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'The concept of British Empire Games': PhD thesis
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 24
Scope and Contents
A Ph.D. thesis for the University of Queensland analysing the origin and evolution of British Empire Games from 1891 to 1930, 273 pages.
Dates:
1986-12
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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The de Lucy family and Malaya
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 378
Dates:
2011
Conditions Governing Access:
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'The development of African road transport in Western Nigeria, 1919-1939': MA thesis
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 153
Scope and Contents
An M.A. thesis submitted to the Department of History, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 119 pages.
Dates:
1977
Conditions Governing Access:
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'The dispossessed': PhD thesis
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 201
Scope and Contents
'A study of changes in African marriage and family systems under the impact of urbanization (with special reference to Eastern Native Township - and to conditions in and around the city of Johannesburg)', a Ph.D. thesis based on a study made in 1950-1953, and including photographs and maps.
Dates:
1957
Conditions Governing Access:
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The eruption of Mont Pelée, Martinique, 1902
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307E
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose gravure prints measuring approximately 190 x 125 mm, captioned in ink on the backs of the prints. The captions have been used as titles and recorded as found.The great tragedy which overtook the island of Martinique and razed St Pierre in May 1902 is made more poignant by what we know of the city and its people before Mont Pelée erupted. Lafcadio Hearn spent some time on the island shortly before the disaster and gives a description which tallies with accounts...
Dates:
1900 - 1902
Conditions Governing Access:
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'The face in the mirror': autobiography of John Morley
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 44
Scope and Contents
The autobiography of John Morley, written during the 1970s, 122 pages.
Dates:
1970 - 1979
Conditions Governing Access:
The thesis may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the permission of the author.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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'The golden stool': a novel
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 135
Scope and Contents
A novel giving a version of the Ashanti Campaign of 1900, 512 pages. The work was left unfinished at the author's death, but was completed by his widow, Mrs Helen Victoria Montagu Hall. There are inserted illustrations, including some from 'The great drama of Kumasi', and photographs supplied by the Basel Mission, including one of Hall.
Dates:
1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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'The great farm of the English customs': University of London MA thesis
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 12
Scope and Contents
'The last period of the great farm of the English customs, 1660-71', a University of London M.A. thesis, 1935, 216 pages.
Dates:
1935
Conditions Governing Access:
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The Himalayas 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022RRRR
Scope and Contents
Framed panoramic photograph made up of two prints joined, 380 x 105 mm. The photograph shows a view of the Himalayas taken at sunrise on a trek from Darjeeling to Kanchenjunga in 1932 by J.P.Perry. The frame measures 453 x 188 mm.
Dates:
1932
Conditions Governing Access:
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'The history of Newfoundland, 1713-63': MA thesis
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 235
Scope and Contents
A M.A. thesis for the University of London, 306 pages, with maps.
Dates:
1931
Conditions Governing Access:
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The History of the Imperial Assemblage at Delhi, held on the 1st January, 1877
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022M
Scope and Contents
Printed volume of 248 printed pages by James Talboys Wheeler containing Woodburytypes. These include studio portraits of the Queen, Lord Lytton, and eleven Indian rulers; a group of the Khan of Khelat with Chiefs and Ministers; seven views of historical remains in Delhi; and five of scenes at the Durbar at which Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India. 'The original photographs, with some exceptions, were taken by Messrs Bourne and Shepherd' (Wheeler 1877, p.vi) but there is no...
Dates:
1877
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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'The history of the tobacco trade in England': thesis
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 26
Scope and Contents
A thesis for Cambridge University, 303 pages.
Dates:
1926
Conditions Governing Access:
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The Holy Land [i.e. Palestine], Egypt, Constantinople [i.e. Istanbul], Athens, etc. etc. 1865
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214D
Scope and Contents
Printed volume with text by W.M. Thomson illustrated with photographs taken by Francis Bedford. The photographs were taken whilst Bedford accompanied the Prince of Wales on his tour of the Middle East in 1862 and were published as an inexpensive alternative to Bedford (1863). The accompanying text in this volume is described as 'designedly of a popular character'.
Dates:
1865
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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The Imperial Durbar Album of the Indian Princes, Chiefs and Zamindars
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022O
Scope and Contents
A two-volume printed work containing biographies of 194 Indian and Burmese rulers with tipped-in portraits. Edition limited to 300 copies. Plates 1-31 are photogravure prints, the remainder are half-tone reproductions of varying quality: although not original photographic prints they have been included in the catalogue of the photograph collection as representing an important source for portrait of major and minor rulers, many probably not available elsewhere. Biographical notes have been...
Dates:
1911
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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The Kibi murder trial
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 138
Scope and Contents
An undated, typescript account, with manuscript annotations, of a murder trial in the Supreme Court of the Gold Coast, November 1944, as recorded in the notes of Mr Justice Mustafa Fuad, edited by Madge Field, 230 pages. The eight defenders were found guilty of the murder of Akyia Mensah, who disappeared after the funeral rites of Paramount Chief Omanhene Nana Sir Ofori Ata of Akyem Abuakwa. This was alleged to be a case of ritual sacrifice. There is a glossary, notes on the historical...
Dates:
1944
Conditions Governing Access:
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The Knuckles (Colombo, 1868)
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303D
Scope and Contents
A volume of poems by William Skeen, Government Printer of Ceylon, illustrated by albumen prints produced by his son, W.L.H. Skeen. The prints measure approximately 145 x 95 mm and are pasted in beside the text.An advertisement by Skeen and Co. at the end of the book states the different editions of the work available: at 10 shillings with two photographs, at £1 with seven photographs, and 6 shillings without illustrations. The poem of the title is a history of the Knuckles planting...
Dates:
1868
Conditions Governing Access:
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The last Tasmanians
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3088C
Scope and Contents
Three prints mounted on thin card and captioned on the reverse. The captions have been recorded as found. These photographs show head and shoulders portraits of some of the last representatives of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
Dates:
1866
Conditions Governing Access:
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'The Malayan planter's bungalow'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 366
Scope and Contents
Peter and Waveney Jenkins worked and lived in Malaysia for over 40 years. Peter was employed in the construction industry before joining the Malaysian International Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He has written a history of the organisation. Waveney has worked with the Heritage of Malaysia Trust to preserve the country’s historic buildings, and with the Kandis Resource Centre to support traditional wood-carving on the country’s east coast. Their joint interest in Malayan history...
Dates:
1911 - 2007
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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The Marjory Warren Geriatric Unit, Brisbane
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085V
Scope and Contents
Collection of twenty-four 165 x 122 mm black and white prints and 18 35 mm coloured slides. Dr Majory Warren, C.B.E. (1898-1960) consultant Physician at the West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth, was a pioneer in the treatment of elderly patients. Her work was recognised when she was created C.B.E. in the New Years Honours of 1960, but she was killed in a car crash in France on 5th September of the same year. The Marjory Warren Geriatric Unit, attached to the Royal Brisbane Hospital, was...
Dates:
1963
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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The Natal team which beat the Cape Colony, first contest
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058E
Scope and Contents
144 x 101 mm., mounted on card. Photographer unknown, possibly H.F. Gros. The print is a group photograph of the fifteen uniformed members of the Natal Shooting team holding their rifles (see below). The photographic process has not been identified but is the same as Y3055H. The identifications written on the reverse of the mount are also in the same handwriting as those found on Y3055H and both prints were probably presented on the same occasion. The seven identified...
Dates:
1875 - 1880
Conditions Governing Access:
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The North Bay, Cape Evans, 1911 [British Antarctic Expedition]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y301a9A
Scope and Contents
595 x 428 mm. A view from the west showing the North Beach, the base camp at Cape Evans and Mount Erebus in the distance (not smoking at this time). Scott's party arrived at Cape Evans at the beginning of January 1911, this camp being in fact their second choice, Scott preferring the Cape Crozier side of Ross Island on the very edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. It proved impossible, however, to land the stores safely at this spot, and Cape Evans was chosen instead. This photograph was taken on...
Dates:
1911-03-07
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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'The North West Passage'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 5
Scope and Contents
'The North West Passage and the fate of Sir John Franklin', 104 pages, including extracts from documents and several pages of appendices. The manuscript draws on published sources and is expanded from a lecture given at the Soldier's Institute, Woolwich.
Dates:
1860
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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'The origins of self government in Nova Scotia, 1815-36': PhD thesis
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 248
Scope and Contents
A Ph.D. thesis for the University of London, including a map.
Dates:
1935
Conditions Governing Access:
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The pathography of a cuckoo and other papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 52
Scope and Contents
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:
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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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library