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The Archive of the Royal Society of Literature
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS RSL
Scope and Contents
The archive includes documents relating to the constitution and membership of the Society, including registers of Fellows and Members; the Society's publications, including early prospectuses and circulars, reports and proceedings, and occasional publications; the Council and Committees, including the Colquhoun Club and the Academic Committee; lectures, meetings and prizes administered by the Society, including the texts of several of the lectures given during the nineteenth century; and the...
Dates:
1822-1998
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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The Australian Bicentennial
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308L
Scope and Contents
Twenty-two images (with some duplicates), chiefly of the 'Young Endeavour'. A photograph of an article on the voyage of the Young Endeavour which sailed from Portsmouth in August 1987 and arrived in Hobart on 10 January 1988, taken from the RCS Newsletter No. 19, Spring 1988, is filed with the photographs.
Dates:
1986 - 1987
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
The Autobiography of Captain Hank Rotherham
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/RTHM
Scope and Contents
This autobiography is typed with some handwritten annotations. Rotherham deals with his early years in the opening pages and briefly summarises his life after leaving the navy in the last pages. The core of his autobiography is about his life in the British Royal Navy.
Dates:
1906 - 1979
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Bickersteth War Diaries and the Papers of John Burgon Bickersteth
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BICK
Scope and Contents
The 17 volumes cover both World Wars and comprise letters home from the front, accounts of particular events by individual family members, photographs and postcards as well as newspaper clippings and telegrams. They provide a unique perspective on the war years both from those who fought abroad and those who remained at home in Canterbury.
The papers of John Bickersteth are photocopies of correspondence and reports to Maurice Hankey on Canadian affairs (1932 - 1940).
Dates:
1914 - 1972
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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''The Bloudstone'', Treatise divine right, probably Thomas Comber
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9519
Scope and Contents
1 volume, treatise on divine right of kings, paper, written in one hand throughout, italic with some secretary hand features, probably 1625, bound in contemporary doe- skin by Daniel Boyse of Cambridge (his blind-stamp of a pheasant, now mostly obliterated, in the centre of each board). Ownership inscription 'J. Leigh Jun. 1746'.
Dates:
1625
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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The Boer War Memorial, Grahamstown
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059W
Scope and Contents
Two prints, mounted on card stamped 'Hepburn and Jeanes' with captions which have been used as titles and recorded as found.
Dates:
1906
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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'The book of silence for the Deaf'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 56
Scope and Contents
The volume (24" x 18") is titled 'The Book of Silence for the Deaf, to be presented to H.M. the Queen on Commonwealth Day 1961'. It contains several 100 leaves, of which 156 bear signatures. Each leaf has space for 50 signatures on either side; few are filled completely, and some have only been used on part of one side. There are a total of around 8,000 signatures. At the front are several pages for Commonwealth countries, headed by their national arms and usually with the Prime...
Dates:
1959 - 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
Fonds
The Botanical Register for indigenous plantsadapted to Withering's arrangement by E.W. Benson
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7682
Scope and Contents
Only has names for A - C.
Dates:
1800-1899 (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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The British Australian Wool Realization Association Ltd.
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308N
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1920 - 1922
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
The Broadwater Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW
Scope and Contents
Includes: Churchill family photograph albums and press-cutting books, with photographs of Churchill and his family throughout his life, and press-cuttings covering Churchill's political, military and literary career; some papers relating to Lord Randolph Churchill; papers relating to Lady Randolph Churchill, particularly scripts for various plays which she wrote, and albums from the hospital ship, Maine, during the Boer War; papers relating to Sir Winston Churchill, including public and...
Dates:
1586 - 2011
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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The Burning of the Garden Palace, 1882
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086A
Scope and Contents
A commercially produced album containing mounted photographs, measuring approximately 280 x 225 mm, and four pages of explanatory text, commemorating the fire which destroyed the exhibition hall on 22nd September 1882. The album consists of one photograph of the undamaged building and 16 of various parts of the ruins. Prints are without captions.The origins of the building lay in the New South Wales Government's decision in 1878 to hold an International Exhibition in Sydney. In...
Dates:
1882
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
The cabinet portfolio: Queensland scenery
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085I
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1875 - 1880
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
The Cambridge Antiquarian Society Glaisher Collection of aeronautical engravings and pictures
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10207
Scope and Contents
The collection is principally one created by James Glaisher and slightly augmented by his son, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher. It consists of a series of scrapbooks containing newspaper cuttings on eighteenth and nineteenth century balloon ascents, loose newspaper cuttings on ballooning, nineteenth century journals and periodicals featuring articles on ballooning and aeronautical flights, scientific papers principally concerned with James Glaisher's experiments for the British Association for...
Dates:
1693-1928
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
The Cambridge Election
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.624
Scope and Contents
An anonymous set of verses in seven stanzas. Fo. 1: 'Samuel Sandars'.
Dates:
1700 (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
The Cambridge Review: editorial correspondence
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9846
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1964-1966
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
The Cape Monthly Magazine Vols. 5-11
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059D-J,X
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1859 - 1862
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
'The Caribbean in international politics, 1670-1707': PhD thesis
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 257
Scope and Contents
A Ph.D. thesis for the University of London, 554 pages, with a map.
Dates:
1933
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
The Carrier Corps
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 160
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1986
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
The Case for the Rights of the Duchy of Cornwall to the Scilly Islands
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6459
Scope and Contents
An exhaustive examination of the case for the rights of the Duchy of Cornwall to the Scilly Islands, drawn up by Sir G. Harrison, 346 folios: (fo. 4) introductory remarks; (fo. 7) records bearing on the matter from 1300; (fo. 25) further records proving the right of the Duchy to the islands; (fo. 31) evidence and instructions for the drawing up a legal report; (fo. 32v) report drawn up by W. Illingworth, record agent; (fo. 35v) citation of records by W. Illingworth to prove that the islands...
Dates:
1833 (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
File
The Case of Richard Hartley
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4537
Scope and Contents
'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.
Dates:
1714 (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
The Ceylon War Council, 1942
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303J
Scope and Contents
216 x 144 mm. The photograph is a group portrait of the members of the Ceylon War Council. The only figures identified are the Governor of Ceylon, Sir Andrew Caldecott (fourth from the left in the front row) and Brigadier Sir Patrick Alexander Bruce McKerron of the Malayan Civil Service. McKerron was seconded as Political Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, Ceylon during the Second World War.
The National Archives in Colombo, Sir Lanka, holds another copy of this image. The...
Dates:
1942
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
'The concept of British Empire Games': PhD thesis
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 24
Scope and Contents
A Ph.D. thesis for the University of Queensland analysing the origin and evolution of British Empire Games from 1891 to 1930, 273 pages.
Dates:
1986-12
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
The Conference Diaries of Flight Sergeant G. Green
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/GREE
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1941 - 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The de Lucy family and Malaya
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 378
Dates:
2011
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
'The Death of Alexander the Great'.
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4240
Scope and Contents
An anonymous poem in blank verse, with a short preface in prose. There are 24 folios, loose in a paper cover.
Dates:
1876 (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