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Ernest Lanning Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 362
Scope and Contents
Archives relating to Lanning's work in Kenya and Sierra Leone, and as a colonial administrator in Uganda.
Dates:
1932 - 1978
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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F.G. Banks photographs
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011ZZ
Scope and Contents
The photographs are housed at RCMS 167. Captions are from information supplied by H.B. Thomas and C.R.S. Pitman.
Dates:
1880 - 1952
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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Francis Hall collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468U
Scope and Contents
Five loose prints, 165 x 110 mm, which are modern copies by Payne Jenkins of Tunbridge Wells of originals owned by B. Foster Hall, nephew of Francis Hall.These photographs, though of indifferent quality, are of interest as portraying some of the early Europeans in East Africa.Francis George Hall (1860-1901) travelled widely in Africa in the 1880s. In 1892, he entered the service of the Imperial British East Africa Company, and for the rest of his life was an employee of the...
Dates:
1950 - 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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Cambridge University Library
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From West to East through Africa
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304F
Scope and Contents
Bound volume 'for Private Circulation only' of 50 pages of typescript reproduced on thin card, illustrated by photographs, measuring 105 x 60 mm, taken (with the exception of plate 1) by the writer. All are dated and, in most cases, timed. The captions have been amplified in some cases from the text of the diary.This book is the record of a car journey, February-March 1928, when he went on leave by driving from Kano to Mombasa via French Equatorial Africa, the Belgian Congo, the...
Dates:
1928-02 - 1928-03
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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G.B. Kettle collection on East Africa 1921-1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468O
Scope and Contents
Three albums containing 638 photographs mostly taken by G.B. Kettle. The photographs are capable amateur work, mostly in good condition, and most have substantial descriptive captions. Album 1, 1921-1923 (plates 1-247) shows scenes at Lake Magadi including aspects of the soda factory, and also visits to other parts of East Africa.Album 2, 1923-1931 (plates 248-513) consists of an unused 1929 diary with photographs stuck in. There are a few (248-251) of Magadi, but most...
Dates:
1921 - 1935
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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General photographs of East Africa
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468Q
Scope and Contents
A collection of eight loose prints, most measuring approximately 250 x 195 mm, with captions on the reverse, showing scenes in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar.
Dates:
1965
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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Cambridge University Library
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General photographs of Kenya 1960s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3046E
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose prints of various sizes originally forming part of the Society's Visual Aids Loan Collection. Most are from the Kenya Information Office, but some are from East African Railways and Harbours and other sources.
Dates:
1960 - 1969
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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Cambridge University Library
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Henry Muoria Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 405
Scope and Contents
Nine unpublished manuscripts written by the Kenyan journalist Henry Muoria.
Dates:
1944 - 1985
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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Cambridge University Library
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Institute of Education Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints. The prints are mainly British official photographs representing aspects of development in the colonies and are chiefly 250 x 200 mm. Captions on the reverse, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The prints fall into subject collections.Nigeria: 1 - 8 Udi Village; 9-20 Ogwofia...
Dates:
1930 - 1949
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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Cambridge University Library
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Inter-University Council Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WW
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs (various dates, sizes and photographers) and slides with a few leaflets, a file of correspondence, and some title cards as described below. The collection appears to have been assembled chiefly for publicity purposes and there is a file of correspondence requesting photographic and other material. Some of the photographs are mounted on cards for display, but the majority are loose prints stored in folders. There are also a few albums. The main subjects are the...
Dates:
1946 - 1986
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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Cambridge University Library
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Inter-University Council Slides
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011KKK
Scope and Contents
A collection of coloured slides, 18 of which measure 40 x 40 mm, the remainder 35 mm, all mounted 50 x 50 mm, relating to Commonwealth Universities, with the exception of 33 of non-Commonwealth Universities which were, however, associated with the Inter-University Council for Higher Education Overseas (IUC). Many, though not all, were taken by Ian Maxwell, formerly Deputy Director of IUC. Though some have minimal identification, others have substantial annotations on the mounts. ...
Dates:
1946 - 1991
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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Cambridge University Library
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'Kenya days'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 175
Scope and Contents
A copy of a typescript account of Cashmore's time in service in Kenya with handwritten corrections, c. 150 pages. The memoir covers the years 1953 to 1963, and was written up during 1992-1995. There are two accompanying letters from Cashmore to Peter Fox, Cambridge University Librarian, regarding the presentation of the work to the R.C.S.
Dates:
1992 - 1995
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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Cambridge University Library
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'Kiruara - a massacre?'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 375
Scope and Contents
This is a personal account by Lindsay, who served with the Kenyan police, of what occurred at Kiruara Market on 23 Nov. 1952, when the police opened fire upon Mau Mau demonstrators (8 pages).
Dates:
2008
Conditions Governing Access:
Permission to quote from the memoir must be obtained from the author, via the Smuts Librarian.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Lady Jackson's Kenya album
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3046A
Scope and Contents
An album of prints whose subjects include scenes on the Simba River, in the Aderdare Mountains, Laikipia, and elsewhere; views in Nairobi, including a race meeting, Government House, and the Jackson's house (48); a settler's house in Naivasha (71); and Masai men and women. Four photographs taken from the same point show the gradual break-up of a sailing ship wrecked off Mombasa (84-87); and there are photographs of individuals such as A.H. Neumann (25), 'Lord John' Wilson of Smith Mackenzie...
Dates:
1904 - 1911
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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Cambridge University Library
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Langridge photographs of Kenya
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3046F
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose photographs by various photographers.
Dates:
1908 - 1909
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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Cambridge University Library
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Mau Mau papers and photographs
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 183
Scope and Contents
Pamphlets, reports and photographs on the Mau Mau insurgency in Kenya. CONTENT ADVISORY: the photographs (RCMS 183/4) are graphic in nature in the depiction of violence against individuals, and have been housed in a separate envelope in the main folder.
Dates:
1954 - 1960
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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Cambridge University Library
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Memoirs and photographs of Thomas and Florence Edgar
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 318
Scope and Contents
Autobiographies of Thomas and Florence Edgar and photographs of Mau Mau atrocities in Kenya. CONTENT ADVISORY: the photographs (RCMS 318/2) are graphic in nature in the depiction of violence against individuals. The photographs have been housed in a separate folder.
Dates:
1952 - 2004
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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Cambridge University Library
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Modern Commonwealth photograph collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/MC
Scope and Contents
This broad heading has been used to cover a substantial collection of loose prints, dating chiefly from the period 1960-1982, but including a few of earlier date. The majority come from the files of the RCS journal known successfully as ‘United Empire,’ ‘Commonwealth Journal,’ and ‘Commonwealth,’ in which some were published, but there are also items obtained for inclusion in the exhibition ‘Commonwealth in Focus’ in 1982 and these are indicated by CIF and the catalogue number in the...
Dates:
1936 - 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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Mombasa and East African Steamers
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468L
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose prints, modern copies of photographs in the archives of the East African Railways Corporation, Nairobi, made for Brian T. Yonge during the 1970s when he was carrying out research into the history of East African Railways and Harbours. The photographs are captioned on the back by Yonge or A.T. Matson. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. The prints relate to Mombasa, chiefly in the 1890s, and the steamer transport across Lake Victoria...
Dates:
1890 - 1977
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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Cambridge University Library
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Mombasa and Uganda railway construction
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468J
Scope and Contents
Album of mounted images photographed by William D. Young. Inside the front cover reads: 'Presented by the Commonwealth Institute 1971.' 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.
Dates:
1900
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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Cambridge University Library
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Mombasa to Mengo
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 158
Scope and Contents
66 watercolours, 150 x 200 mm in size. The captions, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Notes provided by H.B. Thomas have been incorporated into the description.
Dates:
1900-01 - 1900-03-31
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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Cambridge University Library
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Newscuttings on Africa and South East Asia
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 323
Scope and Contents
The principal part of the collection is a set of thirteen scrapbooks of newscuttings relating to East Africa, particularly Kenya and Tanganyika. The rest of the collection consists of a volume of cuttings relating to post-war trading opportunities in Nigeria and three scrapbooks concerning rubber and mining in South East Asia.
Dates:
1914 - 1953
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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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Newscuttings on East Africa
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 182
Scope and Contents
Cuttings from the 'East African Standard' and other publications on events in Kenya, Uganda and Rhodesia, particularly the Mau Mau disturbances. Most of the cuttings have been pasted into the binder in chronological order, but some are loose.
Dates:
1953 - 1954
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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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Newscuttings on Kenya
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 331
Scope and Contents
Newscuttings from 'The East Africa Standard' and 'The Kenya Observer', and several from 'The Times'. The cuttings concern Kenyan government and political issues, including Indian claims, labour issues, land tenure and Legislative Council sessions. There is also news from other parts of Africa and from outside the continent. In some cases the dates of the newscuttings have been supplied by the cataloguer in pencil where they were missing.
Dates:
1923-04-14 - 1925-11-25
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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Cambridge University Library
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Newscuttings on Southern and East Africa
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 332
Scope and Contents
Four volumes of newscuttings, three relating to Southern and East Africa and one to the Native Question in South Africa, and loose cuttings on related subjects. Many of the articles concern the activities of the colonial powers in Africa, notably Great Britain, Germany, Spain and France.
Dates:
1883 - 1932
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