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Fonds
Historical and genealogical poems
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3084
Scope and Contents
Three hands. Includes king lists for Ulster, Munster, and Leinster. Most of the poems have been published. Two scribes appear to have worked together on the main text, the first being responsible for pp. 3-59 l.4, and pp. 144-5, and the second for pp. 59 l.5 - 139, with occasional assistance from the first scribe (eg, p. 87 ll. 23-7). A colophon at p. 123 in the hand of the second scribe, dated 3 July 1648, gives at l. 1 what may be the name of the scribe - Mac Con O'Domhnall - and his...
Dates:
1648 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Historical and General views of Cyprus
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018J
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints. All are 250 x 200 mm unless otherwise stated. There are brief typed captions on the backs of the prints, some of which have been elaborated or amended for this catalogue. Some of the prints are organised by subject: 12 - 19 concern the Turkish invasion and its aftermath; 20-26 are images of people and places; 27-28 concern antiquities.
Dates:
1950 - 1982
Conditions Governing Access:
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
Fonds
Historical and Literary Tracts
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7958
Scope and Contents
MS copies of Thomas Legge's Latin verse tragedy Solymitana Clades (The Destruction of Jerusalem) of circa 1580; George Ruggles's Cambridge play Ignoramus (1615); William Roper, The Life and Death of Sir Thomas More, written in 1535; George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, completed 1557; Sir Philip Sidney's letter to his brother Robert on foreign travel, written circa 1578-1579; and other tracts, the latest being an exchange of letters between James I and the University of Cambridge,...
Dates:
1625 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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
Fonds
Historical notebooks on Fulbourn
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8555
Scope and Contents
Two volumes of manuscript notes on Fulbourn, 45 pages and 44 pages respectively. There is a poem printed on the front of the first notebook entitled 'The poor traveller'. On the front of the second volume is a printed image and short biography of Charles I and Charles II.
Dates:
1813 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Historical paintings of the Hudson's Bay Company
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 345
Scope and Contents
A commemorative set of fourteen full colour reproductions of Hudson's Bay Company calendar paintings printed by Bulman Brothers Limited, Winnipeg, for the Company's tercentenary in 1970. The original paintings, which depict events and persons associated with the Company's history, were commissioned by the Company and painted by well-known Canadian and British artists. At the front of the portfolio is a printed description of each of the paintings. The description and captions are given in...
Dates:
1970
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Management Group
HISTORICAL REFERENCE
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/1936/THHR
Dates:
-202 - 2016-10
Found in:
Trinity Hall archive
Management Group
HISTORICAL REFERENCE
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0276/SEHR
Dates:
1720 - 2021
Found in:
Selwyn College Archives
Fonds
Historical Reference
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0279/CPS 17
Scope and Contents
This section includes items which are not produced by the Society but which are of relevance to its history, and items which do not fit easily by provenance into other sections, such as press cuttings, memorabilia, and archive sourced writing.
Dates:
1948 - 2022
Found in:
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Management Group
Historical Reference
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCRF
Dates:
1799 - 2023
Found in:
Girton College Archive
Management Group
HISTORICAL REFERENCE RECORDS
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/1919/AHRF
Scope and Contents
This section comprises records of related interest and ephemera which do not originate from within the hospital, such as press cuttings and records relating to the founder, Dr John Addenbrooke, also records which do not easily fit into any other category, such as memorabilia, artefacts and records relating to special events.
Dates:
1711 - 2016
Management Group
Historical Reference Records
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/1935/EDRF
Scope and Contents
This section includes records of special events, ephemera, items which are not produced by the College but which are of relevance to its history, and items which do not fit easily by provenance into other sections, such as press cuttings, memorabilia, drawings etc.
Dates:
1678 - 2014
Found in:
St Edmunds College Archive
Sub-Management Group
Historical reference records
Sub-Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/3124/NHRF
Scope and Contents
This section includes records of special events, ephemera, research projects and items which do not fit easily by provenance into other sections, such as College publications and press cuttings.
Dates:
1952 - 2017
Fonds
History of France from Louis XII to Henri IV
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6756
Scope and Contents
Written in an early nineteenth century hand, and possibly a translation, 182 folios. Fos i, xi, 169, and the verso throughout are blank.
Dates:
1800 (Early 19th cent)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
History of Fusion
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HIFU
Scope and Contents
Papers on the early days of controlled thermonuclear fusion research in the UK, 1945-60, collected by Dr J .D. Lawson, FRS.
Includes the printed report "Fusion research in the UK, 1945-60" by John Hendry and John D. Lawson, published by the Authority Historian's Office, AEA Technology Harwell, Oxfordshire (box 1). The rest of the archive consists mainly of papers mentioned in the report, other historical material, letters from Peter Thonemann to Hendry and Lawson,...
Dates:
1945-08 - 1993-08
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
History of India
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7560
Scope and Contents
Loose manuscript in English, Arabic and Hindi giving historical notes on various regions of India. Possibly for a publication.
Dates:
1850 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
History of Ireland and Related Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4341
Scope and Contents
An anonymous historical compilation in two parts, each preceded by a preface, and copiously annotated. Book I (fos 1-56) comprises 47 chapters, consisting of annals of the history of Ireland to the time of Conn Cedchathach, said by the author to be taken mainly from the works of Keating, O'Flaherty and Warner, and serving as the introduction to Book II. Book II consists of translations from Irish of (1) the narrative of the battle of Maighe Lena (fos 58-92), from a manuscript of the 'short...
Dates:
1790 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
History of Nigeria bookshops
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 144
Scope and Contents
Notes and extracts collected by Thomas concerning the history and administration of the Nigeria Bookshops of the Church Missionary Society, with related papers.
Dates:
1969
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
History of the Department
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3377/HIST
Dates:
1875 - 2012
Found in:
Department of Psychology
Fonds
History of the Department of Pathology
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7328
Dates:
c.1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
'History of the Imperial British East Africa Company': photocopy of PhD thesis
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 156
Scope and Contents
A xerox copy of a typescript Ph.D. thesis for the University of London, 345 pages, 1955, based largely on the Mackinnon Papers in the School of Oriental and African Studies. It is not known when the copy was made.
Dates:
1955
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Hits and Misses: Autobiographical memoir of Sir Richard Paget
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9671
Scope and Contents
Typewritten. Divided into chapters, with descriptions added in pencil later:I - Early LifeII - Leisure at OxfordIII - Round the WorldIV - Crossing the BarV - Women & Children firstVI - Industrial ProgenyVII - Planning aheadVIII - War & PeaceIX - Fun & GamesX - Physics with TearsXI - Catle in the airXII - Be not ashamed of your handicraftsXIII - Artificial speechXIV - Origin of speechXV - Sign language and...
Dates:
c. 1935-1955
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
H.M. Brock: Illustrations for Swahili bible etc.
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8267
Scope and Contents
The 102 drawings catalogued here are original pen-and-ink illustrations for books of Old and New Testament stories published for children. Each is drawn on card (11/12½ inches x 8½/10 inches), and signed by Brock, with a title in his hand (often the Biblical verse to which the drawing relates). Some were afterwards recycled as illustrations to a translation of the Bible into Swahili (28 of the 102 have been annotated by the printer for use in this publication).
Dates:
1900 (20th century)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
H.M. Queen Elizabeth II's visit to Gan in the Maldives, 1972
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303099A
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose photographs, measuring 215 x 165 mm. All relate to the visit of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II and H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh to RAF Gan in the course of a tour in South East Asia and the Indian Ocean, February to March 1972. The RAF base at Gan on Addu Atoll was set up under an agreement of 1960 and remained until 1976, though the Maldives became fully independent in 1965. In 1982, the Maldives became a Special Member of the Commonwealth.H.M.Y. 'Britannia' anchored...
Dates:
1972-03-15
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Hogbin collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045S
Scope and Contents
A collection of 18 glass slides and 38 photographs. The slides were used by Hogbin to illustrate talks on her work when on furlough (leave of absence), and their captions were provided by her niece. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.
Dates:
1931 - 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
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
Fonds
Holbrook Jackson Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10423
Scope and Contents
Manuscript, typescript and printed papers of and relating to Holbrook Jackson. The collection includes: letters to Jackson from Edward Carpenter (three, 1911-1916), G. C. Williamson (one, 1927), George Underwood (one, 1927), Marley Denwood (one, 1931), and Eric A. McDonald (one, 1950 -- apparently addressed to Jackson posthumously); letters and postcards from Holbrook Jackson to his brother John Charles Jackson (1901-1948); postcards from Holbrook Jackson to other members of his family,...
Dates:
1901-1950
Found in:
Cambridge University Library