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Annan: The Papers of Noel Gilroy Annan
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/NGA
Scope and Contents
The collection includes notes and drafts of published writings, texts of speeches given to the House of Lords and to other institutions, reference notes, subject files, engagement diaries, and personal papers.
Dates:
1889 - 2001
Conditions Governing Access:
Some files are closed because they contain personal information. Most files which are marked as restricted access can be read with the written permission of the author. All other files may be consulted in the Archive Centre following the standard registration procedures.
File
Armorial
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4135
Scope and Contents
(fo. 1) Lords Justices and Lords Lieutenant of Ireland; (fo. 18) English nobility; (fo. 24v) 'Des Romischen Kunigs Ferdinandi Erblandische wappen'; (fo. 25) royal families and princes of Europe and the east; (fo. 40) cardinals; (fo. 44v) archibishops; (fo. 49v) bishops; (fo. 57) German nobility. There are occasional additions in 17th and 18th century hands. The drawing and colouring are crude. Many coats of arms are not coloured. On fo. 74v is 'And Die is cast John White' (18th century)....
Dates:
1605 (Circa.)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Articles from 'The Field'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 322
Scope and Contents
Ten volumes of cuttings from 'The field', including a few articles from other publications, and loose cuttings concerning the Malay Peninsula. The volumes concern countries throughout the world, but in particular Australia, British East Africa (Kenya), Canada, India, New Zealand, Nigeria, Rhodesia, South Africa, Uganda, United States and the West Indies. The articles cover a wide range of subjects, including administration, agriculture, the British Empire, climate, colonisation,...
Dates:
1888 - 1921
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Diary of a Journey through Germany
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6651
Scope and Contents
Diary of a journey through Germany, 8-29 September [1835], apparently in Baly's hand, 122 folios. On fo. 2 is an explanatory note in the hand of the donor. Running from the end of the volume are notes on the geological formations in the districts visited and financial accounts for travel expenses.
Dates:
1835
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Drake: the papers of Montague Garrard Drake
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/1058/DRA
Scope and Contents
Pembroke holds five volumes and one draft volume of Montague Garrard Drake’s travel diaries, written on paper with vellum limp binding and leather ties.
Dates:
1710 - 1712
Found in:
Pembroke College Library
Fonds
Edward Byles Cowell: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6406-6409
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, sermons, lectures, articles and other miscellaneous papers.
Dates:
1810-1903
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Harriet Susan Miller: Continental Tour Journal
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6230
Scope and Contents
Journal by Harriet Miller of tours on the continent with her husband, Professor W.H. Miller, 1856 and later.
Dates:
1856 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
I.C. Redwood Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042E-J
Scope and Contents
A collection of albums containing prints, in addition to a further 4 albums of photographs and postcards of World War I not listed here. The majority of the photographs are stuck in the albums, but there are also 69 loose ones. Many of these are Redwood's own enlargements from his smaller photographs, and have been removed from passe-partout framing and, in most cases, inserted in the album containing the smaller versions. There are some captions, but these vary in detail and it has been...
Dates:
1891 - 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
John Frederick Stanford: Commentary on the Custom of Judicial Combat between Man and Wife in Wurtzburg
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6573.1
Scope and Contents
'Curious Custom of Judicial Combat between Man and Wife according to Statutes of the ancient City of Wurtzburg', a commentary to the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 6 December 1841, by J.F. Stanford, 10 folios. On folios 6 and 7 are nine drawings. Folios 8-10 are blank, as is the verso. On fo. 1v is '49' (circled). The manuscript is in a box with MS.Add.6573/2.
Dates:
1841
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Letters relating chiefly to the Reformation in Germany
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.712
Scope and Contents
Includes 81 letters from the archives of the Baumgärtner family of Nuremburg, the majority to Hieronymus Baumgärtner the elder (d. 1564). With one exception the letters are from those with surnames beginning M to W. Also including 28 letters of a miscellaneous character, about half being addressed to secular rulers or authorities, including members of the Lichtenberg family, and members of the ruling house of Saxony. Collection includes one printed item: Des XX Psalm Auslegung inn Reim ......
Dates:
1516-1746
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Metals Society
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/METL
Scope and Contents
British Intelligence Objectives Sub-committee and Combined Intelligence Objectives
Sub-committee reports on German and Japanese war industry.
Dates:
1939 - 1952
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
File
Michael Servetus and Theodor Ludwig Lau: theological works
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6903
Scope and Contents
M. Servetus, 'Libri Duo Dialogorum de septem Erroribus in Trinitate', printed at Hagenau, 1532. fo. 35: blank. fo. 39: Lau, 'Meditiationes de Deo, Mundo et Homine', printed at Frankfurt, 1717. fo. 66: blank. fo. 69: Lau, 'Meditationes seu Theses dubiae philosophico-theologicae eruditorum Disquisitioni Religionis cuiusvis et Nationis', printed at Freystad, 1719. fo. 84: blank. Servetus' work is presumably copied either from the original printing, or from the Regensburg, ?1721 reprint,...
Dates:
1730 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Newscuttings on Southern and East Africa
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 332
Scope and Contents
Four volumes of newscuttings, three relating to Southern and East Africa and one to the Native Question in South Africa, and loose cuttings on related subjects. Many of the articles concern the activities of the colonial powers in Africa, notably Great Britain, Germany, Spain and France.
Dates:
1883 - 1932
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Papers of J. H. Goodland
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9704
Scope and Contents
Includes notebooks and diaries, correspondence with family and friends, miscellaneous literary papers and items concerning JHG's time spent in the army security forces both in England and Germany during and after the War.
Dates:
1935-1974
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Sir Richard Colt Hoare: Journals of tours in Italy and Europe
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3545-3555
Scope and Contents
Journals and notebooks of Hoare's extensive European tours, mainly through Italy.
Dates:
1785-1791
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
The Papers of Agnes Headlam-Morley
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AGHM
Scope and Contents
Agnes Headlam-Morley's papers include: literary notes and drafts, mainly relating to her work on her father's memoir and later history of the Paris Peace Conference; a large amount of rough academic papers, including research and lecture notes; a series of notebooks on current affairs, particularly on Germany (especially the control of Berlin) and East-West relations at the height of the Cold War, including both AHM's own observations and extracts from the German and British press; and a...
Dates:
1915 - 1985
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Captain Godfrey Alexander French
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/GDFR
Scope and Contents
The papers cover Captain French's career from 1930, when he attended the R.N. Staff College at Greenwich, until his retirement in 1978.
Dates:
1914 - 1987
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Felix Deutsch
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNDT
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of: a translation of Deutsch's autobiography; copies of letters from Lili Deutsch to her brother Paul Kahn; copies of letters between Deutsch and his brother-in-law in the United States, the banker Otto Kahn and other members of their families on subjects including Allied and German war aims leading up to the First World War; copies of AEG publications on Deutsch.
Dates:
1896 - 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/PIRI
Scope and Contents
The papers include: papers relating to GPR's anthropological and other scientific work, including involvement in eugenics; papers relating to his political activities, including letters to and from the British Union of Fascists, mostly concerning his 1935 run for Parliament; and large number of documents related to GPR’s 18B detention and internment.
Dates:
1831 - 1999
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Group Captain Malcolm Christie
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHRS
Scope and Contents
The core of the collection consists of the series of reports by Christie and his manuscript notes, mainly in German, the reports of his informants and his letters to Vansittart. The papers of more general interest are Christie's notes of interviews with various notable Nazis, particularly Goering, information about the German resistance and German peace workers in 1939-1940. There are also large quantities of related press cuttings. The obvious gaps are in the records of Christie's relations...
Dates:
1928 - 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Harold Ingrams
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/IGMS
Scope and Contents
Papers mainly comprising official reports, minutes and correspondence about the British Control Commission in Germany, 1945-6.
Dates:
1943 - 1953
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Horace Finlayson
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/FLYN
Scope and Contents
Comprising diaries and correspondence
Dates:
1921 - 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of John Burns Hynd
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HYND
Scope and Contents
The collection includes material relating to Hynd's spell as Minister for Germany and Austria from 1945 to 1947 and his consequent life-long interest in Germany and in promoting good relations between Germany and Great Britain. There are several files of papers in the collection illustrating this aspect of his career as well as his involvement in other aspects of foreign relations.
Having started his career as a railway clerk in his home town of Perth, Hynd kept some of his early...
Dates:
1920 - 1986
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
One item within the collection (HYND 7/19/2, part 1 of 2) is currently closed for conservation reasons.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Lord Kilmuir
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KLMR
Scope and Contents
Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, speeches, articles, personal papers, press cuttings and photographs.
With press cuttings relating to his father, William Thompson Fyfe, 1906-7.
Dates:
1907 - 1967
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Professor Max Born
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BORN
Scope and Contents
Papers and correspondence of Professor Max Born, his wife and children, and material concerning their family history. Including photographs and artefacts.
Dates:
1811 - 2009
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre