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1 case containing glass slides of Italy, England, Greece and France, 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/3437/WDTR/3/1/4
Scope and Contents
In 1955 Lord Taylour photographs various locations in England, France, Italy, Sicily and Greece, including Hever Castle, Paris, Rome, Monreale, Siracusa, Athens, Venice, Stratford-on-Avon and Cambridge colleges. This is a varied album, comprising of images of ancient Greek and Roman architectural sites and artwork, castles, churches and cathedrals, views of streets, Renaissance art, and landscapes, as well slides of Cambridge colleges and a fantastic image of Laurence Olivier and Vivien...
Dates:
1955
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1939 Diary, 1939-01-21 - 1939-08-25
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HMTN 1/2
Scope and Contents
Subjects include a holiday in St. Moritz, Switzerland with Louise de Rosales, with comments on sightseeing, sketching, and museums; BBC broadcasts; Mary Agnes Hamilton's speeches for Labour candidates in the Ripon and Hallam by-elections; her departure from the London County Council; Labour Book Service committee meetings; the growing prospect of war; reflections on propaganda; discussions with George Ridley over internal politics in the Labour Party; a party hosted by Sybil Colefax with...
Dates:
1939-01-21 - 1939-08-25
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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[A Canadian soldier comes out of the line], 1916
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/3
Scope and Contents
135 x 190 mm.
Dates:
1916
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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"A Daughter's Tale": family correspondence, 1968, 1968-01 - 2000-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/7/63
Scope and Contents
Letters (copies and originals) between Clementine, Lady Churchill and MS on subjects including: MS's and CS's stays with the Royal Family at Sandringham, Norfolk, Jan 1968, and Balmoral [Scotland], Sept 1968; Clementine's view of Charles de Gaulle as an "old monster"; MS and CS moving into the British Embassy in Paris [France]; MS's duties as hostess; dining with [William] Averell Harriman [American Ambassador-at-Large] and his troubles over Vietnam.
Also includes: MS's...
Dates:
1968-01 - 2000-08
Conditions Governing Access:
Letters from the Queen and Prince Charles closed.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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[A sentry of the 11th Cheshire Regiment in a trench], 1916-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/20
Scope and Contents
195 x 145 mm. A soldier of 'A' Company, 11th Battalion, the Cheshire Regiment, keeps watch in a captured German trench near Ovillers-la-Boisselle on the Somme. He crouches on the rear slope of the trench while others rest.
Dates:
1916-07
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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[Abandoned trench], 1916 - 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/1
Scope and Contents
188 x 138 mm.
Dates:
1916 - 1918
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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Abstract of expenses incurred in the trigonometrical operations for uniting the coasts of France and England, 1821
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/21: 3-6
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The first part of collection is comprised of papers concerning the internal affairs of the Board of Longitude, including the granting of awards, accounts, minutes, committee papers, petitions and memorials, the loan of instruments, publications and the payment of staff. These are followed by a wide range of papers relating to the Board's work, concerning clocks, chronometers and other instruments; longitude and latitude; magnetic variation; schemes and inventions; tables; pendulum...
Dates:
1821
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Account of a journey to France, 1884
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAN I/6/2
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Political and personal correspondence and other papers.
CHAN 1, contains mainly papers of Hon Alfred Lyttelton and Dame Edith Lyttelton, with a smaller quantity of material of Oliver Lyttelton
CHAN II, consist mainly of papers of Oliver Lyttelton, with a smaller quantity of papers of Alfred and Edith Lyttelton
Dates:
1884
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Account of a trip to Calais, 1940-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 7/1
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, official papers, lectures, articles, broadcasts and photographs
Also including papers of Commander John Somerville about his father, 1950-91
Dates:
1940-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Account of visit to France, particularly Lourdes, and Spain with Katharine [Asquith], 1933-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DIAC 2/1/1
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Lady Diana's detailed travel diaries, many of which consist of copies of letters to her friend Conrad Russell and her son, John Julius, later arranged in diary form. Several of the diaries have both manuscript versions, and typed transcripts with additional material.
Dates:
1933-06
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Admiralty printed papers: uncovered prints, 1905 - 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FISR 8/15
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: renewal of the Anglo-Japanese alliance; the balance of naval power in the Far East; the transfer of Gibraltar from the War Office to the Admiralty; defence of naval and commercial harbours; strategic aspects of the naval building programme; engineer officers; officering in the Royal Marines; designs for new ships built 1906-7, and the employment of armed mercantile cruisers; French Navy Estimates.
Dates:
1905 - 1906
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Album, 1937 - 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 10/2/33
Scope and Contents
Includes: ELS visiting Paris, 1937, as leader of the Parliamentary Delegation to the Chambre des Deputies; sailing holiday in France, 1938, with Michael Spears ("Peti") and MS; visit to the Maginot Line with Winston Churchill, General Maurice Gamelin, head of the French army and his deputy General Alphonse Georges, 1939; with General Edouard-Jean Réquin, commander of the 4th Army, with MS and the Hadfield-Spears Mobile Hospital Unit, Feb 1940; ELS with General Charles de Gaulle in Dakar...
Dates:
1937 - 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Album, 1901 - 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BBB
Scope and Contents
An album containing 106 collodio-chloride prints, a few outside the dates printed on the cover. Most are professional work of high quality. Not all relate to India. There is one photograph of Cambridge in 1902 (24); ten taken in Ireland during 1902-03, presumably during Douglas's leave, including sporting scenes and a wedding; six photographs of Sri Lanka (65-70); four of Hong Kong (71-74) and four of Paris (75-78) dated 1907.A number of items have been inserted, including amateur...
Dates:
1901 - 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Album 1, 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042E
Scope and Contents
An album of small photographs, mostly stuck in but with 5 loose, and includes 3 enlargements. There are some captions, but without dates.
1-7 show Marseilles, 8-10 Italy, 11-186 Egypt and the Sudan especially the Hag Abdulla Pumping Station.
Dates:
1920
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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Album 1, 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304H
Scope and Contents
Measuring 220 x 285 mm, this album contains postcards, some of which are coloured. The majority portray Algiers (including 12 of the museum), Algerian people, Biskra, and the ruins of Timgad, Constantine, Tunis and Carthage.
Dates:
1922
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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Album 2, 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304I
Scope and Contents
Measuring 205 x 265 mm, this album contains 48 sepia photographs, each measuring 145 x 90 mm, two to a page, together with 22 loose prints of France and North Africa. The album prints have brief captions, and since they relate to Algiers, Biskra and a few of Tunis and Carthage, they may come from the same visit as Y304H.
Dates:
1922
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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Algiers and Paris, 1944-47, 1938 - 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DUFC 4
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to Duff Cooper's time as the British representative to the French Committee of National Liberation in Algiers, and then as British Ambassador to France.
Dates:
1938 - 1948
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Amiens Cathedral, 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/213
Scope and Contents
49 x 70 mm.
Dates:
1920
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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Amiens Cathedral [?1863], 1863
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011A/55
Scope and Contents
184 x 252 mm. View of the West end of the Cathedral.
Dates:
1863
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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Amiens Cathedral [?1863], 1863
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011A/56
Scope and Contents
149 x 211 mm. Showing carved detail, probably on a tomb, in the interior of the Cathedral.
Dates:
1863
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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Cambridge University Library
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Amiens Cathedral, May '20, 1920-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/4/13
Scope and Contents
50 x 70 mm. A view of the west façade of the cathedral.
Dates:
1920-05
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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Anglo French Committee, 1969-11 - 1970-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/7/47
Scope and Contents
Papers and correspondence on forming a committee to promote Franco-British co-operation, and meeting General Pierre Billotte, former French Minister of Defence, with correspondents including: [John] Selwyn Lloyd (4); General Billotte (8); Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, President of the Paneuropean Union (2); Maurice Druon; Eldon Griffiths (5); Raymond Gunter; [Alastair] Brian Walden; Charles Longbottom, Chairman of the Ariel Foundation; John Biggs-Davison; Sir Alexander Douglas-Home...
Dates:
1969-11 - 1970-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Annotated extracts from draft texts by Martin Meredith, and copies and lists of CS's official despatches and telegrams, 1984-08 - 1985-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 10/15
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: negotiations with Charles de Gaulle and Georges Pompidou, Presidents of France, over Britain's entry into Europe, 1969-71; the Soames Affair, 1969.
Dates:
1984-08 - 1985-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Anonymous journal of a tour from Lyons to Paris, 17 Oct. 1772-30 Nov. 1772
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2744.20
Scope and Contents
Inside front cover: sketch map of a part of Lyons. Inside back cover: notes in English and French of names and addresses.
Dates:
17 Oct. 1772-30 Nov. 1772
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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[A.P.G. Austin], 1902-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307I/3
Scope and Contents
80 x 60 mm. And another man standing in front of pile of tree branches in the Park.
Dates:
1902-05
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