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South-Western Polytechnic, Chelsea Polytechnic, Chelsea College of Science and Technology, and Chelsea College Lectures programmes of events and orders of service covering advertisements for exhibitions, the opening of new buildings, the visit of royalty and open days, 1926-1983; prize-giving programmes, 1930-1976; sporting fixtures and entertainments programmes, 1936-1985 (Ref: C/PRG).

King's College London Academic Programmes for lectures, conferences, courses and seminars, especially War Studies seminars, 1946-2014

King's College London Anniversary material including 150th and 175th Anniversary commemoration donors' lists, reports, leaflets, programmes, services, dinner menus for events marking College anniversaries in 1979 and 2004.

King's College London material including Centenary Appeal Fund reports, leaflets, programmes, services, dinner menus for special events marking the Centenary of the College in 1929

King's College London ephemera concerning exhibitions including programmes and exhibition boards, 1922-2014

King's College London tickets and invitations to dinners, parties, lectures and debates, openings of exhibitions, prize-givings, services and memorials, and receptions, 1831-2013

King's College London Social Programmes including Commemoration Week leaflets, tickets and menu cards, 1913-1983, Chaplaincy programmes, leaflets and diaries, 1958-2001, Prize Giving events' material including invitations and booklets listing winners, 1875-1990, College dinners' menu and table plans including for the Fellows' Dinner, anniversary and Annual Dinners, 1885-2000, general functions leaflets and information for open days, schools liaison and alumni events, 1900-2001, programmes for entertainments such as Music and other Society events, talks, recitals, staff parties, 1887-1999, Sports events material, mainly notices of athletics meetings, 1912-1930, receptions including conversazione, 1879-2014 .

Queen Elizabeth College programmes and events literature, including King's College for Women, King's College of Household and Social Science, and Queen Elizabeth College commemoration dinner menus, invitation cards and tickets, 1925-1972 (Ref: Q/PRG1-3); Queen Elizabeth College Film Society programmes and constitution, 1963-1964 (Ref: C/PRG4); Queen Elizabeth College Carol Service programmes, 1953-1965 (Ref: Q/PRG5); and programmes, papers and invitations for general College events, 1909-1986 (Ref: Q/PRG6-7).

Papers, 1910, 1935-1986, of Lt Gen Sir John (Fullerton) Evetts, including report on Evetts by Col William Baume Capper, Commandant, Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Jul 1910; 136 photographic negatives relating to Palestine and the North West Frontier, India, 1935-1941; letters of congratulation for service and for decorations, 1936-1940, including letters from AVM Richard Edmund Charles Peirse, Air Officer Commanding British Forces, Palestine and Transjordan, and Lt Gen Sir George Alexander Weir, General Officer Commanding British Troops in Egypt, 1936, Gen Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief, Palestine and Transjordan, 1937, Lt Gen Archibald Percival Wavell, Jan 1939, Sir Harold Alfred MacMichael, High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief, Palestine and Transjordan, Mar 1939, and Lt Gen Alan Fleming Hartley, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command, India, 1940; three copy typescript reports on operations carried out by British forces in Palestine and Transjordan, 20 May-31 Jul 1938, 1 Nov 1938-31 Mar 1939 and 1 Apr-30 Jul 1939, by Lt Gen Robert Hadden Haining, General Officer Commanding British Forces in Palestine and Transjordan; group photograph of Evetts and the staff of the 'Evetts Mission', Melbourne, Australia, 1946; papers relating to the Joint Anglo-Australian atomic test Project, Woomera, South Australia, including lectures, correspondence, eight volumes of manuscript diaries by Evetts, Jan 1947-Aug 1951, and printed map of missile and rocket ranges, Long Range Weapons Establishment, Woomera, South Australia [1950]; typescript text of lecture by Evetts, 'Woomera, yesterday and today', in English, French and Spanish [1957]; edition of Spanish magazine Ingenieria Aeronautica with illustrated article in Spanish by Evetts, 'Woomera ayer y hoy', Jul-Aug 1957; printed illustrated article by Chris Wren entitled 'The Commonwealth's Cape Canaveral', from The Aeroplane and Astronautics , Mar 1960; booklet entitled '14 May 1689 to 14 May 1968. 1st Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)' commemorating the Regiment on its disbandment, 1968, with manuscript note, returning the booklet to Evetts, from Most Reverend and Rt Hon Arthur Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, 14 Jun 1968; correspondence relating to legal action taken against Anthony Mockler over statements concerning Evetts' actions in Syria, 1941, in his book Our enemies the French: being an account of the war fought between the French and the British, Syria 1941 (Cooper, London, 1976); five letters to Evetts from Col George Alan Dawson Young, Middle East Commandos Historical Research Group and former Commanding Officer 50 and 52 Middle East Commandos, Jul-Aug 1983, relating to allegations made against 50 Middle East Commando by Martin John Gilbert in Finest hour, Winston S Churchill, 1939-1941 (Heinemann, London, 1983); papers, 1979-1986, on the Anglo-Australian Joint Project, including typescript draft chapters of Fire across the desert: Woomera and the Anglo-Australian Joint Project, 1946-1980 by Dr Peter Ralph Morton (published by Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1989); Bristol Civil Defence Sub-Section, report by Evetts as retiring sub-regional controller, 1959.

Chelsea Polytechnic, Chelsea College of Science and Technology and Chelsea College Examination Question Papers, 1933-1986. Records comprise printed general BSc question papers, 1960-1970; BPharm, BSc, MSc, MEd and DCC examination question papers for specific subjects including Pharmacognosy, 1933-1970, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Pharmacy, Pharmaceutics, Mathematics and Microbiology, 1960- 1986.

Examination results, 1962-1984, including Chelsea College of Science and Technology examination results, 1964-1965 (Ref: C/ER1), Chelsea College pass lists, 1962-1984 (Ref: C/ER2), Chelsea College Microfilm BSc examination pass list and mark sheet, 1972-1973, BSc degree classifications, 1968-1972 (Ref: C/MF). Examination results (Ref: C/ER1) cover BSc General, BSc Special, BPharm, DipTech, DCC (Diploma of Chelsea College) degrees, and gives student name and Part 1 and 2 results. Pass lists (Ref: C/ER2) cover BSc Special and General degrees 1962-1971; higher degrees and diplomas, 1963-1976; PhD and MPhil, 1976-1984; MSc and MEd 1976-1982. Information consists of a student name listed under the class of degree awarded. Microfilm records (C/MF) include a BSc pass list giving name, field of study, course codes and mark. The BSc mark sheet contains name, course, examiner's name, session, result, value, with pass mark and course work given in percentage, and final classification.

Examination question papers of King's College London, 1933-1998, mainly comprising papers for undergraduates sitting finals, postgraduates sitting Masters' degree examinations, as well as a number of undergraduate yearly and mid-sessional examinations and copies of examination papers set by the University of London. The papers comprise a series of individual files containing assorted examination papers from all or most faculties for the period 1933-1961. Thereafter papers are held for individual departments of the Faculty of Arts, including English, 1975-1994; Geography, 1980-1992; German, 1975-1997; History, 1975-1992; Italian, 1975-1995; Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, 1975-1997; Spanish, 1975-1996; French, 1985-1997; Linguistics and Humanities Applied Computing, 1989-1994; Classics, 1965-1998; Modern Greek, 1988-1998; Philosophy, 1985-1998; Japanese, 1992-1995; Russian, 1994-1995; War Studies, 1989-1992; Faculty of Laws, 1964-1974; Faculty of Medical Science, 1963-1993; Faculty of Education, 1977-1990; Faculty of Physical Sciences, including Chemistry, 1948-1993; Computing, 1982-1993; Mathematics, 1963-1993; Management Studies, 1986-1992; Physics, 1947-1993); Faculty of Engineering, 1927-1992, including Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Westfield College, 1983. Faculty of Natural Science, including Botany and Zoology, 1962-1985; Chemistry, 1952-1984; Geography, 1978-1984; Geology, 1978-1984; Human Environmental Science, 1978-1985; Pharmacology, 1978-1984; Biochemistry, 1978-1985; Physiology, 1978-1986; Anatomy, 1980-1983; Faculty of Life Sciences, including Anatomy and Human Biology; Biochemistry, Biophysics, Pharmacology, Physiology, Gerontology, Food Science, Nursing Studies, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Pharmacy, 1985-1994; Faculty of Music, 1968-1997; Faculty of Theology, 1933-1999, including examinations for Associates of King's College, 1969-1995, and with Masters' dissertations and extended essays of students, 1994; Nightingale Institute and Department of Nursing Studies, 1986-1996.

Between the foundation of King's College London in 1829 and the incorporation of all faculties of the College (with the exception of Theology) into the University of London in 1908, students were assessed under examinations set by the College, as well as the examinations of professional and learned societies, and were also able to attend classes for matriculation from the University of London. Thereafter students of the College took examinations set by departments of the College and in the case of final undergraduate and postgraduate examinations, papers approved by the University.

King's College London prize lists for all faculties, 1866-1922, examination results for all faculties, 1897-1911 (Ref: KA/ER), examination results for all faculties, 1910-1923 (Ref: K/ER), examination results and prizes for Evening Classes, 1860-1868 (Ref: KA/ER/EV), examination results and diplomas for Science and Engineering students, 1902-1924 (Ref: KA/ER/S), examination results for Medical students, 1903-1919 (Ref: KA/ER/M), examination results and diplomas for Arts students, 1903-1914, intermediate results, 1919-1931 (Ref: KA/ER/A), examination results for Music students, 1994-1996 (Ref: KA/ER/FM). Information contained typically includes lists of prize-winners, names, marks, grades, degree, subject, passed/failed, class gained.

Queen Elizabeth College examination question papers, 1923-1985, constituting an incomplete series of bound BSc examination question papers, 1923, 1970-1985; MSc Nutrition question papers, 1969-1984; undergraduate and postgraduate Manpower Studies examination question papers, 1977-1985; a timetable for BSc exams, 1940.

King's College for Women, King's College of Household and Social Science and Queen Elizabeth College Examination Results, 1908-1966 (Ref: Q/ER, 1999 QAR). Records consists of session results, 1908-1959; records of students' examination marks, 1925-1943; terminal examination results, 1943-1962; mark lists, 1962-1965; mid-sessional and final marks, 1967; BSc examination results, 1952-1966 (Ref: Q/ER); examination results and question papers, 1931-1976, examination results and marks, 1933-1973; (Ref: 1999 QAR/1-5). Courses covered in this series include Sister Tutors, one and two-year courses, Diplomas, and BSc Intermediate, Part I and terminal degree results. Information typically given consists of students' name, percentages for subjects taken, final results, and some examination question papers.

The Fall of Milosevic archive, 1994-2002, consists of interview transcripts, videotapes, research files, press cuttings and published material concerning Slobodan Milosevic, former president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and his fall from the height of his power in 1995 to his trial in the Hague for war crimes and genocide. It includes VHS videos of interviews as well as transcripts of the interviews with, in most cases, detailed listings of the questions asked. The interviews incorporate eye-witness accounts: from government officials in Europe, America and Russia who describe their conflict over the NATO bombing campaign against Milosevic; from Milosevic’s wife, deputy and Army Chief of Staff who detail how he refused to take threats to his position seriously; from his successors who tell how they plotted to replace him; and from Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commanders leading the guerrilla campaign against Serbia, as well as from ordinary people caught up in the ethnic cleansing.

Interviewees include government and military personnel from the highest levels of the Serbian and Kosovar governments, and officials of the European Community and the United Nations, notably:

William Jefferson (‘Bill’) Clinton, US President, 1993-2001

Anthony (‘Tony’) Blair, British Prime Minister, 1997-2007

Jacques Chirac, President of France, 1995-2007

Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation, 1991-1997

Mirjana (‘Mira’) Markovic, leader of the JUL party and wife and political partner of Milosevic

Milan Milutinovic, President of Serbia, 1998-2002; Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1995-1997

Robin Cook, British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 1997-2001

Lamberto Dini, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1996-2001

Hubert Védrine, French Foreign Minister, 1997-2002

Yevgeny Primakov, Prime Minister of the Russia Federation, 1988-1999; Foreign Minister, 1996-1998

Madeleine Albright, US Secretary of State, 1997-2001

Gen Klaus Naumann Chairman of NATO’s North Atlantic Military Committee, 1996-1999

Richard Holbrooke, US Ambassador to the United Nations, 1999-2001

Dusan Mitevic, advisor to Milosevic and Director of TV Belgrade

Zoran Lilic, President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1993-1997

Dusan Mihajlovic, President of the New Democracy Party; Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior 2001-2004; Serbian Interior Minister, 1993-1997

Branislav Ivkovic, former Serbian Minister for Science and Technology, President of the Belgrade branch of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS)

Nebojsa Covic, Deputy Prime Minister, Serbian Government 2000-2004; Leader, Democratic Alternative, [1997]; Mayor of Belgrade, 1992-1997

Zoran Djindjic, Prime Minister of Serbia, Government of Serbia 2001-2003; President of the Democratic Party, 1993-[2003]

Vesna Pesic, leader of Zajedno (‘Together’) Coalition, 1993-1997, President of the Civic Alliance of Serbia, 1992-1998; Ambassador of Serbia and Montenegro in Mexico, 2001-2005

Hashim Thaci, leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)

Commander Goran ‘Guri’ Radosavljevic, Serbian police chief

Dukagjin Gorani, Kosovar journalist

Adem Demaci, Chief of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) political spokesman from 1998

Christopher Hill, US Special Envoy to Kosovo 1998-1999

Jamie Shea, Spokesman of NATO and Deputy Director of Information and Press 1993-2000

Javier Solana, NATO Secretary General, 1995-1999

George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, Secretary-General of NATO Oct 1999-Jan 2004, British Defence Secretary 1997-1999

Milo Djukanovic, Prime Minister of Montenegro 1991-1998, 2003-2006, 2008-2010, 2012-present; President of Montenegro, 1998–2002; Leader of the Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro until 1997, then re-elected 1997 to present

Rustem Mustafa (‘Remi’), Commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA); Commander of the Llap Operative Zone 1997 to 1999; General in the TMK (Kosovo Protection Corps) 1999 onwards

James Rubin, Senior Advisor to US Ambassador to the UN, 1993-1996; Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State; US State Department spokesman and Assistant Secretary of State, 1997-2000

Veton Surroi, founder Parliamentary Party, 1990; founder and leader Reformist party, (ORA); member of Kosovo parliament, 2004-2008; publisher and editor of Koha Ditore, Kosovo Albanian newspaper

James O’Brien, Special Advisor to the US President and the Secretary of State for Balkan Democracy, Mar-Oct 2000; State Department’s Deputy Director of Policy Planning at the State Department 1996-2000

Bali Thaci, victim of Serb military action in Kosovo

Gen Wesley Clark, Supreme Allied Commander: Europe, 1997-2000

Samuel (‘Sandy’) Berger, National Security Adviser 1996-2000; Deputy National Security Adviser 1993-1996

Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian peace envoy

Martti Ahtisaari, President of Finland 1994-2000

Complete transcripts of 38 filmed interviews concerning events leading up to the 9 Nov 1989 when the border between the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) was opened, and the demolition of the Berlin Wall began. The interviews were recorded for the production of the television documentary _Fall of the Wall, _which was broadcast in 1994. The collection also includes programme scripts and press releases for each of the hour long documentary episodes titled 'A Hole in the Wall' and 'The Fatal Error'. Interviewees were either present or involved in the decisions and events which led up to the final destruction of the wall and include government leaders in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, German Democratic Republic (GDR), Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), and the Soviet Union, government officials and Politburo members, organisers of the Pan European Picnic, 19 Aug 1989, East German and Czechoslovakian civilians, border guards and security forces, a Foreign Ambassador, and an East German dissident. Most notable are Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader 1985 - 1991, Hans Dietrich Genscher, West German Foreign Minister during 1989, Miklós Németh, Hungarian Prime Minister 1988 - 1990, Milos Jakes (First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia 1987 - 1989, and Egon Krenz, East German General Secretary of the Socialist Unity (Communist) Party and Chairman of Council of State Oct - Dec 1989. Subjects discussed include the significance of Soviet policies under Mikhail Gorbachev and Eduard Scheverdnadze such as perestroika and glasnost, the demise of the Breshnev doctrine on Soviet intervention and the Warsaw Pact; reforming influences in government in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia; tacit support of West Germany and the USA for soviet reformers and later agreements for provision of economic aid; Hungary's signing of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees of 28 July 1951 , Mar 1989; Hungary's announcement that is will cease to maintain its electronic border fence, 2 May 1989; the visit of Gyula Horn, Hungarian Foreign Minister, and Alois Mock, Austrian Foreign Minister, to Sopron, Hungary to view the dismantling of the fence, 28 Jun 1989; visit of George Bush, US President, to Budapest, 11-13 Jul 1989; origin and development of plan to hold a Pan European Picnic at Sopron on 19 Aug 1989, an event promoted by the Democratic Forum under the patronage of Otto Von Habsburg and Imre Poszgay, to mark the dismantling of the fence; meetings between Hungarian and West German leaders concerning the Hungarian border opening; West Germany's principle of accepting all East Germans refugees; arrangements for a ceremonial crossing of the border by an official party during the Pan European Picnic which were upstaged by a group of East German refugees forcing the gates to cross into Austria; peaceful response of the Hungarian border guards; East German 'tourists' in Czechoslovakia seeking refuge in the West German Embassy in Prague, Czechoslovakia; the Fortieth anniversary celebrations of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) on 7 Oct 1989 and visit of Mikhail Gorbachev and other soviet state leaders; the East German government agreement to issue allow these refugees to legally cross to West Germany; special transport trains were passing through East Germany to the west; rioting occurring in Dresden as trains passed through; popular demonstrations in Leipzig during Sep and Oct 1989; influx of troops and police brought in to quell the demonstration in Leipzig planned for 9 Oct 1989 and diffusion of this situation; the resignation of Erich Honecker as East German head of state and party leader, 19 Oct 1989; succession of Egon Krenz as East German leader; East German television announcement of general issue of exit visas for East Germans citizens; and the forcing of the border between East and West Berlin on the evening of 9 Nov 1989.

Papers, mainly notebooks of Farmer, 1881-1923, mainly comprising notes by Farmer on books of the Bible, including notebooks entitled 'Conjectural emendation in the New Testament', 'Parallels between the Revelation and other Johannine books'; notes for sermons by Farmer, 1891-1908, including sermons by Farmer entitled 'The Patriarchate and Exarchate', 'The Psalter as a Christian manual', and outlines for sermons and papers on the Christian priesthood, ecclesiastical advertising, Christian unity, and missionary problems; other notes and papers , including A manual of confirmation for educated adults by Farmer, and printed sermons by the Very Reverend John Plumptre, Dean of Gloucester, and the Reverend George Croly, 1844-1874.

Papers relating to his military career, dated 1946-[1984], notably including typescript account of service of No 1 Independent Infantry Company, Malaya, 1941-1942, dated [1946-1984]; typescript account of experiences of 5 Bn, 14 Punjab Regt in Japanese POW camps, 1942-1945, including details of their work on the Burma Railway, written in [1946-1984]; typescript memoir of Fearon's military career, 1929-1947, written by his wife Diana Fearon in [1984].

Papers relating to his life and career, 1891-1947, dated 1937, 1942, [1947], comprising text entitled 'Native treasuries: their status and functions', written by Feasey as Resident, Benue Province, Nigeria, 1937; official 'Agreement and military convention between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the Emperor of Ethiopia', printed by the Directorate of Printing and Stationery Services, Addis Ababa, 1942; curriculum vitae, [1947].