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Papers of John Waynflete Carter

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8230-8240

Dates: 1926-1974

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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Papers of John Welch and archive of The Many Press

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10064

Scope and Contents

Literary correspondence and papers, including the archive of The Many Press.

Dates: 1970-2014 (circa)

Conditions Governing Access: The collection contains personal correspondence. The provisions of the Data Protection Act (1998) apply. Access to documents may be restricted if they contain information exempted from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, 2000. Papers not relating to the Many Press (MS Add.10064/1) remain uncatalogued and are not available for consultation.

Found in: Cambridge University Library

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Papers of Kenneth Rice

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 49

Scope and Contents

The largest part of the collection comprises letters from Ceylon, Malta, India, the Seychelles and some non-Commonwealth countries written mostly by Rice to his mother. The rest of the collection contains biographical material, mainly diaries, and photographs and papers concerning a tour of the Americas in a Bristol Freighter Aircraft, 1946-1947, and the engineer Paul Boucicault.

Dates: 1909 - 1972

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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Papers of Laura Longmore

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 204

Scope and Contents

Articles and lectures by Laura Longmore and collected press cuttings and published material. The collection is accompanied by four pieces of correspondence with Terry Barringer, R.C.S. Librarian, 1998.

Dates: 1958 - 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

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Papers of Margareta (Greta) Burkill

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8433

Scope and Contents

Papers concerning Margareta Burkill’s work with German and Austrian refugee children before, during and after the Second World War. The collection includes Burkill’s memoir and some correspondence. There are also notes on the children, including details of their accommodation during the war and their later careers. Also included is material relating to the Cambridge Refugee Committee.

Dates: 1938 - 1984

Conditions Governing Access: Readers must complete a data release form prior to consulting this collection.

Found in: Cambridge University Library

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Papers of Morris Shapira relating to F. R. Leavis

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10007

Scope and Contents

Letters, texts and press cuttings. Includes letters from F. R. Leavis, Q. D. Leavis, David Holbrook and others. With some material relating to Shapira but post-dating his death.

Dates: 1960-1990 (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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Papers of Nancy Lane

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10351

Content Description

Comprises: personal and biographical papers, including honours, appointments and life-history; papers relating to WiSETI (Women in Science, Engineering and Technology Initiative) and other related initiatives to promote women in SET; papers relating to talks, lectures and overseas trips on the topic of women in science; notes for Part II Zoology lectures; correspondence; interview with Pamela Smith for 'Women at Cambridge' event; photographs.

Dates: 1944 - 2020

Found in: Cambridge University Library

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Papers of Nora Barlow

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8904

Scope and Contents Comprises: [1] Family correspondence; correspondence with her cousin, Gwen Raverat (née Darwin), 1903-50, her sons, Andrew Dalmahoy Barlow, Erasmus Darwin Barlow and Horace Basil Barlow, her daughter, Hilda Horatia Barlow and other members of the Barlow and Darwin familites; and general correspondence. The correspondence is arranged alphabetically and chronologically, with little detail about the content or subject-matter of the letters. [2] Early genetics research: notebooks,...

Dates: 1840-1970 (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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Papers of Pamela, Lady Pollock, including papers of the Prideaux family and Percy Stent

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10270

Scope and Contents

Papers of the family of the Prideaux family, including photographs, notes on India and genealogical information. Papers of Pamela and Percy Stent, including certificates, photographs and correspondence. Papers of Pamela and Ronald Pollock, including certificates, photographs and correspondence.

Dates: 1863-1991

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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Papers of Pamela Smith and Jane Callender relating to Dorothy Garrod

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10298

Scope and Contents

Includes Garrod's OBE, address presented by members of the Department of Archaeology to Garrod on her retirement, an extract from the Illustrated London News on the Gibraltar skull with photographs by Garrod, 2 ring binders of research material and photographs compiled by researchers Pamela Smith and Jane Callender

Dates: c. 1929-2005

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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Papers of Peter Allen and Joan Cundall relating to Uganda

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 397

Scope and Contents

Comprises material relating to the Ugandan Civil Service in the colonial period and in the years immediately prior to independence from Britain in 1962 including reports, official publications, news cuttings, and photographs. There are also photographs, ephemera and organisational notes from the royal tours directed by Peter Allen, and some examples of Joan Cundall Allen's original artwork.

Dates: 1936 - 2016

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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Papers of Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KPZA

Scope and Contents

The material was mainly collected by Professor David Schoenberg while he was writing the Royal Society Memoir of Kapitza in 1985. Régis Brun provided additional correspondence to, from and about Kapitza in 2007. This is a small collection of papers, pamphlets, letters and extracts from published sources relating to Kapitza. It includes xerox copies.

Dates: 1900 - 1994

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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Papers of R C Oldfield

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/RCOldfield

Dates: 1928 - 1972

Found in: Department of Psychology

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Papers of Rear Admiral Henry Hamilton Beamish, Rear Admiral Tufton Percy Hamilton Beamish, Lord Chelwood of Lewes (Tufton Victor Hamilton Beamish) and some earlier family material

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BEAM

Dates: 1824 - 1989

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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Papers of Richard West

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10392

Scope and Contents The archive is comprised of papers (including maps) and visual material, primarily research data (consisting of site registers, field notebooks, site investigation files, photographs and slides). Key to these records are four minute books containing West’s East Anglia site register 1977-1985, which are fair copies summarising his field notes and key features of the sites. Records also document fieldwork in other locations in Northumberland, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Svalbard, Alaska and...

Dates: 1926 - 2021

Conditions Governing Access: Some items in the collection are closed until dates ranging between 2033-2070 in line with confidentiality guidelines for sensitive data (in compliance with the Data Protection Act (2018)).

Found in: Cambridge University Library

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Papers of Rodney Carrington Wood

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 128

Scope and Contents

The diaries were written when Wood was chiefly in Nyasaland and the Seychelles. They include a few inserted sketches and photographs. There is an accompanying set of press cuttings and miscellaneous papers.

Dates: 1914 - 1960

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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Papers of Rudolph Albert Peters

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10353

Scope and Contents Comprises: offprints of articles by R.A. Peters, 1920-1958; notes or abstracts for published articles on sugars, diabetes, liver diastase, lactic acid, 1913-1951, and offprints sent to Peters; biographical information including lists of publications, curriculum vitae and lists of reprints, 1912-55; papers relating mostly to MRC Toxicology Committee, 1951-7, and several other MRC committees; correspondence relating to fluoridation, 1956-7; general correspondence on a variety of subjects...

Dates: 1912 - 1970

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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Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9950

Scope and Contents

Singam's collection on Coomarasawmy, including various of AKC's publications, images relating to him, biographical material and items on his family.

Also contains manuscript and typescript letters and research concerned principally with Durai Raja Singam's work on Gandhi and Ananda Coomaraswamy, accompanied by a short account book.

Dates: 1863-1984

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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Papers of S. H. Steinberg

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9819

Dates: 1937-1968

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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Papers of Siegfried Sassoon

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852

Scope and Contents The Papers of Siegfried Sassoon comprise a magnificent collection documenting his life, wartime experiences and extensive literary career. The collection was purchased by the Library in 2009 from the executors of his son, George. Arranged in twelve series, it includes Sassoon’s personal diaries, poetry notebooks, drafts of literary works and autobiographies, correspondence, press cuttings and photographs. Sassoon was a dedicated diarist and the first series comprises 46 journals...

Dates: 1897-2000 (bulk:1897-1967)

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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Papers of Sir Cyril Pickard

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 68

Scope and Contents

Correspondence and articles regarding the Commonwealth, particularly India and Pakistan, with material concerning Sir Morrice James and Major A.F.M. Morsin Ali. There are accompanying letters relating to the transfer of the collection to the R.C.S., 1997.

Dates: 1967 - 1990

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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Papers of Sir Eric Edward Boketon Holt-Wilson

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9794

Scope and Contents

Letters, diaries, photographs, printed books, miscellaneous papers.

Dates: 1899-1950

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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Papers of Sir Frank Stockdale

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10347

Scope and Contents Papers and letters of Frank Stockdale, mainly relating to his work in the West Indies, in particular his appointment in 1905 as Mycologist and Lecturer in Agriculture at the Imperial Department of Agriculture in the West Indies, Barbados, and his transfer in 1908 to the post of assistant director to the Department of Science and Agriculture, and Government Botanist, in British Guiana [Guyana]. This includes correspondence with Sir Daniel Morris, Imperial Commissioner of the West Indies...

Dates: 1901 - 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

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Papers of Sir Harry Parkes

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Parkes

Scope and Contents The collection contains a wide range of professional and personal papers. There is an extensive selection of printed and manuscript material collected in Hong Kong, China and Japan throughout Parkes' career. There are also around 750 letters, including correspondence with Sir Rutherford Alcock, Major-General Charles George Gordon, Lord John Russell and Sir Ernest Satow. Most of the personal correspondence addressed to Parkes dates from the last two years of his life, with much of the...

Dates: circa 1380-1898 (mainly 1850s-1880s); circa 1380-1898 (mainly 1850s-1880s)

Conditions Governing Access: Any person wishing to consult the collection must obtain written permission from Matheson and Co. Ltd. Applicants may submit their request an application form which is available from the Manuscripts Reading Room and via the University Library web pages at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf. They should state specifically on the form that they desire access to the Parkes Papers.

Found in: Cambridge University Library

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Papers of Sir John Hawley Glover

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131

Scope and Contents

This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.

Dates: 1861 - 1927

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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Papers of John Waynflete Carter

Papers of John Welch and archive of The Many Press

Papers of Kenneth Rice

Papers of Laura Longmore

Papers of Margareta (Greta) Burkill

Papers of Morris Shapira relating to F. R. Leavis

Papers of Nancy Lane

Papers of Nora Barlow

Papers of Pamela, Lady Pollock, including papers of the Prideaux family and Percy Stent

Papers of Pamela Smith and Jane Callender relating to Dorothy Garrod

Papers of Peter Allen and Joan Cundall relating to Uganda

Papers of Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza

Papers of R C Oldfield

Papers of Rear Admiral Henry Hamilton Beamish, Rear Admiral Tufton Percy Hamilton Beamish, Lord Chelwood of Lewes (Tufton Victor Hamilton Beamish) and some earlier family material

Papers of Richard West

Papers of Rodney Carrington Wood

Papers of Rudolph Albert Peters

Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy

Papers of S. H. Steinberg

Papers of Siegfried Sassoon

Papers of Sir Cyril Pickard

Papers of Sir Eric Edward Boketon Holt-Wilson

Papers of Sir Frank Stockdale

Papers of Sir Harry Parkes

Papers of Sir John Hawley Glover

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