• Draft typescript talks: ‘Inhalation anaesthesia – the European scene’ (nd); ‘The first anaesthetics in St George’s Hospital, London’ by D.D.C. Howat, (nd, c. 1960s-1970s
• Manuscript rules and regulations relating to anaesthetics, including 'Regulations for the Anaesthetists' (3 copies, 1896) and 'The Teaching Duties of the Senior Anaesthetist' (6 copies), 1894
• Enquiries relating to anaesthetics, 1990, with attached photocopied articles ‘List of operations with ether at St George’s Hospital’ (from ‘On the inhalation of the vapour ether’ by John Snow, 1847); ‘History of anaesthetics (with special reference to their introduction at St George’s Hospital)’ by G.A. Clarkson (St George’s Hospital Gazette, 1894); copy from unnamed newspaper article ‘Surgical operations without pain’

• ‘London Teachers of Anatomy: A Retrospect’ by Charles Hawkins (reprint from The Lancet, 27 Sep 1884)

Papers relating to various anniversary celebrations, including

• 250th anniversary of St George's Hospital, including exhibition catalogue; tickets and invitations; programmes and schedules; correspondence; notes on finances; notes on exhibitions by various departments, 1982-1983
• Minutes of meetings of the 250th Anniversary Exhibition Sub-Committee and related correspondence
• Silver Jubilee printed programme, 1935
• Order of service for St George’s Hospital bi-centenary commemoration, 1933
• Invitation to the opening of St George’s Hospital and Medical School by Her Majesty The Queen, 1980
• 'London Calling' magazine, including article ‘St George’s Hospital’ by Ruth Randall, 1979
• Photographs of Christmas pantomime by St George’s Hospital Dramatic Society, rowing events and St George’s Hospital at the time of Queen Elizabeth’s coronation and related correspondence, 1953-2002

Documents relating to the history of Atkinson Morley’s

• Notes on the history of Atkinson Morley’s and its ward names, c.1980
• Notes and copies of ‘A History of The Atkinson Morley’s Hospital 1869-1995’ by Terry Gould and David Uttley, 1997
• Photocopy of Atkinson Morley’s will and transcript, 1858)
• Certified copy of death of Atkinson Morley 1858 (1981)
• Letter from Terry Gould to the dean of the medical school, Prof Asscher, regarding Atkinson Morley’s bequathment, 1988
• Printed articles and photocopies relating to CT scanning and Godfrey Hounsfield
• Schedule for thanksgiving service in honour of Wylie McKissock, 1994

Reports and publications

• Annual report of St George’s Hospital, and of Atkinson Morley’s Convalescent Hospital’, 1894
• Copy of rules for nurses and probationers, 1940
• Typescript list of ‘Selected publications from the neurosurgical department of St George’s Hospital at the Atkinson Morley Hospital, since 1948’, c.1950s
• Nursing prospectus with blank application form, c.1980

Photographs

• Photograph of the sports pavillion and photocopied photographs of the nursing home at Possil House, nd, c. 1970s-1980s

Building plans

• Building plans for Atkinson Morley Wing, 1998
• Building plans for Atkinson Morley’s Convalescent Hospital, nd, ?c.1960s

• Survey of Bolingbroke Hospital, including photographs of the site, 1979
• Invitation to the Bolingbroke Hospital Farewell Party, 2008
• Photograph of the hospital, 1975
• Documents and correspondence relating to the hospital and its closure, 1970s
• Notes relating to the history of Bolingbroke by Terry Gould; photocopies of articles and notes relating to the history of Bolingbroke Hospital, c.1989
• Advertisement for the hospital, nd, ?c.1920s
• Programme for Bolingbroke centenary event, 1980
• Annual reports of the Bolingbroke Hospital, 1926, 1929, 1940
• Planning documents for the occupational therapy department / Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth Area Health Authority, 1981
• ‘Bolingbroke Hospital: Its Story’ by Walter G. Bell (printed leaflet including photographs), c.1930s

• Draft article ‘Early days of pacing at St George’s Hospital, London’ by Aubrey Leatham and related correspondence
• Reprint of ‘New Invention: An Improved Stethoscope’ by Aubrey Leatham, originally published in The Lancet, 1958
• Notes on the history of pacing at St George’s by Aubrey Leatham and related correspondence, 1999
• Photograph from ‘Curso de Cardiologia’, including Aubrey Leatham, 1966
• CD titled ‘Cardiac Department’
• Photograph of the Queen’s visit to St George’s, 1962
• Photographs (?Aubrey Leatham; John Parker; John Camm)
• Obituary of Michael John Davies, 2003
• Print out of photograph thumbnails featuring people from the Cardiac Department

Souvenir programme for ‘The Lady with a Lamp’, a film about Florence Nightingale, in aid of The Royal College of Nursing Educational Fund, 1951

• Notes and photocopies on the history of the Fountain Hospital from the ‘Fountain’, 1949-1960
• Booklet on ‘The Fountain’ (Group of hospitals-Illustrated), nd, c. 1940s-1950s
• Proposed plan of development of the site, 1961

• Newsletter ‘St George’s Improvement Fund’, a fund to ‘improve the external and internal environment of both St George’s Hospital and St George’s Hospital Medical School, through landscaping, art and sculpture’, 1994
• Meeting minutes, nd, c. 1994
• Notes on project plans

Reports, administrative documents and regulations

• Report of the Collegiate Establishment Committee, 1846
• ‘Regulations respecting the election and duties of the junior officers. Regulations to be observed in conducting the examinations for the prizes’, 1888
• Rules and regulations for the appointment of clinical clerks and dressers, nd, c. 1900 (3 copies)
  • Copy letter listing items of value in the Medical School for insurance, 1899
• Letter from Charles Hawkins enclosing a list of Benjamin Brodie’s pupils (enclosure not present)
• Letter entitled ‘Instruction to Sprake, Foreman & Co. as to receiving orders only from the treasurer or dean’, 1898

Documents relating to medical education

• Printed pamphlet ‘Analysis of lectures on Midwifery and Diseases of Women and Children’, St George’s Hospital with manuscript annotations, 1874
• ‘Papers set in the examinations for Entrance Scholarship in Arts’, 1897
• Programme for an evening event at the Medical School, 1897
• Printed notice from the Metropolitan Schools of Medicine, ‘Facilities for Clinical Study Offered to Qualified Medical Practitioners’, signed by the deans, 1898
• Photocopied correspondence regarding subcutaneous injections at the Medical School, 1900, and the terms on which candidates from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge are admitted, 1898

Oversized folder:

• Certificate of attendance for Abraham Bristow, signed by Charles Hawkins, Bromfield and William Howell, 1845
• Laws and regulations of the Medical School,1864
• Printed notices for students advising them in regard with the London University Matriculation Examination (2 copies), 1898
• ‘Report of the Committee on the 1st years C.B. [Conjoint Board] Curriculum’ (manuscript), 1898

Papers of St George’s Nurses’ League, including
Administrative papers:

• Fabric St George's nursing badge with correspondence relating to St George’s 250th anniversary celebrations, c.1920s-1983
• Details of entry to St George’s Hospital School of Nursing, 1960
• Meeting minutes, agendas and related correspondence, 1979-1996
• Address at the service of thanksgiving in honour of Dame Muriel Powell, 1979
• Draft constitution and account of St George’s Nurses’ League, 1980-1982
• Information on the School of Nursing, nd (c.1980s)
• Membership list, 1995
• Correspondence to members, 1990s
• Conference programmes, 1996-1999
• ‘St George’s Nurses League oral history project’: Interview schedule, blank copyright agreement, nd (2010-2011)
  Journals, newsletters, photographs:
• Photographs (12 items) of nurses’ Christmas choir and other events and related correspondence, 1955-1956 (some in O/S folder)
• Newsletters (nos 9-12), 1996-1997; 1960
• St George’s Hospital Nurses’ Handbook, 1974
• Article in the Nursing Mirror ‘Around the Corner’ on Sue Benson, nurse at St George’s, 1982
• Nurses’ League Journal, 1983
• Copy of painting by Audrey Hammond, 1993
• Nurses League newsletter, 1999

Nursing regulations:

• General rules for probationers, 1920s
• Duties of the staff nurses, 1960
• ‘Hospital etiquette’ (photocopy, no source), nd (c.1900s)
• Report of the committee of nursing (copy), 1893
• NHS General Dental Services regulations, 1964

Documents relating to former nurses and nursing students:

• Letter to a nurse, 1902, and related[?] correspondence
• Certificate of Olive Matthews, signed by Warrington Haward, William Ewart, Clinton Thomas Dent, Humphrey Davy Rolleston, Francis Jaffrey and Florence Smedley, 1906, and related correspondence
• Exam papers, 1936
• Certificate of Barbara Day, signed by Muriel Powell, Helga Feiling and Lord Ingleby, 1954 and related correspondence
• Photographs of nursing students, a St George’s Hospital badge and related correspondence, 1954
• Copy photographs, exam papers, certificate and correspondence relating to nurse Josephine Ruth Dunstone, 1996
• Enquiries relating to former nurses and nursing students and to donations to the archive, 1963-1997

Florence Nightingale:

• Photograph ‘Florence Nightingale: taken at Claydon House in the early nineties’
• Article on Florence Nightingale, cutting from ‘Nursing Mirror’, 1954
• Postcard depicting the home of Florence Nightingale

Folder 6, ‘S.O.N. details’:

• Notes and correspondence relating to move to Tooting, including lists of furniture and valuations, 1978-1980
• Leaflet on medals and prizes presented by the Duchess of Kent, 1959
• Parliamentary Hansard report regarding nurses’ pay, 1962, 1969
• Salmon report from ‘International Nursing Review’ by Muriel Powell ‘The implementation of a pilot scheme at St George’s Hospital, London, c.1966
• Article from ‘Nursing Times’ by Jillian MacGuire and Ruth Pomeranz, ‘Training for Reality 1-2: The Implications of Demographic Trends for the Training of Nurses’, 1968
• Article from ‘Nursing Mirror’, 1982

A collection of personal papers including lecture notes, correspondence, meeting agenda’s and minutes, publications (both by Harold Lambert and collected by him), medical training notes, exam papers and reference cards. The topics covered are mainly infectious diseases and infections, including smallpox, whooping cough, meningitis and pneumonia among others.

• Programme and abstracts for ‘Pathophysiology of Gut and Airways’, at St George’s Hospital Medical School, 2 Nov 1989
• Correspondence regarding pathological specimens and archives, 1970-1996
• Correspondence relating to London County Council proposal to appoint named qualified pathologists for post mortem examinations and to give evidence in inquest cases, 1903

Articles and document relating to the Pharmacopoeia of St George’s Hospital

• Photocopy of ‘Pharmacopoeia Sancti Georgii’ (‘prescriptions from a book of manuscript notes written by W.P. Bennett dated 1831. W.P. Bennett was a student at St George’s Hospital and passed his Apothecaries examination in 1835’)
• Reprint of article ‘Favourite Prescriptions: The Pharmacopoeia of St George’s Hospital’ by Hugh Gainsborough, 1936
• Reprint of articles ‘Apothecaries, Dispensers, Students and Nineteenth-Century Pharmacy at St George’s Hospital, London’ by John K. Crellin, Medical History Vol Vi, No 2, Apr 1962; and ‘Early poison, medicine and dispensing regularions at St George’s Hospital, London’, by John K. Crellin, The Pharmaceutical Journal, 9 Mar 1963

George Raine and the Pharmacopoeia

• ‘The Pharmacopoeia of St George’s Hospital London, 1768 to 1944’ by George Raine, presented at the School of Pharmacy, University of London, 1974, and related correspondence and other documents relating to the Nicholas Award, 1974

Publications

• ‘St George’s Hospital Pharmacy Bulletin’, Vol 2, No 2, Sep 1978

• ‘Pharmacy at Chelsea, 1919-1979’ by D.C. Harrod and E.J. Shellard, c.1979

• List of apothecaries and chief pharmacists at St George’s, 1773 to 1980s

• Manuscript recipe cards on pharmaceuticals (seven cards tied together with a string), the first entitled ‘Mithridat, Confectio damocratis’ (antidote against poison), nd

Rules and regulations

• St George’s Hospital regulations for prescribing in the surgeries, 1894
• ‘Laws and regulations for the House Officers and Casualty Officers’, 1927

Miscellaneous

• Invitation from the Brotherhood of St Andrew for a meeting on the ‘Adaptability of the Brotherhood to the church of England’; recipient unknown, nd
• Reproduction of image of William Hunter (1718-1783) by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)

• Photographs of staff and students
• Staff portraits and site photographs from the Gazette, incl. ‘War Cottage’, 1914; William Ewart; ‘The anaesthetists’; W. Lee Dickinson; F.J. Marshall; Charles Slater; J. Warrington-Haward; G.R. Turner; Edgcombe Venning; Crisp English; Arthur Latham and F. Jaffrey; H.S. Pendlebury; Edcombe Venning
• ’Dr’ Harper [post mortem porter]; W. Howship Dickinson; site of the new athletic ground; H.B. Grimsdale
• Image of Benjamin Brodie
• Lloyd Driver with two unidentified nurses, 1898
• Postcard of J.M. Churchfield, secretary and superintendent of St George’s Hospital, 1921

Photographs of sites and architecture

• Photographs, including Pathology Museum at Hyde Park Corner, 1946-1949; Washrooms (?Hyde Park Corner); Dissecting room, 1898; extension of the medical school site, c.1956; Student’s club room

• Postcard of patients at Atkinson Morley’s Hospital, 1934 and of the building

• Photograph of Harry Axton and Hannah Valentine in the student bar[?]

• Tourist map of Hyde Park Corner with historical notes and postcards depicting St George’s and the surrounding area

• Note on radioactivity

Documents relating to Muriel Powell’s life and death

• Obituaries, articles and newspaper cuttings relating to Muriel Powell’s death, 1978-1979
• Conference report: ‘Dame Muriel Powell DBE, 1914-1978’ by James P. Smith (reprint from Journal of Advanced Nursing), 1993
• Book ‘Muriel Powell Remembered: A Profile of Her Life’ by Elizabeth Scott, signed by the author, 2000
• ‘The Dame Muriel Powell that I remember’ by John Greene, 1992
• Notes relating to the biography of Powell and her portrait painted by Dot Nassim, 1992
• Schedule for St George’s Nurses League Conference celebrating Powell, 1992
• St George’s Nurses’ League Journal, vol.1 (no 7), 1959
• Proposal for a fund ‘Dame Muriel Powell Award’, 1985

Documents relating to Powell’s career

• Schedule for ward opening at Dilke Memorial Hospital, Cinderford, 1968
• Leaflet titled ‘The Pattern of the In-Patient’s Day’, Ministry of Health Central Health Services Council, 1961
• Correspondence by and relating to Powell, c1968
• Newspaper cutting ‘Dedication is not the prerogative of nurses’ (Hospital World Vol 8, No 6, Jun 1969)
• Photocopy of an interview of Powell in the Nursing Mirror, 1976

Material relating to various royal visits

• Newspaper cuttings, including visits by Prince George in 1930, Duchess of Kent in 1978 and Queen Elizabeth in 1980 [oversized folder]

• Photographs from the opening of the medical school by Queen Elizabeth, 1980

• Invitation to St George’s Hospital Medical School luncheon ‘in honour of The Chancellor of the University HRH The Princess Royal’, 10 Nov 1988

• Photographs of various royal visits (?c1920s-1960s)

• Envelope titled ‘Royal opening of the hospital and school, 6 November 1980: Replies to letters of invitation’

• Correspondence, copies of meeting minutes

• Envelope titled ‘Royal opening (Nov ‘80) Medical School and Hospital’

• Planning documents, meeting minutes, correspondence

Material relating to the Springfield Hospital

• Exhibition leaflet and postcard of Louis Wain’s cats, 1986
• Notes on the architecture and buildings of Springfield (manuscript, photocopies)
• Photocopy of the case notes of Daniel Dolley, 13 Sep 1855
• ‘Springfield: A Short History’ (printed leaflet), nd, c.1990s
• Correspondence and enquiries relating to Springfield Hospital with notes and photocopies on the history of Springfield

Documentation on the St George’s Hospital Group archives, nd, c.1980s-1990s

• Photocopied handwritten and typescript reports and lists relating to the archives held by institutions associated with St George’s Hospital Group, including ‘The State of the Archive: A final Report’, accessions registers, box lists of records, descriptions of the creators

• Various histories and notes regarding the history of St George’s Hospital (typescript, printed, copy), 1831-1980s, including
• Page, William Emanuel. 1866. ‘Some account of the hospital and school’. From ‘St George’s Hospital Reports’, Vol.1 (printed pamphlet)
• Photocopy of a watercolour painting of Lanesborough House, Hyde Park Corner, by Allan, with related correspondence, c.1920s-1930s
• Newspaper cuttings and articles, 1925-1981
• Newsletters and magazines, including
• ‘The Mirror or Literature, Amusement, and Instruction’ (St George’s Hospital), No 489, 14 May 1831
• ‘Rebuilding Magazine: St George’s Hospital’, Vol 5, Apr 1938 and Vol 8, Apr 1939
• Architectural plan of the basement, St George’s Hospital Medical School, 1950
• Documents relating to move to Tooting and funding of St George’s, including, 1904, to the effect that it is not desirable to move the Hospital from Hyde Park Corner’, 1904
• ‘Summary of Arguments to support the Resolution passed unanimously by the Medical School Committee on May 17th
• ‘King Edward’s Hospital Fund for London. Extracts from Report on St George’s Hospital by Capt. Stone’, 1944
• Planning documents, 1967
• Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth Area Health Authority (Teaching), ‘Proposed transfer of services from St George’s Hospital, Hyde Park Corner. Consultative paper’, 1978

Collection charting the development of nursing education at St George's and related institutions from the 19th century to the present day.

The collection includes:

• Student registers, training and examination records, prospectuses and syllabuses
• Administrative records, including committee minutes, reports, rules and regulations
• Publications and printed material including books, newsletters and journals
• Papers, photographs and artefacts from St George’s Nurses’ League
• Personal papers, memoirs and memorabilia from individual nurses, including papers of matron Dame Muriel Powell (c.1910s-­1970s)
• Photographs, including student photographs, group photographs and personal photo albums
• Artefacts and objects, including items of nurses' uniform, badges, medals, and medical instruments
• ‘Nurses’ Voices’ oral history project: interviews with over 100 former St George’s nurses and midwives (and related documentation), recorded 2003-2008

From in-­job training at the hospital, nursing education was gradually formalised during the latter half of the 19th century. From 1882 onwards, probationer nurses were offered lectures by the medical school and hospital staff; these lectures developed into a more formal syllabus, becoming compulsory for probationers in the 1890s, and the first formal examinations were introduced in 1894. The archive charts the development of nursing education from the late 19th century to the 21st century, including important changes in the demographics of the nursing staff, such as the arrival of the Windrush generation.

The collection encompasses training of nurses at St George’s and related institutions: for instance, nursing training at Victoria Hospital for Children and Grove Hospital were merged with St George’s School of Nursing in the 1950s, leading to the establishment of a branch of the School of Nursing at Tooting, where St George’s Hospital and Medical School (later university) moved in the 1970s from Hyde Park Corner, central London.