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This collection comprises horological papers collected by Dr Alan Shenton and his wife Rita Shenton. It contains mostly printed material, such as books, journals, catalogues, brochures, advertisements, photographs and collectibles, but some original research notes and correspondence are also present.

Original volume, 445 pages. Full title: Transactions of the Society instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (London). Includes chapters on: Premiums offered in 1799, Papers in agriculture, Papers in polite arts, Papers in Mechanicks, Paper in colonies and trade, Rewards bestowed, Presents received, Catalogue of models and machines, List of officers, List of members, and Index.

Includes "The mystery of time", an article by S.H. Sharpe about mystery clocks (p. 434).

Large folder of booklets, articles, circulars, notes, photographs, transparency slides and related correspondence.

Bound photocopy of an article published in Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy of 1788.

Bound copy of an article published in Les Merveilles de la Science.

Bound photocopies of articles published in English Mechanic and World of Science.

Pasted photocopy of a children's short story published in Grandfather's Tales (Leicester: Winks and Son).

Bound photocopy of articles originally published in Le Génie Civil (Paris, 1910).

Bound extracts from vol. 47 of Horological Journal (1955), copy of Ilbert Collection Commemorative Issue of Antiquarian Horology vol. 2 (December 1958), British Museum's leaflet titled The Ilbert Collection: the exhibition of clocks and watches in Edward VII Gallery and the Ilbert students room (1966) and a draft description and plan of the new gallery of clocks and watches.

Bound copy of an article published in the Post Office Electrical Engineers Journal.

Bound copy of an article about acquiring long-case clocks, from an unidentified publication.

Published in NAWCC Bulletin vol. 9 no. 11.

Includes copies of: "Recent developments in the manufacture of batteries, and their use in the watchmaking industry" by J. Piguet (published in La Suisse Horlogerie et Revue International de l'Horlogerie no. 2, August 1962), "Watch batteries: an aid to extra sales" By Richard Thornley (Horological Journal August 1983); handwritten notes on Dujardin Planté battery company; and a newspaper cutting battery advertisement.

Copy of an article published in The Illustrated London News.

Photocopy of an article published in Wireless World.

Copy of an article on seventeenth-century night clocks, from an unidentified publication.

File of loose cuttings and pages from illustrated magazines, journals, bulletins and auction catalogues. Includes photographs.

Bound photocopy of an HMSO publication, subtitled "comprising determination and division of time, dialling, clocks, watches and other time-keepers". Includes a circular from The Patent Office Library about its transfer to the British Library.

Handwritten volume, compiled by A. Shenton, arranged chronologically. Includes authors' names with occasional biographical notes, publications and sources.

Photocopies of an article about the exhibition published in The Horological Journal in June 1924 and of the special 1974 edition of Wembley History Society Journal.

Also includes a catalogue of Dorset clocks and related correspondence.

A black comedy directed by Sam Walters, performed at The Orange Tree Theatre (Richmond, Surrey) and Stephen Joseph Theatre (Scarborough) in March–May 2001.

Includes press cuttings, event tickets, postcards, advertisements, business cards, stickers, wrappers, receipts etc.

Complete series of 25 cards, duplicates of those in the album.

41 postcards, mostly blank, some with greetings addressed to Rita Shenton and E. J. Tyler. Also includes one colour slide of Overdrawn at the Bank, a painting by Charles Spencelayh.

Original issue, with an article on "Description of a proposed new uniform pressure clock", news items on a grant to Horological Institute and rating chronometers, and queries re. building seconds clock and lever escapement.

Four bound issues: September 1930 (section 3c), January 1932 (section 5f), April 1932 (sections 1g and 2f), July 1933 (section 1k). Also includes leaflet 222f for "Electro-matic Frequency Clocks" (June 1934). Produced by Tangent.

Two original issues, containing articles on sundials, poetry in watches, and horology-related advertisements.

Published by Centre d'Information de l'Horlogerie Française, Paris. 159 pages.

Photocopies of articles published in Nicholson's Journal, i.e. the Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts.

Photocopies of articles published in Alexander Tilloch's Philosophical Magazine, later called Philosophical Journal.

Photocopies of excerpts from the Mechanics Magazine vols. 11–58.

Bound photocopies of several articles on various aspects of electrical watches published in Revue Chronométrique: Journal de L'Horlogerie Française.

Bound copy of an article published in Journal Suisse d'Horlogerie (March 1929), reprinted in the Watchmaker, Jeweler, Silversmith and Optician, translated by J. Eric Haswell.

Photocopy of an article published in Journal of the Royal Naval Scientific Service (vol. 3 no. 5).

Bound copy of an article published in La Clessidra. With translation and review by Charles K. Aked.

Loose copy of an article published in two parts in Wireless World.

Two copies of an article published in Antiquarian Horology.

Originals and photocopies, relating to individual clocks and watches, clockmaking news, Robert Hooke and Captain James Cook.

Bound extracts from HMSO Patents for Inventions (London) for "class 139" specifications for watches, clocks and other timekeepers. Contains subject-matter and name indexes in several chronological sections.

Scrapbook of notes, copies of articles and cuttings. Arranged chronologically by date of publication, covering dates 1951–1988.

Printout, arranged alphabetically by author's name.

Original pages extracted from The Horological Journal (1910-26) and photocopy from The Jeweller and Metalworker (1894). Also includes notes about Watch and Clock Makers' Pension Society and the Clockmakers' Company (1910) and statistics for exports of clocks and watches in 1926.

Loose leaflets showing various clocks and their specifications, brochures, three photographs, Dr Shenton's chronologically arranged handwritten list of clocks. Also includes related correspondence.

Oaktree Antiques, selling "town and country furniture, longcase clocks and works of art" is based in Marlet Harborough, Leicestershire.

Contains a list of all exhibits.

Handwritten, with diagrams.

With synopsis and chapter titles.

With bibliography on telecommunications.

With an invitation to "See how the wheels go round", a Dorset County Museum event held on 23–25 June 2000.

Complete series of 20 cards, with some duplicates.

Seven cards. Purchased in 1988 from L. M. C. Nierynck, the Netherlands.

15 blank postcards showing watches and clocks from the collection, as well as the museum and the town. Includes a set of six transparency slides .

Two b/w photographs. Annotated "L'Heure Electrique EXA pour le petite horloger electricien amateur".

One colour photograph, showing general view of the exhibition and the Rita Shenton Books stall.

Large folder of booklets, articles, patents, circulars, notes, photographs, transparency slides and related correspondence.

Photocopy of the English translation of an article originally published in French in vol. 20 no. 21 of Les Comptes Rendus (May 1845). Translation published in Electrical Magazine vol. 2.

Bound photocopies of articles published in English Mechanic and World of Science.

Photocopy of two news pages, including articles on "Honors for the Trade", "Casket for the American Ambassador" and "The Silver Market".

Original Royal Society of Arts publication of six lectures delivered before the Society in January and February 1908.

Photocopies of nine articles published in the Proceedings of The Institution of Electrical Engineers between 1915 and 1962. Includes cover letter, dated 20 Mar 1970, from the Institute to C. K. Aked, with a list of eleven articles on the topic of electrical horology. All in envelope postmarked 24 May 1971.

Photocopy of a fragment of an article published in Journal of the Royal Naval Scientific Service (vol. 4 no. 3).

Photocopy of an article published in Journal of the Royal Naval Scientific Service (vol. 11 no. 6).

Copy of an article published in Mat. Med. Nordm. vol 23.

Delivered at a Northern Section meeting on 11th May. Copy of an article published in Antiquarian Horology.

Photocopy, pasted into a notebook, of an article published in The Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society vol. 28.

Photocopy of an obituary of the British scientist, inventor and collector Edward Hall (1924–2001), published in The Times. File also includes photographs of clock movements and a comparison sheet between four Smiths Quartz Movements.

Handwritten volume, compiled by A. Shenton, arranged chronologically. Includes authors' names with occasional biographical notes, publications and sources.

Two originals torn out of Jeweller and Metalworker (January 1951 and March 1952) and two photocopies from Jewellers Journal Book of Recipes (n.d., nineteenth century).

Includes Ray-o-Vac, Duracell, Seiko, Renata, Exide, etc. Most undated. Includes an article from an unidentified publication, in French and English, on watch batteries, no. 403 of Southern Watch and Clock Supplies Ltd News, and a photocopy of the United States Patent Office patent for alkaline dry cell (1951).

Also includes press release regarding sale of Important Clocks and Watches (n.d.).

Eight pages. Includes information about a silver pair-cased watch from 1789 and three pedometers.

Includes related correspondence.

Bound copies of extracts from Horological Journal.

Held at the School of Horology, Blanchardstown, Dublin, on 14 Dec 1976 to mark the bicentenary of the death of John Harrison. Signed by W. Stuart.

Held at Hôtel des Bergues on Sunday 14th November 1993. By Antiquorum Auctioneers.

Typescript with photographs.

Enlarged photographic copy, previously framed, showing the inside of the shop with a naval officer purchasing a chronometer, the "Tempus Fugit" motto and establishment date of 1749. J. W. Benson was a watch and chronometer maker.

Album containing the complete series of 25 cards. Purchased from The Good Olde Days shop in Brighton. Also includes a letter from the seller, a photocopy of "An Unusual Collection", an article about the cigarette cards published in Antique Clocks vol. 11 no. 10 (March 1989), and of a press cutting about books on sundials.

Three bound issues: November 1927 (Section 3a), January 1928 (section 1b), March 1928 (section 5c). Produced by Tangent. Includes related correspondence.

Published by Percival Marshall & Co. Ltd (London, n.d.). 197 pages, hardback. Signed by the author for Daniel E. Buckney.

Includes "A forgotten Norfolk clockmaker", an article about John Oldfield by Peter Bolton (p. 418).

Large folder of booklets, articles, circulars, notes, photographs and related correspondence.

Photocopy, pasted into a notebook, of Wynn's description of his Society of Arts Gold Isis Medal winning invention of a time-keeper and a compensating pendulum (1817). Also includes, as front, C. G. McKay's short letter about William Wynn, published in Antiquarian Horology (Autumn 1977) and a biographical note about Wynn from the ninth edition of Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers.

Bound photocopies of articles published in English Mechanic and Mirror of Science.