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Draft and notes, [1914-1938], for a history of English public finance from the later medieval period to the Stuarts, mostly abstracted from sources at the former Public Record Office, London (now The National Archives). Notes, [1914-1938], on various topics, notably economic aspects of New Zealand, 1836-1845, Senegal and Gambia, 1737-1804, trade on the Gold Coast, Africa, 1750-1800, and the functions of the Board of Trade, 1744-1807.

Papers relating to the Reverend Eric Symes Abbott, notably handwritten notes taken from lectures, mainly by Abbott, [1945-1969], on religious subjects, including talks given for the St Faith's Fellowship, Westminster; correspondence with Abbott, 1944-1945, 1948, 1954; cutting from the London Churchman, Oct 1959, relating to Abbott's appointment as Dean of Westminster; copy of a speech by the Right Reverend Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Abbott's memorial service, Westminster Abbey, 8 Jul 1983. Papers, 1965 and [1984], relating to the Fellowship of St Faith's, including a text by Norman on the 'Story of the Fellowship of St Faith: its origin and development'. Copy Minute of the Council, King's College, on the occasion of Norman's retirement, 26 Jul 1954. Reminiscences of Norman and her work, by Helen Bowers and Sue Cokayne, [1989].

Papers of the King's College Hospital (KCH) Nurses' League comprising material relating to the administration of nursing at KCH including minutes of the Nursing Committee, 1892-1967; minutes of Sisters' meetings, 1955-1967; minutes of Nurses Representative Council, 1948-1962; administrative files, 1904-[1985]; accident reports, 1970, 1975; ward records illustrative of nursing in Sambrooke Ward including patient consent froms, 1955-1956; ward reports, 1955-1956; maintenance registers, 1954-1956; laundry list, 1955; dispensary register, 1955-1956; poisons books, 1955-1956; Nurses' Ward: admission book, 1960-1961; Sick Room / Accident Book, 1958-1963; dangerous drugs register, 1960-1962; dangerous drugs order book, 1962-1965; Princess Elizabeth Ward: report book, 1961-1962; Records of unidentified wards including Night Duty Record Book, 1940; Record Book for stock preparation of dangerous drugs, 1957-1959; patient consent forms, 1957-1959; register of female patients, 1952-1958; miscellaneous patient case notes, 1959, 1963; material relating to the KCH School of Nursing including prospectuses, [1930s-1990s]; Student applications, 1913-1970; course information, 1924-1968; nurses handbooks, [1920s-1970s]; examination question papers, 1924-1965; examination results, 1966-1968; award of prizes, 1949-1967; Preliminary Training School at High Elms, [1920]-1982; records relating to nurses benevolent and trust funds, including minutes, 1917, 1934-1960; banking records, 1923-1959; accounting records, 1935-1967; administrative papers, 1917-1989; files concerning the history of nursing, 1930-1992; papers relating to the archive collection, [1963-2000]; obituaries, 1915-1969; orders of service, [1900]-1974; press cuttings, 1935-1968; ephemera, 1894-[1990s]; objects including hospital equipment, badges, medals, uniforms and other objects, [1848-1990]; photographs including albums 1949-1968; images of royal occasions 1908-[1960]; events [1920s]-1985; portraits [1866-1950]; groups [1900-1980]; illustrated lecture [1900-1980]; District Nursing 1911-1949; KCH Chapel [1913-1970]; KCH Wards [1889-1980]; Baldwin Brown Convalescent Home, Camberley [1900-1990]; miscellaneous photographs [1900-1970]; slides [1950-1980]; negatives 1884-[1913]; publications including Nurses' League Journals 1925-2004 (incomplete); KCH publications [1851]-1958; General Nursing Council publications1940-1967; Ministry of Health / Government Departments publications 1945-1966; general publications relating to nursing [1832]-1973; KCH guild members book [1894-1945]; personal papers collections of nurses 1861-1994, including Mary Winifred Addison; Gertrude L Atwell; Alice Backes; Margery Kathleen Blyde; Isobel Christine Stewart Brown; Grace Lizzie Buffard; Jessie Mignon Canham; Catherine May Clappen; Minnie Clement; Emma Durham; Margaret Durrant (Williams); Irene Rose Halser; Julia Ashbourne (Daisy) Herbert; Joan Hobbs; [Eva Knightly] Hunt; Mary Jones; Mary P Kelly; M Helen Lea; Elsie Mason; Anne Elizabeth Mary Mead; Katherine Henrietta Monk; Isabella Jeanette (Jean)Murray; Elsie M Parkinson; Dorothy Phillips; Margaret Joan Purkis; [Mary] Pyne; Barbara Cecilia Rampton; Dorothy Octavia Robinson; Mrs Rogers; Margaret Annie Stagg; Evelyn Margaret Shaxon; Eva Veneer.

The collection comprises three registers of student nurses at Belgrave Hospital for Children, including details of name and address of nurse, rank, location of previous training, age, date of entering, date of leaving, description of work undertaken, reasons for leaving, and comments on suitability of candidate, 1903-1950.

Dulwich Hospital Nursing School registers, 1917-1967 comprising: Sisters' Register, 1920-1961; General Staff Registers, 1930-1967; Male Nurses Registers, 1940-1961; Part-time and Auxiliary Nurses' Register, 1947-1954; Assistant Nurses' Register, 1947-1959; Matron's Log Book, 1945-1948; Student Nurses' Examinations Register, 1938-1947; Student Nurses' Registers, 1943-1967; Probationer Nurses' Registers, 1917-1955; and photographs of the hospital buildings, [1940-1980].

Guy's Hospital School of Nursing records comprising a register of Student nurses, 1949-1972; and examination number book, 1963-1978.

Registers of student nurses at Hither Green Hospital, 1955-1967, including names, personal details, dates of training, ward allocation and examination results.

Records of King's College Hospital School of Nursing (later Normanby College of Nursing) comprising registers relating to the admission and training of student nurses at King's College Hospital, London, 1885-1967: including Trial Appointments Register, 1890-1902; Student Nurses' Candidates Register, 1924-1964; Student Nurses' Interview Book, 1954-1959; Pupil Midwives Candidates' Registers, 1939-1954; Student Nurses' Registers, 1885-1960; Student Nurses' Day Books, 1904-1967; Statistics regarding Student Nurses, 1907-1922; Lectures to the Nursing Staff, 1891-1938; Attendance Register, 1945-1952, 1973-1975; Weekly Numbers, 1959-1967; Final Examination Results Register, 1909-1948; and Cookery Examination Register, 1910-1938. There are also registers relating to nurses employed by King's College Hospital, and details of duties and nursing procedures, 1885-1967: including Staff Midwives Candidates' Registers, 1958-1963; Staff Nurses Registers, 1949-1967; Sisters' Registers, 1885-1965; register of nurses certificates, 1921-1999; examinations and assessment register, 1973-1981; training records, 1965-1982; Normanby College Gift register, 1974-1980; Normanby College Visitors book, 1975-1982. Pre-registration Nurse Training Programme student records, 1933-1993, (K/NI/FP); Diploma Higher Education (Nursing Programmes) student records, 1990-1995, (K/NI/FP (D)); Post Registration course student records, validated by King's College London and the English Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting, 1990-1998, (K/NI/PR).

Lewisham Hospital student nurse records (LWH/FP), comprising information for Matron's report, 1950-1971; Registers of Probationer Nurses, 1912-1958 (incomplete); Records of allocation of Probationer Nurses 1921-1945; records of [nurse] training, 1947-1970 (incomplete); [nurse training] examination results, 1897-1971; records of educational tests, 1961-1968; entrants for training, 1968-1972; Revision test results for final exams, 1951-1956; Records of study periods, 1954-1955; General register or details of training, 1953-1971. Also 211 boxes or 2.11 m3 of student files [1960-1990], (LH/FP), including correspondence, practical nursing experience records, completed application forms, reference record sheets, and references; paper entitled 'One year training for mental nurse register in the Guy's Hospital Group', 1972, (LH/F1); paper entitled 'Proposals for the implementation of the 1974 Revised RMN syllabus in the Thomas Guy School of Nursing', 1975, (LH/F2); paper on proposed course 'The Art of Teaching' entitled 'The Nurse as a Teacher Workshop' (sic), 1974, (LH/F3); notes on post registration course in psychiatric nursing, 1974-1975, (LH/F4).

New Cross Hospital pupil nurse register, 1954-1965, containing personal details, details or training and examination results.

Records of the Nightingale and Guy's College of Nursing and Midwifery comprising course administration files, 1991-1993.

St Francis Hospital nursing records including St Francis' Hospital - A complete Training School for Assistant Nurses [1958]; Record of [Nurses]Service Book, 1949-1956; Photographs of the hospital, [1960-1965].

St Giles Hospital School of Nursing register of Student Nurses particulars, 1944-1949; Student Nurses Register, 1944-1957; Lectures and Examination Particulars, 1952-1966; and photographs of nursing staff, 1931.

Registers of St John's Hospital student nurses, 1955-1959, 1967-1969, including personal details, dates of training, ward allocation and examination results.

St Saviour's Infirmary Register of Assistant Matrons, Night Superintendents, Head Nurses, and Staff Nurses, [1890]-1931, including details of name, address, age, religion, date of entry, name and type of ward worked on, previous experience, remarks.

St Thomas's Hospital student nurse records, [1950-1980], includes detailed application forms, correspondence and training records.

Records of the Thomas Guy and Lewisham School of Nursing comprising files of course tutor and course administrator for students entering in 1985 and 1990.

King's College London Nutritional Survey papers comprise completed questionnaires, survey participants' assessment reports, audio interviews, data tables, log books and printed pamphlets, 1956-1999. These notably consist of papers relating to:

the National Nutritional Survey of primary school children, expectant mothers and pre-school children, including personal files for participants in Croydon, Newcastle upon Tyne, Bristol, Sheffield and Birmingham, with computer-generated tables and histograms, 1970-1971;

Medical Research Council Dunn Nutrition Unit Family Food survey of families' nutritional history, including food logbooks and diaries, 1977-1980;

questionnaires, coding books and user guides associated with the National Food Survey, the continuous survey of United Kingdom households measuring food consumption and expenditure, 1982-1991;

user guides, instructions to interviewers and data forms connected with the Family Expenditure Survey established by the Department of Employment and later run by the Office for National Statistics to collect statistics required to calculate the Retail Price Index, 1990-1996;

Department of Social Security Family Resources Survey used in setting national expenditure targets, including annual reports and related documentation, 1993-1995;

papers relating to a Department of Nutrition and Dietetics survey of pupils' diets at three London schools: Hornsey School for Girls, Acland Burghley School and Ravenscroft School, including Iron Knowledge Questionnaires on the perceived contribution of iron to the diet, food diaries and consent forms, 1994-1998;

Department of Nutrition study conducted at King's College Hospital of the relationship between calcium intake, physical activity and bone density in post-menopausal women, including participants' files containing biochemistry reports, diagnostic bone assessments, food consumption charts, exercise trial results and medical history screening questionnaires, 1991-1993;

Department of Nutrition and Dietetics Food and Low Income Projects Database, assessing the diets of low income families, practical cooking trials and proposals for improvements to diet, with questionnaires, interview audiocassettes, statistical printouts and related literature, 1998;

completed questionnaires relating to the training of nutrition professionals, mainly drawing upon the responses of State Registered Dieticians, [1988];

completed food intake diaries for a dietary survey of residents of Norfolk, [1993-1994];

completed questionnaires determining socio-economics, anthropometrics, dentition and nutrition for recruits to a Department of Nutrition research project on childhood, [1986-1990];

completed questionnaires for an Imperial Cancer Research Fund survey into the effects of physical activity, 1989;

Department of Health and Social Security food composition tables comprising statistics showing the calorific value of various foods, 1969-1973;

printed information pamphlets on baby food, 1956-1973;

various printed reports on the role in the diet of saccharin and mineral supplements, and of sodium in hypertension, 1967-1985.

Articles by Robin Oakley on Greek Cypriot immigrants in the UK, 1968-2011, and related background material, 1920-2007, including: reports, articles and maps relating to the twentieth century history of the Greek and Turkish communities in Cyprus; notes, correspondence and articles relating to Greek Cypriots worldwide, especially in the USA and Australia; research material on Greek Cypriot immigration to the UK in the early twentieth century, including copy passenger lists and the personal reminiscences of London restaurateur John Stais; articles on the social conditions, education and health of Greek Cypriots in London, 1960s-1990s; published directories and guides (4 items) relating to Greek and Turkish Cypriots in London, 1965-1982; research notes on Greek Cypriots in Leeds, 1966. Also text of an MPhil thesis by Vicky Aloneftis, ‘”We’re different, we’re Greeks from London not Cyprus”: ethnic identity amongst Greek Cypriot youth in North London’, 1984, and a published book of photographs, Here and there: the Greek Cypriot community in London, by photojournalists Marianna Economou and Paul Halliday, 1988.

King's College London obituaries: this series contains notices and information on King's staff, students and events, both academic and non-academic, from around the inception of the College to the present day, and notably includes obituaries of King's staff and alumni in the form of press cuttings, memorial texts and letters, 1903-2000 (Ref: K/OB)