Special Collections and Archives

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II attended the 5/26 Grand Reunion of the Woman's Royal Army Corps Association, at the Queen Elizabeth Park in Guildford. File picture shows the Queen, when [she was] Princess Elizabeth (left) as she receives vehicle maintenance instruction, at Camberley Surrey in 1945. Copyright waived by Imperial War Museum and may be published

Broadcast Date: 26 May 1979

Agency: UPI

Article "A Note on Edward Thomas" by Gordon Bottomley

DP/MT/1/6/3
Item
September 1945

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Welsh Review volume 4 number 3

Pamphlet "Ministry of Food Scientific Adviser's Division: Manual of Nutrition 1945"

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Published by His Majesty's Stationary Office, London. With pencil annotation "Lucia Brown" on cover

King George VI and the Queen tour the blitzed East End in 1945

ITN/5/15/130
Item
October 1945

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

Broadcast Date: 2 July 1990

Agency: Press Association

St Mary's College prospectus

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

With ink annotations

St Mary's College green cloak

D452/1
Item
c.1943 - 1945

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Textbook by F H Pritchard entitled “Essentials of Modern English”

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Letter of thanks from A H Mann

D240/1/8
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15 July 1945

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Acknowledges books and cheque

A Short History of the First Gloucestershire Battalion Home Guard

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Copy of the Gloucestershire Echo reporting the end of World War II

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Student biology notebooks of E M Reeves

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Illustrated

Textbook "Learning and Teaching in Infants' School" by E G Hume

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Annotated "Jean M Bainton"

Queen Mother, King George VI, Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and Winston Churchill

ITN/5/15/127
Item
8 May 1945

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

Britain's Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother celebrates her birthday on 4 August. In this 1945 photograph from files the Queen Mother (2nd left), Queen Elizabeth II (left), Princess Margaret (right), King George VI and Winston Churchill stand on the Balcony at Buckingham Palace in London to acknowledge the crowds outside the palace on 8 May, VE Day. Approximately twenty thousand people waited for the party to step out early on that morning

Broadcast Date: 1985

Agency: Associated Press

Queen Mother, King George VI, Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and Winston Churchill

ITN/5/15/128
Item
8 May 1945

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

Princess Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth, Mr Winston Churchill, King George VI, Princess Margaret on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, acknowledging the crowds on VE Day. Obit

Broadcast Day: 9 June 1977

Agency: Fox Photos Limited

St Mary's College green blazer

D452/2
Item
c.1943 - 1945

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

College dark and pale blue striped blazer

D452/3
Item
c.1943 - 1945

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photograph of St Paul’s rugby team with names

D240/3/5
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c.1944-1945

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photographer unknown

Photograph of a group of St Mary's College and St Paul's College students outside Geraldine's in Cheltenham on V E Day

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photographer unknown

Diary belonging to Ethel Maud Jones documenting years at College

D604/3
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September 1938 - 12 April 1945

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Includes "an afterthough" 12 April 1945. Details everyday life at College and during trips home including evacuation to Llandrindod Wells in 1939 and the impact of the Second World War. Corresponds to photographs in D604/1

Student needlework book including examples of needlework by E M Reeves

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Programme for service of dedication of the memorial tablet to Arthur Haig Mann [student 1900-1902, lecturer 1913-1925, Vice-Principal 1925-1945]

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Military personnel on VE Day

ITN/5/15/129
Item
8 May 1945

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

Broadcast Date: 8 March 1985

Agency: Hulton Picture Library

Newspaper advert for "The Outpost" by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

DP/MG/5/3
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25 August 1945

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

An advert by Oxford University Press for the release of the second impression of "The Outpost", including quotations of reviews by "The Friend", and "John o'London's Weekly"

Registers of the College Roll

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Volume I - Andrews - Holloway
Volume II - Hooper - Sykes
Volume III - Turner to Culham

Western Joint Board examination papers

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

English Literature
Principles of Teaching
Divinity
English Language
Health Education
History
English Essay
Handwork for Men

Letter of recommendation regarding Anthony D Baker by the Headmaster of Charlton Kings Boys' School W H Morehood after completion of teaching practice

D421/2
Item
24 October 1946

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

The Priory Christmas card made by Anthony Baker

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

With photograph of The Priory

Coursework "Notes on Handwork and Needlework" by Beatrice Saville

D609/1
Item
c.1944 - 1946

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Hand-bound. Discusses needlework techniques and handwork including book binding and puppetry

Coursework "Hand-Loom Weaving in England" by Beatrice Saville

D609/2
Item
c.1944 - 1946

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Hand-bound with mounted photographs and images

"Chemistry for Junior Forms" by A C Cavell

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Published by Macmillan & Company Limited

Inscribed "P Richardson"

Princess Alexandra, Queen Mary and Prince Michael

ITN/5/1/2
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November 1946

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

A picture of Princess Alexandra (right), who is to marry Mr Angus Ogilvy in April, talking to Queen Mary when she was a bridesmaid at a wedding in November 1946. Next to the Princess is her younger brother Prince Michael

Agency: Central Press

First year examinations European History paper

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Christmas card with calendar attached from H K Hartley, showing gateway to Safdar Jung’s tomb, Delhi

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Textbooks "Characters and Scenes from Hebrew Story" by Hetty Lee, "The Cambridgeshire Syllabus of Religious Teaching for Schools" and "The Teacher's Commentary" edited by Hugh Martin

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Textbook "Handbook of Instruction of The Royal Life Saving Society"

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Annotated "J M Bainton"

Second year examinations History Scheme A Advanced Paper II