| Reference number | Title | Date |
| PB/1/33/1/1 | Nobel Prize | 1948 |
| IM/GA/WS/2565 | Astbury, William Thomas | 1946 |
| RR/50/22 | Referee's report by William Lawrence Bragg, on a paper 'X-Ray studies of the structure of hair, wool, and related fibres. II.- the molecular structure and elastic properties of hair keratin' by William Thomas Astbury and H J Woods | August 1933 |
| RR/67/270 | Referee's report by William Thomas Astbury, on a paper 'The fine structure of phloem fibres I. Untreated and swollen hemp' by B C Kundu and Reginald Dawson Preston | October 1939 |
| RR/52/24 | Referee's report by Robert Howson Pickard, on a paper 'X-ray studies of the structure of hair, wool, and related fibres - III—The configuration of the keratin molecule and its orientation in the biological cell' by William Thomas Astbury and Wayne A Sisson | March 1935 |
| RR/52/23 | Referee's report by Charles Glover Barkla, on a paper 'X-ray studies of the structure of hair, wool, and related fibres - III—The configuration of the keratin molecule and its orientation in the biological cell' by William Thomas Astbury and Wayne A Sisson | February 1935 |
| RR/60/49 | Referee's report by George Edward Briggs, on a paper 'The structure of the wall of the green alga Valonia ventricosa' by Reginald Dawson Preston and William Thomas Astbury | November 1936 |
| NLB/65/5 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs. [George] Routledge and Sons Ltd.; 68 Carter Lane, E.C.4. | 12 July 1923 |
| RR/67/6 | Letter from Felix Eugen Fritsch, on a paper 'The structure of the cell wall in some species of the filamentous green alga Cladophora' by William Thomas Astbury and Reginald Dawson Preston to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 5 April 1940 |
| RR/67/271 | Second referee's report by William Thomas Astbury, on a paper 'The fine structure of phloem fibres I. Untreated and swollen hemp' by B C Kundu and Reginald Dawson Preston | 25 June 1940 |
| RR/67/341 | Referee's report by William Thomas Astbury, on a paper 'The fine structure of phloem fibres II, Untreated and swollen jute' by Reginald Dawson Preston | 1940 |
| RR/69/317 | Referee's report by William Thomas Astbury, on a paper 'Structure and thermal properties associated with some hydrogen bonds in crystals VII. Behaviour of KH2PO4 and KH2A sO4 on cooling' by Alfred Rene Jean Paul Ubbelohde and Ida Woodward | 1946 |
| RR/69/215 | Referee's report by William Thomas Astbury, on a paper 'Divergent-beam X-ray photography of crystals' by Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale | 1945 |
| RR/70/38 | Referee's report by William Thomas Astbury, on a paper 'An X-ray study of horse methaemoglobin. I' by Joy Boyes-Watson, Edna Davidson and Max Ferdinand Perutz | 1947 |
| RR/68/511 | Referee's report by William Thomas Astbury, on a paper 'Structure and thermal properties of crystals, VI. The role of hydrogen bonds in Rochelle salt' by Alfred Rene Jean Paul Ubbelohde and Ida Woodward | [1944] |
| RR/69/53 | Referee's report by William Thomas Astbury, on a paper 'The crystal structure of two polymides ('nylons') by Charles William Bunn and E V Garner | 1946 |
| RR/71/235 | Referee's report by William Edward Astbury, on a paper 'Shape and molecular orientation in lepidopteran scales' by L E R Picken | 1948 |
| RR/30/6 | Referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'Tabulated data for the examination of the 230 space-groups by homogeneous X-rays' by William Thomas Astbury and Kathleen Yardley | [1924] |
| RR/71/231 | Referee's report by William Thomas Astbury, on a paper 'An X-ray study of horse methaemoglobin. II' by Max Ferdinand Perutz | 1948 |
| RR/72/169 | Referee's report by William Thomas Astbury, on a paper 'The crystal structure of horse met-myoglobin. I. General features: the arrangement of the poly-peptide chains' by John Cowdery Kendrew | 1949 |
| NLB/69/230 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to E. E. Prue Esq., East Grinstead, Sussex | 10 February 1926 |
| NLB/64/823 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh | 26 June 1923 |
| NLB/66/220 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh. | 18 March 1924 |
| NLB/66/255 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh | 27 March 1924 |
| EC/1940/02 | Astbury, William Thomas: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/66/168 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS | 6 March 1924 |
| RR/67/4 | Referee's report by Albert Charles Chibnall, on a paper 'X-ray studies of the molecular structure of myosin' by William Thomas Astbury and Sylvia Dickinson | June 1940 |
| RR/71/165 | Referee's report by William Thomas Astbury, on a paper 'A comparative X-ray study of foetal and adult sheep haemoglobins' by John Cowdery Kendrew and Max Ferdinand Perutz | [1948] |
| RR/67/5 | Referee's report by Felix Eugen Fritsch, on a paper 'The structure of the cell wall in some species of the filamentous green alga Cladophora' by William Thomas Astbury and Reginald Dawson Preston | March 1940 |
| RR/30/7 | Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Tabulated data for the examination of the 230 space-groups by homogeneous X-rays' by William Thomas Astbury and Kathleen Yardley | [March 1924] |
| RR/67/276 | Referee's report by William Thomas Astbury, on a paper 'Structure and molecular anisotropy of sorbic acid, CH3 . CH : CH . CH : CH . COOH' by Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale, John Monteath Robertson and Ida Woodward | 1940 |
| RR/73/88 | Referee's report by William Thomas Astbury, on a paper 'Polypeptide chain configurations in crystalline proteins' by William Lawrence Bragg, John Cowdery Kendrew and Max Ferdinand Perutz | 25 May 1950 |
| RR/73/99 | Referee's report by William Thomas Astbury, on a paper 'The structure of synthetic polypeptides. II. Investigation with polarised infra-red spectroscopy' by E J Ambrose and A Elliott | 5 July 1950 |
| RR/73/98 | Referee's report by William Thomas Astbury, on a paper 'The structure of synthetic polypeptides. I. X-ray investigation' by Clement Henry Bamford, W E Hanby and F Happey | 5 July 1950 |
| RR/73/97 | Letter from William Thomas Astbury, on two papers by Clement Henry Bamford, W E Hanby and F Happey, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society [D C Martin] | 5 July 1950 |
| RR/75/275 | Referee's report by William Thomas Astbury, on a paper 'The moisture relations of textile fibres at high humidities' by D K Ashpole | 4 November 1951 |
| RR/77/42 | Referee's report by William Thomas Astbury, on a paper 'The structure of haemoglobin' by William Lawrence Bragg and Max Ferdinand Perutz | 17 March 1952 |
| RR/75/283 | Referee's report by William Thomas Astbury, on a paper 'The effect of the temperature of preparation on the mechanical properties and structure of gelatine films' by E Bradbury and C Martin | 24 November 1951 |
| RR/76/36 | Letter from William Thomas Astbury, on a paper 'Basic proteins of cell nuclei' by Edgar Stedman and Ellen Stedman, to D C Martin | 4 June 1951 |