Science
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 186 Collections and/or Records:
Item
(Untitled), 01 Sep 1941 - 04 Sep 1941
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258C/290-293
Scope and Contents
Series of minutes [from 1st Lord Cherwell, earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on: 1. a joint purchase by the United Kingdom and the United States of rubber for the Soviet Union; 2. aircraft production; 3. rubber for the Soviet Union; 4. attaching a draft minute to the Minister of Supply [1st Lord Beaverbrook, earlier Sir Max Aitken] on filling Jefferis bombs ("Puff Balls") at the expense of "Sticky" bombs; 5. attaching a draft minute to General [Hastings]...
Dates:
01 Sep 1941 - 04 Sep 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
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Official: Prime Minister
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Official: Prime Minister: copies of minutes [mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC, some with WSC's annotations added in typescript, numbered [by WSC's literary assistant Denis Kelly, ?at the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"] with a summary of the contents at the start of each part of the file.
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(Untitled), 04 Sep 1941 - 10 Sep 1941
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258C/294-302
Scope and Contents
Series of minutes [from 1st Lord Cherwell, earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on: 1. RAF bomb requirements; 2. methods for increasing aircraft production, referring to a meeting arranged for 4 September; 3. United States aircraft production; 4. the import programme, commenting on estimates, use of shipping, materials and manufactures, and food; 5. the "points" system of rationing; 6. report by the British Merchant Shipping Mission in the United States; 7....
Dates:
04 Sep 1941 - 10 Sep 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Official: Prime Minister
/
Official: Prime Minister: copies of minutes [mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC, some with WSC's annotations added in typescript, numbered [by WSC's literary assistant Denis Kelly, ?at the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"] with a summary of the contents at the start of each part of the file.
Item
(Untitled), 28 Sep 1941
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258C/320
Scope and Contents
Minute [from 1st Lord Cherwell, earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on experiments on clearing aerodromes of fog. [copy; given running number 420].
Dates:
28 Sep 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Official: Prime Minister
/
Official: Prime Minister: copies of minutes [mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC, some with WSC's annotations added in typescript, numbered [by WSC's literary assistant Denis Kelly, ?at the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"] with a summary of the contents at the start of each part of the file.
Unknown
(Untitled), 12 Jan 1955
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 6/3A/9-12
Scope and Contents
Copy of a letter from WSC to the President of the United States [President Dwight Eisenhower] marked "top secret: private and personal" in which he apologises for the delay in replying to Eisenhower; comments on the possibilities of the French delaying ratification [of the European Defence Community]; agrees that there can be no Four Power conference before ratification; discusses the increase in the Soviet Union's nuclear power; Great Britain's nuclear capability in the atomic and hydrogen...
Dates:
12 Jan 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
(Untitled), [Oct 1945]
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/3/105
Scope and Contents
Copy of a message from WSC to Prime Minister [Clement Attlee] marked "personal and secret" about the text of a draft message for [Harry Truman, President of the United States, from Attlee] in which he questions what [Attlee] wishes the Americans to do about sharing information about atomic weapons with the Soviet Union and a reference to an "Act of Faith"; discusses the importance of security in world policy and the timing of a United Nations conference; WSC's agreement with President...
Dates:
[Oct 1945]
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Item
(Untitled), 14 Jul 1945
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/222/41
Scope and Contents
Telegram from WSC to Commander in Chief, British Army of Occupation [Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery] marked "Top Secret and Personal" stating that no German research and development establishments should be destroyed.
Dates:
14 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Item
(Untitled), 30 Oct 1943
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/94B/222
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC to Professor A V Hill [Independent Conservative MP for Cambridge University] sending his good wishes to Indian Men of Science and to the 6 Indian Fellows of the Royal Society and stating that it is a tragedy that science has now to be used for destructive purposes Signed.
Dates:
30 Oct 1943
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open.
Item
(Untitled), 04 Oct 1943
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/96B/153
Scope and Contents
Letter from Lieutenant Frank de Vine Hunt (Upper War Room) [Map Room Staff] to John Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] enclosing a Universal Projector Docket and asking him whether [1st] Lord Cherwell [earlier F E Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] or WSC would be able to comment on it, stating: that the Hydrographic Department approves of the proposal and will prepare an experimental global map on transparent paper and that the artificial silk manufacturer...
Dates:
04 Oct 1943
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open
Fonds
William Bateson: Scientific Correspondence and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8634
Scope and Contents
Biologist William Bateson (1861–1926) was a pioneering figure in the early history of genetics. Through his work on variation and inherited traits, William Bateson effectively launched the modern study of genetics, coining the term ‘genetics’ for the study of heredity and co-founding the Journal of Genetics (1910) and the Genetical Society (1919). A vigorous promotor of Gregor Mendel’s principles of heredity, Bateson was at the forefront of the rediscovery of Mendel’s work, translating and...
Dates:
1859-1935 (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
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7342
Scope and Contents
The collection includes Kelvin material formerly held at Add. 7618, and items of correspondence formerly held as Add. 2766 (4) 1-66. As with the Stokes Collection (Add. 7656), there are separate sections for correspondence, papers, and notebooks. The main correspondence sequence is particularly extensive, including letters from family, friends, and many important scientists of his day. Among Kelvin's more frequent correspondents are Hugh Blackburn, Arthur Cayley, Charles John Clay, George...
Dates:
1840-1907 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Access to the original papers is restricted. A set of microfilms is available for consultation, reference CM04807-CM04856
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Women in science and technology: window of opportunity?, 2000
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CCAC/120/3/9
Scope and Contents
Handout from a presentation by Dr Alan Findlay, Senior Tutor, on the study of science subjects by women, and admissions to Churchill.
Dates:
2000
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Records containing personal data are closed for 75 years and committee papers are closed for varying periods (see individual entries).