The category - Student administration and support records - comprises records relating to student admissions at all levels, graduate students, visiting senior scholars, student careers advice and welfare, together with the records of clubs and societies.

The archives comprise a full record of the Union’s activities from 1815 until the middle of the twentieth century. Thereafter the records are somewhat patchy. Major series of records include laws and regulations of the Society, annual reports, committee minute books, records of debates, suggestions books and photographs of speakers.

The records cover the full range of departmental operations, from delivery of the curriculum and examining to the building and expansion of departmental premises.

The category - Student administration and support records - comprises records relating to student admissions at all levels, graduate students, visiting senior scholars, student careers advice and welfare, together with the records of clubs and societies.

Comprise images of University officers, academic staff, students and buildings. Many images were used in the following publications, among others: University of Cambridge Annual Report; CAM: the Cambridge alumni magazine; Newsletter: the magazine for the staff of the University of Cambridge. Where known, photographer and publication is recorded in the list below. Dimensions are given in millimetres.

The category - Corporate management records - embraces records of the central decision-making bodies, University officers such as the Vice-Chancellor and the Registrary, and their administrative support. It includes constitutional records.

Assorted prints, some with modern copies, of i) Day Training College students and staff, taken annually, many with the names of those featured inscribed on frame and ii) lecture room.

The photographs are chiefly of members of the University.

The category - Student administration and support records - comprises records relating to student admissions at all levels, graduate students, visiting senior scholars, student careers advice and welfare, together with the records of clubs and societies.

The papers include correspondence, lists of Classics undergraduates, with biographical information, and research supervision and student timetables.

Registers of students are catalogued in this section; alongside records of student societies.

This section covers records of University prizes in English, student relations with the Faculty and Clubs and Societies.

Records of the administration and disbursement of educational prizes and scholarships are categorised here; as are those of clubs and societies.

Admissions records, student files and scholarship papers have been assigned to this section.

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.

The series comprises registers and record cards for undergraduate and graduate students, recording academic progress, chiefly matriculation, University examinations and degrees.

The papers comprise a variety of operational records including governing body minutes and accounts; editorial material; student records; and subject files concerning conferences and relations with interested external bodies.