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Includes copies of articles from The Horological Journal and other publications, many of them antiquarian; Watch and Chronometer Jewelling booklet by N.B. Sherwood (Chicago, n.d.); notes, related correspondence and 1 photograph. Annotated "see also the Banger watch file" (ref. ALL/01/001).

Includes letter, draft Jump family tree compiled by Col. H. Quill, notes, sketches and newspaper and catalogue cuttings.

Includes handwritten notes with detailed description of "Leroux no. 3153".

Frank Mercer (1882–1970) was a chronometer maker; his father was the founder of Thomas Mercer Ltd, a firm of makers of chronometers and precision equipment based in St Albans, dating back to 1858. File includes obituaries of Frank Mercer, biographical articles about Thomas junior and senior, an article about the firm's centenary, etc.

Includes letters, copy catalogue pages, eight photographs and slides.

Includes catalogues, photocopies of press articles, hand-drawn plan of Le Forges à Montécheroux, photographs and negatives, and related correspondence.

Includes H. Otto's and Charles Allix's correspondence with Prof. D.S. Torens, May & Philpot catalogue of furniture auction sale 2 November 1955, photocopy photographs, sketches, and extracts from The Horological Journal.

Includes correspondence with Prescot Mechanism Company and other organisations and individuals; press cuttings; copies, reprints and extracts from horological journals, publications and catalogues; flyer and programme for at City of Liverpool College course in Aspects of Horology held in 1983; and photographs.

Includes Sabrier's articles "Une Montre Expérimentale de Ferdinand Berthoud" and "Un Échappement a Roue de Rencontre sur Deux Niveaux", photographs and relates correspondence. Also includes papers relating to Pasquale Andervalt gas-wound clock.

File marked RC13/2. Includes typewritten lists of watches and clocks for sale by various dealers based in York, Liverpool, Lancashire and Cheshire, including Rarities International, Kingsway Galleries, Castle Galleries and Roy James and Co.

Bound printed script of R.F. Carrington's presentation given to the East Anglian Section of the AHS at Manor House Museum, Bury St Edmunds, on 20 March 1993. 46 pages.

Bound printed script of R.F. Carrington's presentation given to the London Section of the AHS at the Science Museum, London, on 21 April 1994. 45 pages. Also includes slides and related correspondence.

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 100–199 of policy register series MS 11937, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.

Handwritten extracts from volumes 46–83 of the fire policy register MS 7254, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details. Volumes 1-45 of this series do not survive.

Notebook, 47 pages, containing John W. Castle's handwritten notes, mostly on individual clocks, and some drawings. A signed note on inside cover reads "The notes in this book represent hours of research in museums and libraries all over England and half Europe".

Typescript and six photographs, including "La joueuse de tympanon" and "Oiseaux chanteurs" from Musée du Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris, St Mark's Clock Bell in Venice, and various figurines from the British Museum.

Includes letter and a photographic postcard.

Typescript. Also includes four drawings.

Includes letters, a photographic postcard, and typewritten articles on "Compiegne (Oise): Hotel de Ville" and "La Bancloque de Compiegne".

Includes typewritten letters in German, with English translations.

Also includes press cuttings from Newnes Practical Mechanica on orrery, planetarium and timing and delay mechanisms.

Four drawings, including the "stackfreed" and "mainspring barrel and fusee".

Includes typewritten letters and a brochure titled Das Münchner Rathaus und sein Glockenspiel.

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.

This collection comprises mainly glass plate and film negatives of early English clocks, clock inscriptions and clockmakers’ portraits, collected by Percy G. Dawson. Many have been used in his books.

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).

This collection contains research papers, publications and collectanea assembled by Chris McKay. It includes a large series of subject files relating to various clocks and clockmakers, including the Big Ben clock; guidebooks, catalogues and diaries; photographs, negatives and slides; art prints; and a significant collection of horological postcards.

Labelled "I see also II" but part II not present

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.

Contains snapshots and group portraits from Zurich and Bad Attisholz (nine b/w photographs, uncaptioned, loose), five postcards, and two tour programmes and timetables.

This collection contains horological correspondence, research notes, photographs and printed material created and compiled by Lewis S. Northcote.

Includes copy correspondence and typescript copies of Electrical Horology Group minutes of 9th October 1970; "List of Works on Electrical Horology" compiled by Charles K. Aked; a list of articles on electrical horology compiled by Anthony Prasil; and a list of members interested in electrical horology, with addresses.

Printed copy of an article "communicated at Lancaster, 14th September 1933",

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains typewritten description, handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains one tracing of backplate only.

Contains annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains typewritten description, annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains annotated sketches and tracings. Originally numbered "C25-25a".

Contains handwritten note and tracings.

Contains one sketch and tracing.

Contains one sketch.

Contains annotated sketches.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains one sheet of notes with tracings.

Contains letter from "John" and a small sketch.

Contains one note only.

Contains annotated tracing of old backplate.

Contains annotated tracing.

Contains annotated sketches.

Contains annotated sketches.

Contains one note only.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

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.

41 pages. Includes clocks quotations; famous clocks of the world; clocks of Berne, Switzerland; clocks of Italy; “My own town”, including Weston-super-Mare's floral clock; other floral clocks; The Festival of Britain clock; Somerset's Cathedral; Exeter's clocks; other clocks of interest; clocks of Denmark, including grandfather clocks and early clocks; clock legends of Hampton Court and Strasbourg; collectors, collections and quaint clocks; and dials ancient and modern. Pages 28 onwards comprise miscellaneous material on a variety of clock-related topics, including Gothic iron clock, long case clocks, other individual clocks, "The Old Clockmaker" article by Richard Church from Country Life (2 December 1949), and clockmaking events and exhibitions.

40 pages. Includes clocks of Scotland; smallest watches; "Negress clock"; astronomical clock of Versailles; Salisbury Cathedral clock; the oldest clock in Paris; clocks of Germany, Holland, Hungary, France, Belgium, Malta, Denmark, Spain and Venice; summer time; clocks of York; Big Ben; concave dial clock at Bristol; grandfather clocks; brochure about the Peace Tower carillon in Ottawa; seventeenth-century clockmakers; Captain Scott's watch; watches in the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers collection; Strasbourg Cathedral clock; clock collection of Mr Hutton-Stott; grandfather clocks; detailed description of the Broadgate "Godiva clock" in Coventry (with original drawings); floral clocks; Lund Cathedral clock, Sweden; Honeybone clocks, etc.

37 pages. Includes address on "Our Ancestors' Clocks and Watches" by M.F. Frederiksen; astronomical clock on Strasburg Cathedral; "Pendulum to Atom" booklet for the centenary exhibition of the British Horological Institute at Goldsmiths' Hall; "Collecting old Watches" by Cecil Clutton; Conquete du Temps (booklet presented to visitors of the Swiss Pavilion at the Brussels Exhibition 1958); "Time in Broadcasting' (BBC Booklet produced for the centenary exhibition of the British Horological Institute); Burgos Cathedral clock, Spain; clocks of Southwark and Clerkenwell; Zimmer Tower astronomical clock at Lierre, Belgium; flower clocks; British horologists; atomic clock; clocks of Bornholm; Buenos Aires "Big Ben" clock; world's largest electric clock; work of summer time clock changers; English ormolu mounts; Black Forest cuckoo clocks; Big Ben centenary; broadcast of "Ancient clocks of the West of England"; clocks of Germany and Switzerland; Kravchenko's Sputnik Clock; English church clocks; music scores for "My Grandfather's Clock" by Henry C. Work and "Song of the Clock" by Rex Burchell; early English watches, etc.

41 pages. Includes Honeybone clock at Bristol; clock collection at Belper; "From Clock-watch to Wrist Watch" and "The Rare Grandmother Clock”, articles from Country Life Annual 1955; "Sixteenth century and earlier public clocks" list by G. H. Baillie; clocks of Denmark, Holland and Germany; clocks of Coventry and Winchester; auction sale of Tompion long case clock; "A clock to time the Earth", an article on John Harrison by Alben Philips; floral clocks; copy will of Thomas Honeybone; extract from Cats in the Belfry by Doreen Tovey; Jens Olsen's world clock brochure; Guinness Festival Clock; Westminster Abbey clock overhaul; The Musselburgh Tolboth clock; Ilbert horological collection; the world' first astronomical clock at the Science Museum; extract from The Dean's Watch by Elizabeth Goudge

37 pages. Includes short history of clocks; floral clocks; Player's Cigarettes cards featuring clocks and other timekeeping devices, with notes; types of devices used for the measurement of time (list with descriptions); "Look and Learn" feature on timekeeping; Breguet watches; Phoenix clock at Westbury; Gamle Ure brochure from the clock museum on Denmark; Chinese clockmaking industry; timing the Olympics [Winter Olympics, Innsbruck]; clock towers of France; "Early provincial clockmakers" by J.K. Bellchambers; The Science Museum Timekeepers booklet; Ferenc Magyar clock and watch collection in Budapest; clock designed for lunar explorers; The Wuppertal clock museum, etc.

36 pages, latter half black. Includes the Wells clock; Benjamin Bowring; hymns by clockmaker James Odey; turret clocks; Stonehenge; clocks of wood, etc.

Typescript. With Dr Ward as the Honorary Treasurer.

Typescript.

Handwritten. Includes: Deutsches Museum Munich, Bayerische Nationalmuseum Munich, Leiden Museum, Swiss museums and private collections (1957), Amsterdam 'Het Atoom' (1957), AHS German Tour 1959, AHS Austrian Tour 1961, and AHS Swiss-Italian Tour 1963.

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.

Handwritten. Also includes a typescript letter from the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, regarding Dr Ward's request for a photograph (not included), and the Museum's postcard showing a Roman vertical disc dial c.250 AD.

Handwritten.

Typescript.

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

Printed.

15 b/w photographs. Guests include the Duke of Wellington, Lord Harris, Dr Ward and others. File also includes a bound article on the Wuppertal Clock and Watch Museum by Allan Lloyd, from "The Antique Collector" (Oct 1966).

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".

2 b/w photographs. "St Jerome with Clock" is based on Albrecht Dürer's 1514 engraving "St Jerome in His Study"; and "Sir Thomas More and His Descendants" on a copy of a lost 1527 painting by Hans Holbein the Younger.

Original article from The Illustrated Exhibitor and Magazine of Art (1852), pp. 246–252.

Original article from Chambers's Information for the People (1860), pp. 273–288.

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

Original articles from The Connoisseur, vol. 5 (1903), no pagination.

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

Original article from Newnes Pictorial Knowledge, vol. 9 (1952?), pp. 291–224. General editors R.H. Poole and Peter Finch.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1952), pp. 34–35.

Original article about Smiths Clocks and Watches Ltd, from The Engineer (1 June 1956), pp. 606–607.

Original article from The Meccano Magazine, vol. 44 no. 1 (December 1959), pp. 560–561.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 5 no. 5 (September 1970), pp. 24–26.

Printout of a translation of an article published in the French journal Négation, about workers at the Lip watch factory in France, who began self-managing the firm. Also available online at https://libcom.org/article/lip–and–self–managed–counter–revolution–1973–negation.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 8 no. 11 (March 1974), pp. 33–35.

Original article about Victorian and Edwardian pocket watches, from What's It Worth part 1 (1993), pp. 7–8.

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

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

Original articles from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (July 1983), pp. 36–38.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1986), pp. 42–45. Includes issue cover.

Original article from Apollo Miscellany (1950), pp. 1–8.

Original article from Practical Woodworking (November 1989), pp. 16–21.

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

Photocopy of chapter 1 of unidentified publication.