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Includes Newspaper clippings from during and after the First World War and various booklets published during and after the Second World War.

Material includes Mark Hayler's armband and badges while working in France, newspapers distributed to those based there (in English) and a dairy of his travels through the Kiel Canal in Germany and the Soviet Union.

Includes Mark Hayler's involvement with the Friday Group.

Material concerning Wandsworth, Warwick, Wormwood Scrubs and Dartmoor Convicts Prison. Includes photographs, programmes for internally planned events and diary entries. Also includes papers about the history of the prisons, including newspaper cuttings and a Tourist brochure from the 1980s.

Material about the experiences of other Conscientious Objectors, mainly from the Croydon area, during the First World War. Includes a brochure about Guy Hayler printed in 1950.

Papers dealing with the personal experiences of Mark Hayler during the First World War from a mixture of sources including the Hayler family and Mark Hayler's own diaries.

Includes certificates of exams passed, notebooks, booklets, correspondence and photographs of students, staff and surrounding areas, including those taken during a revisit to Talgarth in July 1967.

Box 1
Early Life AR1122/1
Tribunal and Internment AR1122/2
Quaker Publications AR1122/7
Socialist Publications AR1122/8
Hayler Family AR1122/10

Box 2
Conscientious Objector Experiences AR1122/3
Life in the Prisons AR1122/4
Works and drafts AR1122/13

Box 3

Non Conscription Fellowship publications AR112/5
Anti war publications AR1122/6

Box 4

General Publications AR1122/9
Foreign Visits AR1122/11
Post First World War Publications AR1122/12

Box 5

12 audio tapes relating to recordings made by Imperial War Museum plus 1 tape recorded by Croydon Museum Service 28/11/1997 AR1122/13/2
2 reel to reel tapes, 1 unmarked, 1 ‘address delivered by Mark H.C. Hayler on Sunday Feb 7th 1971 at Croydon Friends meeting house AR1122/13/1
Box of glass negatives AR1122/10/3

A1064 - Register of local conscientious objectors compiled by Walter T. Hayler in 1916, brother to Mark Hayler is also stored within this collection

Collection of original diary notes, a cricket club card, correspondence with Lord Boothby and draft chapters. Some contained with a cardboard folder

Includes general information about Dartmoor, including stories and illustrations of the prison, literature, notes on other prisons (including one by Oscar Wilde) drafts, petitions and a congratulatory note to Woodrow Wilson's Rights of all nations and the socialist government of Russia.

Religious anti-war newspaper. Vol. 4-50. Observes other conflicts globally as well. Includes Newspaper clipping attached of the origins of conscientious objectors.

Programmes for internal entertainment at the Conscientious Objector's Work centre.
Ten Conscientious Objectors poem. A handwritten on blue paper in the style of '10 Little Indians'. Anonymous author. Appears to be in Mark H. C. Hayler's handwriting.
Extracts from Conscientious Objectors Autograph Album: Typed on brown paper. Includes quotes and poems from inmates of various prisons including Rugeley camp and wormwood shrubs.
Dartmoor National Parks tourist leaflet from 1988

2 copies of an undated publication by the Friends Service Committee. Full title The absolutists' objection to conscription, A Statement and an Appeal to the Conscience of the Nation.
Pamphlet about the experiences of Conscientious Objectors during World War One. Includes statistics of Conscientious Objectors including religion, occupation, homes, prisons and other. A letter by Leo Tolstoy has been included as way of an introduction.

Material includes booklets, Newspaper pages, talks for the National Security League (US) and a broadsheet on War labour. An article by H.G. Wells is included.

Includes leaflets, material on advice, ballot papers, forms and a template petition letter.

Self-published recollection of the Tribunal process. Includes references to a book written by Gilbert Foan, Art and Craft of Hairdressing, which can be accessed through the Archive Collections of the Museum of Croydon.

A sheet with list of event from Jul 1916 to Jul 1918.

Summarised notes of diary stored in a cardboard folder. Extracts for 1918 missing.

Includes correspondence sent from Aldershot and Dartmoor to various family memebrs including Guy and Elizabeth Hayler and Mark Hayler's future wife Daisy. Includes a letter about the 'Old Lags reunion' held in 1972 which Mark Hayler did not attend.

A book of a collection of articles about the relationship of Pacifism with various other themes.

Book about Conscientious Objection in the 20th century.