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Teaching cartoons by Wilkins, 1972-2000, on the social impact of the biosciences and on the history of science

Annotated cartoons drawn by Wilkins to illustrate his King’s College London lectures on ‘The social impact of the biosciences’, 1972-2000, and his Eddington lecture series on the history of science, 1978, given at Cambridge University. Images include Francis Crick and James Watson contemplating the divisions in Western culture; uncorking the bottle of the secrets of life with a DNA helix-shaped corkscrew; devils of various social pressures hampering the scientist on his ascent to knowledge; the real and apparent differences between medieval and modern world views

TAYLOR, Lt Garth Smithies (1896-1916)

  • TAYLOR, GS
  • Collection
  • 1914-1917

Garth Smithies Taylor, 1896-1916', written by his sister Dorothea Taylor in 1971, and principally comprising copies of original documents, 1914-1917 and 1959, mainly letters to his family, 1914-1916, and extracts from his diary, 1914-1916, relating particularly to his service near Ypres, 1916, and in the Battle of the Somme, 1916.

Taylor, Garth Smithies, 1896-1916, Army Lieutenant

TAYLOR, Col George Francis (1903-1979)

  • TAYLOR, GF
  • Collection
  • 1942-1945

Papers relating to Taylor’s service as an SOE senior director, 1942-1945, including: correspondence, telegrams, reports and memoranda relating to Taylor’s tour of the Middle East and visit to South Africa as Director of Overseas Groups and Missions, Aug 1942 – Mar 1943; correspondence, notes and memoranda relating to a tour of India, Apr-Aug 1943; briefing notes on SOE operations in Yugoslavia, Greece and Albania, Oct-Dec 1943; two annotated maps of SOE missions in Greece and Yugoslavia, Oct 1943; correspondence, memoranda and other papers relating to SOE operations chiefly in East Asia and South East Asia, Sep 1943 – Dec 1944; correspondence, notes and memoranda relating to Taylor’s tour of India and South East Asia, Dec 1944 – Feb 1945; correspondence, memoranda and reports relating to SOE activities in East Asia and South East Asia, Feb-Oct 1945; telegrams relating to Taylor’s tour of the South West Pacific Area (SWPA), May – Jul 1945; biographical information about Taylor, including a privately printed account of his World War Two career by his son, Jeremy Taylor, 2014; a diagram of the staffing structure of the SOE directorates, 1943; copy papers relating to SOE operations, 1941-1944, in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria.

Taylor, George Francis, 1903-1979, Colonel, SOE senior director and banker

Tarasque, [1966]-1967

Tarasque 5 (Nottingham, [1966]): includes reviews of Roy Fisher's books Interiors (Tarasque Press, 1966) and The ship's orchestra (Fulcrum Press, London, 1966), and poems by Gael Turnbull;

Issue 6, not dated, anthology issue;

Issue 7, 1967: unattributed poems and visuals

Tansy, 1978

Tansy 7 (Lawrence, Kansas, 1978): issue devoted to poem, 'The heart too is a flower, a leaf' by John Moritz;

Issue 8, 1978: issue devoted to, 'Two fragments', poems by Elliot Coues

TANK WATERPROOFING, 1944, LEAFLET and other World War Two memorabilia

  • MISC14
  • Collection
  • 1944-1945

Collection includes four copies of printed leaflets, 'No 1 Workshop Group, REME, Chillwell', relating to the organisational structure of the Royal Electical and Mechanical Engineers, 1945; printed leaflet, 'The Part a British Oil Company played in the War', reprinted from the Petroleum Times, 28 Apr 1945, concerning asbestos compound waterproofing of Allied tanks and vehicles for Operation OVERLORD, the Allied invasion of France, 1944; reprint of photograph of US Sherman tank approaching French beachhead, 1944

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