A scrapbook curated by Annie Maude Cockcroft [AMC] primarily on her son John Douglas Cockcroft [JDC] and occassionally her other children.

Highlights include:

- wedding invitation addressed to Philip, Keith, and Leo Cockcroft [JDC’s siblings] to the marriage of Eunice Elizabeth Crabtree to JDC on 26th August 1925 (inside cover)

- photographs of JDC in military uniform, JDC’s home in Cambridge, and Cavendish Laboratory (opening pages)

- handwritten note (or transcription of article) listing people, including JDC, involved with the development of army radar in the War Office in 1945 (p.1)

- labelled photograph of apparatus used to split the atom (pp.5-6)

- newspaper cuttings on splitting of the atom (including from national and local newspapers), features on Cockcroft’s career [sometimes with annotations by AMC, p.16], and cartoons (pp.28, 42, 43); JDC's appointment as Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, April 1939 (opening pages) and as a Fellow at St John’s (p.9); JDC's presentation on ‘Universities: Ancient and Modern’ (p.10); Lionel F Cockcroft’s [JDC’s brother] success at winning City and Guilds of London Institute first prize for exam on the subject of ‘The economics of the cotton industry’ (p.11); Lord Rutherford's broadcast on splitting atom with annotation by AMC about how it was ‘totally unexpected’ and that 'his mother did not hear it’ (p.14)

- letter to the Editor of ‘Nature’ written by JDC and Ernest Walton (p.21)

- photograph of The Cavendish High Voltage Laboratory and staff in 1938 (p.27)

- newspaper cuttings on JDC’s presentation on his impressions of visiting Russia (pp.30-31) and Ludwig Mond Laboratory overseen by Professor Kapitza, with annotations by AMC on the lab's funding and crest (p.34)

- photographs of JDC, including as a baby, young boy (p.40) and as a young man, including in academic gown (p.43)

- newspaper cutting on JDC's election to the Royal Society (p.48); lecture by JDC on 'Transmutation of Elements' to Todmordern Workers’ Educational Association (p.50); presentation by JDC at Todmorden Secondary School (pp.52-3); Vale Academy Examination in 1861 with annotations by AMC about how her mother and aunt attended the school, and how her uncle later took over the school, when her and her brother attended it. (p.52); JDC's appointment as Director of the Mond Laboratory in 1935 (p.55); the production of a new radioactive substance from sodium for the first time (pp.58-63)

- letter of congratulations to AMC after JDC was elected to the Royal Society (p.64)

- handwritten transcriptions of extracts from articles on JDC’s research of an article from ‘The Nineteenth Century’ on splitting the atom (pp.64-69)

- photographs of JDC with his brothers and in military uniform (p.70)

Items saved into a Walker’s Century and Newscutting Book, purchased from Harry Johnson and Nephew, Stationers and Booksellers in 3 St Andrew’s Street, Cambridge.

Loose inserts include booklet for 'Presentation of the Honorary Freedom of the Borough [Todmordern] to JDC on 5th October 1946; menu for dinner hosted by The Municipal College of Technology of Manchester on 30th November 1946; letter from AMC to JDC from 24th July 1946, where she writes about sending him this scrapbook.