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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 Bull

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BULL
Scope and Contents BULL 1 - 10 is made up of diaries kept faithfully by William (or Paul, as he was known to his family and close friends) Bull from 1878, when he was thirteen years old until some three weeks before his death in January 1931. The earlier diaries were illustrated and all the diaries are interleaved with letters, press cuttings, menus, theatre programmes and photographs relating to the events they describe. Twice yearly, in June and December, Bull compiled a 'Retrospect' of the past six months...
Dates: 1862 - 1943
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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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The Papers of William Lawrence Wilson

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WLSN
Scope and Contents

Papers comprising a memoir, a history of engineering in the Office of Works and lectures

Dates: 1952 - 1992
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 T. Stead

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/STED
Scope and Contents

The bulk of this collection is Stead's letters from his many correspondents including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, William Gladstone, and Christabel Pankhurst. There are also papers relating to his time in prison, and to his many publications. Material related to interviews with Royal and political figures and notes for work are also included.

Dates: 1871 - 1987
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 Wing Commander Charles Kimber

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KMBR
Scope and Contents

Papers comprising a scrapbook and photocopies of a flying log book and a desk diary

Dates: 1928 - 1983
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 Wing Commander Sir Archibald James

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AJMS
Scope and Contents

The small collection of James' papers held at Churchill Archives Centre mainly consists of James' later recollections of his Royal Flying Corps and RAF career and on the personalities he knew.

Dates: 1931 - 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 Winston S. Churchill

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WSCH
Scope and Contents

Political correspondence and speeches.

Dates: 1963 - 2009
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is closed.
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The pathography of a cuckoo and other papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 52
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Part of Guy Wheeler's autobiography, a collection of his poems and copies of certificates relating to him and his family.

Dates: 1922 - 1970
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).
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The personal papers of Admiral Sir Sackville Hamilton Carden.

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CARD
Scope and Contents

The collection contains papers and correspondence, mainly relating to the period of the First World War, and especially to Carden's involvement in the naval campaign at the Dardanelles.

Dates: 1869 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The poisoned kiss or the Empress and the Necromancer, a romantic extravaganza written by Evelyn Sharp, music by R. Vaughan Williams

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8909
Scope and Contents

Published score, prompter's copy (M.W. Wigram). Signed on title page by Vaughan Williams, Evelyn Sharp and cast of first performance, Arts Theatre, Cambridge, 12-16 May 1936. Score marked with alterations, omissions. Typescript changes to libretto. With programmes, Arts Theatre and Sadler's Wells Theatre, London (18 May 1936); newscutting, and review of Cambridge performance.

Dates: 1936 (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).
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The Portsmouth Collection

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007
Scope and Contents

The Portsmouth Collection is the principal collection of Isaac Newton's scientific and mathematical papers, including early drafts of the Principia, and his correspondence with Oldenburg, Halley Flamsteed and many of the other most prominent scientists of his day.

Dates: 1664-1732 (Dates are approximate.)
Conditions Governing Access: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
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'The post-war economic development of Gibraltar': BA dissertation

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 60
Scope and Contents

'The geography of the post-war economic development of Gibraltar, 1946-70', a B.A. dissertation for Durham University.

Dates: 1970
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).
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The Prince of Wales' visit to Nigeria, 15-22 April 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043DD
Scope and Contents

A collection of loose prints, most measuring approximately 205 x 155 mm. The photographs have detailed captions and identifications on the reverse and all, except the first print, relate to the Prince of Wales' visit in April 1925. Photographs by H.S. Freeman, Hamid and Sons, and others.

Dates: 1925-04-15 - 1925-04-22
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).
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The Progress of H.R.H. Prince Alfred Ernest Albert through the Cape Colony, British Kaffraria... in the year 1860

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305V
Scope and Contents A quarto, 180 page volume recording the visit of Prince Alfred, later Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, to South Africa. Bound in a decorative purple cover, it appeared in 1861. It was illustrated with actual photographs stuck in; ten reproduce paintings by Thomas Bowler (1812-1869) or Thomas Baines (1822-1875); the remainder are actual photographs of events of the Prince's visit (1, 7-11 and 13).The following notes draw extensively on Bull and Denfield (1970), which...
Dates: 1860 - 1861
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).

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Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg, 1834-1902 (1st Baron Acton and historian) 24
Keynes, Sir Geoffrey Langdon, 1887-1982 (Knight, surgeon and bibliophile) 24
Benson, Arthur Christopher, 1862-1925 (author and college head) 19
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James, Montague Rhodes, 1862-1936 (biblical scholar, antiquary and palaeographer) 18
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Trinity College, Cambridge 17
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Darwin, Sir George Howard, 1845-1912 (Knight, mathematician and geophysicist) 9
Sandars, Samuel, 1837-1894 (bibliographer and barrister) 9
University of Oxford 9
Willis, Robert, 1800-1875 (engineer and architectural historian) 9
Babington, Charles Cardale, 1808-1895 (botanist and archaeologist) 8
Duff, Edward Gordon, 1863-1924 (bibliographer) 8
FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883 (poet and translator) 8
Jackson, Henry, 1839-1921 (classicist) 8
Maitland, Frederic William, 1850-1906 (legal historian) 8
St John's College, Cambridge 8
Aristotle, 384-322 BC (philosopher) 7
Charles, I, 1600-1649 (King of England, Scotland, and Ireland) 7
Cole, William, 1714-1782 (antiquary) 7
Housman, Alfred Edward, 1859-1936 (poet) 7
Jesus College, Cambridge 7
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Paisiello, Giovanni, 1740-1816 (composer) 7
Royal Commonwealth Society 7
Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist) 7
University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory 7
Bidder, George Parker, 1863-1953 (marine biologist) 6
Church Missionary Society 6
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Clark, John Willis, 1833-1910 (Cambridge University registrary) 6
Cockcroft, John Douglas, Sir, 1897 - 1967 (Knight, nuclear physicist and first Master of Churchill College) 6
Donne, John, 1572-1631 (poet and Church of England clergyman) 6
Eton College 6
Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888 (zoologist and religious writer) 6
Gosse, Sir Edmund William, 1849-1928 (Knight, writer) 6
King's College, Cambridge 6
Moore, George Edward, 1873-1958 (philosopher) 6
Niclaes, Hendrik, 1502-? 1580 (German mystic and founder of the sect Familia Caritatis) 6
Powys, Llewelyn, 1884-1939 (writer) 6
Rennie, John, 1761-1821 (engineer) 6
Roskill, Stephen Wentworth, 1903 - 1982 (naval historian) 6
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Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937 (Baron Rutherford of Nelson, physicist) 6
Simpson, Donald Herbert, 1920 - 2002 (Librarian of the Royal Commonwealth Society) 6
Thatcher, Margaret Hilda, 1925 - 2013 (née Roberts, Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, Prime Minister) 6
Welcker, Adair, 1858-1926 (author) 6
Whittle, Frank, Sir, 1907 - 1996 (Knight, Air Commodore, aeronautical engineer) 6
Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell 5
Blake, William, 1757-1827 (engraver, artist, and poet) 5
British Overseas Airways Corporation 5
Clare College, Cambridge 5
Gow, Andrew Sydenham Farrar, 1886-1978 (Classical Scholar) 5
James, I, 1566-1625 (King of Great Britain and Ireland) 5
Keynes, John Neville, 1852-1949 (logician, economist and university administrator) 5
Lethbridge, Thomas Charles, 1901-1971 (archaeologist and parapsychologist) 5
Longmore, Laura, fl1948 - 1998 5
Macalister, Alexander, 1844-1899 (Professor of Anatomy and surgeon) 5
Madden, Sir Frederic, 1801-1873 (Knight, palaeographer and librarian) 5
Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879 (Professor, scientist, physicist) 5
Minns, Sir Ellis Hovell, 1874-1953 (Knight, archaeologist, orientalist and linguist) 5
Newton, Alfred, 1829-1907 (zoologist) 5
Saunderson, Nicholas, 1682-1739 (mathematician) 5
Scholfield, Alwyn Faber, 1884-1969 (Cambridge University Librarian) 5
Smith, Sir (Walter Buchanan-, 1879-1944, Knight) 5
Soames, Mary, Dame, 1922 - 2014 (née Churchill, writer, wife of Baron Soames) 5
Stevenson, Anne, 1933-2020 (poet) 5
Stokes, Sir George Gabriel, 1819-1903 (1st Baronet and physicist) 5
Thomas, Harold Beken, 1888 - 1971 (colonial administrator and historian) 5
Welch, John Hope, 1942- (poet, publisher and teacher) 5
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 (Viscount St Alban, lord chancellor, politician and philosopher) 4
Bartholomew, Augustus Theodore, 1882-1933 (librarian) 4
Bartlett, Sir Frederic Charles, 1886-1969 (Knight and psychologist) 4
Bateson, William, 1861-1926 (biologist) 4
Blunden, Edmund Charles, 1896-1974 (poet) 4
Cambridge University Press 4
Charles, II, 1630-1685 (King of Great Britain and Ireland) 4
Churchill College 4
Elizabeth, I, 1533-1603 (Queen of England and Ireland) 4
Elizabeth, II, 1926-2022 (Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) 4
Falconer, John, 1951 (Curator of photographs, British Library) 4
Foreign Office 4
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