Special Collections and Archives

A library picture of The Queen, as Princess Elizabeth, with her baby daughter Princess Anne, at Buckingham Palace in 1950, after the baby was christened. Princess Anne, who wed Captain Mark Phillips on 14 November 1973, has a son and daughter

Broadcast Date: 23 July 1982

Agency: Press Association

Typed extract reporting reluctance of Wilfrid Gibson to show his work to Walter de la Mare

DP/MG/3/11
Item
c.1950s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Quotes Gibson "I didn't show [the songs] to de la Mare because they weren't finished when he was here, and anyhow he is quite out of sympathy with my work at anytime... But it is better to have a friend than to write the loveliest song in the world". With ink annotations

Typescript of poem "To Wilfrid Gibson"

DP/MG/3/12
Item
c.1950s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Stanzas include "No Pious Dream", "The Tale of Toil" and "Deaths Many"

Articles and Excerpts 1950s

DP/MT/1/7
File
c.1950s - (c.1980s) 1957

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

"Advanced Programme for the Festival of Britain 1951"

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

"The Minute a Sum Series: Speed Tests in Mental Arithmetic: Junior Book 1" by H J Larcombe

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Published by Evans Brothers Limited, London

"The Kings' Armies Through the Ages in Dioramas" presented by Mr Otto Gottstein

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Published by The Royal United Service Museum, Whitehall, London

"A Map of Royal Britain"

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

"Attractive Inclusive Day Tours from London" published by British Railways

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Deposit relating to Vernon Leslie Morse, St Paul's College student 1959 - 1961 [d.2014]

D556
Series
c.1950s - 1962

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Morse, Nicholas

Postcards with exterior views of St Paul's College and an interior view of the Chapel

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photographs of St Paul's College RAG

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photographer unknown

Mounted photograph of interior of the Chapel

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photographer unknown

Printed copies of photographs of St Mary's College students

D615/3
Item
(c.2016) c.1950

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Possibly showing student committee members. Photographer unknown

Order of service and hymn sheet for the University of Bristol Institute of Education Ascension Day service

D295/27
Item
18 May 1950

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Held in Bath Abbey

Order of Confirmation programme

D295/28
Item
22 May 1950

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Programme for A Musical Concert by The Music Committee of St Paul's and St Mary's Colleges

D295/31
Item
18 June 1950

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Held at St Mary's Hall

Painting of Queen Elizabeth

ITN/5/14/38
Item
c.1950s

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

Agency: Unknown

Family portrait at Princess Anne's christening

ITN/5/14/42
Item
21 October 1950

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

A family occasion after the christening in Buckingham Palace of Princess Anne, daughter of the Queen (then Princess Elizabeth) and Prince Philip (then the Duke of Edinburgh). King George VI leans over to look at his grand daughter, held by her mother, with Queen Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) holding Prince Charles. On extreme left is the baby's great grandmother, Queen Mary

Broadcast Date: August 1972

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/

Agency: Press Association

Prince Philip standing behind George VI and Queen Elizabeth [the Queen Mother]

ITN/5/31/6
Item
c.1950

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

Obit

Agency: Pathé

The Duchess of Windsor

ITN/5/38/10
Item
c.1950s

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

Agency: Associated Press

"Doom to Bloom" Christmas greeting

DP/ET/5/3/3
Item
1950

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 3,750 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. This was one of 400 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender. With wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. The poem was collected in "The Clearing" published 1962 with the title "Our Doom to Bloom"

Printed copy of the wording of the will of Edward Thomas

DP/RW/1/5/1
Item
c.1950s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Ian MacAlister

DP/RW/5/12
File
1950

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Ian MacAlister [b.1878 d.1957] was a friend of Edward Thomas. Refers to letters of Edward Thomas now held at Battersea Public Library . Includes pencil annotations

Letter from Christopher Hassall to Michael Gibson

DP/MG/1/2/2
Item
c.1950s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Mentions a visit to 10 Downing Street which "may prove productive" and a form Wilfrid Wilson Gibson may receive relating to his finances that "may turn out to be of real importance to him"

Address book of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

DP/MG/3/9
Item
c.1950s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Contains the contact details for a wide range of contemporary literary figures and organisations as well as other family and friends

Photograph of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Geraldine Gibson and their daughter-in-law Dee

DP/MG/4/15
Item
c.1950

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annotated on reverse

Photographer unknown

Newspaper cuttings of letters from Gwen John [niece of John Williams] to the Editor regarding Edward Thomas

DP/MT/1/7/1
Item
c.1950s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes "Why He Left Ancient Monuments Commission"; "An Edward Thomas Memory"; "Edward Thomas Book for the Spitfire"; "Edward Thomas Memorial"; "How Edward Thomas Died"; "Edward Thomas: Some Swansea Reminiscences"

Typescript page discussing Edward Thomas's poem "Over the Hills"