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The bulk of the material charts nine months in the life of Agnes Lake from her arrest in April 1913 to her release from prison in December 1913, including an account of her imprisonment and correspondence with Christabel Pankhurst. The collection also includes three suffrage sashes and miscellaneous pamphlets and cuttings relating generally to the campaign for women's suffrage.

Scope and Contents Comprises a series of diaries and private journals kept by Bartholomew between 1904 and 1925 giving a detailed record of his daily life, social engagements and friendships, aspects of his work at the University Library, progress of various literary projects, plays attended and important books that he read. The entries during the last dozen years covered by the journals show Bartholomew as increasingly preoccupied by real or imagined health problems, and subject to fits of depression and...

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Diaries, writings on the history of music in Cambridge and the history of the Vatican library, correspondence and papers on Ximénès Doudan, Caspar von Kinschot and Reyner Wolfe.

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Comprising extracts from his Boer War diary.

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Comprising correspondence with Adolphus George Charles Liddell, including a diary, 1880 (218).

Scope and Contents The files contain Storrs’s diary for the period from 3 September 1934 to 22 December 1938. Many people are mentioned including Queen Marie of Rumania, King George of Greece, Leo Amery, George Lloyd, Howard Carter, Duff Cooper, Randolph Churchill, Mrs Simpson, Beecham, Brendan Bracken, H. G. Wells, Jack Squire, Nancy Mitford, John Christie, Hilaire Belloc, Jacob Epstein, Evelyn Waugh, Eden, Guedella, Admiral Chatfield, Ramsay MacDonald, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Osbert Sitwell, Maurice Baring,...

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The diaries detail Storrs's meetings and activities which are principally centred on London, though there is a record of a visit to Ireland, where Storrs met Éamon de Valera. There are also references to various allied refugee governments with whom Storrs was in touch.

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The diaries cover the period Storrs was away on a lecture tour, during which time he visited Spain, Portugal, Algeria, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Syria. Within the diaries there are some notes of convervations held. The remainder of the diaries recount life in wartime London.

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The diaries for 1945 are very much written with an eye for publication. The early diaries concern Storrs's tour of Egypt, Libya, Eritrea, Ethiopia (Abyssinia) and Sudan. In March he toured Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq and India, and this was followed until May with travels in India, Ceylonn (Sri Lanka), Egypt and Italy. In November he toured Germany for the Admiralty and gives accounts of post-war Germany. Conversations with those he met are recorded throughout.

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The diaries cover the 1946-1947 period. Storrs appears to have given up all hope of further employment and leads a much less active life. He maintained an interest in the Palestinian situation and there are occasional reports of conversations around the topic. There is also much reference to Storrs's health.

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These diaries are the final that Storrs kept. The number of people Storrs is meeting has declined and comments on Arab and world affairs appear derived from newspaper reports rather than firsthand accounts from those involved. He also toured Italy, Switzerland and Scandinavia.

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Gives a general account of Bagnold's movements during the Second World War, including desert patrols and operations. Events covered include: Bagnold's arrival in Egypt (1939); Turkey reconnaissance (1940); tour of Aden Gulf area (1940); visit to Fort Lamy (1940); journey to Kufra proclamation ceremony (May 1941); journeys to Gaza, Brummana and Jeruslaem (Oct 1942), Sudan and Eritrea (Dec 1942) and Turkey (May 1943 and Aug 1943); and his return to England (Mar 1944).

Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: relations with members of United Nations committees; discussions surrounding China and Kashmir [region in China, India and Pakistan]; Cadogan's reflections on his diary-writing and personal archive, including scrapbooks; Cadogan's retirement from the United Nations; the family's relocation to London and notes on interior decoration, shopping, and household provisioning; Cadogan's appointment to the boards of the National Provincial Bank and the Phoenix...

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Very small pocket diary printed by Stone and Co. Limited. Dougall has written regularly in the diary in pencil recording training, military movements, food and conditions and other activities.

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Small pocket diary printed by Charles Letts and Co. Dougall has written regularly in the diary in pencil and ink up until 13 April [the day before he was killed]. He records training, military movements, food and conditions and other activities. Also includes 2 advertisement flyers for insurance (they are the same advertisement), the announcement of the engagement of Major C. F. Rodewald and Miss R. M. Boult torn from an unidentified newspaper and a pink sheet of blotting paper.

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Typescript diary extracts, many of which appear to have been edited from the original manuscript entries. Many of the extracts are typed onto the back of other documents.

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The diary reflects the life of a young girl whose horizons were limited by social and religious constraints. She was eager for self-improvement and created for herself a series of routines and good intentions, which are inserted into the end of the diary. In the daily entries she often refers to these programmes by a system of capital letters and Roman numerals.

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The collection consists of Dougall's military medals awarded during his service in the First World War and postumously. There are also his war diaries from 1917 and 1918 and correspondence relating to his death. The College has also collected posthumous research into Dougall (GBR/1058/DOU/4).

Scope and Contents The main bulk of the files are survey records. These document stations occupied, data, bearings, field sketches, and often include catalogues of specimens, localities, and photographs. These were written on 8x10” paper.The series also includes field notebooks (approx. 500) kept by each member of the party. They document occupied stations, observed points (triangular), specimens collected, and those locations/specimens which were photographed. Brian Harland explained in a number...

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Diaries written upon departure from Northern Rhodesia and during Storrs's first overseas trip after leaving the colonial service.

Scope and Contents This catalogue lists the papers of Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin ('ORB'), elder son of Stanley and Lucy Baldwin, and brother of Windham Baldwin; and also includes groups of letters from him to his parents and (of particular interest) to his companion of thirty-five years, John Parke Boyle. They illuminate all the main aspects of his career: as a soldier in both World Wars, as Labour politician, author, journalist, film critic, and as Governor of the Leeward Islands. The papers have been used...

Scope and Contents The papers include Aelfrida Tillyard's personal and biographical records, the most substantial of which are 75 personal diaries in an unbroken sequence dating from 1897 to 1959. The papers also include copies of some of her published works and manuscripts of some of her unpublished writings, in particular those religious works and novels which she wrote in the 1940s and 1950s. Papers of both daughters are also held in the archives: see GCPP Graham A1 (Alethea Graham, Girton 1926) and GCPP...

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The papers include personal diaries; photographs; and some of Agatha's writing, including poetry and short stories.

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The papers include personal diaries; poems; a few personal and biographical items; photographs; and some letters written to Alethea (chiefly those written to her by her spiritual 'adviser', Father O'Brien).