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The Papers of the Naval Radar Trust

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/NVRT
Scope and Contents The papers gathered by the members of the Naval Radar Trust mostly consist of reminiscences by over 150 staff who worked on British Naval Radar during WWII. These reminiscences survive in letters and transcripts of interviews, as well as some original technical papers retained by interviewees. The Trust also gathered material from other sources such as the Public Record Office and publications, therefore copies survive here of relevant material held elsewhere. The collection also includes...
Dates: 1928 - 1997
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation (except where items are inaccessible for conservation reasons) by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of the Sedgwick Club

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Reference Code: GBR/590/SGWC
Scope and Contents

The Sedgwick Club Archive contains administrative documents including minute books, 1880-1926; financial records, 1880-1989; handwritten copies of papers given at meetings, 1880-; excursion scrapbooks, 1882 to 1950; social events records including menu cards; copies of club photographs 1900-1974 [NB: a full set of club photographs are on display in Cambridge University Department of Earth Sciences] and digitized copies of all group photographs [until 2016].

Dates: 1880 - 2020
Conditions Governing Access: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. Some scrapbooks are damaged and access is now restricted. The Collections Research Centre [West Cambridge] is open from Monday to Friday, 10:00-13:00 and 14:00-17:00. A prior appointment made at least two weeks in advance, and two forms of identification are required.
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The Papers of Thomas Allibone

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ALIB
Scope and Contents

The papers include: scrapbooks on Allibone's career; correspondence; published journals; research publications for Associated Electrical Industries; photographs.

Dates: 1915-08 - 2001-08
Conditions Governing Access: Closed until catalogued.
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The Papers of Thomas Elmhirst

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ELMT
Scope and Contents

The papers include: official material, mainly from the 1920's and 30's and the Second World War; personal correspondence with Elmhirst's wife and family; Elmhirst's memoirs, both written and recorded; articles and lectures.

Dates: 1896 - 1977
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 Thomas Erle

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ERLE
Scope and Contents

The papers include: correspondence between the Lords Justices and the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; general correspondence (with transcripts); papers (with transcripts) on subjects including Monmouth's Rebellion, the Glorious Revolution, Ireland, the fortifications of Portsmouth [Hampshire] and the Ordnance Office; later material relating to the Erle and Drax families and the papers themselves.

Dates: 1650 - 1965
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 Thomas Graeme Nelson Haldane

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/TGNH
Scope and Contents Probably the most interesting items in the Haldane papers are the very detailed and informative journals Haldane kept during his tours of the power installations of Russia, Sweden and America in the nineteen thirties and of New Zealand in the nineteen fifties. The collection also contains many articles on electrical power by Haldane together with notes and drafts of talks and lectures. There is also very interesting correspondence with Sir John Cockcroft and Dr. Monty Finniston about atomic...
Dates: 1914 - 1975
Conditions Governing Access: With a few exceptions which are noted in the catalogue, the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Thomas Horabin

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HRBN
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee and other papers

Dates: 1939 - 1965
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 Valentine Lawford

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LWFD
Dates: 1927-91
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The Papers of Vanda Salmon

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SALM
Scope and Contents

The main body of the collection is a series of personal scrapbooks collated and kept by Vanda Salmon about her life and career. These are supplemented by her own unpublished writings and memoir.

Dates: 1936 - 2007
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The Papers of Vasiliy Mitrokhin

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MITN
Scope and Contents

The collection comprises the redacted and edited typescript copies of Mitrokhin's original manuscript notes of documents from the KGB archive. All documents are in Russian.

Dates: 1972 - 2004
Conditions Governing Access: Some files in sections 1-3 are closed (see catalogue for more details). Please note that Archives Centre staff are not able to make copies on behalf of researchers, though researchers are welcome to bring their own cameras and make images from the files.
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The Papers of Vice-Admiral John Harper

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/JEHR
Scope and Contents

Some papers relate to the compilation of the official record of the Battle of Jutland
With a list of the papers compiled by David Erskine, 1980.
Also includes biographical material.

Dates: 1875 - 1982
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 Vice-Admiral John Hughes-Hallett

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HHLT
Scope and Contents

"Before I forget", annotated draft of Hughes-Hallett's memoir on Combined Operations, 1941-5, including his memoir of the Dieppe Raid and the planning for D-Day (Operation Overlord); with a letter to him from Winston Churchill MP (Prime Minister), 19 September 1954

Dates: 1954
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 Vice-Admiral Sir (Arthur) Francis Pridham

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/PRID
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of 5 volumes of his First World War diaries and 4 files relating to his memoirs.

Dates: 1914 - 1971
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 Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Charles Hughes-Hallett

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HUHT
Scope and Contents

The papers include correspondence with naval historians and with colleagues on the Naval Review, some personal papers, reminiscences and records and also narratives from Japanese prisoner of war camps.

Dates: 1918 - 1985
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 Vice-Admiral Sir John Edelsten

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/EDSN
Scope and Contents

The papers chiefly consist of correspondence, naval messages and photographs from Edelsten's time with the Mediterranean and Pacific Fleets.

Dates: 1916 - 1955
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 Vice Admiral Sir (John) Michael Villiers

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/VILL
Scope and Contents Naval correspondence, reports and photograph albums relating to the naval career of Villiers and his father, Rear Admiral Edward Cecil Villiers. (Edward Cecil Villiers, 1866-1939, served in Naval Intelligence Depart 1903-1905; he was Captain of the RN College, Greenwich, 1906-1908; of Actæon Torpedo School Ship, 1912; Rear-Admiral retired, 1917; after retirement continued to serve as Rear-Admiral in HMS Actæon until end of the war; commanded the flotillas defending the estuary of the Thames...
Dates: 1881 - 1968
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Churchill Archives.
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The Papers of Vice-Admiral Sir Louis Le Bailly

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LEBY
Scope and Contents

Papers on Naval Engineering and intelligence issues, 1932-92; includes some papers of R.F. Le Bailly and W.F.G Le Bailly, 1885-1914

Dates: 1885 - 1992
Conditions Governing Access: With the exception of a few files which are still closed (details are available in the catalogue), the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Vice-Admiral Wilfred Tomkinson

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/TOMK
Scope and Contents

Many of the papers relate to the Invergordon Mutiny and Tomkinson's subsequent treatment by the Admiralty. The British attacks on Zeebrugge and Ostend in 1918 also feature in some of the documents. Tomkinson left a large number of photographs which illustrate his naval career and his family life.

Dates: 1892 - 1945
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 Viscount Whitelaw of Penrith

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WLAW
Scope and Contents

Personal political papers, mainly consisting of personal messages received by Whitelaw

Dates: 1934 - 1997
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 Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNT
Scope and Contents

Personal, political and literary papers

Dates: 1927 - 2005
Conditions Governing Access: Closed until catalogued (please contact Archives Centre to enquire about progress)
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The Papers of William and Elsie Strang

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/STRN
Scope and Contents The collection includes correspondence; drafts of books, articles, broadcasts, and speeches; family papers; a photocopy of a diary; and photographs.Some of the highlights of the collection include correspondence and papers relating to William Strang's career in the Foreign Office, including the Metro-Vickers trial in Moscow, 1933, Appeasement policy, 1938-9, and his relations with the Foreign Office during that period; and the work of the European Advisory Commission, 1943-5, and...
Dates: 1913-78
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The Papers of William and Margaret Malkin

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MALK
Scope and Contents

Papers comprising correspondence, official documents, memorabilia, press cuttings and photographs

Dates: 1892 - 1970
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The Papers of William Bernard Robinson King

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Reference Code: GBR/590/WBRK
Scope and Contents The collection contains notebooks from the Second World War concerning water boreholes; rolls of maps; lantern plates marked "Channel"; typed manuscripts; a presentation copy of "Work of Royal Engineers in the European War 1914-1919, Geological Work on the western Front 1922"; handwritten notes on the retreat to Dunkirk; reports on specimens; dress medals; OBE and Military Cross; a silver cigarette case from colleagues at the Geological Survey, 1916; certificates of honorary degrees and...
Dates: 1909 - 1961
Conditions Governing Access: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. The Collections Research Centre [West Cambridge] is open from Monday to Friday, 10:00-13:00 and 14:00-17:00. A prior appointment made at least two weeks in advance, and one form of identification is required.
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The Papers of William Courtenay

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CTNY
Scope and Contents

Colour film reel shot by Courtenay, mainly from his experiences in the Second World War, including footage of Winston Churchill in Canada and giving the "Iron Curtain" speech, 1946, and footage of American forces in the Pacific.

Dates: 1941 - 1946
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 William F Clarke

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CLKE
Scope and Contents

The papers relate to the setting up of Room 40 and the Naval Intelligence's code-breaking activities in the First World War and to Clarke's service in the Government Code and Cypher School from 1922 to 1945.

Dates: 1914 - 1959
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

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