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Fonds
College Archive
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/1849/CA
Dates:
1530 - 2000
Found in:
Christ's College Archives
Fonds
College Archives
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/2511/DC
Scope and Contents
The College Archives consist of the instutional records of the college and include papers, photographs and audio-visual recordings relating to the governance, administration, and student life of Darwin College. The collection includes records and photographs from the college's founding in 1964 as the first exclusively postgraduate college of Cambridge University, as well as documentation of the college's prehistory assembled by the first master, Sir Frank George Young. The collection...
Dates:
1962 - 2019
Found in:
Darwin College Archives
Fonds
College Archives
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/KC
Scope and Contents
From its foundation by Henry VI in 1441 to the present day, King's College has preserved records of its internal administration, the construction of its buildings, and the lives of its members. The archives offer researchers outstanding sources for the study of architecture, religious upheaval, patterns of consumption, development of the curriculum, social and political history. Mundum Books recording payments for goods and services, and Commons Books documenting Kingsmen dining in Hall, are...
Dates:
1085 - 2020
Conditions Governing Access:
Some records contain personal information as defined under the terms of the Data Protection Act (1998) and will be reserved.
Management Group
College Art Collections
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/1934/ART
Scope and Contents
Includes material relating to College silver and furniture.
Dates:
1925
Found in:
St Catharine's College Archive
Management Group
College chapel : account of the consecration of Peterhouse chapel.
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/CHAPEL
Scope and Contents
Seven leaves (290 × 180mm) bound in a late 17th-century Cambridge style between many blanks by George Bayntun of Northumberland Place, Bath, in, or shortly after, 1894. It is possible that this was a copy for Walter Curle (or Curll), D.D., Fellow of Peterhouse 1598 to 1616, Bishop of Bath and Wells to November 1632 (when he was translated to Winchester) and a notable benefactor to the building of the chapel.
Dates:
1633-03-17
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library
Management Group
College (General)
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/1934/COLL
Dates:
1475
Found in:
St Catharine's College Archive
Sub-Management Group
College members
Sub-Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/3124/NHPM
Scope and Contents
Publications, CVs, biographical notices, press cuttings, notes re careers and publications etc.
Dates:
1954 - 2001
Fonds
College of Cardinals: Copy Letters
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8852
Scope and Contents
'Lettere, proposte e risposte del Sacro Collegio a diversi'. Copies of official letters to and from cardinals during vacancies in the Papacy and at other times, 1540-1669. The correspondents include Emperors Charles, Rudolph, Ferdinand and Leopold; the Kings of France, Spain, Portugal, Poland and Zangara; Viceroys of Naples; nuncios in various states and cities; Cardinals Giguri, Sforza, Boncampagni, Barberino, De Treyo, Aldobrandino, Richelieu, Maurice of Savoy, Filamarino, Maidalchini,...
Dates:
1540-1676 (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
Management Group
College premises and buildings
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC08
Scope and Contents
Nos 16-18 not used.
There are many items relating to the maintenance of college buildings in the bursars' accounts (CCCC02/B).
Many of the documents relating to the college chapels are separately listed.
Dates:
1409 - 1892
Found in:
Corpus Christi College Archives
Fonds
College Publications
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC/Pub
Dates:
1886 - 2022
Found in:
Corpus Christi College Archives
Management Group
College Publications
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/1935/EDCP
Dates:
1893 - 2021
Found in:
St Edmunds College Archive
Management Group
College societies : minutes and papers
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/COLLEGE SOCIETIES
Scope and Contents
The elections of officers of clubs are entered in a separate database, available to enquirers, and are not generally noted below.
Society records containing names of living or potentially living persons are not available online.
Dates:
1836 - 2010
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library
Fonds
Colombo Harbour completed 1885 [Construction of South-West Breakwater, Colombo Harbour, 1875-1885]
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303C
Scope and Contents
An album containing mounted albumen prints by William Louis Henry Skeen and Company, measuring approximately 260 x 210 mm with captions pasted onto the page beneath the prints. The album is inscribed: 'Sir W.C. Sergeaunt K.C.M.G. with Sir John Coode's compliments'. The album documents the construction of the breakwater from the laying of the foundation stone to its completion in 1885.Construction of the Colombo Breakwater.
The creation of an artificial harbour to increase the...
Dates:
1875 - 1885
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
Colonel Sir William Lee: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4377-4379
Scope and Contents
A journal of a tour in Germany. Notes on fortifications in French and regimental orders.
Dates:
1750-1799
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
Colonial, Imperial and Commonwealth Conferences photograph collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC
Scope and Contents
Collection of more than one thousand photographs, including negatives and colour transparencies with numerous duplicates, on meetings from the first Colonial Conference of 1887 to contemporary Commonwealth Heads of Government meetings.Origin of the collection:A miscellaneous collection which was built up over the years, with significant acquisitions from the Central Office of Information and elsewhere for use in ‘United Empire’ and its successors. Some images were given by...
Dates:
1887 - 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
Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee watercolours of Rhodesia and South Africa
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 195
Scope and Contents
A series of watercolours commissioned from the Rhodesian artist Mrs Gilbert Stephenson to be used in colouring lantern slides to illustrate the fifth handbook, A.J. Sargent, 'South Africa: seven lectures (London, 1914). Stephenson had been recommended by the British South Africa Company. The numbering used in the catalogue reflects Stephenson's own numbering. The scenes cover: Northern Rhodesia [i.e. Zambia], including Victoria Falls and the Tanganyika Plateau; Southern Rhodesia [i.e....
Dates:
1913 - 1914
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
'Colonial reformers as an imperial factor, 1815-1855'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 346
Scope and Contents
Chapter II, pp. 27-91, of a work of circa 500 pages, identifying twenty-four colonial reformers in Britain. There are six pages of introduction, which include the author's thanks to C.E. Carrington, and a three-page summary of the contents of the book. It is not known if the completed work was published.
Dates:
1967
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
Colonial surveys in Tanganyika
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 184
Scope and Contents
The volume contains two short papers on surveying compiled from notes kept during Dickson's time in Tanganyika: 'Colonial surveys in Tanganyika', a potted history, and 'A colonial surveyor in Tanganyika', a personal view of the Colonial Survey Service in the 1950s. There is an accompanying folder containing correspondence with Peter Fox, Cambridge University Librarian, regarding the gift of the collection to the R.C.S., and an additional copy of pages 25-30 of the second paper.
Dates:
2000
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
'Colonialism: before and after'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 392
Scope and Contents
This unpublished manuscript was probably written by Burns sometime after 6 January 1973 and was transcribed by his grandson Andrew FitzGerald between 2013 and 2016. The formatting and content of each page have been reproduced as faithfully as possible to the original manuscript, and every effort was made to retain its style of presentation. The illustrated cover, however, was not part of the original manuscript. The scope of Burn’s history is set out in the table of contents:I....
Dates:
1973 - 1980
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
'Colonies in their commercial relation to the Mother Country': essay
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 14
Scope and Contents
A fair copy of an essay, with corrections and insertions, c. 60-70 pages. The inserted material includes several press cuttings, among them an excerpt from 'The Times', 16 July 1870, with an article on the petition for state aid to the colonies.
Dates:
1870
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
Commemorative issues of magazines and newspapers 1897, 1953, 1965 and various
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHTY
Scope and Contents
Includes copies of "the Times", "The Graphic", "Sphere", "Country Life" and "Illustrated London News"
Dates:
1897-08 - 1965-08
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
Commendation for Thomas Harding's 'Church History'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2718.1
Scope and Contents
Transcribed from Bodleian Library MS Tanner 89, fo. 4.
Dates:
1800 (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
Commentarius in Universam
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6205
Scope and Contents
579 pages.
Dates:
1677
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
Commentary on Justinian's Institutes
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5949
Scope and Contents
An anonymous commentary on Justinian's Instituta, Books Lib. I.1-II.17 and III.23-25, 276 folios. The versos are blank. Inside the front cover is a 19th century insertion, 'Loddington' (there is a similar inscription in MS.Add.5950).
Dates:
1725 (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
Commentary on the Chapter 'De Causis' in the 1516 Concordat between Pope Leo X and Francis I
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9298
Scope and Contents
'Commentaire sur le chapitre de Causis du concordat pass a Boulogne entre Leon Xe et Francois Ier en l'ann 1516', a commentary on the chapter De Causis in the 1516 Concordat (pp.143-185 of a longer work). It is written in a single hand, with annotations, some of which are in another hand. The 1516 concordat between Leo x (giovanni de medici, 1475-1521), Pope, 1513-1521, and Francis I (1494-1557), King of France, 1515-1557, granted the French King the right to nominate bishops. (bishops...
Dates:
1600-1699 (17th century)
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