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Papers of the Entebbe clubs
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 171
Scope and Contents
Minute books of the Entebbe societies and correspondence of the Entebbe Club.
Dates:
1900 - 1955
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers of the Fanfare Press
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9825
Dates:
1923-1978
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers of the Hey, Sharp and Alderson families
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10187
Scope and Contents
The documents that may be consulted consist of 'The Redemption' (Seatonian prize poem,1763), by John Hey; and a funeral sermon for Sarah Sharp, 1799. A further accession is closed pending cataloguing.
Dates:
1683-1983
Conditions Governing Access:
The catalogued section of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. Access to the uncatalogued papersis currently restricted. 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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers of the Joint Africa Board
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 152
Scope and Contents
Board minutes and newsletters.
Dates:
1923 - 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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers of the Paget Family
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10379
Scope and Contents
The deposit contains letters, documents, photographs, newspaper cuttings, publications, sketchbooks, notebooks, travel diaries, human hair, plant material, paintings, and a portable writing desk.
The letters, beginning in 1799, include family correspondence and George Edward Paget’s professional correspondence.
There are a number of packets of letters and legal documents assembled by members of the family for particular historical purposes; the earliest document, an...
Dates:
1648; 1799 to 2020, mostly nineteenth century.
Conditions Governing Access:
Part restricted. Open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room. Some material may be restricted for data protection reasons or because of its fragility.
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers of the Petrophysical Institute Committee
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WWWS
Scope and Contents
Minutes, reports and papers
Dates:
1919
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Churchill Archives Centre
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Papers of the Revd Cyril Tomkinson, chiefly consisting of letters from Siegfried Sassoon
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9926
Scope and Contents
With notes by Tomkinson concerning this relationship with Sassoon, letters and postcards from a few other correspondents, and printed items.
Dates:
1922-1946 (some dates inferred or conjectured)
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers of the Water Lane Press
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9826
Dates:
1950-1966
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers of Violet Ruby Leader
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10352
Scope and Contents
Ruby Leader was technician in charge of the animal room of the Department of Biochemistry, c. 1917-1957.
Comprises: laboratory notebook, mostly relating to rats and diet, 1953-61;
general notebook, with loose inserts, notes, printed material relating to the care of laboratory animals and notes on diet, and occasional letters, c. 1923-43;
notes on care and feeding of stock rats, c. 1951;
file of offprints, newspaper cuttings and letters, including: obituary notice for...
Dates:
1923 - 1961
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers of Violet Rutter
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9982
Scope and Contents
Manuscript of essay on 'Marlowe as a Dramatic Artist', typescripts of 13 one-act plays; typescripts of several hundred poems; typescripts of 16 stories and essays; personal material; and photographs relating to Rutter's work as a designer of inn signs for the Whitbread brewery.
Dates:
1900-1983 (approx)
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers of W. G. Shepherd
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10063
Scope and Contents
Literary correspondence and papers of William Guy ('Bill') Shepherd.
Dates:
1955-2010 (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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers of W H R Rivers
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Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers
Dates:
1899-05 - 1921-03-16
Found in:
Department of Psychology
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Papers on David Livingstone
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 223
Scope and Contents
Articles and transcripts relating to David Livingstone, including illustrations and maps.
Dates:
1973 - 1975
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers on imperial communications of Sir Campbell Stuart
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 33
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports and other papers relating to the bodies of which Campbell Stuart was a member or with whom he was involved through his work, with two photographs of imperial conferences.
Dates:
1912 - 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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers on Italy and the Roman Catholic Church
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6612-6616
Scope and Contents
A collection concerning the church in France and Italy and also some Italian history. It includes a series of treatises upon the nature and authority of church councils, the property of the church, and the foundation of churches in various countries; report on Venice; three tracts on the Corpus Christi procession, 1696; copy of the Acts of the Synod of Malines, held at Louvain in May 1574, with a pen-and-ink sketch of a city, harbour and galleys at the foot; copies of the acts of a...
Dates:
1600-1832
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers on migration and imperial defence
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 27
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous papers and articles relating chiefly to the work of a sub-committee of the Royal Empire Society which considered problems of migration in 1943. There are copies of the sub-committee's report and numerous duplicates of charts, appendices and other items.
Dates:
1932 - 1949
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers on North Queensland exploration
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 293
Scope and Contents
Six items relating to exploration in North Queensland, preceded by a list of contents signed 'H. Ling Roth'.1. "'Map of the Port Mackay District' given to me by Edmund Rawson as the original map made by Captain John Mackay but repudiated by him when published in facsimile in my book. So either Rawson made a mistake or I misunderstood him", 13" x 10½", undated.2. 'Expedition to Cape York 1862', typescript copied from the 'Brisbane Courier', 15 November...
Dates:
1862 - 1879
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers on Recataloguing Cambridge University Manuscripts
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9329
Scope and Contents
Reports, correspondence and lists of manuscripts for M.R. James's recataloguing of Cambridge University Library medieval manuscripts.
Dates:
1925-1932
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers on Shipping and Shipbuilding: Papers of Henry Bell Wortley
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9356
Scope and Contents
Printed papers, pamphlets and photographs mostly concerning ships and shipping, postcards from Wortley's world tour.
Dates:
1888-1920 (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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers on the B.B.C. British Empire series
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 32
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, programme plans and press cuttings.
Dates:
1969 - 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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers on the Great Pyramid
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 118
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, notes, statistics and diagrams relating to Harry Carver's studies of the Great Pyramid.
Dates:
1921 - 1943
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers on the structure and development of the Commonwealth
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 9
Scope and Contents
Letters, drafts, memoranda, newcuttings, articles and other papers regarding the Commonwealth. Much of the material relates to Carrington's work at the R.I.I.A. Many of the articles and drafts are annotated by Carrington to explain the circumstances under which they were written and the way in which they were used.
Dates:
1925 - 1976
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers on W.A.I.T.R (West African Institute For Trypanosomiasis Research) service
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 349
Scope and Contents
Two accounts of Moffat's term of service in Nigeria, describing his complaints about how he was treated, and a letter to the Foreign Secretary concerning his grievances. Together with a copy of an account relating to the purchase and use of a VW pick-up truck and photographs of Moffat's time in Nigeria.
Dates:
2005 - 2010
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers on West Africa
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 125
Scope and Contents
Typescript and manuscript documents relating to West Africa, 127 pages. The papers were probably assembled by Gray for his proposed edition of Frances Moore's 'Travels into the inland parts of Africa' for the Hakluyt Society, which he was unable to complete due to illness. It is not known when they were compiled. There is an accompanying letter from A.T. Matson to D.H. Simpson, R.C.S. Librarian, 17 June 1975, and Simpson's reply of 18 June.1. Biographical note regarding Francis...
Dates:
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers on women in Uganda
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 166
Scope and Contents
Three papers regarding Ugandan women and correspondence regarding the Bell photographs presented to the R.C.S.
Dates:
1961 - 1981
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