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Humanists: 'The Cambridge Humanists and the BBC'
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Reference Code: GBR/0272/HUM
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises documents related to the Cambridge Humanists and their deputation to the BBC to argue the case for a Humanist presence on the air.
Dates:
1955 - 1979
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'Humanitarians and imperialists': draft
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 29
Scope and Contents
An early draft of Dorothy Helly's 'Livingstone's legacy: Horace Waller and Victorian mythmaking' (1987), examining Waller and the editing of David Livingstone's last journals.
Dates:
1986
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
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Humphrey Jennings Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10097
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises the academic and literary papers of Humphrey Jennings, for the most part dating to his time as a postgraduate researcher at Cambridge in the early 1930s. The papers consist of draft writings and notes on Thomas Gray, the main focus of Jennings's research, and on other areas of research interest including plagiarism and literary borrowings, Christopher Marlowe's 'Tamburlaine' and Renaissance literature. The papers include material gathered by Jennings for his...
Dates:
1929-late 20th century; bulk 1929-1939
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
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Humphry Repton: Red Book for Holme Park, Berks
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7555
Scope and Contents
Landscape designs for Holme Park, Berkshire. Includes watercolours and sketches.
Dates:
1793
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
Huntingdonshire Collections
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5862
Scope and Contents
A copy of Baker MS 36 (CUL Ms Mm.1.49), pp. 227-62, being a series of notes on Huntingdonshire parishes, taken by Baker from a MS now B.M.Lansd.92.1. On the spine is written 'County of Huntingdon Vol. XI'.
Dates:
1815 (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
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Hutchinson: the papers of Arthur Hutchinson
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Reference Code: GBR/1058/HUA
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of Hutchinson's correspondance and material relating to him death.
Dates:
1897 - 1939
Found in:
Pembroke College Library and Archive
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Hymn to the Virgin, office for the morning of Holy Saturday, with alternative ending, and gospel for the day
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3121
Scope and Contents
Four hands. fo. 89: diary of events in Holy Week, 1743. before p. 1: copperplate engraving of Christ bearing the cross, with motto 'Christus Caluaria Petens'.
Dates:
1743 (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
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Ian Brinton: Literary and academic correspondence and papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10321
Scope and Contents
Correspondence to and from Ian Brinton concerning poetry and poets, with related items.
Dates:
1996-2017
Conditions Governing Access:
With the exception of one file (MS Add.10321/4) 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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Ian Mackenzie Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10489
Scope and Contents
A collection of correspondence, papers and published work relating to the poet Ian Hume Townsend Mackenzie (1898-1918).The papers include personal and family correspondence; letters of condolence to Mackenzie’s mother following his death, with items of personal memorabilia; review articles relating to his published work; annotated copies of his work; and a collection of letters from the publisher Arthur Waugh to Mackenzie’s sister Eileen, written after Ian’s death and extending...
Dates:
1910s-1940s
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
I.C. Redwood Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042E-J
Scope and Contents
A collection of albums containing prints, in addition to a further 4 albums of photographs and postcards of World War I not listed here. The majority of the photographs are stuck in the albums, but there are also 69 loose ones. Many of these are Redwood's own enlargements from his smaller photographs, and have been removed from passe-partout framing and, in most cases, inserted in the album containing the smaller versions. There are some captions, but these vary in detail and it has been...
Dates:
1891 - 1964
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
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Ida Darwin: Correspondence and Papers I
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9368
Scope and Contents
Comprises correspondence with family and friends, particularly Horace Darwin, her husband, Erasmus Darwin, Ruth Rees-Thomas and Nora Barlow, her children, Thomas Farrer, her father, and other extended members of the Farrer, Barlow and Darwin families. The correspondence is arranged alphabetically and chronologically; a small proportion of the letters have been calendared to provide a summary of their contents, but the vast majority of the correspondence is simply listed by date with no...
Dates:
1860-1960 (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
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Ida Darwin: Correspondence and Papers II
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10286
Scope and Contents
Contains letters and papers held by Ida Darwin. The bulk of the collection are letters sent to Ida Darwin but also includes a small quantity sent to her husband Horace Darwin, a small collection of papers relating to the purchase of opals by her son Erasmus Darwin, a collection of envelopes addressed to and letters sent to Gwen Raverat, photographs of Ida's family, and a few items of ephemera.
Dates:
1862-1946
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
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Idiomela for greater holy days in the Orthodox church compsed by Sophronius
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6195
Dates:
1700 (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
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Igor Stravinsky: Copies of settings of poems of K. Bal'mont
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8978
Scope and Contents
Copyist's MSS of songs, for voice and piano, used by engraver for first edition published by Russicher Musikverlag, Berlin, 1912. With plate numbers R.M.V. 130, 131 marked in pencil at bottom of first page of each song. Words in Russian, German (translated by Berthold Feiwel) and French (translated by M.D. Calvocoressit).
Dates:
1911 (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
Igor Stravinsky: Corrected score of ''Symphonies d'instruments à vent''
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9229
Dates:
1920
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
"Illustrated Arctic News"
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RUKE
Scope and Contents
A facsimile copy written onboard "H.M.S. Resolute" during the search for Sir John Franklin's Arctic Expedition and published in 1852. Entries dated 1850 - 1851.
Dates:
1852
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Illustrated Guide to the House of Commons of Canada 1875
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062M
Scope and Contents
There are three lists of Members’ names preceding the portraits, each of which gives the portrait number against the name of the Member. They are:Alphabetical by Members' names. This contains 201 names, including the Speaker, but when two names from the Addenda at the end of the book are added, the total is 203.Alphabetical by Constituency. This lists 206 constituencies, four of them vacant, but with one name from the Addenda this again makes 203, including the...
Dates:
1875
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
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Illustrated sale brochure for Denham Place, Buckinghamshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/VNST AS
Scope and Contents
Brochure for Denham Place, [?] produced when the house was bought by Sir Robert Vansittart. Also includes a later press cutting on a repair grant for the house.
Dates:
1930-08 - 1954-07
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Churchill Archives Centre is open from Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm. A prior appointment and two forms of identification are required.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Illustrations of China and its People
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377G
Scope and Contents
A volume measuring 36 x 48 cm containing plates with illustrations of various Chinese provinces, Hong Kong and Macao.
John Thomson (1837-1921) was a distinguished photographer and traveller, and this is volume I of his magnum opus, published in four volumes in 1873-74. It contains excellent Woodbury-type reproductions of his photographs taken in the early 1870s, and substantial notes on each illustration.
Dates:
1873
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
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Illustrations of Diamond Industry from 'Mining the ground' to 'Diamonds classified for shipment'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059C
Scope and Contents
An album containing prints measuring approximately 210 x 150 mm. with letterpress captions beneath the plates. Each plate also has a descriptive text tipped-into the page beside the print. All captions have been recorded as found. Photographs by J.E. Middlebrook, a commercial photographer in Kimberly around 1888-94 and in Durban around 1898-99. An introduction pasted on to the first sheet of the album reads:The Diamond Industry illustrated. In submitting this volume of...
Dates:
1891
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
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Imagining Hong Kong: historic photographs at the time of change
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 111
Scope and Contents
A study of aspects of Hong Kong's history, 1841-1997, 63 pages, illustrated with black and white and colour photocopies, submitted as a dissertation at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Dates:
1998
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
Imitation Book of Hours
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10217
Scope and Contents
Made by 'C.S.' in imitation of medieval examples.
Dates:
1882
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
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Imperial Forestry Institute, Oxford, Group Photograph, 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011Z
Scope and Contents
Mounted print, 297 x 229 mm, showing a posed group of 38 staff and students, including both men and women. 'Imperial Forestry Institute Oxford 1926' is printed on the mount and the majority of those in the Group, including the Director of the Institute from 1924 to 1935, Robert Scott Troup (1874-1939), are identified in pencil on the reverse.
Dates:
1926
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
Inauguration of President Momoh of Sierra Leone 1986
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30446J
Scope and Contents
A collection of coloured photographs of the inauguration, measuring 130 x 100 mm. H.E. Major-General Dr Joseph Saidu Momoh was inaugurated President of the Republic of Sierra Leone on 26 January 1986 at the Siaka Stevens Stadium, Brookfields.
Dates:
1986-01-26
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
Inauguration of the University of Ghana 25th November 1961
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448F
Scope and Contents
An album of photographs, mostly measuring about 140 x 105 mm., bound in leather with the title on the front cover. The University was created by an Act of 22 August 1961 from the former University College of the Gold Coast, founded 1948, which had become the University of Ghana in 1957. Typed captions are stuck under each photograph, which have been used as titles and recorded as found.
Dates:
1961-11-25
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