British Broadcasting Corporation
Organization
Dates and places
1922: Founded as the British Broadcasting Company
Geographical areas
London, Greater London
Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:
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Papers and publications, 1913 - 1958
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 9/660
Scope and Contents
Papers and publications by H. Spencer Jones, including the following items:Undated manuscript notes on the origins of solar systems.Undated manuscript notes on astronomy for a publication of 50,000 words.Undated bibliographical references concerning observations of the magnitude of old novae, the origin and ancient records of novae and miscellaneous references.Typed dictionary entries on astronomers and astronomy, with manuscript corrections and additional...
Dates:
1913 - 1958
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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).
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Papers on planetary, lunar and radio astronomy, 1893 - 1940
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 8/87
Scope and Contents
Papers regarding planetary, lunar and radio astronomy, including the following material:Planetary and lunar tables, errors in the tables and papers on Drayton's theory of the Earth's processional rotation, 1893-1894.Lunar tables and errors in them and material on lunar tides and motions of the moon, 1924-1925, with correspondence with F.R. Field and proofs and newscuttings of his articles on the history of the Earth, earthquakes, the effects of the Sun and the planets on the...
Dates:
1893 - 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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).
Fonds
Papers on the B.B.C. British Empire series
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 32
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, programme plans and press cuttings.
Dates:
1969 - 1972
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
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Personal correspondence, 1945 - 1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 9/526
Scope and Contents
Personal correspondence of H. Spencer Jones concerning visits, awards, lectures, manuscripts, articles and book reviews, with related papers, including the following items:Correspondence with the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1948-1949.Correspondence with the National Physical Laboratory, the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, the B.B.C., the Royal Society, Sir David Brunt and Dr Bart Bok, 1949-1952.Correspondence with F. Hoyle, Dr R.A. Lyttleton,...
Dates:
1945 - 1952
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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).
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Personal correspondence, A-H, 1963 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 10/914
Scope and Contents
Personal correspondence of Sir Richard Woolley regarding invitations, awards, lectures, committees, dinners and other subjects. There is correspondence with magazines and publishers concerning books and articles; with tradesmen, banks and insurance companies; with various societies, universities, schools, observatories and other institutions; and with various individuals. The correspondents include Dr Atkinson; Professor Blaauw, Groningen; E.M. Burbidge; O.J. Eggen, Palomar; Dr Farrukh,...
Dates:
1963 - 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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).
Series
Radio programmes, 1980-1988
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9842/3
Scope and Contents
Files relating to the BBC Radio series written and presented by Mole.
Dates:
1980-1988
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Sub-Fonds
Second thoughts on aid, 1965
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 22/55
Scope and Contents
Two scripts from the B.B.C. series 'Second thoughts on aid'.
Dates:
1965
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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
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Commonwealth miscellanea
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'The Funeral of Baroness Thatcher', 2020-08-22
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MISC 115
Scope and Contents
British Broadcasting Corporation Transcript, St Paul's Cathedral
Dates:
2020-08-22
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Some material within the collection is closed to researchers.