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Catalogue
- Files marked: Correspondence DW: Philip Ziegler 1976; Press cuttings; Copies of all M-O directives; Correspondence with former Mass-Observers; Miscellaneous correspondence and notes; Address list of possible observers; Tracing and acquiring material - correspondence and extracts; assorted correspondence in reply to original letter. Copy of Jubilee Royal (a history of royal jubilees and a review of commemorative items.
- Observers' responses to Jubilee directive A - Pi (female) with printed material.
- Observers' responses to Jubilee directive Py - S (female) with printed material.
- Observers' responses to Jubilee directive T - W (female) with printed material and scrapbooks.
- Observers' responses to Jubilee directive (male) with printed material.
- Street party descriptions from male and female volunteers.
- Jubilee poems (contributions to a Michael Aspel programme on Capital Radio).
- Children's thoughts on the role of the Queen. Eye-witness reports of the procession.
- Newspaper cuttings - envelopes marked: Royalty 1976-77; Jokes and humour; Rival celebrations; The Queen; Prince Andrew; Princess Anne; Princess Margaret; Fashion 1952-77; Queen's visits; Queen and Prince Philip in New Zealand; Queen in Australia; Prince Edward/Duke of Kent/ Duke and Duchess of Gloucester; Scotland; Monarchy and racialism; Local celebrations/street parties etc.
- Copies of national newspapers Saturday, June 4th to Wednesday, June 8th 1977.
- Newspaper cuttings - envelopes marked: Britain in Jubilee year; Prince Charles; Official preparations; Duke of Edinburgh; Editorials on the monarchy; Controversies; Commemorative gestures/occasions; Radio and TV/books.
- Programme for Queen's Birthday Parade 1960.
Silver Jubilee - envelope marked Advertisement material, and Shredded Wheat packet. Newspaper cuttings - envelopes marked: Newspaper and magazine cuttings Feb-Mar, Apr-Jun, May-Jun, May plus advertising material.
Copies of: Sunday Times for May 8th 1960 marked Wedding (Princess Margaret); The Economist May 7th 1960, Sunday Times magazine January 30th 1977 (main feature on 1952), Observer magazine February 6th 1977 (silver jubilee souvenir issue). - Two envelopes marked: Jubilee cuttings - Scottish national press.
Pages 1 and 2 of Daily Mail (Scotland edition) for March 14th 1977 (headline - Banner Hits The Queen). - Three envelopes marked: Jubilee cuttings from Scottish national press.
- Envelopes marked: Jubilee cuttings - Scotland (regions), from Stornoway, from Campbeltown, local Scottish newspapers (north east).
- Envelopes marked: Jubilee cuttings - London area, Oxford (three), Herts.
- Envelopes marked: Jubilee cuttings - Kent & 小蓝视频 Courier, Kentish Times, 小蓝视频 Express, Brighton & Hove Evening Argus, from Forest of Dean, Surrey.
- Silver Jubilee cuttings book from Clyffe Pypard, Wiltshire.
Envelopes marked: Jubilee cuttings - Wiltshire, Cornwall, 'Bristol, Bath, Avon', Bath.
Three plastic bags with jubilee cuttings from Bath & West Evening Chronicle.
Silver Jubilee issue of 'Evening Advertiser and Wiltshire Herald and Gazette'. - Envelopes marked: Jubilee cuttings - Norfolk, Huntingdon.
- Envelopes marked: Jubilee cuttings - Staffordshire (three).
- Envelopes marked: Jubilee cuttings - Yorkshire, 'Newark, Lincoln, Mansfield, Notts', Northumberland (four).
- Envelope marked: Jubilee cuttings - Miscellaneous.
Seven plastic bags of jubilee cuttings from national newspapers and magazines.
Copies of: New Statesman June 3rd 1977, Punch April 6th 1977 (Unofficial souvenir programme). - Silver Jubilee and Royalty (1952-79) memorabilia from the collection of Miss Herzberg.
Two folders of poll results on the Silver Jubilee from British Market Research Bureau Ltd.