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'The book of silence for the Deaf'
The British Australian Wool Realization Association Ltd.
Collection of sepia studio portraits of the Australian Board of Directors. With the exception of number 1, all measure 145 x 200 mm. The photographs were originally mounted in a frame.
The BAWRA was founded in 1920 by Sir John Higgins to safeguard the national wool trade, and, in association with a temporary London directorate, to realise the wool carried over from the war period. It went into liquidation in 1927.
The Broadwater Collection
The Burning of the Garden Palace, 1882
The cabinet portfolio: Queensland scenery
A commercially produced portfolio containing twelve prints, each 130 x 105 mm, mounted on card with printed captions, showing scenes in and around Brisbane. Photographer and publisher George P Wright, James Street, Valley, Brisbane.
The Cambridge Antiquarian Society Glaisher Collection of aeronautical engravings and pictures
The Cambridge Election
An anonymous set of verses in seven stanzas. Fo. 1: 'Samuel Sandars'.
The Cambridge Review: editorial correspondence
Letters and related items, mostly addressed to the editors of the Cambridge Review, and predominantly to Peter Hawkes. Some letters were intended for publication; most of the others concern the contribution (or otherwise) of articles and book reviews.
The Cape Monthly Magazine Vols. 5-11
Collection of original prints inserted in issues of the monthly magazine, and one separately mounted (Y3059J). The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation. A list of photographs published in the magazine is on pages 259-262 of Marjorie Bull and Joseph Denfield's 'Secure the shadow', though it is not entirely complete.
'The Caribbean in international politics, 1670-1707': PhD thesis
A Ph.D. thesis for the University of London, 554 pages, with a map.
The Carrier Corps
A typescript of 'The Carrier Corps: military labour in the East African Campaign of 1914 to 1918, and its place in the history of Kenya', 280 pages.
The Case for the Rights of the Duchy of Cornwall to the Scilly Islands
The Case of Richard Hartley
'The Case of Richard Hartley, A.B. Trin. Col. Dublin Drawn up by himself this 10 April 1713 Dublin printed By Edward Waters in Essex Str. Corner of Sycamore Alley 1713', 12 folios. The case concerns a dispute between Hartley and Matthew French, then a senior fellow at Trinity College, Dublin. This version of Hartley's piece was probably transcribed from the printed edition. On pp. 19 and 20 are extracts from the Registry of Trinity College, Dublin, and notes in the same hand as the text.
The Ceylon War Council, 1942
'The concept of British Empire Games': PhD thesis
A Ph.D. thesis for the University of Queensland analysing the origin and evolution of British Empire Games from 1891 to 1930, 273 pages.
The Conference Diaries of Flight Sergeant G. Green
This collection consists of notebooks containing diaries of the Atlantic Meeting, Washington, Quebec, Cairo and Yalta conferences. Green tends to record events from his own day but when relevant these include encounters with Churchill and other key figures.
The de Lucy family and Malaya
'The Death of Alexander the Great'.
An anonymous poem in blank verse, with a short preface in prose. There are 24 folios, loose in a paper cover.
'The development of African road transport in Western Nigeria, 1919-1939': MA thesis
An M.A. thesis submitted to the Department of History, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 119 pages.
The Diaries of 1st Lord Caldecote
These extracts from the Caldecote diaries relate only to the Munich crisis in 1938, the outbreak of the Second World War and its first few months. Certain omissions have been made in this copy and these are usually indicated by a line of dots.
The Diaries of Fedor Minorsky (alias Theodor Harris)
These files mostly consist of drafts, in French and in English, of Minorsky's account of his escape in 1942.
The Dilke-Crawford-Roskill Papers
'The dispossessed': PhD thesis
'A study of changes in African marriage and family systems under the impact of urbanization (with special reference to Eastern Native Township - and to conditions in and around the city of Johannesburg)', a Ph.D. thesis based on a study made in 1950-1953, and including photographs and maps.
The Dracone Project
Photographs, press cuttings and promotional material on the work of Dracone Developments Limited, with an album on the National Research Development Corporation's Mechanical Engineering Group.
"The Early Days of Radar in Great Britain"
A typescript personal account by Wilkins of the origins of radar, the work of Sir Robert Watson-Watt, the Tizard Committee, and the setting up of a coastal chain of radar stations which were important during the Second World War Battle of Britain. Wilkins was asked to write his account by John Ashworth Ratcliffe as a counter to the official account by Watson-Watt "Three steps to victory; a personal account by radar's greatest pioneer" (Odhams, London, c 1957).