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Fonds
1st Baron Acton: papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9616
Dates:
c.1850-1890
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
1st Duke of Buckingham: household accounts
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9599
Scope and Contents
Volume with much older documents pasted in. Includes wax seal.
Dates:
1616
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Fonds
1st Lord Acton: Historical notes and transcripts
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8260
Scope and Contents
Includes:Bundles of bibliographic reference cardsBundles of notes, including one marked 'heresies'Volume 'Letters and Essays in prose and verse' by Richard Sharp (1759-1835) [Q.23.9 in Rare Books], missing coverPamphlet 'Lord Acton on Nationality and Socialism, two lectures given in August 1949 at the Oxford University tutorial classes committee summer school at Lady Margaret Hall with an appendix on Burke based on the Acton Manuscripts' by G. E. Fasnacht, 1949...
Dates:
1800 (19th century)
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Fonds
1st Lord Acton: Notes and lectures
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9706
Scope and Contents
1 folder contains flashcards, the rest contain pages removed from notebooks. The latter are paginated, and some have headings in Roman numerals, assumedly dividing different lectures. Accompanying titles include 'The Tennis Court Oath', 'Napoleon' and 'Madame Roland'.
Dates:
1890-1899 (1890s)
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
1st Lord Acton: Notes for intended chapter I of ''Cambridge Modern History''
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8261
Scope and Contents
Includes bibliographic references
Dates:
1800 (19th century)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
2 photographs of Newfoundland inserted in 'The History of Newfoundland and Labrador, 1754-1783', M.A. Thesis by Gordon O. Rothney (1934)
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3061C
Scope and Contents
Photographer unknown. The prints form part of the thesis (RCMS 236) and are stored with it.
Dates:
1934
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
2 photographs taken at the opening of the second House of Assembly of Papua and New Guinea
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3084E
Scope and Contents
Two loose black and white prints with typewritten captions attached to reverse, taken by W Pedersen for the Australian News and Information Bureau.
Dates:
1968
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
3rd Baron Gorell : Letters to him
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9439
Scope and Contents
Letters to him: [1] about literature (Society of Authors and other business); [2] on politics. [1] [1-2] LADY CYNTHIA ASQUITH (1927); [3-7] JOHN BEITH (1936-37); [8-9] EDMUND BENTLEY (1931); [10] EDMUND BLUNDEN (1932); [11-17] SIR ARTHUR BRYANT (1935); [18-22] 1ST BARON TWEEDSMUIR (JOHN BUCHAN) (1921-33); [23] G.K. CHESTERTON (1933); [24-32] WALTER DE LA MARE (1933-55); [33] T.S. ELIOT (1952); [34] ANTHONY HOPE HAW- KINS (1930); [35] SIR OSBERT LANCASTER (1952); [36] MARIE BELLOC LOWNDES...
Dates:
1913-1957 (circa)
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
[5 photographs of Auckland. c.1897]
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089P
Scope and Contents
Loose photographs, some captioned, measuring approximately 210 x 150 mm, and showing views of Auckland and Waitemata Harbour.
Dates:
1897
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
7:84 (England) Theatre Company: Records and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS SEVEN84
Scope and Contents
The papers include unpublished playscripts by John McGrath, Ewan MacColl, Steve Gooch, Adrian Mitchell and others. There are numerous production files, records relating to McGrath's early career, correspondence with other theatre and television companies, scrapbooks and miscellaneous correspondence, together with articles and interviews regarding the Company, and J.P. Simond, 'Ethique et Esthetique dans le Theatre de John McGrath', a 1994 Metz PhD thesis (2 volumes). The collection also...
Dates:
1966-1985
Conditions Governing Access:
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File
A Book of Christian Prayers
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4132
Scope and Contents
Private prayers for several occasions alternated with extracts from the Psalms, and with an extract from the Litany. Inside the front cover is the crest of Samuel Sandars.
Dates:
1590 (Circa.)
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Cambridge University Library
File
A Breviate of the Spanish Government in Flanders from the Beginning to this present
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4179
Dates:
1576-1598
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
A brief historical memoir of Delhi and guide to points of interest together with the official programme in detail of the Imperial Coronation Durbar of 1911
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022JJJJ
Scope and Contents
Leather-bound booklet, measuring 6¾ x 8 inches, of 153 pages, illustrated by photographs stuck in. The majority of the photographs are by Johnston and Hoffman.
Dates:
1911
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
A catalogue of the earlier papers in the 1st vol. of Dr. W. Webb's Cambridge Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2583
Scope and Contents
fo. 1v: [in hand of Charles Sayle] 'By a resolution of the Library Syndicate, 7 June 1893, "Leave was given to Mr J[ohn] W[illis] Clark to borrow one volume at a time of the Webb Collection of University Papers, and the Librarian was requested to see that the separate pieces were stamped and numbered before they were taken out of the Library." Mr A. Rogers states that this was done, 7 Nov. 1919.'
Dates:
1880 (Circa)
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Fonds
A collection of Photographs illustrative of the Railway System of New South Wales 1887
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086E
Scope and Contents
A collection of albumen prints by an unknown photographer. The prints were originally in an album with a printed title page reading 'Charles Potter, Government Printer, presented by C.A. Goodchap, Commissioner of Railways'. Some of the pages have decorative designs round the mount, but only a few have captions, and the following details have been derived from various sources. Plates 21-25 have not been researched in the same detail as plates 1-24 and, unless otherwise stated, they are...
Dates:
1887
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Collection
A collection of Planning Reports, etc. for Great Britain and Ireland
Collection
Reference Code: GBR/3296/Maps/Maps.PL.02
Scope and Contents
Mostly planning documents based on strategies imposed on county and district councils in relation to post war planning legislation. Includes some documents on topics such as : housing land supply, mineral resources, oilfields, transport, rail, airfields. Mostly date from 1970 to the present day and most, but not all, were acquired on Legal Deposit. Structure plans and their associated maps are normally listed together and form a group of items listed under a single classmark. Where maps are...
Dates:
1913 - 2020
Conditions Governing Access:
This item or collection is available for consultation by researchers in the Map Room at Cambridge University Library. Contact details and Map Room opening hours can be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/maps/map-department-contact-details. Anyone wishing to use the collection must first acquire a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket, see https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/using-library/your-library-membership
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
A collection of verses and translations transcribed by Mary Anne Bacon
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6251
Scope and Contents
Authors include Sir Henry Purcell, George Handel, Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron.
Dates:
1850 (Circa)
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Fonds
A course of Botanical lectures explaining the principles of vegitation
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9674
Scope and Contents
By Richard Bradley F.R.S., Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge. Volume covers 12 lecutres:Lecture 1: Of Earth and its use in Vegetation and of particular soylesLecture 2: Of the use of Water (as it relates to the improvement of land in the education and nourishment of vegetables with an account of the most rational and practicable methods of Raining or forcing it to such parts where it is wanted)Lecture 3: Of such lands as are overflowed on Lye continually...
Dates:
1724-1732 (Circa)
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File
A Description of Scotland and other papers
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5124
Scope and Contents
'The description of Scotland and the King's entertainment there', 8 folios. It begins: 'First for the country I must confesse...', and ends: '...a tower as Edenborough in Lowsir Scotland'. The papers include: (fo. 2) [Thomas Scott], 'Vox Populi', 1620; (fo. 8v) verses, 'Ther's proclamation sent, Great Brittaine round about'.
Dates:
1650 (Circa)
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Fonds
A. G. Church: Political papers and correspondence
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9560
Dates:
1930-1949 (1930's to 1940's)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Management Group
A general state of the question laid before the referees . . . concerning the rights and privileges of a Gillingham Fellow in Emmanuel College
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/Pet.Misc.8
Scope and Contents
The referees were John Green, D.D., Master of Corpus Christi, Hugh Thomas, D.D., Master of Christ's and John Taylor, LL.D., late fellow of St John's [the translator of Demosthenes, at this time Archdeacon of Buckingham].Gordon's case is that the Master and Fellows having accepted the bequest of Richard Gillingham [B.A. of Emmanuel, 1691/2, M.A. 1695, died 1721] of £1600 to provide for a fellow who was to enjoy the same privileges, benefits and advantages as foundation fellows; and having...
Dates:
1755-11-14
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library
Fonds
'A grave without a cross'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 185
Scope and Contents
A translation by Trevor Jaggar from the Kiswahili of the 1990 reprint of Kareithi's novel, with a translator's note and preface, 54 pages. In his note Jaggar explains that his purpose in translating Karethi's work was 'to enable British and other readers of English to learn something of what the Mau Mau War felt like to a Kikuyu striving for the independence of Kenya from British colonial rule'.
Dates:
2000
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
A journey in French West Africa in 1901
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 145
Scope and Contents
An account of a journey undertaken by White, then 23, and two companions, from Dakar through St Louis, Kayes (on Mungo Park's route to the Niger), and Djéné on the Bani River, arriving finally at Bobodiulasso, 15 pages. There are references to the activities of Samori and comments on colonial policy. The account is accompanied by a covering letter from White to the Secretary of the Royal Empire Society, 12 July 1948, and the Secretary's reply, 21 July 1948.
Dates:
1948
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Fonds
A journey to Asia and Africa
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011MMM-XXX
Scope and Contents
A collection of albums, containing captioned black and white photographs, taken by one, or more, people travelling in the same group. The albums form a photographic account of a six-month long touring holiday.Of the albums, the first ten are all of the same style and manufacture and each has an embossed title on the front. They follow the journey chronologically. The remaining two contain a smaller selection of images from the same journey, again in chronological order. They are...
Dates:
1935-09 - 1936-03
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
A Kallender of the Pelles of Recept and Exitus and Bundells of Privie Seales uppon the same from the firste yeare of Edward the firste untill this present
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3304
Scope and Contents
The calendar continues to 43 Eliz. It is arranged in columns showing rolls and bundles existing for each regnal year. After 19 Edw. IV no further issue olls are recorded until 39 Eliz. No privy seal bundle is recorded after 22 Henry VIII. Attached to fo. 13 is a torn sheet with rough notes in 17th cent. hand of 'Pells of Issues wanting' for the reigns of the first two Stuarts.
Dates:
1601 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library