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The papers of John Pearson comprise manuscript notebooks of lectures and experimental write-ups compiled by Pearson when he was a student at Chelsea Polytechnic, 1954-1957, and include notes on electricity, optics, electronics and circuit theory, electromagnetic theory, diffraction gratings, wave mechanics and X-ray physics.

Typescript article, in German, relating to German military leadership during the Battle of Stalingrad, Sep 1942-Jan 1943, based on the recollections of FM Friedrich Paulus, commander German 6 Army at Stalingrad, 1942-1943, and prisoner of war in the Soviet Union, 1943-1950; the article is entitled Beitrag zum Verständnis von Führungsentscheidungen während der Schlacht um Stalingrad 1942-43 and was written and edited by Paulus's son, Ernst Alexander Paulus, 1959-1963

King's College Hospital patient case notes, medical and surgical records and indexes, [1828]-1959; containing detailed patient medical and personal information, clinical data and disease profiles; typically including name, age, dates of admission and discharge, ward and precise address or home parish/town; clinical data including reason for admission, diagnosis and outcome and covering a wide range of specialisms and a cross section of diseases notably infectious diseases, cancer, nervous diseases, congenital illnesses, accidental or self inflicted injuries and poisoning.

KH/CN1: Series of case notes of patients in King's College Hospital arranged in sections by physician or surgeon in chronological order, 1840-1928. 668 volumes and 104 files.

KH/CN1/1-61 (1840-1859): Professor Robert Bentley Todd, Physician to the Hospital and Professor of Physiology;

KH/CN1/62-113 (1840-1878): Professor Sir William Fergusson, Surgeon to King's College Hospital;

KH/CN1/114-147 (1873-1887): Sir George Johnson, Professor of Clinical Medicine;

KH/CN1/148-202 (1859-1895): Lionel Smith Beale, Professor of Medicine;

KH/CN1/203-226 (1863-1874): Sir Alfred Baring Garrod, Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy;

KH/CN1/227-248 (1876-1895): Alfred Baynard Duffin, Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine;

KH/CN1/249-264 (1876-1899): Isaac Burney Yeo, Joint Professor of Medicine;

KH/CN1/266-310 (1863-1889): John Wood, Professor of Clinical Surgery;

KH/CN/311-326 (1867-1888): Henry Smith, Professor of the Principles and Practice of Surgery;

KH/CN1/327-355 (1873-1892): William Smoult Playfair, Professor of Obstetric Medicine;

KH/CN1/361-387 (1885-1906): Thomas Crawford Hayes, Professor of Obstetric Medicine and the Diseases of Women and Children;

KH/CN1/388-413 (1886-1907): David Ferrier, Professor of Neuropathology;

KH/CN1/ 414-435 (1882-1888): William Rose, Professor of Surgery;

KH/CN1/436-493 (1889-1914): Surgeon-Rear-Admiral Sir William Watson Cheyne, Professor of Clinical Surgery;

KH/CN1/494-503 (1894-1916): Albert Boyce Barrow, Consulting Surgeon to King's College Hospital;

KH/CN1/504-510 (1894-1922): Frederic Francis Burghard, Senior Surgeon and Lecturer on Clinical Surgery;

KH/CN1/511-512 (1898-1899): John Curnow, Professor of Clinical Medicine;

KH/CN1/513-522 (1898-1918): Albert Carless, Professor of Surgery;

KH/CN1/523-524 (1900, 1911): Sir Nestor Tirard, Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine;

KH/CN1/525-528 (1902, 1907-1909, 1917): Professor Norman Dalton, Senior Physician and Lecturer on Medicine;

KH/CN1/529-533 (1903-1910): Sir Hugh Reeve Beevor, Physician;

KH/CN1/537-585 (1907-1927): George Frederic Still, Professor of Diseases of Children;

KH/CN1/586-592 (1908-1923): Sir Raymond Henry Payne Crawfurd, Physician and Director of Medical Studies in the Medical School;

KH/CN1/593-597 (1908-1925): William Aldren Turner, Physician in Charge of Neurological Cases and Lecturer in Neurology in the Medical School;

KH/CN1/598-605 (1913-1927): Arthur Edmunds, Senior Surgeon and Lecturer in Surgery;

KH/CN1/606-613 (1914-1927): Thomas Percy Legg, Surgeon;

KH/CN1/614-629 (1913-1927): Sir George Lenthal Cheatle, Senior Surgeon;

KH/CN1630-647 (1920-1927): Orthopaedic Clinic run by Charles Jennings Marshall, Harold A T Fairbank, Senior Orthopaedist, and St John Dudley Buxton, Junior Orthopaedist and Junior Surgeon and Buxton's independent cases (KH/CN1/678-687, 1922-1928);

KH/CN1/648-662 (1919-1928): John Everidge, Junior Urologist and Junior Surgeon;

KH/CN1/663-677 (1919-1927): Urogenital and Urological cases of John Everidge and John Thomson-Walker, Senior Urologist;

KH/CN1/688-713 (1919-1929): Sir Charlton Briscoe, Senior Physician and Dean of the Medical School;

KH/CN1/714-736 (1920-1928): Douglas Firth, Junior Physician;

KH/CN1/737-744 (1920-1923): Harold Waterlow Wiltshire, Lecturer on Morbid Anatomy and on Practical Medicine;

KH/CN1/745-749 (1920-1923): Francis Whittaker Tunnicliffe, Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacology;

KH/CN1/750-765 (1922-1927): Cecil P G Wakeley, Senior Surgical Registrar and Surgical Tutor;

KH/CN1/766-772 (1923-1928): Arthur Whitfield, Professor of Dermatology and Charles Frederick Terence East, Junior Physician; Richard Partridge, Surgeon and Professor of Anatomy (KH/CN3/2, 1869-1872);

KH/CN1/534-536 (1904-1913): Throat Department notes.

KH/CN2/1-689: General patient case notes describing treatments and the work of staff covering a wide range of specialisms, 1928-1939. 689 boxes

including:

• John Geoffrey Yates Bell, Assistant Urological Surgeon, 1930-1937, Urological Surgeon, 1937;
• Sir Charlton Briscoe;
• St John Dudley Buxton, Orthopaedic Surgeon and Lecturer on Orthopaedics from 1922;
• Terence Cawthorne, House Surgeon, Ear, Nose and Throat, 1924-1928, Surgeon, 1939;
• Sir George Lenthal Cheatle;
• Edward Bellis Clayton, Surgeon, Children's Department at King's, 1907-1908, Medical Officer in Charge of the Electrical and Massage Department at King's, 1912, Director of Physiotherapy, 1913-1946;
• Macdonald Critchley, Junior Neurologist, 1928, Physician for Nervous Diseases, 1935, Head of Neurology, 1937;
• William Ingledew Daggett, Junior Aural Surgeon, 1928-1935, Aural Surgeon, 1935;
• John Alexander Drake, Assistant Physician, Dermatological Department, 1919, Director of the Department for Venereal Diseases, 1920, Dean of the Medical School, 1932;
• Charles Frederick Terence East,
• Arthur Edmunds,
• Harold Clifford Edwards, Surgeon, 1934, Dean of the Medical School;
• John Everidge,
• Harold Fairbank,
• Douglas Firth,
• Sir William Gilliatt, Senior Obstetric and Gynaecological Surgeon;
• Archibald Gilpin, Assistant Physician, 1935, Physician, 1942;
• Lynette Hemmant, Venereologist, 1930;
• Charles William Menelaus Hope, Clinical Assistant to Sir St Clair Thomson, 1910-1914, Assistant Surgeon, 1914-1922, Surgeon, 1922-1940, Consulting Surgeon, 1940;
• John Bowman Hunter, Assistant Surgeon, 1927, Dean of the Medical School, 1938;
• Arthur Wallis Kendall, Assistant Surgeon, 1934, Vice-Dean of the Medical School, 1939;
• Robert Daniel Lawrence, Biochemist, 1924, Assistant Physician-in-charge of the Diabetic Department, 1932, Physician, 1939;
• Thomas Percy Legg, Assistant Surgeon, 1910, Senior Surgeon, 1930;
• Harry Audley Lucas, House Surgeon, Ear, Nose and Throat Department, 1920, Assistant Pathologist, 1921, Lecturer in Pathology and Bacteriology in the Dental School, 1930, Sub-Dean and Vice-Dean in the Medical School, 1931-1937;
• Robert Alexander McCance, Biochemist during the 1920s and 1930s;
• John Bell Milne, Lecturer on Dental Mechanics, 1923, Lecturer in Prosthetics, 1930, in charge of Dental Department, 1932-1947;
• Edward Grainger Muir, Assistant Surgeon, 1934;
• Victor Ewings Negus, Junior Surgeon, Ear, Nose and Throat Department, 1924-1931, Surgeon, 1931-1940, on retirement of Charles Hope, Senior Surgeon, 1940-1946;
• Charles Edward Newman, Physician, 1937;
• Alexander Croydon Palmer, Obstetric and Gynaecological Surgeon, 1925-1932, Surgeon 1932-1946;
• John Harold Peel, Obstetric Tutor, 1932, Obstetric and Gynaecological Surgeon, 1943;
• Lewis Herbert Savin, Assistant Ophthalmic Surgeon at King's, 1931, Senior Surgeon, 1945;
• Wilfred Percy Sheldon, Assistant Physician and then Physician-in-Charge of the Children's Department at King's from 1928;
• George Frederic Still,
• William Aldren Turner,
• Cecil P G Wakeley,
• Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson, 1878-1937, Neurologist at King's from 1919.

KH/CN3/1-19: Case notes, abstracts, and loose records of doctors and departments of King's College Hospital or related to it, 1828-1958, with notes by Lord Lister, 1st Baron Lister of Lyme Regis, Professor of Clinical Surgery, William Fergusson and others, diet sheets and the case notes of some named patients, 12 files and 4 volumes.

KH/IN: Indexes comprising: KH/IN1, Indexes to medical case records, 1963-1927, 46 volumes;

KH/IN2, index cards of diseases, 1928-1937, 5 boxes;

KH/IN3, Indexes of surgical cases, 1863-1901, 15 volumes;

KH/IN4, post mortem registers, 1860-1959, 20 volumes;

KH/IN5, indexes of Robert Bentley Todd's nervous disease cases, 1840-1848, 1 volume.

Papers relating to 16 (Irish) Div, 1914-1918, dated 1914-1918, 1932, [1977], 1984, notably a typescript transcript of extracts from Parson's diary, 1914-1916, relating to the raising and training of 16 (Irish) Div, 1914-1915, and their service in France, 1915-1916, copied in [1977]; correspondence, 1915-1918, principally comprising letters relating to Parson's replacement as Commanding Officer, 16 (Irish) Div, Nov 1915, and to 16 (Irish) Div's service in France under Maj Gen Sir William Hickie, 1916-1918; letters from officers of 16 (Irish) Div regarding their service in France, notably the battle of the Somme, 1916, and the third Battle of Ypres, 1917; 'John Redmond and General Parsons', a draft typescript article by Esmonde Robertson (Parsons' grandson) relating to political controversies surrounding the formation of 16 (Irish) Div during the period 1914-1915, written in [1977].

Diary covering his service in France, notably his involvement in gas attacks on German troops near St Omer, 1916.

Papers of Lt Col Robert Malcolm Parker, 1945-1946, relating to his career in the Royal Engineers, comprising account of the operations of 8 Corps in North West Europe, Mar-May 1945, entitled 'The River Rhine to the Baltic Sea: a narrative account of the pursuit and final defeat of the German Armed Forces, March-May 1945', with a foreword by Lt Gen Evelyn Hugh Barker, as Commanding Officer, 8 Corps; account of the Finkenwärder U Boat pen, Hamburg, Germany, with site plan, and description of the intended method of demolition, by 224 Field Coy, Royal Engineers, and 8 Corps Troops, Royal Engineers, [1945]; papers relating to Exercise SWANSONG, Germany, Mar 1946, including Royal Engineer commands and staff planning for the assault crossing of wide rivers, accounts of exercise operations, situation reports, printed maps and sketch maps; uncaptioned official Army photograph of the construction of a large bridge, [Germany, 1945]; telegram announcing German surrender, 4 May 1945 and chart of Allied formation badges, in colour, 8 May 1945.

Volume entitled 'Questions for Debate', [1832-1833], being legal questions devised by Professor John James Park, with some references to cases.

Papers of Rita Pargeter, 1929-1935, comprising study notes and papers relating to education at King's College, University of London. Loose notes, 1931-1933 on subjects including Chaucer, Shakespeare and poetry, prose and drama 1579-1700. Notebooks enclosing study notes on subjects including Old English, Middle English, Gothic grammar and translation, Modern English and Beowolf. Registration instructions for students; English, Ancient Greek and Latin examination papers, 1929-1931; Order of Service for the King's College London centenary, 21 Dec 1931; National Union of Students year book, 1933-1934; programmes for the King's College London Conversazione, 3 Jun 1932 and 2 Jun 1933; programme for the King's College London athletics day, 29 Apr 1933 where Pargeter competed for the women's high jump; minutes and agenda for the King's College London Union Society, 8 May 1933-12 Mar 1934; King's College London theatre programmes and song sheet; prospectus, invitations and Order of Proceedings for the laying of the foundation stone for the new University of London buildings in Bloomsbury (including Senate House), 26 Jun 1933; King's College London, Faculty of Arts degree results, 1934 with press cutting from The Times of the results, including Pargeter's award of a First Class Honours, 20 Jul 1934; papers relating to the awarding of the 'Early English Text Society prize' to Pargeter, 31 Jul 1934; University of London Principal's report, 1934-1935; Pargeter's Literary Society membership cards; information sheets sent to graduates by the University of London, 1934; papers on Pargeter's graduation ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall, 8 May 1935; King's College London tie and blazer pocket embroidered 'K.C.L.Bn.C'.

Manuscript transcription of Johann David Lembke's Compendium Physicæ theoreticoexperimentalis, in usum auditorum concinnatum , 1740 by Nicodemus Pankratien, 1773.

Papers relating to his military career, 1913-1945, dated 1915, 1919 and 1945, notably including his commission as 2nd Lt, Royal Engineers, 1915.

Papers relating to his naval service, 1927-1951, dated 1927-[1951], notably including a brief summary of his career, 1932-1951, dated [1951]. Notebook of F M Palmer (Palmer's father), containing notes relating to his work in the Naval Store Department, HM Dockyard, Devonport, [1898-1900].

Carbon out-letter book, dated Mar 1917-Jan 1920, mostly relating to Pakenham-Walsh's service as British Representative, International Commission, Teschen, Czech-Polish frontier, 1919-1920. Seven manuscript, narrative diaries, Nov 1927-Apr 1939. Fifteen manuscript narrative diaries, containing photographs, newspaper cuttings, letters and reports, 19 Nov 1939-3 Feb 1947. Correspondence received by Pakenham-Walsh, 1940-1965, notably including letters from Prime Minister Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, 25 Dec 1940, Gen Sir John Greer Dill, 7 Dec 1941, FM Sir Cyril John Deverell, 21 Dec 1942, FM (William) Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside of Archangel and of Ironside, 25 Dec 1942, FM Hon Sir Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 17 Dec 1944, and Col Roderick Macleod, Jun-Aug 1960. Transcript of message from Rt Hon Leslie Hore-Belisha to Gen John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, delivered verbally by Pakenham-Walsh, 25 Nov 1939, relating to the concern of Prime Minister Rt Hon (Arthur) Neville Chamberlain at weakness of the Army under Gort.

Typescript unpublished memoir of Squadron Leader Harry 'Wacker' Pain, 1937-1978, including descriptions of: training as an Aircraft Apprentice, RAF Halton, 1937; wireless operator training in Wallace and Wapiti biplanes; airborne wireless operator training, RAF Driffield, 1939; working for Special Duties Flight, Coastal Command, as a gunner in long range Sunderland flying boats, 1939-1942, including survivor searches after submarine attacks, escorting convoys, account of destruction of flying boats Cabot and Caribou, Bodo, Norway, Apr 1940, training messenger pigeons, serious injury in crash and subsequent reposting as Signals Instructor, 1942, and retraining as an Air Traffic Control Officer, 1943. Also anecdotes from various postings including Nutts Corner, Northern Ireland, 1944-1946; opening a new Area Control Centre in Gibraltar, 1946; RAF Mingaladon, Burma, 1947, and RAF Negombo, Ceylon, 1948; Area Control Centre, RAF Watnall, UK, 1949; RAF Gutersloh, Germany, 1954-1957; Air Traffic Controller at RAF Coningsby, 1957-1959; assisting with the introduction of radar guided systems and the formation of Border Radar in RAF Bishops Court, County Down, Northern Ireland, 1959-1962 and RAF Boulmer, Alnwick, 1962-1964; RAF Paya Lebar, Singapore, 1964-1967; as controller, Northern Radar, RAF Lindholme, 1967-1970; RAF Patrington, Withernsea, 1970-1971; Senior Operations Officer, Border Radar, RAF Boulmer, 1971-1973.

The papers of Huw Parri Owen comprise typescript notes by Owen on the Creeds, [1961-1981].

Copy of typescript account of Battle of Jutland, May 1916, ND.

Papers relating to Outteridge's teaching work at King's College London, 1950-1982, notably teaching and tutorial notes on subjects mainly relating to radiation physics and radiation protection, 1965-1972; texts of lectures on radiation physics written for the Borough Polytechnic, London, 1954-1957 and 1960-[1967]; copies of exam papers for physics and electronics subjects at King's College London, 1969-1982; papers concerning research grants and students, [1970-1980], including a PhD thesis by B L Diffey on 'The spectral distribution of X rays and gamma radiation resulting from multiple Compton scattering', Jun 1973; notes on various computer programmes, and work undertaken with them, [1978]; copies of articles and lectures by Outteridge and others, notably 'A print-out system for scaling units using neon indicators' with K C Lightowlers, 'Photon fluences resulting from multiple Compton scattering' with B L Diffey of Kent and Canterbury Hospital, and articles, 1950-1957, on the conductivity and electron counting properties of diamonds, mainly by Frank Clive Champion, Wheatstone Physics Laboratory; minutes and agendas of the Faculty of Natural Science, 1970-1981, and the Non-Professional Staff Committee, 1975-1978. Papers, 1952-1954, relating to Outteridge's work at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, notably press cuttings relating to work done there, 1952-1953, a teaching manual written by Outteridge on 'The Isotope School Experimental Course in Radioisotope Techniques', 1954, and a set of articles written by Outteridge whilst at Harwell. Papers relating to Outteridge's work as Radiation Protection Officer for King's College, [1971-1988], including information files regarding his duties, 1984-1985; working papers, [1971]-1982; reports from the British Radiation Protection Association, the British Radiological Protection Association and the Institute of Radiological Protection, [1971-1986]; papers and reports, 1962-[1988], of the Association of University Radiation Protection Officers (AURPO), including rules, constitution, AGM papers and newsletters.

Correspondence, a television script, press cuttings and photographs relating to signals during World War Two, the Battle of the Atlantic and Operation GRAPPLE, 1956-1996; including correspondence and script for Westward Television documentary on the Battle of the Atlantic and Coastal Command during World War Two, 1969-1971; personal accounts, press cuttings and correspondence relating to the Battle of the Atlantic, 1990-1996; photographs of Operation GRAPPLE, British H-Bomb tests on Christmas Island, for which Oulton was Task Force Commander, 1956-1958.

Papers relating to his military career, 1911-1918, notably his service in Kut-el-Amara, 1916, dated 1911, 1918 and 1939.

Papers mainly relating to the war service of Patrick O'Regan in France and northern Italy, especially with the Special Operations Executive (SOE), 1940-1981; including papers on SOE operations in Italy with details of partisan staff, operations, equipment, enemy strength, propaganda, personal correspondence with partisans and SOE members, photographs of street fighting, mountain warfare, groups of British and Italian soldiers, victory parades, funerals, operational maps of northern Italy and south-eastern France published and produced by Michelin and the War Office, memorabilia and printed guides to Italy and the German Army, including false identity papers, 1944-1945; papers on the service of O'Regan in France and northern Italy, 1943-1945; manuscript, typescript and copy correspondence between O'Regan and his mother and others including his wife and brother, mainly relating to his service with the 186 Field Ambulance Service, Intelligence Corps and from Ceylon, preparations for a parachute drop into France, the Political Warfare Executive, training in Algiers, account by O'Regan of his experiences with partisans near Turin and other parts of northern Italy, O'Regan's post-war political views, letters to Italian partisans in the aftermath of World War Two, application to Foreign service, 1940-1952; proceedings of a conference in Bologna relating to No 1 Special force and the Italian Resistance during World War Two, 2 vols, 1981; obituaries, 1961.