The material includes: Certificates for educational and musical achievement awarded to Charles Barnard and Gladys M. Barnard; correspondence with French pen-friends, 1914-1919; printed items relating to the First World war, including two copies of ‘The truth about German atrocities’, 1915; a letter of appointment as a shorthand typist for the Railway Passengers Assurance Company to Constance Barnard, 1916; assorted newspaper cuttings; royal memorabilia, including prayer cards for Queen Victoria’s 50th jubilee, 1887, a commemorative banner for the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, 1902, and jubilee and coronation programmes; a letter from Victoria Mary (Princess Mary of Teck, 1867–1953, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and the British dominions beyond the seas, and Empress of India, consort of George V), to Colonel Taylor, 1893; printed items relating to the Second World War, including ‘Beating the invader: a message from the Prime Minister’; papers of Mrs J. Lynn relating to the demobilisation of the St Pancras Civil Defence (General) Service, 1945; miscellaneous trade receipts, bill and estimate, mostly from London, 1869-1937; leaflet relating to the 900th anniversary of St Nicholas Church, Haxey, 1991; and miscellaneous other items.