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Robinson: The Papers of Professor Joan Violet Robinson
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Reference Code: GBR/0272/JVR
Scope and Contents
This collection contains texts, correspondence, notebooks and photographs related to Joan Robinson, as well as copies of texts by some other economists. Although the documents could be used to illuminate the personal life of Joan Robinson, the strength of the collection lies in what they reveal about her economic thought and that of her contemporaries. Titles of items throughout are taken from the item itself unless they are in square brackets, when they are archivally given to convey some...
Dates:
1920 - 1986
Conditions Governing Access:
Access to some material in this collection is restricted while the author is still living, on the ground that it touches on their private or professional concerns. Other material has been reserved because, in the College's opinion, the contents of these files might be considered confidential, or offensive, by living people other than the author. Further information about such restrictions will be provided in the records of relevant items and files.
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Roger Cole Paulin: correspondence and papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10218
Dates:
1950 - 2010
Conditions Governing Access:
Some files and volumes restricted for reasons of confidentiality.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Roger Cotes: Cambridge Lectures on Hydrostatics and Pneumatics
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9302
Scope and Contents
17 lectures on hydrostatics and pneumatics, with the label 'Hydrostaticks. MS' (352pp.). The arrangement of lectures in the MS does not correspond with the arrangement in the published edition.
Dates:
1730 (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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Roger Law Archive
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275
Dates:
c late 1940s-2021
Conditions Governing Access:
Access to the collection is restricted pending cataloguing. Researchers wishing to access the collection require permission from the Keeper of Archives and Modern Manuscripts and will need to sign a Data Release form. 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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Roger Palmer, Earl of Castlemaine: Diary
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6571
Dates:
1686-1693
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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Rogers Collection on East Africa
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468A-I
Scope and Contents
This collection of photographs relates to Roger's career on the East African mainland and in Zanzibar. Hardly any of the photographs are captioned, but there are some cuttings from the Zanzibar Gazette inserted and from these and from the Gazette itself it has been possible to identify a large number of the subjects with reasonable certainty. Some photographs are by A.C. Gomes and J.B. Coutinho; others are possibly by Rogers himself.
Dates:
1890 - 1905
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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'Role and problems of broadcasting with special reference to the Sudan': M.Ed thesis
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 121
Scope and Contents
An M.Ed. Thesis for the University of Wales examining the role and problems of radio in Sudanese development, 184 pages.
Dates:
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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Rolls of Parliament: transcripts
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3449
Scope and Contents
Transcripts from rolls of parliament for 5-9 Edw. II. Ryley signs his name at the completion of each year's transcript. fos i, 19v, 20, 185-6, 233-4, 284-6, ii: blank. inside front cover: 'No. 68' (in 18th cent. hand).
Dates:
1671
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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Rolls of Parliament: transcripts
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3450
Scope and Contents
Transcripts from rolls of parliament for 4-18 Edw. III Ryley signs his name at the completion of each year's transcript. fos 67v, 68, 81-2, 114, 151v, 152, 186, 228v-230: blank. on label inside front cover: 'No. 69' (in 18th cent. hand).
Dates:
1671
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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Rolls of Parliament: transcripts
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3451
Scope and Contents
Transcripts from rolls of parliament for 20-29 Edw. III. Ryley signs his name at the completion of each year's transcript. Transcripts in another 17th cent. hand from patent rolls, 35 Hen. III, at fos 251-2. fos i, 29v-32, 74v, 94, 134, 199v, 200, 235v, 236, 253-4, ii: blank. on label inside front cover: 'No. 70' (in 18th cent. hand)
Dates:
1671
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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Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith, Singapore
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311H
Scope and Contents
Photographs show a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith (now in the custody of Mr Pastouna in Germany) that was delivered to the Governor of Singapore and used for various formal occasions. Details are provided in correspondence filed with the photographs. The subjects covered are a visit to Singapore by H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh and to Germany by H.R.H. Princess Alexandra of Kent.
Dates:
1959 - 1989
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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Ronald Barback and Nigeria
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 372
Scope and Contents
These archives relate to Barback's work with the National Economic Council Joint Planning Committee and his mediation of a trade dispute between the Nigerian Railway Corporation and the Railway Technical Staff Association.
Dates:
1957 - 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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Ronald Norrish: Papers and Correspondence
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8370
Scope and Contents
This small group of papers represents all that survives of the manuscript records of this distinguished chemist and Nobel Prize winner. It consists of correspondence received by Dainton and Thrush while they were working on the Royal Society memoir of Norrish, a few school and undergraduate diaries and notebooks, and some rather miscellaneous notes, drafts and correspondence. These include a complete draft for a very early (1922) unpublished paper 'Colour and Atomic Constitution ...' and...
Dates:
1912-1981 (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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Ronald Stansfield: Student notebooks
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8380
Scope and Contents
Student scientific notebooks.
Dates:
1934-1937
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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Ronald Wood Paine: Photographs of Fiji, Hawaii and Vancouver Island
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8824
Scope and Contents
Photographs of people, places and flora, in numbered sequence. The first album covers Vancouver Island, Hawaii and Fiji, 1925-1926; the second Fiji, 1925-1927, 1928, 1931 and 1933-1934. The third album covers Fiji, 1927, and has additional photographs by Sandy Lees, Ken Allardyce, Lorna Reay, John Campbell, [Chapman], Charles Nott, H.S. Ladd, George Roth (Warden of Sogulu), Ronald Garvey and A.F. Lees. The numbers connected with photographs are not necessarily in the same order as they are...
Dates:
1923-1951 (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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Rosary of the life and passion of Jesus Christ
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3016
Scope and Contents
With illustrations on each leaf of the passion, engraved on copper by 'S'. The engravings are not laid on, but are printed on the full page. A note inserted by the donor gives the opinions of a keeper of prints at the British Museum, and of E. A. Bond, of the engravings. Couplets below each cut in the volume; prayer in Flemish on verso of each leaf; final prayer (fo. 55v) dated at end: 'Finis Anno 1530 F M B'.
Dates:
1530
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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Rosemary Guinnell's photographs of Fletcher High School, Gwelo [i.e. Gweru]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052W
Scope and Contents
Collection of photographs of Fletcher High School (now known as Gweru Boys High School?), Gweru, Zimbabwe, probably taken by Rosemary Guinnell, all with handwritten annotations by her on the reverse of each print. A note on the reverse of one print identifies the Head Master as 'Frank Davies (Welsh)', and another reads 'Learning white Anglo-Protestant values.' Seven of the prints depict a presentation of a Midsummer Night's Dream in an open-air theatre built by the pupils. The other...
Dates:
1953 - 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Roth : papers relating to Professor Klaus Friedrich Roth, mathematician (29 October 1925 to 10 November 2015), B.A. and Honorary Fellow of Peterhouse.
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/ROTH
Scope and Contents
Roth was born in Breslau, Germany, now Wroclaw, Poland and came to England with his parents in 1933. He attended St Paul's School, London, from 1939 to 1943 before coming to Peterhouse. He was appointed, as war work, an assistant master at Gordonstoun, Scotland, but came to London in 1946 to pursue research at University College London with Harold Davenport. Here he obtained first an M.Sc. and an assistant lectureship in 1948 and a Ph.D. in 1950. He was promoted to a lectureship, then a...
Dates:
1941 - 2015
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library
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Rough subject index of a library
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5959.6
Dates:
1750 (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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Rouse: The William Henry Denham Rouse Greek Folk Tales Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/3437/WHDR
Dates:
1898-1942
Management Group
Routh, E. J. : Mathematical papers
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/ROUTH
Dates:
1855 - 2013
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library
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Rowe: the papers of John Wilkinson Foster Rowe
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Reference Code: GBR/1058/ROW
Scope and Contents
The collection covers much of Rowe's career and includes job applications, notes, diaries, copies of lectures and copies of his publications. There are also copies of his will and codicils and obituaries.
Dates:
1919 - 1980
Found in:
Pembroke College Library and Archive
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Roy Drummond Whitehorn: Correspondence and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8901
Scope and Contents
School and Cambridge papers, 1909-19; family letters, c.1910-27; copy letters, miscellaneous letters, and correspondence in India, 1915-19; papers about Malaya, 1924-26; photographs of Malaya and India; letters and papers on his ministry, 1928-38; Westminster College papers and lecture notes, 1938-63; letters and papers as Moderator, 1949-50; University sermons, 1944-61; Presbyterian Historical Society, essays, lectures, broadcasts, and conferences; schemes of union (Presbyterian Church of...
Dates:
1910-1970 (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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Roy Porter: undergraduate essays marked by Quentin Skinner
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10485
Scope and Contents
Seven essays written by Roy Porter while studying for the 'Theories of the Modern State' paper for Part II of the Cambridge History Tripos during one term of the academic year 1967-68. The essays bear comments by Porter's supervisor, Quentin Skinner. Six of the essays have titles: '"In defending Utilitarianism, J. S. Mill thoroughly subverted it" - Is this a fair comment?'; 'Analyse and explain the centrality of the idea of the Common Good in [T. H.] Green's political thinking'; 'If the...
Dates:
1967 or 1968
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Roy Thorne: Opera translations
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9997
Scope and Contents
Translations into Latin of the lyrics of Gilbert and Sullivan operas, and of the whole text of the cantata 'Trial by Jury'. The translations have parallel texts in English. Typescript with manuscript annotations, mostly on the reverse of the letterhead of James Mahon & Company, stock and share brokers, Glasgow. Each work has a cover title sheet noting that the translation is into 'Latin elegiac verse (with some hexameters)'. With a later note on Roy Thorne and the composition of the...
Dates:
1940-2012 (start date approximate)
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