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Description of Turkey
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7646
Scope and Contents
Probably compiled by a Venetian resident of Constantinople.
Dates:
1740 (Circa)
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Descriptive album of the country and people of Sarawak
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A
Scope and Contents
An album containing platinum prints, most measuring approximately 145 x 105 mm, with letterpress captions pasted beneath the prints. 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 the collection's creation. The album is stamped 'Sarawak' on the front cover but contains no further publication details: the title here given is taken from Appendix II of Hose (1927).The...
Dates:
1884-03 - 1900
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Descrittione fatta l’ann[o …] tutte l’anime che si trovano nella citta di Venetia (census of the inhabitants of Venice classed by rank or profession)
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9461
Scope and Contents
A census, recording, under the heading of each sestiere, the number of persons in each category of the population (noblemen and women, boys and girls, servants, citizens, artisans, priests, monks, beggars, poor in receipt of alms; general total 148,640), followed by a list of the parish churches with the numbers of the 'capi di casa' (heads of houses) and 'boche' (mouths to be fed in each house). The islands of the Lagoon, such as Murano and Torcello, are not included.At the top...
Dates:
Early sixteenth century (1536?)
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Design for a military and Naval trophy to be erected in honour of Queen Victoria
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2745
Dates:
26 May 1857
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Desmond King-Hele: papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS King-Hele
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises professional correspondence with scientists, publishers and colleagues in Britain and abroad, papers relating to King-Hele's career at the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE), particularly research into satellite orbits and observations of the Sputnik satellites in the late 1950s, committee papers, draft versions of various publications, literary and scientific, and papers relating to lectures, conferences and events. The collection covers all of King-Hele's...
Dates:
1945 - 2003
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Destruction of Nelson Boys' College
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089DD
Scope and Contents
Greetings card with montage of four scenes of the fire at Nelson Boys' College on the 7th December, 1904, and portrait of J.G.M. Jacobsen, builder 1850.
Dates:
1904-12-07
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Determination of Commission appointed by Parliament for settling the draining of Bedford Level, Swavesey, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.90
Scope and Contents
Whereas the Commissioners on hearing from the inhabitants of Swavesey, Petitioners, and from the Company of Conservators of the Great Level, Respondents, concluded that certain lands in the parish were in a worse condition than before a previous attempt to drain the Fens; they allot sums of money in compensation to the inhabitants and various pieces of land to the same. Lists of the names of those so compensated follow. The land allotted was in the following: Littleport, Mepal, Willingham,...
Dates:
25 Sep. 1666
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Determination of Commissioners appointed by Parliament for settling the draining of Bedford Level, Swavesey, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.91
Scope and Contents
Whereas by decree dated 12 August 1664 the Commissioners determined that the Company of Conservators should pay a certain sum to persons authorised by the township of Swavesey to the use of the township in satisfaction of damages sustained, but the warrant was recalled; and whereas it appears to the Commission that certain persons have sustained damage to certain amounts; the Commission allot the amounts named to the persons named; and they also allot land taken from the land at their...
Dates:
25 Sep. 1666
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'Development of the white community in Natal, 1845-72': PhD thesis
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 208
Scope and Contents
A Ph.D. thesis for the University of London, including a map and diagrams.
Dates:
1936
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Cambridge University Library
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'Developments in British Honduras': B.Litt thesis
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 271
Scope and Contents
'Social and administrative developments in British Honduras, 1798-1843', a B. Litt. thesis for Oxford University, 300 pages, with a map.
Dates:
1958
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'Developments in colonial status': typescript essay
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 25
Scope and Contents
'Developments in colonial status in the British Empire, 1900-22', 84 pages. The typescript is bound in a light blue cloth, with the title, coat and arms and 'The George Ludolf Siddle Prize 1923' on the front. The essay is described as 'an attempt to ascertain and to appreciate the changes which have taken place since the beginning of the present century in the relations between the various component parts of the British Empire. Treating the Empire as a united whole both the internal and...
Dates:
1923
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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D.G. Morgan: Report on the 1962 Forage Collections in N. Africa
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8108
Scope and Contents
The report of the 1962 forage expedition to North Africa, 19 pages, including tables and diagrams, followed by 6 pages of additional tables.
Dates:
1963 (Circa)
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Diana Bloomfield: letters to Evelyn Ansell and wood engravings, 1962-63
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9632
Dates:
1962-63
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Diana Hartley Indian Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022NNN
Scope and Contents
Album of photographs relating to Miss Hartley's nursing activities in India, and places visited by her. These photographs are chiefly amateur snapshots taken by Miss Hartley or her friends and are 70 x 110 mm or smaller, unless otherwise stated; a few have been enlarged to post card size and there are also some commercially produced post cards which are so identified. Number 120 to 136 were taken by a missionary, and are her copyright. The descriptions of the photographs are drawn partly...
Dates:
1935 - 1944
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Diaries and papers of Frederic Williams
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 100
Scope and Contents
Diaries of hunting expeditions in Burma, a letter regarding Williams' death and biographical notes about the Williams family. The papers are accompanied by correspondence between G.H. Williams and the R.C.S. Librarian regarding the gift of the collection, with a biographical note concerning Frederic Williams.
Dates:
1899 - 1976
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Diaries and papers of Monica Storrs
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 246
Scope and Contents
Diary extracts, a photograph and other papers of Monica Storrs and biographical material composed after her death.
Dates:
1938 - 1968
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Diaries of John Laing in India and Europe
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 21
Scope and Contents
Diaries with inserted photographs, drawings and other items.
Dates:
1873-10-18 - 1875-01-23
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Diaries of John Laing in India and Europe
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Laing
Scope and Contents
Diaries with inserted photographs, drawings and other items.
Dates:
1873-10-18 - 1875-01-23
Conditions Governing Access:
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Diaries of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HRPO
Scope and Contents
The collection held at Churchill Archives Centre consists of photocopies of Pownall's diaries.
Dates:
1933 - 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Churchill Archives Centre
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Diaries of Sir William Himbury
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 404
Content Description
Manuscript diaries written by Sir William Himbury relating to his trips to West Africa in late 19th and early 20th century. Himbury travelled in his capacity as a superintendent of cables and telegrams initially, and later on behalf of the British Cotton Growing Association (BCGA) to gther intelligence on cotton growing and trade. There is also an article on Empire cotton (1905), manuscript notes on the Egba peoples and a folder of biographical notes assembled by the donor.
Dates:
1871 - 1955
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Diary: 'Footloose in S.E. Asia'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 112
Scope and Contents
A diary of Le Sueur's experiences in South-East Asia, October 1998-April 1999, 270 pages, including 48 pages of photographs and 4 pages of maps. The areas covered are, in order, Thailand; Laos; Northern Vietnam; South Vietnam; Cambodia; Luzon, Palawan, Central Archipaelago and Mindanao (Philippines); Sabah (Malaysia); Brunei; Sarawak (Malaysia); Western Malaysia; Bangkok.
Dates:
1999
Conditions Governing Access:
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Diary: 'From west to east through Africa'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 123
Scope and Contents
An illustrated diary of Christopher Barlow's journey from Kano, 23 February 1928, through French Equatorial Africa, Belgium Congo, Sudan, Uganda and Kenya, arriving at Mombasa on 27 March, a total of nearly 3,500 miles. On pages iii-iv is a list of journeys undertaken by Barlow, 9 March 1927-19 February 1928. The volume includes thirty inserted photographs, as well as a copy of Barlow's entry in the 'Nigeria Civil Service list', 1929, and a letter to the Librarian of the Royal Empire...
Dates:
1928 - 1929
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Diary in Bahr-el-Gazal
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 119
Scope and Contents
Diary and letters from Sanders to his mother and sister, c. 510 pages, covering the period when he was cutting the Sudd and was based at Meshra er Rek, followed by his time at Wau and Rumbek. There is also a coloured manuscript map of the Rumbek area, on a scale 1/250,000. The papers are accompanied by a note on Sanders and the collection.
Dates:
1902-05-24 - 1903-04-21
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Diary of a Journey through Germany
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6651
Scope and Contents
Diary of a journey through Germany, 8-29 September [1835], apparently in Baly's hand, 122 folios. On fo. 2 is an explanatory note in the hand of the donor. Running from the end of the volume are notes on the geological formations in the districts visited and financial accounts for travel expenses.
Dates:
1835
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Diary of Agnes Wilson in South Africa
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 206
Scope and Contents
The diary, 100 x 120 mm, is comprised of two notebooks bound together totalling 374 pages, and is lettered 'A.M.W. South Africa 1901-2' on the front board. There are entries on most of the right-hand pages, and notes, photographs, passes, tickets, cuttings and other souvenirs on the left-hand side. The diary describes life on board ship, visits to the Cape, travels in the interior, and events of the period in South Africa, including comments on the ongoing Anglo-Boer war, or South African...
Dates:
1901-1902, 1952
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library