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SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) press release: 'The test ban'.

Sions R Campin: correspondence with Liddell Hart

Single cylinder rheostat devised by Wheatstone to maintain a constant current by adjusting or varying the resistance of a circuit where the resistance is low.  Consists of a cylinder wound with wire, brass fixtures on a wooden base. [See Wheatstone’s Bakerian Lecture for 1843 An account of several new Instruments and Processes for determining the Constants of a Voltaic Circuit published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.]

Singe 5 (Newcastle on Tyne & London, 1976-1977): includes work by Tom Raworth, Edwin Morgan, Louis Zukofsky

Two volumes entitled A battle to be remembered. Oral history extracts of war-time Singapore, edited by Tan Beng Luan, Project Co-ordinator, Oral History Department (Oral History Department, Singapore, 1988), and Syonan: Singapore under the Japanese. A catalogue of oral history interviews (Oral History Department, Singapore, 1986). Two audio cassette tapes entitled The fall of Singapore 1942-45, and Mopping up operation, Singapore 1942-45, produced by the Oral History Department, Singapore, 1986, including extracts from interviews with Singaporean civilians Dr Yeoh Seang Aun, Heng Chiang Ki, Lee Kip Lin, Dr Tan Ban Cheng, Tan Cheng Hwee, Soh Guan Bee, and Chan Cheng Yan, former Ordnance Artificer Reginald Horace Jefferies, RN, HMS REPULSE, Dec 1941, former Bombardier Stanley Warren, Royal Artillery, attached to 2 Bn, 2 King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles), 1942, and Cleaver Rowell Eber, who served with D Company, 1 Bn, Straits Settlements Volunteer Forces, 1942.

Book of cartoons, Sincerely yours, Biff, by Mick Kidd and Chris Garratt (Corgi, 1986), republished from the Guardian, City Limits and Viz.

Two typescript drafts of 'Failure in Malaya', an account of the Malayan campaign and the fall of Singapore, 1941-1942, written in [1963] and later published as Singapore, too little, too late (Leo Cooper, London, 1970).

Papers and photographs, 1888-1924, 1972, mostly manuscript letters by Simpson-Baikie to his wife, Marion Evelyn Simpson-Baikie, Lady Simpson-Baikie, 1906-1919, including letters whilst on active service on the Western Front, Gallipoli, Salonika and Palestine, 1914-1918; four manuscript letters from Simpson-Baikie to his mother-in-law, Emilita Miller, 1904-1918, and three manuscript letters from Simpson-Baikie to his daughter, Jean Simpson-Baikie, 1917-1918. Also, manuscript letter from Gen Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton to Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, asking her to inform Marion Evelyn Simpson-Baikie that Simpson-Baikie has been chosen to serve at Gallipoli, 1915; manuscript letter to Simpson-Baikie from Gen Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien, Governor of Gibraltar, on adverse comments about Smith-Dorrien in 1914 (Spiers, London, 1919) by FM John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Viscount of Ypres, 1920. Eleven photographs and two negatives relating to Simpson-Baikie's career, 1888-1920, including three photographs of Simpson-Baikie, 1888, [1904]; Lt Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum, General Officer Commanding in Chief, South Africa, with his Aide de Camp, Lt Francis Aylmer Maxwell [1901]; Maj Gen Hubert Ion Wetherall Hamilton, Maj Gen General Staff, Mediterranean Command, 1911; Gen Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton at Charing Cross station, London, on his departure for Gallipoli, 13 Mar 1915; aerial photograph of the French camp at Sedd el Bahr, Gallipoli, Turkey, 1915. Typescript letter to Jean Morley Kennerley (née Simpson-Baikie) from Professor Robert Clifford Walton concerning Smith-Dorrien, 1972.

Microfilm copies of papers relating to his naval career, 1942-1946, principally comprising 'Africa Navy blues', an illustrated account of his experiences in the RN, 1942-1946, written in 1946, covering his service on HMS BIRMINGHAM in a convoy from Egypt to Malta (Operation VIGOROUS), June 1942, and on anti-submarine trawlers in the Bay of Bengal, 1942, during the Allied invasion of Madagascar, 1942, and in South Africa, 1942-1945; diary, 1943-1945. 'War time trawler', a transcript of a broadcast by James McClurg of the South African Broadcasting Corporation concerning his experiences on board an anti-submarine trawler during World War Two, written in [1940-1945].

Curriculum vitae covering the period 1940-1984, dated 1984. Order of service of thanksgiving, texts of memorial addresses and letters of condolence to his widow, 1986-1987.

Manuscript notes from lectures, comprising, 'Second year calculus'; 'Pure maths'; 'Honours physics BSc lectures, special first year course delivered by Professor Harold Albert Wilson', 1908; 'Mathematics', 1909; 'Theoretical physics, second year honours BSc'.

Simon Raven: correspondence with Liddell Hart

Simon Harcourt-Smith: correspondence with Liddell Hart

Silver shield engraved with hospital coat of arms for the William Tite Scholarship, St Thomas’s Hospital Medical and Surgical College, awarded to T D Savill, 1876. [Thomas Dixon Savill (1855-1910) Physician] (Formerly affixed to a microscope box).

Silo 8 (Bennington, Vermont, 1965): includes poems by Robert Kelly and a play by Anne Waldman

Silk map of Venice, Italy, scale 1:500,000, Sheet L33/7, second edition.

Silk map of the Balkans, scale 1:2,000,000 with map of the Balkans and Turkey, Sheet 3 on the reverse.

Silk map of the Balkans and Turkey, scale 1:1,750,000, Sheet 2 with map of the Balkans and Turkey, Italy and other surrounding countries, scale 1:3,000,000, Sheet 3 on the reverse.

Silk map of Italy, scale 1:1,378,000.

Silk map of Bolzano, Italy, scale 1:500,000, Sheet L32/6, first edition, Geographical Section, General Staff No 3982, War Office.