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Scripts and lyrics, 1885 - 2019

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/FOOT 2/1

Scope and Contents

These are the surviving scripts and lyrics of the traditional annual performance in June, the May Week revue, as well as productions of more recent origin - the Spring revue and the pantomime - and Smokers. For the period from the 1960s onwards, the names of main writers only where known are recorded.

Dates

  • Creation: 1885 - 2019

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).

Extent

71 envelope(s) : paper, microform

Language of Materials

English

Related Materials

Running orders and list of performers at Smokers are filed in the Scrapbooks (catalogued as FOOT 3/1).

Related Materials

Further scripts for Revue sketches, 1936-9, are in the papers of G.H.W. Rylands at King's College Archive Centre (reference: GHWR 4/8-10).

Finding aid date

2004-03-30 13:56:00+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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