Science
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 152 Collections and/or Records:
Series
A Scheme for Establishing the Royal Society, c 1665-c 1727
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4005.2: 1-8
Scope and Contents
Seven drafts.
Dates:
c 1665-c 1727
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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.
File
Additional publications and lectures, 1949-1964
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add. 8726/D.41
Scope and Contents
Contains: letter from Bernard Pagel, Royal Greenwich Observatory Archive to E.H. Linfoot, the Observatories, Madingley Road Cambridge, about the design of a Cassegrain spectrograph for the Isaac Newton Telescope, 5 May 1964; reprint of a paper by Herbert Dingle from The Bulletin of the Institute of Physics, pp. 314-316, December 1968 annotated [by Linfoot?] with an inserted note containing further calculations; an undated note on Ritchey Chrétien telescopes, containing a list of...
Dates:
1949-1964
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Sub-Series
Alphabetical files, 1914 - 2002
Reference Code: GBR/0014/PRTZ 3/1
Scope and Contents
This series of files were in alphabetical order. A lot of the material relates to references and honours and is therefore closed on data protection grounds.
Dates:
1914 - 2002
Conditions Governing Access:
Closures are noted in the catalogue
Unknown
"Are there Men in the Moon?", 8 Mar 1942
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/703/2
Scope and Contents
Cutting from the Sunday Dispatch of an article by WSC asking whether life exists elsewhere in the universe. Written shortly before the war, but not published until 1942.
Dates:
8 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Series
Audio-visual, 1975 - 2002
Reference Code: GBR/0014/PRTZ 5
Scope and Contents
This series includes a number of short films and documentaries about Max and his work. It also includes some material prepared by other scientists of the time.
Dates:
1975 - 2002
Conditions Governing Access:
Only access copies can be issued. It would be helpful if these could be ordered in advance, unless the catalogue states that a copy exists already.
Sub-sub-class
Bagnold's 'flat-files'
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BGND B.14-B.15
Scope and Contents
Containing data on size of sand grains from the Libyan Desert.
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Correspondence, 1921 - 1967
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CKFT 20
Scope and Contents
This is a wide-ranging series, covering a large proportion of Cockcroft's career from his time at university until his death. Retaining Cockcroft's own arrangement, the series has been split into sections including: general correspondence with scientists; correspondence with particular individuals; correspondence arranged by subject; correspondence with and on the numerous people who asked for Cockcroft's help in finding various positions, after the Second World War; miscellaneous papers;...
Dates:
1921 - 1967
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Correspondence, 1914 - 2002
Reference Code: GBR/0014/PRTZ 3
Scope and Contents
This series mainly comprises reference requests for employment and nominations for awards, including the Nobel Prize. Also included are off-prints of scientific and philosophical papers. The material relating to groups and organisations has been arranged into a separate series.
Dates:
1914 - 2002
Conditions Governing Access:
Much of the material concerns recommendations for prizes, and reference requests. In light of this, some of the files have been closed on data protection grounds. Where practical if closed material could be separated from the file easily, where there was a clear division, then the rest of the records are open to researchers.
Series — History of New Museums
'History of New Museums', 1716 - 1891
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/History of New Museums
Scope and Contents
This collection of records assembled by John Willis Clark, documents the development of the former Botanic Garden in central Cambridge as the site - the New Museums site as it became known - for teaching and research in science subjects. Clark, who was Superintendent of the Museum of Zoology and Secretary of the Museums and Lecture Rooms Syndicate 1865-91, provided a contents list at the start of each volume. This has been transcribed in the descriptions below.
Dates:
1716 - 1891
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts, Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Index of Reprints, c.1925-1982
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add. 8726/D.42
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Publications, Lectures, and Conferences presents a chronological sequence of drafts and related correspondence. The largest body of material relates to Linfoot's unpublished book on almost periodic functions (completed at Princeton 1929-31), and comprises a typescript draft and correspondence with the Clarendon Press Oxford and colleagues in Britain, Germany and the USA. This section also includes material relating to a mathematics colloquium organised by Linfoot and H Heilbronn at Bristol...
Dates:
c.1925-1982
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Series
Laboratory notebooks, 1927-03-31 - 1946-04-19
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CKFT 1
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Papers comprising laboratory notebooks, articles, lectures, correspondence and photographs.
Also includes records of the Kapitza Club, 1922-58 and 1966, and copy papers of the Maud Committee, 1940-1.
With offprints of papers by Ernest Rutherford, 1872-1913.
Dates:
1927-03-31 - 1946-04-19
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Literary, 1937 - 2002
Reference Code: GBR/0014/PRTZ 4
Scope and Contents
This series includes published scientific papers, articles about scientific and other issues, some obituaries, book reviews published in New York and London, and notes for both lectures and speeches.
Dates:
1937 - 2002
File
Literary: articles: News of the World 4., Oct 1937 - Nov 1937
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/567
Scope and Contents
Annotated proofs and press cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "The General Strike" on the railway strikes of 1911 and 1919, and the General Strike of 1926; "The Crisis of 1931" on the economic crisis of summer 1931 and the fall of Ramsay Macdonald's Labour Government; "Vision of the Future Through Eyes of Science" on the history and future of human progress; "Life in a World Controlled by the Scientists" on the future possibilities and risks of science.Also includes: annotated proofs...
Dates:
Oct 1937 - Nov 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Literary: articles: News of the World 5., Nov 1937
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/568
Scope and Contents
Annotated proofs and press cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "Mankind is Confronted by One Supreme Task" on the need to control scientific progress; "A Federation for Peace is the Hope of the World" on the impersonality of modern war and the need for a strong League of Nations.Also includes: annotated proofs from "Thoughts and Adventures".
Dates:
Nov 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Literary: correspondence, mainly readers' comments on volume 4 ("The Hinge of Fate") of WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War")., Oct 1950 - Aug 1961
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/57A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: General Sir Kenneth Anderson on 1st Army in north Africa; Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor] (6); Lieutenant-Colonel L V S Blacker (6); Captain John Broome on convoy PQ17; Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Browning on the raid on Bruneval [France]; ?Robert Chapman; Admiral John Godfrey; R G Gregory (4) and Josiah Francis, Australian Minister for the Army, on Australian troops and the Burma campaign; R V Jones on German use of "Window" [the code name...
Dates:
Oct 1950 - Aug 1961
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Literary: correspondence with consultants and others on WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War", mainly volumes 1 to 4), J-Pownall., Jan 1946 - Apr 1950
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/20A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: R V Jones on bombing science (4); Lieutenant-General Wladyslaw Anders [former Commander, Polish forces in Iran and Palestine] on the Katyn [Soviet Union] massacre; Denis Kelly [WSC's literary assistant] (7); William Deakin (10); Daniel Longwell [editor of Life Magazine]; Frank Rye on the Westminster by-election [1924]; "Bill", 1st Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry, Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Telegraph]; 1st Lord Portal [of Hungerford, earlier Sir Charles...
Dates:
Jan 1946 - Apr 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Literary: correspondence with consultants and others on WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War", mainly volumes 1 to 4), Pr-Z., Jul 1947 - Jul 1950
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/21
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin]; Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz] on General Prioux's objections to his treatment in the memoirs; Sir Alexander Walker; Sir William Robieson, [editor] of the Glasgow Herald [Scotland]; Sir George Rendel [British Ambassador to Belgium] on Belgian troops in the Abyssinian [later Ethiopia] campaign (1941); Denis Richards; Eleanor Roosevelt on WSC publishing President Roosevelt's "Ship of State" letter; Lieutenant-General Sir Henry...
Dates:
Jul 1947 - Jul 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Literary: News of the World articles by WSC: 4., Oct 1938
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/617
Scope and Contents
Includes annotated proofs, galley proofs and cuttings from the News of the World for: "Workers of Britain Have Come into their Own" on social services, education, National Insurance, savings, the Trade Board, child labour, and hours of work; "Health Comes First in Social Progress" on physical training schemes, improvements in sanitation, building new housing estates, cheap rents, encouraging families, allotments and promoting rural areas; "Necessity is Indeed the Mother of Invention" on the...
Dates:
Oct 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Literary: News of the World articles by WSC: 4., 1939
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/644
Scope and Contents
Includes proofs for three unpublished articles (indicated by a 1962 note): "The Mysteries of the Body" on cells, organs, blood, the digestive system, the liver, the nervous system and the brain, the senses, reproduction, and genetics; "Are We Alone in Space?" on the necessary conditions for life to develop outside the Earth; "The River of Life" on the origin of life on Earth up till human life (with a supplement from the Illustrated London News showing human evolution).
Dates:
1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
File
Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 1., 05 Jan 1941 - 16 Feb 1941
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/690
Scope and Contents
Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "Tank Tactics" on the development of the tank during World War I, its initial rejection, WSC's intervention, and its use in action at the Battles of the Somme and Cambrai [France]; "Crime and Punishment" on WSC's experiences as Home Secretary, penal and prison reform, and new forms of punishment for young offenders; "The King Who Saved England" on the life and reign of King George V, his coming to the throne, changes to the constitution, his...
Dates:
05 Jan 1941 - 16 Feb 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
File
Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 2., 08 Mar 1942 - 05 Apr 1942
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/703
Scope and Contents
Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "Are there men on the moon?" on the necessary conditions for life to develop outside the Earth; "The Ides of March", William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" rewritten as a short story; "India - as I knew it" on WSC's memories of his time in India as an officer in the 4th Hussars; "I prayed" on WSC's experiences on the run from captivity by the Boers; "What do you know about yourself?" on the digestive system, the liver, the nervous system and the...
Dates:
08 Mar 1942 - 05 Apr 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
File
Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 3., 13 Apr 1941 - 25 May 1941
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/692
Scope and Contents
Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for (some from a series, "A Great Novel Rewritten as a Short Story"): "'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte"; "'Adam Bede' by George Eliot"; "'Vice Versa' by Anstey [Thomas Guthrie]"; "The truth about the former German colonies" on Germany's claims to have its former colonies returned, giving an historical perspective with reference to [Prince Otto von] Bismarck, and WSC's views on German treatment of native peoples; "Mankind Must Keep Pace with Science"...
Dates:
13 Apr 1941 - 25 May 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
File
Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 3., 12 Apr 1942 - 10 May 1942
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/704
Scope and Contents
Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "The other Winston Churchill" on WSC's correspondence and meetings with his namesake, the American author; "Primrose Day" on the influence of [Benjamin] Disraeli [Lord Beaconsfield and Lord Hughendon], and the founding of the Primrose League by Lord Randolph Churchill and Sir Henry [Drummond] Wolff; "Life under the microscope" on cells and the blood (also on the same page is an article on "Press and the Censor" by Brendan Bracken [Minister of...
Dates:
12 Apr 1942 - 10 May 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
File
Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 5., 13 Jul 1941 - 29 Aug 1941
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/694
Scope and Contents
Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "Sea raiders" on the German ships "Scharnhorst" and "Gneisenau" and their eventual destruction during World War I; "A speech that prevented war" on [David] Lloyd George's speech at the Mansion House [London] on the Agadir [Morocco] Crisis in 1911; "Why I believe in government for the people" on totalitarianism in Germany, ranking the citizen higher than the state, and comparing the constitutions of Britain and the United States; "A People...
Dates:
13 Jul 1941 - 29 Aug 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
File
Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 6., 18 Aug 1940 - 22 Sep 1940
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/670
Scope and Contents
Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "How It Feels to be a Road Accident Victim" on WSC's accident in New York [United States]; "Parliament", defending the British parliamentary system, an historical examination of developments in the rights of the individual citizen, contrasting the British system with that of the dictatorships, and explaining its structure; "The Other Side of Flying" on developments in air travel, the autogyro, gliding, an historical review, and the benefits of...
Dates:
18 Aug 1940 - 22 Sep 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.