eugenics Society: correspondence relating to Problem Families survey, Rotherham, 1947–52 [permission from Galton Institute required]

SA/EUG/D.170

Cancer Research Campaign: file on the Yorkshire Council of the Campaign, 1951–75

SA/CRC/F.1/1

Sir Charles Lovatt Evans: Advice to Colne Valley Water Company in a pollution case, 1952–3

PP/CLE/C.1

Multiple Sclerosis Society: files on specific local branches, 1950s–70s

SA/MSS/C

Mary Catterall: papers include her campaign against the high levels of air pollution in Leeds, 1959–62

PP/CAT

Birth Control Campaign: file on Leeds local group, 1972

SA/BCC/A.30

BACUP: press–cuttings re Leeds free helpline, 1989, and photos

SA/BAC/M.6/9, N.5

Biochemical Society: file on Northern Regional Section, 1991-6, files on meetings held in region, etc

SA/BIO

Oral History of General Practice, 1935–52: tapes and transcripts of interviews with Frank Boon, Rotherham; Margaret Joan Hallinan, Rotherham; John Hallinan, Maltby; Jack Ridgwick, Roth,erham; John Evans, Doncaster; Clifford Aston, Allerton Bywater; Tony Leake, Bradford, 1992–4

GP/29

Sources of very general local history interest

England; South-East; South-Central; South-West; West Midlands and the Marches; South Midlands and the Fens; East Anglia and Essex; East Midlands; North-West; Yorkshire; North-East
Scotland
;
Wales
; Ireland

North-East

Durham, Northumberland.

Treasury warrant: from Thomas Clifford, Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, Lord High Treasurer, to the Exchequer, to discharge Major Nicholas Bayly's purchase of fee farm rents in Northumberland, 1673

MS.7072/17

Elizabeth Bowes (fl.1711): letter, endorsed "Lady Bowes", to her relative Charles Wren (1652–1722) of Binchester, Durham, concerning the health of "Cousin Baby", 1711

MS.7396/1

Mary Anne Fawcett (d.1849), probably of Newcastle–upon–Tyne: recipe book, plus letter from a family member in Bicester, 1793–1832

MS.2339

Richard Paxton (fl.1753–1799), surgeon, Maldon, Essex: casebook, including material on cases observed while under Richard Lambert at Newcastle–upon–Tyne (1753–1759), 1799

MS.3820

Anthony Clapham (fl.1822–1836), soda and alkali manufacturer, Newcastle upon Tyne: laboratory notebook, 1822–36

MS.1655

Hugh Lee Pattinson (1794–1858), metallurgical chemist, Newcastle–upon–Tyne: letterbooks including material on his businesses, 1828–56

MSS.3805–10

Martin family, eccentrics, Newcastle–upon–Tyne: Jonathan Martin (1782–1838), fanatical Wesleyan, incendiary: drawing, pencil and ink, of a vision seen by Martin, plus printed obituary, 1829–1838; William Martin (1772–1851), brother of Jonathan Martin, ropemaker, natural philosopher, poet and "philosophical conquerer of all nations": printed poems on Newcastle High–Level Bridge and on a skiff race, c.1847

MS.7312/17–18

Stockton & Darlington Railway Company: financial interests in the company were held by several members of the Hodgkin family: see General section

PP/HO

Backhouse family, Cleveland area: Hodgkin family archive includes extensive correspondence with their relatives the Backhouses See General section

PP/HO

Pease family, Cleveland area: Hodgkin family archive includes correspondence with various members of the Pease family. See General section

PP/HO

Thomas Hodgkin D.C.L. (1831–1913), founder of Hodgkin's Bank, Newcastle, later resident at Bamburgh Castle: correspondence and papers in the Hodgkin family archive: see General section

PP/HO

James Paul (fl.1869), gardener: application for the post of drawing–master at Berwick–upon–Tweed Academy, 1869

MS.7524/9

Society of Medical Officers of Health: records of Northern Counties Association, Northern Branch and Northern Region, 1875–1974

SA/SMO/N.8

Charles Brodie Sewell M.D. (1817–1900), physician: journal of holiday tour in Northern England, Scotland and Ireland, 1890

MS.4513

Thomas Gallacher (fl.1894–1942), general practitioner based for most of his career in Blyth, Northumberland: certificates, 1894–5

MS.7518

Queen’s Nursing Institute: records of relations with affiliated local branches, 1890s–1970s; some deposited material from local district nursing associations

SA/QNI

Northumberland County Asylum, Morpeth: letter by unidentified female inmate describing her belief that she is being killed by inches through the gradual removal of parts of her body, 1896

MS.7524/20

Spencer Dakers & Co., pharmacists, Newcastle–upon–Tyne: pocket account book recording the purchase of drugs from Spencer Dakers & Co, apparently by a veterinarian, 1896–1914

MS.7161

Hind, Haynes & Smith, medical practice, Stockton–on–Tees: practice ledger, 1897–1910

MS.7643

Ronald Hare: unpublished autobiography includes his childhood, and family background, in County Durham

PP/HAR

Research Defence Society: records of Northern Counties branch, c. 1908–19

SA/RDS/D.1

British Medical Association: material on Public Medical Services in all areas of the UK, also on specific local friendly/medical aid societies, medical institutions, etc 1910s–60s

SA/BMA

George Grey Turner (1877–1951): material relating to early life (b. North Shields), period on staff of Royal Infirmary, Newcastle–upon–Tyne, 1906–27, and then as Professor of Surgery, University of Durham, 1927–35, and associations with the area

PP/GGT

Medical Women’s Federation: file on proposed federation of (London) Association of Registered Medical Women with North Eastern Association, 1914; proposed amalgamation of local Associations for Registered Medical Women into Federation, 1916; correspondence with local Associations, 1960s–80s

SA/MWF

Family Planning Association (formerly National Birth Control Association): records of its dealings with its own regional federations, area organisation, local branches and clinics, correspondence with local authorities, 1930–74; records of its regional administration, 1965–1991; includes records of following branches: Newcastle, 1929–73, Darlington, 1949–73, Teesside, 1951–72, historical notes on Ashington and Sunderland, 1973

SA/FPA

Henry McIlwain (1912–1992): material relating to education at Armstrong College, Newcastle–upon–Tyne, University of Durham, 1930s

PP/MCI

Travelling Surgical Society: visits to Newcastle–upon–Tyne, 1933, 1971, 1989

SA/TSS

National Birthday Trust Fund: correspondence with Princess Mary Maternity Hospital, Newcastle, 1933–6; experimental scheme for supplying additional foodstuffs to expectant mothers in ‘Special Areas’ in the North East, 1936–9

SA/NBT

James Randal Hutchinson (c.1880–1955): death from anaphylactic shock after scarlet fever immunisation, Newcastle–upon–Tyne, 1937–8

PP/JRH/A.80

Dr Keith Hodgkin (1918–1999), general practitioner at Stockton and Redcar: records relating to practice, 1940s–70s

GP/25

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy: North Eastern Local Board, reports and minutes, 1944–1983

SA/CSP/J.4/2

Sir Graham Selby Wilson (1895–1987): photographs of Newcastle Public Health Laboratory, n.d. ?1950s

PP/GSW/H.18

Multiple Sclerosis Society: files on specific local branches, 1950s–70s

SA/MSS/C

Sir Robert Macintosh (1897–1989): travel diaries of visits to Newcastle, 1954, 1956

PP/RRM/C.92–3

Cancer Research Campaign: files re North of England Council, 1954–72

SA/CRC/F.1/17

Medical Pilgrims: records of ‘Pilgrimages’ to Newcastle, 1956, 1979

SA/PIL

Pioneer Health Centre Ltd: Thornaby Project, Stockton–on–Tees, 1967–9

SA/PHC/C.3

John Cary Gilson (1912–1989): correspondence, reports etc, relating to Department of Occupational Health and Hygiene, University of Newcastle–upon–Tyne, 1970s–80s

GC/237/D.1

ASH (Action on Smoking and Health): Northern Branch, 1976–89

SA/ASH/E.1/2

BACUP: press–cuttings re Newcastle free helpline, 1989, and photos

SA/BAC/M.6/5, N.2

Biochemical Society: file on Northern Regional Section, 1991-6, files on meetings held in region, etc

SA/BIO

Oral History of General Practice, 1935–52: tapes and transcripts of interviews with John Makepeace, Sunderland; Keith Hodgkin, Redcar, 1992–4

GP/29

Sources of very general local history interest

England; South-East; South-Central; South-West; West Midlands and the Marches; South Midlands and the Fens; East Anglia and Essex; East Midlands; North-West; Yorkshire; North-East
Scotland
;
Wales
; Ireland

Scotland

Witches: list of names of witches in Scotland, 1658

MS.3658

David Fyffe, surgeon, Edinburgh: medical account of the Laird of Drylaw, Midlothian, 1699

MS.5269/3

Joseph Gibson, surgeon, Leith: medical account of Capt James Donglass, 1724

MS.5269/6

Gordon family, Fochabers, Morayshire: accounts for medicines purchased in connection with the family medical practice, and for optical instruments, 1733–89

MS.5268

James Steedman, medical practitioner, Kinross: account books, 1758–1827

MS.4702–3

George Paterson (1734–1817), Castle Huntly, Forfarshire: papers including catalogue of his library, 1764–1813 and n.d.

MSS.5404–5

John Memis M.D. (1720–1786) and Aberdeen Royal Infirmary: papers relating to an article in Medical History about Memis's dispute with the Infirmary managers, 1764–1958

MS.7314

Gilbert Laurie & Co., druggists, Edinburgh: letterbook and accounts, 1768–97

MS.3181

Rev. John Brown (1722–1787), Haddington, Lothian: notes of lectures on rhetoric given by Brown at Haddington (taken by James Black, who was recorded as a student of Brown in that year, and who later became minister at Dundee Schoolwynd Associate Burgher Church), 1776

MS.5434

Robert Perceval (1756–1839): notes of cases in Edinburgh Infirmary, 1777–8

MSS.3826–7

Lady Eleanor Dundas (d.1837), Carron Hall, Falkirk: recipe book c.1785

MS.2242

Henry Dundas (1742–1811), 1st Viscount Melville: correspondence and papers including material on Scottish affairs, 1786–1811

MS.5120

St. Kilda: French medical notebook including material on the diseases of St Kilda, extracted from the work of Martin Martin and others, 1790

MS.3524

John Milner Barry M.D. (1768–1822), founder of Cork Fever Hospital: papers collected by Barry's sons, including journal of a walking tour from Edinburgh to Loch Lomond in, 1792, 1792–1884

MS.5164

Edinburgh Royal Infirmary: case–notes on patients treated by James Gregory FRS (1753–1821), taken by William Godfrey Deane (d.1809), army physician, whilst a student, 1801

MS.6920

Casebooks probably compiled by students, 1805–6 and, 1827–8

MS.7410 & 6053

Notebook of John Grove (fl., 1804–c. 1847), surgeon, including case notes probably relating to patients in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh where Grove was a student c.1804–c.1814

MS.7817

Thomas Wilson, Stewarton, Ayrshire: medical account of Mrs Ferguson, 1808

MS.5269/12

Robert Saunders–Dundas (1771–1851), 2nd Viscount Melville: correspondence and papers including material on Edinburgh University, 1808–44 and n.d.

MS.5122

Walter Wilson (fl.1819–1821), surgeon, Arbroath: photocopies of letters to his uncle George Bowman Original items dated, 1819–21

MS.7524/14–18

Hodgkin family: extensive papers and correspondence include letters written to and from the pathologist Thomas Hodgkin (1798–1866) whilst a medical student in Edinburgh in the, 1820s See General section

 

Ada Helen Barlow [née Dalmahoy] (1843–1928), wife of the physician Sir Thomas Barlow: correspondence and papers relating to her family in Scotland, 1831–1923 and n.d.

PP/BAR/V

See also General section, under Sir Thomas Barlow

PP/BAR

Board of Health, Gretna, Dumfriesshire: petition for a Privy Council order to raise funds to prevent the spread of cholera, 1832

MS.6792

Mr. Brown, medical practitioner, Carronshore: letter by Major Thomas Dundas recommending a reward for Brown, 1832

MS.7337/3

Patrick Neill (1776–1851), naturalist and publisher: letter to Dr Traill (presumably Thomas Stewart Traill (1781–1862)), asking him to contribute a piece on Orkney sharks to the Philosophical Journal, 1834

MS.7358/27

William Gelder (fl.1832–37), Yorkshire chemist and druggist, trained in Edinburgh: letters to his parents from London and Edinburgh, 1832–4

MS.5871

Notebook begun in Edinburgh, 1834–7

MS.5872

Glasgow Royal Infirmary: printed ticket with manuscript additions, certifying that JE Stallybrass has attended JA Lawrie, Surgeon, during the latter's visits to patients, 1848

MS.7274/6

Norman Comben collection of veterinary miscellanea: includes material from Scotland, particularly from northern Ayrshire and Linlithgow See General section

MSS.7562–9

James Burn Russell (1837–1904), Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow: letters sent to Russell, 1857–1904 and n.d.

MS.5143

Marcus Beck (1843–1893), surgeon: letters to his parents and brother, mainly as a medical student at Glasgow (living with his cousin Joseph Lister (1827–1912)) during the years, 1860–1863, 1860–8

MS.5142

Edinburgh Blind Asylum: autograph receipt, with printed illustrated letterhead, 1864

MS.7280/4

Florence Fenwick Miller: autobiography includes account of her involvement with Sophia Jex–Blake’s group of women seeking medical degrees at Edinburgh, 1870s

GC/227

Medical Women’s Federation: ‘Historical files’ relating to Sophia Jex–Blake and other women seeking medical education in Edinburgh, 1870s; also material on the Bruntsfield and Elsie Inglis Hospitals, Edinburgh, Redlands Hospital, Glasgow; first women appointed to Commissioners of General Board of Control for Scotland and to Scottish Board of Health; Glasgow Association of Registered Medical Women, 1904–6; proposed amalgamation of local Associations for Registered Medical Women into Federation, 1916; correspondence with local Associations, 1960s–80s; representation of women on Advisory Committee on Hospital Medical Establishments (Scotland), 1973–6; Scottish Standing Committee memorandum on Child Guidance

SA/MWF

James Miller Gordon Pirrie (1852–1891), physician, Aberdeen: papers, chiefly letters and prescriptions for Mr Logie Pirrie; also list of the contents of a medicine chest, 1878–82

MS.7430/24–27

James Adam M.D. (1834–1908), physician superintendent of Crichton Royal Institution, Dumfries: diaries, 1880–2

MSS.5517–9

Wellcome Foundation: records of business activities in Scotland, 1880s–1990s, also some material on Glasgow Spy Case, 1912–29

WF

Charles Brodie Sewell M.D. (1817–1900), physician: journal of holiday tour in Northern England, Scotland and Ireland, 1890

MS.4513

Sir Edward Sharpey–Schafer (1850–1935): material relating to period when he was Professor of Physiology at the University of Edinburgh, 1890s–1930s

PP/ESS/E

Agnes Syme Lister (d.1893), Lady Lister: diary including tour of Scotland, 1892–3

MS.3297

Joseph Lister (1827–1912), surgeon, 1st Baron Lister: holiday diary, including tour to Scotland, 1894

MS.3303

R.M. Park, pharmacist, Edinburgh: prescription book, 1894–5

MS.7772

Queen’s Nursing Institute: records of relations with Scottish branch, 1894–1960s

SA/QNI

James Duncan Cameron (fl.1879–1896), dental student, Glasgow: letters and papers, 1895–6

MS.6791

A. Davie (fl.1896), dental practitioner, Dundee: Complaint by William Bromfield Paterson (1861–1924), FRCS, LDS against Davie for practising dentistry while not registered, 1896

MS.6791/11–12

William Lauzun Brown (d.1919), Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: notes and drafts on the history of Scottish medicine, 1898–c.1900

MSS.8527–8

British Medical Association: material on Public Medical Services in all areas of the UK, also on specific local friendly/medical aid societies, medical institutions, etc 1900s–60s

SA/BMA

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: correspondence with individuals and institutions, 1900s–80s, including National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, 1948–59, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1936–58; also AD Lacaille’s tours on behalf of the Museum, 1928–37

WA/HMM

Letitia Fairfield (1885–1978): material relating to medical student days at Edinburgh, 1905–7

GC/193

Research Defence Society: records of East Lothian, Edinburgh, and Glasgow branches, c. 1908–19

SA/RDS/D.1

Glasgow Eugenics Society: one file, 1909 [permission from Galton Institute required]

SA/EUG/E.15

Cowdray Club, Aberdeen (for Nurses): Lady Cowdray’s papers concerning, 1916–39

SA/NFN/B.19

Mary Louisa Drabble (1900–1972): materials relating to medical student days at Edinburgh, 1920–6

GC/227

Sir John McMichael: material relating to his period studying at Edinburgh University, c. 1922-133

PP/JMM/B/1

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy: photos of treatments at physiotherapy department, Glasgow, c. 1930

SA/CSP/Q.1

Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene: records of Edinburgh, later Scottish, Branch, 1930–79

WTI/RST/A.31–36

Family Planning Association (formerly National Birth Control Association): records of its dealings with its own regional federations, area organisation, local branches and clinics, correspondence with local authorities, 1930–74; records of its regional administration, 1965–1991; includes records of Berwickshire branch, 1956–8

SA/FPA

National Birthday Trust Fund: correspondence about, and reports of, the Ida Merry Maternity Home, Inverness, 1931-45; files relating to proposed ‘Scottish Scheme’ as part of ante–natal nutrition survey, 1937–9; correspondence with Mrs E Mackenzie, Argyll, re maternity services in her area, 1957

SA/NBT/F.5/1/8, F.10/9, T.5

John Bowlby: files relating to family holidays at Ullanish, Skye, and his burial there, 1956–98; also other material relating to travels in Scotland, 1932–70s

PP/BOW

Travelling Surgical Society: visits to Edinburgh, 1933, 1969, 1978, 1995

SA/TSS

Cancer Research Campaign: correspondence and cuttings re work of the Cancer Control Organization for Edinburgh and South East Scotland and the Melville Trust for cancer research in Scotland, 1934–54

SA/CRC/F.1/19

Sir Alexander Haddow (1907–1976): notes and material for autobiography cover early life in Scotland and early career in Edinburgh, prior to his move to London, 1936

PP/HAD

Marie Stopes (1880–1958): files relating to birth control clinic set up under the auspices of her Society for Constructive Birth Control in Aberdeen, 1936–41

PP/MCS/C

Sir Robert Macintosh (1897–1989): travel diaries of visits to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and Dundee Royal Infirmary, 1938, Scotland, 1954

PP/RRM/C

James Randal Hutchinson (c.1880–1955) and William Henry Bradley (1898–1975): enteritis at Ormiston, 1939–40