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Research
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Reference Code: GBR/0279/CPS 12
Scope and Contents
This section contains papers deriving from research projects conducted by the Cambridge Philosophical Society. As at September 2022, this section contains only records relating to the late 19th and early 20th century work of the Anthropometric Committee.
Dates:
1884 - 1909
Found in:
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Fonds
Research data for enquiry into Sudden Death in Infancy retained by Robert Carpenter
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10380
Scope and Contents
Research data from the enquiry into Sudden Death in Infancy, primarily consisting of completed forms and medical reports. Includes sociological data, post-mortem and microbiology/bacteriology reports, completed survey data forms for the study, forms completed for coroner inquests and a small amount of correspondence relating to the study and report. Much of the data is name identified and relates to infants who died, and infants who lived that were included in the study for study control...
Dates:
1954-1999; Majority of material found within 1954-1963
Conditions Governing Access:
Restricted. This material is closed for general access until 2046 under the Archive’s confidentiality guidelines for
sensitive data (in compliance with the Data Protection Act (2018)). Applications for research access may be considered under certain conditions and requests should be submitted in writing to the Keeper of Archives and Modern Manuscripts.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Research documentation of Dr Peter Wooding relating to comparative studies on placenta and mammary gland structure and function using electron microscopy and light microscopy
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10399
Content Description
The collection contains research documentation of Dr Peter Wooding relating to his work on the comparative study of cell structure and function of ruminant mammary glands and placentas using light and electron microscopes and immunocytochemical techniques. This was carried out at the Babraham Institute near Cambridge and later at the Physiology Dept Cambridge University. The largest series are sample books describing the source and preparation of cell samples in three numerical sequences: 34...
Dates:
1974-c.2021
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Research papers of Valerie Parkhouse on Anglo-Boer War memorials
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 415
Content Description
Research material gathered by Valerie B. Parkhouse for the publication of 'Memorialising the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902: militarization of the landscape, monuments and memorials in Britain' (Matador, 2015). Comprises: correspondence with archive services and record offices in the United Kingdom and South Africa; collected publications; correspondence with publishers; manuscript drafts; photographs of memorials; annotated printout of the Imperial War Museum National Inventory of Anglo-Boer...
Dates:
1991-2015
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Resolutions of the 13th General Chapter of the English Benedictines, Douai
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9979
Dates:
1661
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
File
Results of the examination of three Babylonian tablets, and of the deposit found on them
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2768.11
Scope and Contents
At the end of the volume is a letter from Hancock to [C. H. W.] Johns, 2 Dec. 1908.
Dates:
6 Nov. 1908
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
Returns for attendances of freshmen at Adam Sedgwick's lectures
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3144
Dates:
1815-1816
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
File
Returns of British Army Regiments
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6402
Scope and Contents
Returns of the various regiments composing the British Army, written in a clerical hand, 1 December 1760, 38 folios. The figures for officers, non-commissioned officers, effectives, and contingent men are tabulated for each regiment. There follow an abstract of the militia and a summary of the disposition of the forces in North America. The last is signed 'Jeff. Amherst, Quebec 4th October 1760' (not autograph).
Dates:
1760
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
File
Returns of His Majesty's Armed Forces
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4376
Scope and Contents
Arranged geographically according to station, 48 folios. The stations in England show cavalry and infantry separately. There are returns of the militia at fo. 29. The returns conclude with an abstract of the whole (fo. 41). The information is written in the blank spaces of printed forms. There is an index on fo. iir. Inside the front cover is the bookplate of the Revd Sir George Lee, Bart, of Hartwell, and that of J. Lee of the same. In the hand of the latter: 'Hartwell Library - repaired...
Dates:
1782
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
Returns of prisons in England and Wales
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7677
Dates:
1825-1827
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
Revd. Arthur Ashley Sykes, letters and tables on eclipses from Gabriel Morris
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10237
Scope and Contents
A series of four letters, including some calculation tables, written by Gabriel Morris to the Revd. Arthur Ashley Sykes (1684?-1756), discussing the extent of various eclipses, with mention of Edmund Halley.
Dates:
Sep. 1732-Oct. 1732
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
Revd. J.W. Whittaker: Letters to him
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8194
Scope and Contents
The following letters were mostly written by two of Whittaker's Cambridge friends: Thomas Greenwood, a fellow-Johnian, who was called to the bar (1817) and became reader in history at the University of Durham (1833); and William Whewell, afterwards Master of Trinity. There are also four letters from Greenwood's brother Charles, a London businessman.
Dates:
14 Apr. 1813-6 Apr. 1825
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
Revenues and receipts, Scilly Islands, Cornwall
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1320
Dates:
1806-1809
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
Revenues and receipts, Scilly Islands, Cornwall
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1343
Scope and Contents
John Johns' accounts for revenues and receipts and his receipts and disbursements for the same period.
Dates:
1820
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
Reverend Ernest Millar collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045L
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints most measuring approximately 100 x 75 mm., the majority captioned on the reverse, showing scenes in Uganda and portraits of personalities connected with Millar's career. Photographs by Charles William Hattersley and others. Many of the photographs are reproduced in Ham Mukasa's 'Uganda's Katikiro in England' (London 1904), edited and translated by Ernest Millar and hereafter referred to as 'Mukasa'. A few are also to be found in C.W. Hattersley's 'Uganda by...
Dates:
1900 - 1917
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
Reversion of land, Soham, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.989
Dates:
5 May 1749
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
Reversionary lease (copy), Scilly Islands, Cornwall
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1341
Scope and Contents
Indenture made 19 Dec. 1800 between H.R.H. George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall etc. and George William Frederick Osborne, Duke of Leeds, granting the wholly of the Scilly Islands (named) and half the wrecks, to the Duke of Leeds, for the remainder of the lease originally granted to Francis Godolphin, Marquess of Carmarthan, afterwards Duke of Leeds, 3 Nov. 1786 for 31 years, i.e. for a term of 14 years, for a sum of £4000 and a yearly rent of £40. Sealed with the...
Dates:
19 Dec. 1800 (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
Revisers of the English Bible: Minutes, Correspondence and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6923-6950
Scope and Contents
Notebooks and loose papers created and accumulated by the companies and committees engaged in the revision of the English Bible. The papers are mainly in English, with small amounts of French and Ancient Greek.
Dates:
1870-1899
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
File
'Rewards and Fairies'
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6850
Scope and Contents
The complete autograph MS of 'Rewards and Fairies', including the poems 'The Road through the Woods' and 'If', 118 folios. On the flyleaf: 'Presented to Cambridge University Library by The Author 1926 Rudyard Kipling'. With letters from Kipling to A. F. Scholfield (University Librarian), Burwash, 30 June 1926, and Kipling's secretary D. Gardner-Smith to Scholfield, Burwash, 21 July 1926; and with an envelope mis-addressed by Kipling to Scholfield as 'Bodley's Librarian' at 'The Bodleian...
Dates:
1910 (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
Reynolds: The Papers of Joyce Maire Reynolds (1918-2022), classical epigrapher
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3437/JMRD
Scope and Contents
This archive comprises the working papers of Joyce Reynolds, including her own handwritten and typescript drafts of her academic publications, off-prints of those articles, correspondence with scholars seeking her advice on challenging inscriptions which required translation, copious photographs of Classical inscriptions, archaeological sites, architecture and statuary from Rome, the ancient city of Aphrodisias in western Turkey and from across Libya. Another aspect of professional life was...
Dates:
1912 - 2022
Fonds
Rhetorica
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3113
Scope and Contents
With (fo. 366) extracts from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' inside front cover: '282' (on label). fo. ii: 'Guil. Hen. Nigri [William H. Black] codex emptus 1851 Southgate's sale 27/8/51', and label: '141/5'.
Dates:
1637
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
Rhoda Watson: Journal of tour in Japan
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8561
Scope and Contents
Journal of a tour of Japan, 29 July - 31 October 1892, 173 pages, some of which are unused. The volume contains inserted material, including trading cards, photographs, postcards, maps, and menus from RMS Empress of Japan. The diary is in English, but some of the additional items are in Japanese.
Dates:
1892
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
Rhodesia-Nyasaland [i.e. Zimbabwe-Malawi] Royal Commission Photographs
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052L
Scope and Contents
Collection of prints inserted in a bound copy of the Rhodesia-Nyasaland Royal Commission Report (Cmd. 5949) 1939. Written on the title page is 'Illustrated with the Chairman's snapshot photographs.' Plate 1 is inside the front cover; the remainder are in pairs on sheets of paper bound into the volume at intervals. They are prints of sharp definition and high quality, mostly 140 x 90 mm, but numbers 5, 17, 18, 44, 46 and 47 are approximately 95 x 120 mm. All have hand-written captions. ...
Dates:
1938
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
Rhodesian records
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052O-S
Scope and Contents
Collection of five albums of family photographs, made up almost entirely of amateur snapshots between 80 x 60 mm. and 110 x 150 mm., and many of which are of purely personal interest. However, taken as a whole, they comprise a record of aspects of life in Rhodesia and elsewhere in Africa of interest to the social historian. The albums are carefully annotated by Zöe Ellison towards the end of her life (she died in Cambridge on 4 August 1986, only a fortnight after her last letter to the RCS...
Dates:
1915 - 1959
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
Rhodesian [Zimbabwean] views
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052T
Scope and Contents
Collection of glossy black and white photographs, taken by the Rhodesian Ministry of Information and other official sources. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Captions supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets.
Dates:
1958 - 1965
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