LBS - Papers of Liverpool Bibliographical Society

The collection is representative of the activity of the Liverpool Bibliographical Society from its preliminary organisation in the 1960s right through to 1995 when the last members meeting was held. Minutes of the meetings provide a detailed account of the workings of the society, where the discussion of guest speakers for members meetings and the organisation of visits are particularly illuminating. Through the letters section of the collection, the connections between the society and the wider community of the University, Liverpool and the North West in printing press, book and publishing professions, can be clearly established. Most noteworthy of these would be the society's involvement in the Book Trade in the North West Project, the School History Day Schools programme held by the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Liverpool, the establishment of letterpress printing sessions and the organisation of antiquarian book exhibitions on behalf of its members.

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

HAI - Hair, Professor Paul

by Hair, Paul

D713 - Papers of Robert Graham

Robert Graham's correspondence with Sir Cyril Burt including original introduction by Sir Cyril Burt to The Future of Man by Robert Graham 1963-1971; copy of Robert Graham The Future of Man, The Christopher Publishing House, Massachusetts, 1970 which includes an abrided introduciton by Sir Cyril Burt; Typescript of Klark Graham's The human situation and its reparation n.d. [c. 1995]

D680 - Records of the Società Letteraria Italiana di Liverpool and minutes of [the Dante Alighieri Society of Liverpool]

Minutes of meetings and committee meetings of the Società Letteraria Italiana di Liverpool (the Liverpool Italian Literary Society) including copies of programmes, invitation cards and press-cuttings, Sep 1920-14 Mar 1963; minutes of meetings and committee meetings of [the Dante Alighieri Society of Liverpool] n.d. [late 1964]-18 Nov 1968

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"

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.

D346 - Papers of the Gerald Beech Partnership

The Gerald Beech Partnership Papers relate to various projects the company was involved with, particularly the erection of Bedford House Staff Club and the Wyncote Development. There are also folders relating to smaller projects at a warehouse in Gloucester Place, Abercromby Square redevelopment/railings, Staff House extension into 5 Abercromby Square, Staff House future developments, Corporation Cottage, University Air Squadron buildings at 24-26 Oxford Street, the University Chaplaincy, Tate Hall, School of Architecture and the University Naval Unit at 18 Oxford Street. These folders consist mainly of correspondence, plans and drawings, tenders, certificates for payment, invoices, reports, minutes and costings.

D907 - Friends of Ness Gardens

Minute books and Newsletters of the Friends of Ness Gardens.

D357 - Minute books of the Liverpool Society of Anaesthetists

Minute books of the Liverpool Society of Anaesthetists dating from 1930 to 1990

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

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)

D672 - Papers of Jacoba J Milovich

Papers of Jacoba J Milovich, comprising: Jacoba J Milovich, To whatever nation they belong; extracts from letters and diaries, translated from the Dutch, relating in part to her nursing service as a nurse in a field hospital at St Oedenrode, Holland in September 1944 and at bourg Leopold, Belgium in October-November 1944 when she was closely involved with the work of Major J M Leggate, Commanding Officer of the 46th Field Surgical Unit, British Liberation Army

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

D1081 - Records of The Hope Street Association (HOPES)

Includes records relating to HOPES, CAMPAM, and Live-A-Music administration, projects, events, and funding bids.

D344 - Records of Felix Holt and Partners

Records of Felix Holt and Partners: Specification records and bills of quantities; cuttings and articles from contemporary magazines 1930-1955; catalogues of Annebergs-Hus (Sweden) Houses 1972; Proposed Scheme of decoration for Lloyds Bank, Southport; Merchant Navy Hostel Perspectives; Castle Chambers, Liverpool, new office building; includes plans and drawings

JBC - Josephine Butler Collection

The Josephine Butler Collections comprise the Josephine Butler Papers (JB), including correspondence, personal papers, paintings, portraits, photographs and memorabilia of Josephine Elizabeth Butler, dating from 1853-1906, with memorials of her death and the centenary of her birth, and the archive of Josephine Buttler Memorial House(JBMH).The Josephine Butler Memorial House Archive contains administrative records, examination results, papers relating to the syllabus of training courses, House publications, scrapbooks and photographs of staff buildings dating from 1920-1976.

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)