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The Papers of Professor A.V. Hill

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AVHL
Scope and Contents The first batch of papers of Professor A V Hill were deposited by him in September 1966 in two sections entitled "First World War Papers" and "Second World War' Papers". These titles were chosen since the papers clearly relate to A V Hill's work on anti-aircraft defence although the periods covered in both sections are wider than the durations of the first and second world wars. Several further accessions including memoirs and pamphlets were added to the original...
Dates: 1873 - 1977
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is mostly open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Professor David Kendall

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNDL
Scope and Contents

This small collection mostly relates to Kendall's research and work on mathematical statistics. There are also some personal research papers about the mountaineer Rev. Charles Hudson.

Dates: 1951 - 2001
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Professor Harold Barlow

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRLW
Scope and Contents

The collection held at Churchill Archives Centre comprises the academic, personal and scientific working papers (including patent applications and publications) of Professor Barlow. There are also some papers of Prof. Alex Cullen. The latter date from 1860 (a family photograph) to 1991 (a memorial lecture).

Dates: 1860 - 1991
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Individual closures are marked in the catalogue.
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The Papers of Professor James Cassels

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CASS
Scope and Contents

The papers held at Churchill Archives Centre include a small amount of biographical and personal material, public or official correspondence, and material relating to government policy on energy (mainly in the 1980's).

Dates: 1967 - 1996
Conditions Governing Access: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. One file, CASS 1/6, is closed in line with the depositors wishes.
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The papers of Professor James Ward

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/JWard
Dates: 1876 - 1918
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The Papers of Professor Joseph Preston

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/PRES
Scope and Contents

In addition to reprints of most of Preston's published scientific papers the collection consists principally of manuscript working papers either for research projects, articles or lectures throughout his career.

Dates: 1930 - 1976
Conditions Governing Access: This collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Professor Max Born

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BORN
Scope and Contents

Papers and correspondence of Professor Max Born, his wife and children, and material concerning their family history. Including photographs and artefacts.

Dates: 1811 - 2009
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
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The Papers of Professor Nicholas Kemmer

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KEMM
Scope and Contents

The collection held at Churchill Archives Centre includes Kemmer's personal and scientific papers.

Dates: 1938 - 1988
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Professor Norman Feather

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEAT
Scope and Contents

This collection consists solely of Feather's scientific papers and contains original experimental records and calculations, correspondence with other scientists, unpublished wartime reports and offprints of published papers.

Dates: 1915 - 1978
Conditions Governing Access: Boxes 1-46, Acc.660/1-4 and most of Acc.1505 are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Professor Paul Dirac

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DRAC
Scope and Contents

This collection of xeroxes comprises mainly letters and rough notes showing the developing history of quantum mechanics.

Dates: 1924 - 1971
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Professor Robert S. Hutton

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HUTT
Scope and Contents The papers relate to the work done by Professor and Mrs Hutton in caring for Jewish, Polish, Czech and other children who were brought to Cambridge from Europe in 1939 as refugees from Nazi persecution and also in attempting to secure release from internment, jobs and educational openings for adult refugees. As well as the case-histories, which comprise the bulk of the collection, are pamphlets, reports and cuttings about the Nazi regime across Europe. There are also first-hand accounts of...
Dates: 1931 - 1958
Conditions Governing Access: Parts of this collection are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Closures are clearly marked.
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The Papers of Professor Sir Joseph Rotblat

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RTBT
Scope and Contents

Rotblat’s personal archive includes working papers, notebooks, correspondence, lectures and photographs and documents his scientific career (including his research in atomic physics at the University of Liverpool and medical physics at St Bartholomew's Hospital) and the Pugwash organisation and conferences. There is a separate section covering Rotblat’s involvement with various societies and organisations. The remainder of the collection is still being catalogued and remains closed.

Dates: 1916 - 2010
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Professor William Burcham

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BCHM
Scope and Contents

The collection relates to Burcham's scientific career, especially his work in the high voltage laboratory under M L E Oliphant and P I Dee which was set up to pursue the findings of Sir John Cockcroft and E T S Walton in splitting atomic nuclei.

Dates: 1913 - 2004
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Randolph Churchill

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RDCH
Scope and Contents The collection includes: Randolph Churchill's correspondence, with his own friends and those of his father; personal papers, particularly on a book to commemorate his parents' golden wedding anniversary and on his house in Suffolk; correspondence, source material and proofs for his many books, particularly his autobiography, 'Twenty-One Years' and the biography of his father; correspondence and texts relating to Randolph's journalistic career; papers relating to his various election...
Dates: 1870 - 1992
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. The catalogue includes details of some material in the collection which is currently too fragile to be produced and researchers should seek advice from Archives Centre staff about accessing this material.
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The Papers of Rear-Admiral Clarence Howard-Johnston

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HWJN
Scope and Contents

Copies of letters by Howard-Johnston describing his wartime service, including his work as Director of the Anti-U-Boat Division, and as captain of HMS Bermuda, with the British Pacific Fleet (1947). Subjects include: Cabinet Anti-U-Boat meetings; difficulties with the lack of understanding at the Admiralty of anti-U-Boat operations; German success in evading Asdic; service with Admiral Sir Denis Boyd [Commander-in-Chief, British Pacific Fleet].

Dates: 1947-02 - 1980-02
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Rear-Admiral Edmund Nicholas Poland

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/PLND
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Memoirs of HMS Vernon, 1872-1986
HMS Vernon, at Portsmouth, was a torpedo training ship, 1872-6, and the Royal Navy's Torpedo Branch, 1876-1986

Dates: 1986 - 1991
Conditions Governing Access: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Rear Admiral Frederick Peter Scourse

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SCOU
Scope and Contents

Comprising an unpublished memoir entitled "Sea-Change: A personal account of a career in naval and defence engineering in the late 20th century", and letters, documents and photographs relating to Scourse's career in the Royal Navy.

Dates: 1973 - 2020-10
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is mostly open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. SCOU 1 is closed pending review by the Ministry of Defence.
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The Papers of Rear-Admiral Iain Maclean

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCLN
Scope and Contents

The papers chiefly consist of a series of lectures and papers on marine engineering written by Maclean after the Second World War, also including a small number of pocket diaries and some biographical material.

Dates: 1938 - 1966
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Rear-Admiral John Adams

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ADMS
Scope and Contents

The collection primarily consists of papers relating to Adams' involvement with submarine warfare and includes papers on anti-submarine warfare and the Admiralty underwater weapons establishment.

Dates: 1948 - 1965
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. One file within the collection is closed to researchers.
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The Papers of Rear-Admiral Malcolm Walter St Leger Searle

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SRLE
Scope and Contents

The Searle papers comprise the reminiscences of Admiral Searle of his service as a gunnery expert before and during the Second World War.

Dates: 1917 - 1981
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers at Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Rear-Admiral Sir Anthony Miers

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MIER
Scope and Contents

Papers comprising lectures, official reports and correspondence, mainly about Second World War naval operations in the Mediterranean and the Pacific, 1941-5, and the Cyprus Emergency, 1955-9.

Dates: 1938 - 1967
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Rear-Admiral Sir Anthony Wass Buzzard

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BZRD
Scope and Contents Buzzard's primary career was as a naval officer and a significant portion of this collection reflects this work. There are Second World War naval papers concerning HMS Glory, HMS Superb, HMS Formidable, HMS Theseus and HMS Implacable. Also included are conference papers on issues such as arms, deterrence and disarmament. But it was Buzzard's involvement with organisations such as the Institute for Strategic Studies, the Conference of Christian Approaches to Defence and Disarmament and the...
Dates: 1930 - 1972
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of (Reginald) Hugh Hickling

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HICK
Scope and Contents

This small collection relates to a personal memoir written by Hickling recalling the final days of British rule in South Arabia (1964-67) recalling his time as Legal Adviser to the High Commissioner in Aden and South Arabia [later Yemen]. Hickling wrote the memoir in 1973-4 while waiting for a Foreign Office posting. It has not been published.

Dates: 1967 - 1974
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Reginald Maudling

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MLNG
Scope and Contents

These files contain constituency correspondence.

Dates: 1971-06 - 1979-04
Conditions Governing Access: These papers are CLOSED to researchers. This collection contains sensitive personal information about living individuals. It is closed under the terms of the 1997 Data Protection Act for 100 years from the last date in each file. Enquiries should be made to Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.
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The Papers of Reginald McKenna

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCKN
Scope and Contents The collection includes: personal papers, particularly on McKenna's property and financial affairs; a small amount of material on the 1907 Education Bill; a large amount of correspondence and papers from McKenna's tenure as First Lord of the Admiralty; some Home Office correspondence; speeches and correspondence from McKenna's time as Chancellor of the Exchequer; correspondence with Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher; papers on McKenna's career following his departure from politics,...
Dates: 1883 - 1994
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

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