Shaw, George Bernard, 1856-1950 (author and playwright)
Person
Biography
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), author and playwright
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
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Correspondence, 1976-11 - 1976-12
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 6/21
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Mary Tyler, thanking AFB for his recommendation of her book "My Years in an Indian Prison"; Kenneth Morgan, General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists, thanking AFB for his help in the campaign to revoke the deportation orders against two NUJ members; Richard Clements, Editor of Tribune, on funding for a special 40th anniversary issue; Lord Goronwy-Roberts, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on a request from members of the public to...
Dates:
1976-11 - 1976-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence between George Bernard Shaw and AFB , 1916 - 1950
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 7/2
Scope and Contents
All letters marked up for publication, with transcripts. Subjects include: Shaw's advice to AFB not to appeal against the ban on his play "The Devil's Business"; the work of the Fabian Society's Prison System Inquiry Committee and Shaw's preface to "English Prisons under Local Government", by Sidney and Beatrice Webb [see FEBR 7/3]; a planned lecture by Shaw at Lancaster, November 1920; Shaw's resignation from the Labour Research Department, 1921; a book by AFB on India and Shaw's view on...
Dates:
1916 - 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondents S, 1936-1963
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8905/10/S
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Hassall died intestate. His working papers were taken to the Royal Society of Literature by his assistant Gillian Paterson, who arranged and (presumably) listed them. They were bought by CUL from Bloomsbury Book Auctions in 1992. They were housed in paper box files 1 25 and cartons A D, as listed. They have now been re boxed, in 28 boxes and one packet, which has involved some reorganisation of the material and hence some rearrangement and re numbering of the original list.
Dates:
1936-1963
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).
Item
from Bernard Shaw, Ayot St. Lawrence, Welwyn, Herts, 7 Sep 1944
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8905/10/S/40
Scope and Contents
[postcard]
Dates:
7 Sep 1944
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).
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Galley proofs of Shaw's (unused) preface to "English Prisons under Local Government", by Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1921-12 - 1922-01
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 7/3
Scope and Contents
2 copies.
Dates:
1921-12 - 1922-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Letter from George Bernard Shaw, 17 Apr. 1912
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8990/464
Scope and Contents
Comments on poverty and giving money to charity; will not be a Steward or dine at Literary Fund dinner, but will become a Life Member
Dates:
17 Apr. 1912
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).
Item
Letter to 1st Baron Olivier, [3] Feb. [1933]
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9750/237
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Comprises single items or small collections, chiefly correspondence, donated to or purchased by Cambridge University Library, together with a number of items and fragments found in Cambridge University Library books and bindings.
Dates:
[3] Feb. [1933]
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
/
Miscellaneous accessions
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"Outside the Right": draft chapters, c 1961-63
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 7/4
Scope and Contents
Hand-written drafts of chapters from the second volume of AFB's memoirs, covering the years from 1939 to the early 1960s, and written as a sequel to "Inside the left; thirty years of platform, press, prison and Parliament" (1942). Subjects include: the Second World War; politics during the war; rejoining the Labour Party and AFB's re-election to Parliament, 1950; AFB's first visit to East Africa (Sudan, Uganda and Kenya), 1950; Jomo Kenyatta, President of the Kenya African Union; the 1950...
Dates:
c 1961-63
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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"Outside the Right": Shaw letters, c 1961-63
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 7/6
Scope and Contents
Typed copies of the letters from George Bernard Shaw to AFB, marked up for publication with AFB's commentary.
Dates:
c 1961-63
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Item
Photograph of George Bernard Shaw and Sir Robert Ho Tung, 4 July 1949 (photographic copy of original photograph)
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/L8/50
Scope and Contents
A photographic copy of a photograph of George Bernard Shaw and Sir Robert Ho Tung (former Compradore of Jardine, Matheson & Co.) taken at Shaw's home, Shaw Corner, Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire.
Dates:
4 July 1949 (photographic copy of original photograph)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson and Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf.
Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers.
Access is generally available to documents dated up to 1969. Access to some earlier records may be restricted under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.
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Photographs, 1905-1970
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9814/H/1
Scope and Contents
Folder 1 = 4 portrait photographs ca. 1930-1970 and 1 small one ca. 1905 Folder 2 = photograph, and a copy, of Hutt in a group with G. B. Shaw, marked 'Fabian group ?Date' (1920s) Folder 3 = photographs of Hutt with others and on ceremonial occasions.
Dates:
1905-1970
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).
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Proposed book on AFB's memories of George Bernard Shaw, 1936, 1961
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 7/1
Scope and Contents
Includes: letter from AFB to Victor Gollancz Limited, 1961, with his proposal for the book [? "Outside the Right"]; galley proof from the New Leader of a one-page play by Shaw dramatizing "the true story of Arthur Balfour and the Zionists", 1936, in response to the report of the Independent Labour Party's Special Commission on the situation in Palestine, which AFB intended to use in the proposed book; note of an ILP appeal for Jewish-Arab unity, 1939, which could be used as an appendix to...
Dates:
1936; 1961
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Additional filters:
- ARCHON code (for CUL materials)
- Archives and MSS Dept. (GBR/0012) 6
- Subject
- Prison reform 2
- Ghana (nation) 1
- Kenya (nation) 1
- Palestine 1
- Second World War (1939-1945) 1