Committee minutes of the Northumberland Handicrafts Guild held in the School of Art, Armstrong College. Included are minutes of the annual meeting usually held in the months of November or December. There is also various correspondence relating to committee matters including events, lectures and exhibitions; instructions for teachers and reports from various sub-committees.

Committee minutes of the Northumberland Handicrafts Guild. Included is correspondence relating to committee matters; exhibition information including competitions and wartime exhibitions; instructions for guidance of teachers of Guild classes; details of an informal meeting of the ladies of the committee and teachers and other guild information.

Committee on Qualifications of Planners. Report on the new position and functions of the planners on 1947 Act about planning.

The papers of Jack Common (1900-1968) are a rich resource for those interested in the history of this talented Tyneside-born writer. They include published and unpublished typescripts and manuscripts of his work, including Kiddar's Luck, his fictionalised childhood autobiography, published in 1951. There are also Common's diaries, notebooks, research notes, news cuttings, correspondence and photographs.

The papers also include copies of articles and draft articles for his contribution to the socialist journals The Adelphi and New Britain. Correspondence to Jack Common includes letters from his friends George Orwell, E.M. Forster, Dorothy and Max Plowman, Richard and John Middleton Murry, Thomas McCullough and Connie Common, Jack's second wife. There is also correspondence from various publishers as well as from the BBC and Associated British Picture Corporation.

Features poems and quotations from literature.

A collection of drawing image slides for
Commonwealth Trust Offices. The file consists
of 15 35mm slides in 4 wallets.

A collection of photograph image slides for
Commonwealth Trust Offices. The file consists
of 3 35mm slides in 1 wallet.

A collection of photograph image slides for
Commonwealth Trust Offices. The file consists
of 7 35mm slides in 2 wallets.