The archives comprise a wide range of operational records, covering the management and development of premises and grounds, garden planting, gardening advice within and without the University, visitors and Friends, accounts, bequests (including that by Reginald Cory) and staff, as well as papers concerning interaction with the Botany School and botanical research in general.

The archives comprise the records of internal governance, finance, building and equipment development and astronomical observation, together with several small assortments of personal papers of individuals associated with the University Observatory, its sister and successor bodies, such as G.B. Airy, H.F. Newall and R.O. Redman.

The archives comprise a wide range of operational records, covering the management and development of premises and grounds, garden planting, gardening advice within and without the University, visitors and Friends, accounts, bequests (including that by Reginald Cory) and staff, as well as papers concerning interaction with the Botany School and botanical research in general.

These are flat (or rolled) plans as distinct from those folded and boxed with other documents relating to the relevant building.

The records cover the full range of operations.

The records cover the full range of operations.

The records relate chiefly to the managing of resources; that is, funding for equipment, buildings and staff. A smaller quantity of records cover faculty/departmental structure and organisation, academic focus and research projects.

These are chiefly the financial and production records of the printing operation.

Comprise: outstanding accounts for printing; stock in hand; stock of white paper; works in progress; plant (additions to); outstanding accounts, etc.; including Bible and Prayer Book Stock; foundry, machine and press room stock.

Balance sheets for the Vice-Chancellor, Syndics, and Printers, some of them accompanied by tabular statements and trial balances, and/or balance sheets, etc., for the warehouse.

Accounts were held with Messrs. John Mortlock and Company. The bank was taken over by Barclays in the 1890s.

These are chiefly the financial and production records of the printing operation.

The category - Assets records - comprises records relating to property and personnel. Accounting material is in this category, alongside records of endowments, charitable trusts, buildings and employees.

The Financial Board records comprise historic deeds of University property, an extensive subject file sequence, letter books and officers' working papers.

In this category is a wide variety of material, some originating from the printing house, some from the University.
As the new Press Archive catalogue is not yet complete, please use the 'Former / Other Reference' to request these items.

The earliest records relate to Woodward's will, estates and the administration of his fossil collection. From the 1880s, administrative records of the burgeoning Department of Geology, its teaching, examining, and students, survive alongside papers for the lengthy project to build the Sedgwick Museum. The archives also include the papers of Professor T. McKenny Hughes, Woodwardian Professor 1873-1917.

Records in this section relate to the budgetary process, preparation of quinquennial needs statements and estimates.

The category - Assets records - comprises records relating to property and personnel. Accounting material is in this category, alongside records of endowments, charitable trusts, buildings and employees.

These are chiefly the financial and production records of the printing operation.

These are chiefly the financial and production records of the printing operation.

The records comprise minutes, accounts, correspondence, trustees' papers and administrative material, particularly relating to the governance of the John Humphrey Plummer Foundation in the 1980s and 1990s. There is also some earlier material relating to Plummer's properties and the establishment of the trust.