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'A Phrenological Chart of Character', booklet, London, England, 1879-1921

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1879-1921

Booklet. 'Family Guide to the National Insurance S

Domestic Appliances

1948

An Act for regulating Schools of Anatomy, print, England, 1832

Anatomy & Pathology

1832

Commemorative booklet for banquet honouring Joseph Lister

Surgery

1897

'Las Vacunas' booklet giving information about diseases and childhood vaccination, Colombia, 1980-1993

Public Health & Hygiene

1980-1993

'A Cause of Military Inefficiency', booklet on STIs, England, 1914-1918

Therapeutics

1914-1918

Rule book for the City of Cardiff Mental Hospital

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1919

‘An Atmospheric Diffusion Slide Rule’, by C.E. Wallington, MSc., in Met O Scientific Paper No 24, Met O 774

Meteorology

"Creating Effective Smoking Policies in the NHS"

Public Health & Hygiene

1992

Booklet for Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations aka TCP / 1111

Sound Technologies

2013

One of two instruction booklet

Textile Industry

c.1900

"Health Update 2 - Smoking"

Public Health & Hygiene

1991

"Building a Tobacco Blockade"

Public Health & Hygiene

1992

That's the Limit

Public Health & Hygiene

1987-2000

The Souvenir Book of Crystal Designs

Experimental Chemistry

1951

One of two instruction booklet

Textile Industry

c.1900

Eight page illustrated booklet '625-Line UHF Television - How to Receive BBC2', produced 1963-1964; produced by the BBC Engineering Information Department; BBC Publications, Marylebone High Street, London; printed by Dryden Printers Ltd., London NW10. Annotated in pencil on front cover for reproduction. Part of Daily Herald Archive.

625-Line UHF Television - How to Receive BBC2

Photographs

1964-1965

Doctors' Orders, a Family Doctor Special

Public Health & Hygiene

1960s

Booklet 'Little Books About Photography No 3; Big Pictures From Small Negatives'.

Little Books About Photography No 3; Big Pictures From Small Negatives

Photographic Technology

1924

Off The Beaten Track No. 17 - The Italian Lakes

Documents

1934

BR(ER) staff booklet

Documents

1971

Booklet issued to staff by British Railways entitled "Customers Can Complain. Cattle Can't", explaining how BR staff should handle animal passengers, folded sheets with card cover.

Customers Can Complain. Cattle Can't

Documents

1953

Booklet issued by British Railways Board entitled 'British Railways Welcome You', 1963. Includes sections relating to; 'How British Railways are organised', 'Your Place in the Scheme', 'Rewards and Conditions', 'Responsibilites and Duties'.

British Railways Welcome You

Documents

1963

An Account of the LNER Type Standardization

Documents

1934

Selling Passenger Transport - notes for the guidance of Station Masters, Passenger Agents and Others

Documents

1936

Ambulance train for use of the american armies in France

Documents

1918

Duchess of Hamilton

Documents

1980

The Hungry Traveller

Documents

1953

Exhibition of Ambulance Train, 1914-1918

Documents

1914-1918

Tourist guidebook to 'London', 1930s

Documents

c. 1930

South Eastern Railway notice of special traffic

Documents

1895

Royal Mail booklet "Letters By Night - A Tribute to the Travelling Post Office", containing various stamps, images, quotations from W. H. Auden's "Night Mail" and a poem "The Last Post" by Simon Armitage. Produced to commemorate the withdrawal of the Travelling Post Offices in 2004.

Letters By Night - A Tribute to the Travelling Post Office

Railway Stamps & Covers

2004

Instructions booklet, London Brighton & South Coast Railway, 'Closing of Gloucester Road Junction and Alteration of Signals Affecting Norwood Fork Junction, Windmill Bridge Junction, St. James' Junction and Selhurst Junction', iIssued by A. Sarle, March 1895.

Closing of Gloucester Road Junction and Alteration of Signals

Documents

1895

Booklet titled "British Railways (Wages Grades) Pension Fund", describing the operation of the new pension fund introduced in February 1967.

British Railways (Wages Grades) Pension Fund

Documents

1967

Booklet - Laboratory Note no.LN/659/HAW, August 1964, BV551. Dept of Scientific and Industrial Research, Road Research Laboratory. Tests on a motorcycle with an anti-locking braking system fitted to the front wheel, by H A Wilkins.

Booklet - Laboratory Note no.LN/659/HAW, August 19

Road Transport

1964

Promotional booklet for Lifebouy Soap, entitled 'The Secret of Health', 1890-1900

The Secret of Health

Public Health & Hygiene

1890-1900

Unbound booklet: Air-Navigation, by means of the rotary balloon (1851) by John Luntley

Unbound booklet: Air-Navigation, by means of the r

Printed Books

1851

Booklet with red and white cover, 'Simple Vegetable Cooking - companion to 'Growmore' Bulletin No.1 of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries', produced by the Royal Horticultural Society, 1940-1950.

Simple Vegetable Cooking

Nutrition & Food Technology

1940-1950

Booklet, with green cover, 'Oxfordshire Vegetable Cookery book, with an introduction by Professor VH Mottram, MA, to be obtained at the OFWI office, Barnett House, Oxford, 1950-1965.

Oxfordshire Vegetable Cookery book

Nutrition & Food Technology

1950-1965

Instruction booklet for ECT therapy unit, entitled 'A Variable Electro-Narcosis Unit built for St James' Hospital, Portsmouth by Ivan Veck Ltd, Portsmouth, Hants.', including typed sheet of notes ('Design and Construction Brief'), designed by E.R. Edser, 1951-54.

Instruction booklet for ECT therapy unit, entitled

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1951-1954

Booklet, foolscap size, 'Ship No 754 Hull Specification for a Cargo Train Ferry', Hawthorn Leslie (Shipbuilders) Ltd, 1963

Ship No 754 Hull Specification for a Cargo Train Ferry

Railway Shipping

1963/04/23

Printed pamphlet. Gelatin silver print. 'Underground Poland Speaks', August 1941 by Philip John Noel-Baker (1889-1982), Liberty Publications. Manifesto of the 'Working Masses of the Polish Nation', describes Nazi atrocities. Foreword by P J Noel-Baker MP. Daily Herald Archive.

'Underground Poland Speaks', August 1941

Photographs

1941

Booklet, paper, "Class 253 & 254 Trains Working Instructions," British Rail, copy belonged to A.J. Carroll of Knottingley depot, issued October 1980. Instructions for Class 253 and 254 High Speed Trains (HSTs). Second issue, superseding issue of October 1977. Document no. BR 33069/2. 26pp.

Class 253 & 254 Trains Working Instructions

Archive Collections

1980-10

Booklet on 'Control of Infection Policies; The key to good practice , by Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital Trust, April 1996, as used in nursing MRSA patients.

Booklet on 'Control of Infection Policies; The key

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1996

Brent Community Health Council Annual Report 1978-9

Public Health & Hygiene

1978-1979

Booklet, paper, card, "Identification of Wheel & Tyre Tread Damage requiring Remedial Action," British Railways Board Chief Engineer (Traction & Rolling Stock) Department, copy belonged to A.J. Carroll of Knottingley depot. Document no. MT/162. 18pp.

Identification of Wheel & Tyre Tread Damage requiring Remedial Action

Archive Collections

Booklet, paper, card, "Tyre Profile and Wheel Gauges for Rolling Stock," British Railways Board Chief Engineer (Traction & Rolling Stock) Department, Derby, copy belonged to A.J. Carroll of Knottingley depot, issued October 1973. Second issue. Document no. MT/11. 46pp.

Tyre Profile and Wheel Gauges for Rolling Stock

Archive Collections

1973-10

Instruction booklet 'Picture Taking with the No 2-A Folding Autographic Brownie Camera'. Donated by Breege Fagan 10 August 2000.

'Picture Taking with the No 2-A Folding Autographic Brownie Camera'

Photographic Technology

1925-01

Learn Computer Porgramming with the Commodore Vic, L R Carter & E Huzan, Hodder & Stoughton, 1982.

Learn Computer Porgramming with the Commodore Vic, L R Carte

Computing & Data Processing

Booklet of tear-out sheets, entitled "Athlete's Foot, Instructions to Patients", by Hoechst Pharmaceuticals Ltd., English, 1950-1965

Booklet of tear-out sheets, entitled "Athlete's Foot, Instru

Chiropody

1950-1965