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Wildcat, 974-1975

Wildcat 3/6 (San Diego, California, 1974): english version of Obrero Rebelde South American issues and trade unionism in California;

Issue 3/7, 1974: Californian issues;

Issue 3/8, 1974: covers unemployment and crime;

Issue 3/9, 1975: on civil rights in Boston and problems of 'forced sterilization' campaign against non-white women;

Issue 3/11, 1975: includes material on the war in Vietnam (outsize)

WILCOX, Rev John Bower

  • K/PP153
  • Collection
  • c 1974

Notes from sermons of Revd John Bower Wilcox, taken by Elsie Harding at Moorsholm Church, Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, [1974], including 'The Church Year' and 'Saints and subjects'.

Wilcox, John Bower, b 1928, Reverend, Anglican clergyman

Whole plate series: glass slides of images relating to research conducted in the Biophysics Unit and subsequently Department of Biophysics

Series of glass 16” by 12” (40 x 30 cm) plate slides of x-ray diffraction images of DNA and RNA relating to research conducted in the Medical Research Council (MRC) Biophysics Research Unit, King’s College London (from 1964, King’s College London Department of Biophysics). The images of DNA, RNA and nucleoproteins date chiefly from the early 1960s some are captioned with reference number, exposure time and type of sample used. Some glass plates have an additional attached plastic sheet marked with co-ordinated of the diffraction pattern.

WHITE, Margaret Mary (1914-1979)

  • K/PP155
  • Collection
  • 1929-c.1930

Papers of Margaret Mary White, 1929-1930, reflecting her training as a Civil Service telegraphist. Notably comprises documents relating to her time at St George's College including White's handwritten essays, 1929; report for Margaret White, 1930; application form for writing assistants examination, 1930; Journals, 1929-1930; St George's College Old Students' Association Application Form, 1930; college prospectus, 1930; St George's College Civil Service Series Writing Exercises, [1930]; handwritten notes on assignments for evening classes for open clerical class, writing assistants, limited clerical class and typists, 1930; English examination papers, [1930] and Civil Service Commission Examination papers for English, Geography, Handwriting, and Spelling, [1930]; Civil Service Commission offer of employment as female telegraphist, 1930; This collection also includes a photocopy of a photograph of White.

White, Margaret Mary, 1914-1979, student at St George's College

WHITE, Errol Ivor (1901-1985)

  • K/PP19
  • Collection
  • 1985

Volume entitled Errol Ivor White, 1901-1985, elected FRS 1956, by Sir James Stubblefield, FRS, (Reprinted from biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, volume 31, November 1985).

White, Errol Ivor, 1901-1985, Geologist

WHITE, Barbara (1907-1987)

  • K/PP58
  • Collection
  • 1926-1987

King's College London Calendar 1926-1927 ; one tie and two badges with initials 'K.C.L.W.B.C.', probably for rowing, 1927-1928; newspaper cutting photograph of a rowing cox [White]; University of London 'Programme of Presentation Day', 14 May 1930; retirement card with signatures; 'The emergence of gastroenterology', the Harveian Oration delivered by Sir Francis Avery Jones, retired Consulting Physician at the Gastroenterological Department, Central Middlesex Hospital, 1980; Postgraduate Medical Journal, 'Festschrift for Sir Francis Avery Jones: Fifty years of medical practice, 1934-1984', 1984; letters concerning bequests, including a letter from the Hardy Plant Society requesting White's commemoration, 1987; obituary by Avery Jones.

White, Barbara, 1907-1987, medical librarian

WHEATSTONE, Sir Charles (1802-1875)

  • K/PP107
  • Collection
  • 1757-1992

Experimental notes, working papers, correspondence and lecture summaries compiled by Charles Wheatstone, 1836-1875, and photographs collected by him in that period. Notably including papers relating to the development and testing of the telegraph, [1836-1960]; descriptions of experiments and test results concerning the measurement of electromotive forces and electrical potential, [1840-1875]; experimental observations on the nature of magnetism, electricity and thermodynamics, including electromagnet design, batteries and dynamos, [1834-1855]; working papers relating to optics including experiments into refraction, colouration of compounds and polarisation, [1850-1875]; drafts of lectures on sound and musical instruments prepared by Wheatstone, [1832-1837]; material relating to the management of the Wheatstone collection of scientific instruments and library, 1890-1992; biographical material relating to the life of Wheatstone, the invention of the telegraph and Wheatstone's musical instrument manufacturing business, with unrelated newspapers, 1757-1975; stereoscopic photographs and glass negatives taken by Roger Fenton, Samuel Buckle, Jules Duboscq and others, featuring landscapes, still lifes, panoramic scenes of cities including Paris and Moscow and the interior and exterior of the Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, Sydenham, 1851, and especially the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1855, [1850-1901]; artefacts from Department of Physics, King's College London, including demonstration equipment, telegraph apparatus, a nail fiddle and other prototype musical instruments, [1834-1875]; exhibition of scientific and musical instruments, [1834-1875].

Wheatstone, Sir Charles, 1802-1875, Knight, Professor of Experimental Philosophy

Wheatstone Bridge, [1840-1845]

Prototype or demonstration model of the 'Wheatstone Bridge' or 'Differential Resistance Measurer' originally devised by Samuel Hunter Christie and further developed and promoted by Wheatstone. An electrical circuit designed to measure unknown resistance by using components with known resistance.  Consists of a series of wires and connectors attached to a wooden base in a diamond shape. [See K/PP107/1/4/44 for a diagram.]

WEST, Sidney George (1909-1987)

  • K/PP109
  • Collection
  • [1934-1937]

Sidney George West slide collection, [1934-1937] comprises glass lantern slides depicting images of Portugal. Each slide has been numbered and labelled. They include scenes of Lisbon, Estoril, Cintra, Mafra, Evora, Santarem, Thomar, Coimbra, Luso-Bussaco, Vizeu, Oporto, Braga, Bom Jesus, Viana Do Castelo, Aveiro, Leiria, Batalha and Alcobaça and images of rivers, valleys, religious buildings and traditional scenes including a festival and bullfight. An inventory prepared by West, dated 13 September 1934 - 6 December 1937, is enclosed and gives details of each slide.

West, George, 1909-1987, lecturer

WELLS, Maurice Kingsley (b 1921)

  • K/PP46
  • Collection
  • 1993

An account of college life as a geology student evacuated to Bristol in 1943, entitled 'Fifty years ago', written as one of a series for the magazine of the Local United Reformed Church, Oct 1993; an accompanying letter dated 18 March 1994, from Wells to the Archivist at King's College London, describing the circumstances of the evacuation.

Wells, Maurice Kingsley, b 1921

We, 1964

We: a magazine of poetry and prose 1 (New York, 1964): includes work by Harvey Greenwald, Tuli Kupferberg, Ted Berrigan;

Issue 1/2, 1965: includes poems by Harvey Greenwald, Carol Bergé

Waysgoose, 1963

Waysgoose 1 (Oxford, 1963), poems and reviews, with covering manuscript note from Anselm (Hollo);

Issue 2 (1963): featuring the poetry of Taner Baybars and Fernando Garcia-Bravo, with further manuscript note from Anselm Hollo

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