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Henry Hindley (1701–71) was a clockmaker and inventor based in York. File includes correspondence with Charles Taylor; copy page from Sotheby's sales catalogue (2002) listing a clockmaker's sector by Hindley; a newspaper advertisement and description of a mahogany clock from the workshops of H. Hindley, annotated "certainly not"; and 17 colour photographs of the clock provided by the seller, Northern Clocks.

Images of dials made by Hipkiss & Harold, Birmingham dial makers active in 1780s–1800s.

Original article about Joseph Knibb clocks from Antique Collecting, vol. 24 no. 7 (December 1989), pp. 24–26.

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 243–252. Annotated '82'.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (February 1997), pp. 43–45.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (December 1958), pp. 42–44.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (December 1955), pp. 29–31.

Images of dials made by Hobson & Hodgkinson, Birmingham dial makers active in the 1810s.

Charles Hobson (1907–88) was a clockmaker and a honorary freeman of the Clockmakers' Company. File includes C. Alix's correspondence with Hobson; correspondence with Daniel Parkes regarding Hobson's Choice, a book of sketches of English bracket clock repeating work by Hobson, Allix and Harvey (1982); published reviews of Hobson's Choice; notes; copy of certificate of registration of Hobson Bros; photocopies of Hobson's letter to Col. Quill regarding his will; and an obituary of Hobson, published in Antiquarian Horology (Spring 1988).

Handwritten. Also includes one colour photograph and sketches.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (March 1962), pp. 28–30.

Cutting of an article from Antique Trade Gazette (24 June 1995), pp. 30, 33.

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

This series contains horological articles collected by Francis Wadsworth. Written by various authors on horological and related topics, they are the original articles cut out of various publications, mainly collectors' journals and magazines. Many of them have been purchased from antiquarian book dealers.

The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "A".

The subseries contains articles written by authors who are not credited in the article. Some of them are editorials, so the authorship can potentially be established after some research.

The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "B".

The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "C".

The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "D".

The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "E".

The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "F".

The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "G".

The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "H".

The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "J".

The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "K".

The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "L".

The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "M".

The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "N".

The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "O".

The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "P".

The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "R".

The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "S".

The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "T".

The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "U".

The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "V".

The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "W".

The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "Y".

The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "Z".

Mostly typescript, one handwritten. Lectures include "Physics in Time Measurement"; "Bells and Bell Founding" by Douglas Hughes; "Captain Cook's Timekeepers" and "The Clocks of Greenwich Observatory 1675–1930" by Lt. Cdr. H. D. Howse; and two untitled ones. Also includes a description of sidereal clock made by John Shelton.

Photocopy of an article in two parts from Practical Engineering (11 and 18 September 1953), pp. 263–264 and 301 respectively. Reprint of a paper read to the British Horological Institute.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (July 1955), pp. 25–27.

Original article from The Family Magazine, vol. 8 (1846–47), pp. 22–24, 59–62.

Original article from The Harmsworth Enyclopaedia: Everybody's Book of Reference, vol. IV (1907), pp. 3187–3191.

Original brochure (n.d.), 12pp.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (March 1986), pp. 60–63.

Two copies of an article published in Antiquarian Horology.

Original article about ornamental and eccentric clocks in London from Country Homes and Interiors (November 1993), p. 1.

Typescript.

Two copies of an original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (February 1979), pp. 60–61.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (June 1972), pp. 91–93.

Original articles from Sunday Mercury (12 October 1958), p. 13.

Two copies of an original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide, vol. 21 no. 1 (August 1966), pp. 34–36.

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

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1946), pp. 19–21.

Original page 4 from Modern Times (24 February 1992). Subtitled "Charles Bremner meets the author [Allen Kurzweil] of a first novel about a [fictional] maker of erotic watches to discover his unusual inspiration".

This collection comprises photographs and papers relating to the British Horological Institute’s trips to France and Switzerland organised by Lily Hudson, its “British Clockmaker’s Heritage” exhibition, as well as some later material.

Images of dials made by Hughes & Company, Birmingham dial makers active in the 1810s.

2 copies of b/w photographic postcard, in an envelope dated 14 Dec 1967.

This collection comprises papers collected and created by Michael Hurst. They include correspondence and subject files relating to particular clocks and other horological matters, lecture notes, printed material (auction catalogues, articles, newspaper cutting, pamphlets, etc.), and a large series of clock photographs, colour slides and copper plate negatives. The Hurst archive also contains some records created by Percy Webster, Robert Foulkes and Archie Mackay, which were entrusted at some point to Michael or his son Edward. It also contained several separate box files marked “Dr Ward”, which have since been catalogued separately as the Frank Ward archive (WAR).

Original article from Art & Antiques (8 April 1972), pp. 16–19.

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

Courtenay Adrian Ilbert (1888–1956) was a civil engineer and watch and clock collector; his collection was eventually acquired by the British Museum. File includes Charles Allix's correspondence with C.A. Ilbert; Malcolm Gardner's correspondence with solicitors regarding the estate of the late C.A. Ilbert and the valuation of his horological collection of clocks and books; lists of clocks, etc.

Mostly handwritten, some typescript.

Original article from The Connoisseur (March 1936), pp. 129–133.

Handwritten.

Original article from La Suisse Horlogère (June 1956), pp. 41–48.

Gives name, trade, address, short summary of news where applicable, and date of publication. There is also a subject index section.

This series contains index cards compiled by Frances Tennant as the original finding aids for her slides collection. Used in creating this catalogue, they contain some extra information about the dials, such as their graphics and condition when received.

Photocopy of an article about French fantasy clocks featuring mechanical and scientific discoveries of the age, from an unidentified publication, pp. 36–38.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1990), pp. 36–39.

Original article from "Inside the Trade" section of Antique Collector (December 1982), no pagination.

This series contains extracts from eighteenth and nineteenth-century fire insurance policies relating to clockmaking businesses. They were compiled from manuscripts held at the Guildhall Library (now part of The London Archives).

Original article from Communication no. 76 du Musée national d'Histoire des Sciences exactes et naturelles à Leyde, Hollande (n.d.), pp. 294–297.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 23 no. 3 (July/August 1988), pp. 56–57.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (August 1965), pp. 51–52.

Original article from Antique Collector (September 1982), pp. 82–83.

Includes handwritten list of Isle of Wight clockmakers 1875–79; scrap notes referring to clockmakers from earlier dates; typescript list of local street and trade directories; 1987 Strike One antique clocks and barometers catalogue brochure (featuring a chronometer by IoW maker Simpson Benzie Cowes); and E.J. Tyler's correspondence with the IoW County Council archivist regarding "Shorto" verge watch owned by William Chiddy.

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 25–32. Annotated '91C'.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 16 no. 3 (July/August 1984), p. 77.

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

Images of dials made by James Richardson, a Birmingham dial maker active around 1800.

Images of dials made by James Wilson, a renowned Birmingham dial maker active in the 1760s–1800s.