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Records of the Cambridge University Amateur Boxing Club, 1901 - 2007

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.55

Scope and Contents

Records of the Cambridge University Amateur Boxing Club, including committee meeting minutes, correspondence, details of fixtures, newspaper reports, and photographs.

Dates

  • Creation: 1901 - 2007

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Management Group:

The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Biographical / Historical

The club was established in 1896. The main event in the club's calendar is the Varsity match. Further information about the club's activities is on its website at: http://www.cuabc.org.

Extent

0.015 cubic metre(s) (11 folders) : paper

5 photographic print(s)

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

One file, previous SOC.55.1, now SOC.55/2/4, was transferred to the University Archives from the Manuscripts Department on 9 October 2007. It had been presented by Dr F.W. Ratcliffe, University Librarian, to the Manuscripts Department on 24 November 1994 and had been given the classmark Ms.Add.9274. Two further transfers of material formerly in the possession of Dr Jack Miller, Fellow of Churchill College, were made on 23 August and 15 November 2023 by Churchill College Archives.

Related Materials

See also a 1940 surrender of a lease at classmark CUOTC 10/26. Further printed records are in the Rare Books Department, Cambridge University Library (classmark: Cambridge Papers J 2310).

General

The online catalogue entry was completed in October 2007. It was updated in October 2024.

Originator(s)

Cambridge University Amateur Boxing Club

Finding aid date

2007-10-08 14:59:11+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

Contact:
Cambridge University Library
West Road
Cambridge CB3 9DR United Kingdom