Booth - Charles Booth Papers on the Life and Labour of the People in London

The Booth papers comprise manuscript and typescript copy, corrected proofs, maps and other material by Charles Booth and others for the study Life and Labour of the People in London. The typescripts include Ernest Aves' amendments and unpublished material, the collection also includes all 17 volumes of the published version of Life and Labour of the People in London.

D383 - Records of the English Secretariat of the International Year of Disabled People

Records of the English Secretariat of the International Year of Disabled People, including minutes, correspondence and publicity material.

D450 - Papers of Hugh Oak-Rhind

These papers and photographs of the late Hugh Oak-Rhind relate to his research on the clay tobacco pipe industries of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Suffolk and Wiltshire. The papers form his contribution to a National Clay Pipe Stamp catalogue being assembled by P. Davey and D. A. Higgins in the Field Archaeology Unit in the Departments of Ancient History and of Continuing Education.

D39 - Letter book of 'J H' [Joseph Huddleston] of the firm of 'J P and Co' [John Peat and Co]

Microfilm. Copies of the letters of John Peat and Co (written by Joseph Huddleston) are included in the volume, 23 Feb 1805 - 3 Oct 1846, although the letters mainly date from the period 1805 - 1834. The copies of these letters, together with a number of bills and several invoices, are mainly in the hand of Joseph Huddleston. They concern the firm's shipping trade with ports in Great Britain (Liverpool, Belfast etc.) "N. America" [Canada], Jamaica etc., this trade being mainly in iron and (particularly in the case of Canada) timber. Included are copies of letters to Captains of firm's ships and further letters regarding insurance matters. This trade was partially carried out in ships belonging to the Firm. Some of the timber etc. was used in its own shipyard (which built and repaired ships), but much of the trade was carried out on behalf of the firm's customers. At the front of the volume are notes on "Chronical Rheumatism" and its treatment and an incomplete index to the volume (which covers the period up to 1806 only)

D259 - Prints of the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital

Photographic prints (with negatives) of the contents of the Board Room, Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Heswall showing mainly diplomas and certificates awarded to Sir Robert Jones, 1878-1932; prints of two paintings of children playing in the snow by Arthur Jelsley, 1901 and 1902, hanging in the corridor of the hospital.

D206 - A study of the Foundations of Civic Universities: Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool

Photocopy of typescript draft chapter of David Jones' "A study of the foundations of civic Universities: Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool"

D15 - Records of the Liverpool Welsh Charity School

Minute Books, visitor books, admission books, attendance books, log books, examination schedules, register of girls work and notes on the history of Lancashire and Liverpool

D533 - Papers of Anne Dennier as member of Colin Buchanan and Partners

Notes, drafts of papers, minutes of meetings etc., assembled by Anne Dennier as a member of the team at Colin Buchanan and partners re the South Hampshire Study (regarding expansion in the South East of England and its implications for South Hampshire); copy of Regional studies in Ireland, Sep 1968 commissioned by the United Nations on behalf of the Government of Ireland and undertaken by Colin Buchanan and Partners in association with Economic consultants Ltd (Miss Dennier was again a member of the team)

D477 - Article: Christian Students

"Christian Students": a postscript to the article by Em Prof Baker in University of Liverpool Recorder3 Feb 1989 by the Revd Leak about the Student Christian Movement at Liverpool 1942-1948, and later at Cambridge etc, and about the World Student Christian Federation

D565 - Photographs of St Stephen's Church, Grove Street

Photographic prints of exterior (11 views) and interior/furnishings (21 views) of St Stephen's Church, Grove St, Liverpool (now in St Luke's parish) taken prior to its demolition in 1992

Gair - The Gair Papers

The Gair Papers in the University of Liverpool Special Collections and Archives, incorporate papers relating to their business ventures, and their family life; dating from the late 18th to the mid 20th centuries.The papers feature the correspondence of Samuel S. Gair and his two sons Thomas and Henry, primarily concerning their work as partners in Baring Brothers & Co.. The papers also include an extensive collection of papers concerning the research into Gair family history, led by Walter Burgh Gair, including the careers and personal lives of various Gair family members.

D782 - Society for Latin American Studies

Records of the Latin American Group Committee (1962-1964) and of it successor The Society for Latin American Studies, comprising: minute books of the Latin American Group Committee of the SLAS 1964-1977 and of the AGMs of the SLAS 1973-1979; files and folders of minutes and agenda papers; papers relating to the annual conferences (including programmes); some papers on the constitution, membership and mailing lists and correspondence of the Honorary Secretaries etc. of the SLAS; copies of papers of the Co-ordinating Council of the Area Studies Association; other papers of the SLAS (and CCASA).

Patten - Papers of Brian Patten

This collection of working and personal papers dates from Patten's childhood to the time immediately before deposit in 2007. It gives much insight into his working practices and includes many manuscript, typescripts and notebooks containing various drafts of his poetry, plays, books for children and work for television and radio. There is a small but significant series of handmade typescript poetry booklets featuring Patten's early poetry, these are precursor's to his later published magazine Underdog. There is an important series of correspondence with letters from literary figures such as Allan Ginsberg, Philip Larkin, John Betjemen and Ted Hughes, amongst many others. Included with the collection is also a series of printed books is this collection for which see the printed book catalogue at SPEC Patten.

FBA - Food and Betterment Association Collection

The Liverpool Food Association was founded in 1893 by Herbert Lee Jackson Jones, a pioneer in the introduction of the middle-classes into social work. Under Jones, as Honorary Secretary, and the City Coroner, as President, the Association took premises in Limekiln Lane, Scotland Road, Liverpool and put up soup boilers. In the first season, dinners at ½d each (or free to the poorest) were distributed to eleven schools. Other services followed, such as the distribution of food to housebound invalids by voluntary Lady Attendants. The range of charitable activities increased and diversified to include the notion of cultural ”betterment”, for example open-air concerts were provided in slum areas ”to elevate the seared mind or brighten the dulled hour amongst the poor and the poorest poor". As a protest against ”an increasing, professional, over-paid philanthropy”, Jones founded the League of Welldoers, who took the notion of personal service to the extent of martyrdom, living in the service of the Association on no more than £15 a year, plus uniform and austere board and lodgings. The League published The Welldoer. Organ of the Food and Betterment Association. A critical record of benevolence. Nonsectarian and nonpolitical.

The records comprise seven folio volumes of sourced and dated press cuttings on subjects of interest to the Association, particularly social problems related to drink, slum housing and malnutrition. The main sources for local events such as the Charity Bazaar of Feb. 1907, are the Liverpool Courier, Liverpool Post and Mercury and Liverpool Echo, with other local titles including the Protestant Standard and Porcupine. Volumes 5-7 reuse pages of The Welldoer as scrap. Sources for general issues include a very wide range of local, regional and national newspapers, and magazines such as the Spectator, and the British Medical Journal

D529 - Records of the Ling Physical Education Association

Records of the Ling Physical Education Association, later (1956 onwards) entitled the Physical Education Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: minutes, financial records, photographs, copies of publications, etc.

PKR - The Parker Archive

The archive documents William Parker’s career and family life, and also encompasses the lives of his children and the families into which they married. It contains naval documents from Parker’s career, as well as correspondence and other records belonging to Parker’s children and members of the Masini and Grenfell families.

D473 - Records of Universities Athletic Union Western Division

Records and the Universities Athletics Union Western Division comprising committee minutes and files; also some material re the Northern Division

Rideout - The Eric Hardwicke Rideout Archive

The archive of Eric Hardwicke Rideout was collected during the late 1920s and early 30s. Rideout was interested in the Shipping Ports of the North West during the period 1700-1850, especially in terms of Customs and Excise and related topics such as trade and quarantine.

The main areas of research for Rideout were: the Ports of Liverpool, Chester, Poulton, Isle of Man, and Whitehaven; their Customs Houses, Trade, Quays, and Quarantine regulations. The archive also contains material relating to Rideout MA thesis, submitted to the University of Liverpool in 1931, on Navigation Law in the 18th Century.

Much of Rideout's research was done at various Customs Houses in the North West with a huge body of transcriptions being made from the Customs Letter Books of the various Customs Houses. These recorded the day-to-day activities of the Houses and the events of the port. The archive is littered with these transcripts, both typescript and manuscript but the majority are based upon Rideout's original transcripts which, recorded onto index cards, are gathered at Rideout II.2.

Also of use will be a file of letters located at Rideout I.6 which includes his correspondence with various individuals concerning his research, visits to various Customs Houses and correspondence concerning the publishing of his findings.

D329 - Records of the Liverpool Metallurgical Society

Records of the Liverpool Metallurgical Society, comprising: Minutes of AGM and Committee Meetings, 1948-1969; Membership Application forms, 1952-1975; circulars to members (and photograph of Presidential Badge), 1947-1969; Attendance Registers, 1952-1977; Correspondence file s of the Honorary Secretary, 1948-1977; Copy of J F Giblin 'The Liverpool Metallurgical Society 1948-1983: A Short History', 1983 with corrigenda.

GB 141 D434 - Lord Aberdare's Papers on the History of Tennis and Rackets

The collection comprise research notes, correspondence, press cuttings and publications, photographs, etc., together with copies of national and local newspapers and journals (which include references to tennis and rackets), which Lord Aberdare assembled in the course of his lifelong research into the history of (real) tennis and rackets, on which he has published the two standard works, The Story of Tennis (1959) and The Willis Faber Book of Tennis and Rackets (1980). Some of the papers were assembled by his father, the 3rd Baron Aberdare (1885-1957), the distinguished athlete, who, with E.B. Noel, was author of First Steps to Rackets (1926) and was editor of the Lonsdale Library volume on Rackets, Squash Rackets, Tennis, Fives and Badminton (1933). The papers were principally assembled over the period since 1932.