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This collection comprises research papers compiled by Tom Robinson. They include subject files relating to clocks of various types and provenances and to individual makers, as well as photographs.

This series contains Roger Carrington's research papers and presentation scripts relating mainly to clockmaking and watchmaking in the north of England.

File marked RC5 and annotated "Roger's father's sketches for various projects" and "Dad's sketches etc, all undated and for various projects". Includes handwritten notes and rough sketches of clock elements and movements.

Handwritten script of R.F. Carrington's presentation given to the Northern Section of the AHS in 1976. Also includes related correspondence.

Bound printed script of R.F. Carrington's presentation given to the AHS at the City of London Guildhall on 20 February 1997. Includes slides, draft summary of the lecture by J.A. Neale, and related correspondence.

Handwritten extracts from volumes 400–499 of policy register series MS 11936, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.

Bound printed alphabetical list of names of clockmakers, watchmakers, jewellers and other horology-related professionals, compiled by R.F. Carrington from the policy registers of the Country Department of the Sun Life Insurance Company (now Sun Insurance Office Ltd; The London Archives ref. CLC/B/192/F/003/MS11937). Gives name, policy register volume number, placename and occupation.

Handwritten extracts from volumes 1–99 of policy register series MS 11937, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.

Includes clocks from Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle, Horniman Museum, Bethnal Green Museum, James Cox Musical Clock, the Bridges Clock, Helleicher's Singing Clock, the Thomas Dallam Organ, etc. 12 photographs.

Includes four photographs and a 1930 Uhrmakerkunst article reprint on "Die neue Regulierung der Uhr der St. Marienkirche in Lübeck".

Includes four photographs and a typescript article "The Clock of Lund", translated from German.

Includes mostly typewritten letters, an excerpt from Chapter 3 of Castle's "Remarkable Clocks", a photograph of Oronce Fine's astronomical clock, and a photograph and copy drawing of De Vick's clock from the Palais de Justice. Also includes typewritten letter from the British Horological Institute .

Includes typewritten letter, an extract from the Official Guide Book about the "Astronomical Clock at Prague Town Hall", and a magazine cutting with the photograph of the clock.

Includes typewritten letters, order slips, regulations, and a list of photographs and lantern slides of objects in the Museum's time measurement collection. Also includes an invitation to a private view of Huygens' pendulum clock, and a photographic postcard of the Dover Castle clock.

Includes a single typewritten letter.

Includes a typewritten letter and article "Die Ulmer Rathausuhr: Ein handwelkliches Meisterstück deutscher Renaissencekunst von Albrecht Rieber", and a photograph. Also includes a letter from the mayor of Olomuc, Czechoslovakia, regarding a booklet on the Olomuc town hall clock (the booklet is not included).

Includes typewritten and printed versions of an article on "The Wells Clock" and six photographic postcards.

This series comprises research notes on clockmaking in regions of England (Surrey, Middlesex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight) and the Black Forest, possibly assembled by E. John Tyler.

Includes handwritten genealogical notes, mainly on Seymour and Lambourn families.

Three prints, with a compliment slip from Thanet Printing Works.

Contains annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains one sketch.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains one note only.

Contains notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains notes, tracings and sketches. Originally numbered "C52-52a".

Contains letter from 'John', notes and sketches.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains notes on the history of the clock, sketches, tracings and one b/w photograph.

Contains handwritten description, notes, annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains annotated sketches.

Contains annotated sketches.

Contains annotated tracing.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches (some coloured) and tracings.

Contains annotated sketches.

Contains one note only.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings, and a note on "Knibb hands".

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains annotated sketches.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings. No original number. Inserted between files 78 and 80.

Contains tracings only. No original number. Inserted between disordered files 79 and 40.

This collection comprises Dr Ward's correspondence, reports, lecture notes as well as printed material and photographs. They mostly document various horological tours and exhibitions organised by him, and his cataloguing and consulting work.

Handwritten. Also includes a newspaper cutting re. the sale of the Hampton Court Estate, Leominster, by Viscount Hereford (The Daily Telegraph 3 Jan 1972). The envelope is also annotated "Ickwell Bury 1683".

Photocopy typescript and handwritten. Also includes correspondence.

Photocopy typescript. With a cover letter from the AHS addressed to Dr Ward.

Printed. Includes five b/w photographs and the following articles: "The earliest string-gnomon sundials" (1976); "An early pocket sundial illustrated in art" (1979); "A 15th century Italian 'clockmakers'' workshop" (1980); "A sixteenth-century clock illustration" (1982); "An interior church clock dial in Haarlem" (1984); and "Clocks in the paintings of Titian" (1985).

Handwritten. Also includes correspondence regarding required images, photocopy images of the Coster clock at the Science Museum, six b/w photographs of an Italian night clock from the British Museum, and printed 27th annual AHS report.

Handwritten.

Typescript photocopy. Two copies.

Typescript and printed. Also includes notes, handwritten on the backs of unrelated correspondence.

Typescript. Envelope annotated "Inf. from Bedini".

39 b/w photographs, captioned. Includes astronomical clocks, table clocks, Tompion bracket clock, monstrance clocks, rack clocks, globe clocks, and watches. Some photographs captioned "AHS property".

38 b/w photographs, with film negatives.

6 b/w photographs, captioned. Originally in an envelope captioned "Blair photos".

3 b/w mounted photographs, captioned.

19 b/w photographs, captioned.

Contains one sepia photograph, uncaptioned, loose.

This collection comprises records created and collected by Francis Wadsworth. It includes a large series of original articles by various authors on horological and related topics (cut out of publications, many of them were purchased from antiquarian book dealers), as well as sales and auction catalogues and advertisements for clocks, watches and clockmaking tools; instructions, manuals, and patents; reference publications; alphabetical files relating to clockmaking firms and factories; exhibition and museum brochures; correspondence; ephemera; and papers relating to Wadsworth’s work on the AHS Publication Committee. In addition to purely horological topics, it reflects Francis Wadsworth’s interest in scientific instruments, stately houses and antique furniture and porcelain.

Original article from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (November 1851), pp. 354–357.

Original article from The Connoisseur (n.d.), pp. xxxv–xlii.

Incomplete original article from Journal of the Society of Arts (18 June 1920), pp. 505–506 only.

Original article from The Connoisseur in America (December 1935), pp. 348–349. Pages also include short articles about other, non-horological collectibles.

Original articles from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (July 1950, February 1959).

Original article from La Suisse Horlogère (December 1960), pp. 5–14.

Original article from Antique Collector (February 1961), pp. 3–11.

Original articles from Antique Collecting, vol. 11 no. 11 (March 1977), pp. 25–30. Includes antique clock dealer advertisements.

Original article about an exhibition at Wartski, 14 Grafton St, London, held on 8–21 March, from Antique Collecting (March 1989), pp. 40–41.

Photocopy of a glossary entry from Practical craft (April 1994), pp. 41–42.

Part 1: Clock with automatons. Original articles from an unidentified publication.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (June 1985), pp. 65–67.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1987), pp. 40–43.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 24 no. 7 (December 1989), p. 18.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1978), pp. 66–69.

Original pages from an unidentified colour magazine, with an artistic photograph of wall clocks of various designs and their prices.

Original article from Endeavour, vol. 27 no. 100 (January 1968), pp. 18–22.

Original articles from The Connoisseur, vol. 136 no. 547 (September 1955), pp. 3–11.