Maps
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Series
Expeditions (E), 1933-1985
Series
Reference Code: GBR/590/CSEC/02
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...
Dates:
1933-1985
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.
The Collections Research Centre [West Cambridge] is open from Monday to Friday, 10:00-13:00 and 14:00-17:00.
A prior appointment made at least two weeks in advance, and two forms of identification are required.
Sub-Series
Field maps, 1908-1932
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/590/HRKR/02/06
Scope and Contents
Comprising field maps and keys with some annotations. Many are published maps from the Ordnance survey series of maps.
Dates:
1908-1932
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.
The Collections Research Centre [West Cambridge] is open from Monday to Friday, 10:00-13:00 and 14:00-17:00.
A prior appointment made at least two weeks in advance, and two forms of identification are required.
Series
Fieldwork, 1878-1938
Series
Reference Code: GBR/590/HRKR/02
Scope and Contents
The series comprises numbered and un-numbered field notebooks;specimen catalogues; sketchbooks, photograph albums, and maps.
Dates:
1878-1938
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.
The Collections Research Centre [West Cambridge] is open from Monday to Friday, 10:00-13:00 and 14:00-17:00.
A prior appointment made at least two weeks in advance, and two forms of identification are required.
Fonds
John McEwan: Collections for a History of Japanese Agriculture
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8168
Scope and Contents
I. Series of 'Boa' Patent Files labelled as follows: 1. Bibliography; 2. Tsushima; 3. General; 4. Untitled: material on rice varieties, etc.; 5. History; 6. Land Utilization; 7. Management; 8. Post-Meiji Agriculture. II. Two small loose-leaf notebooks containing subject notes, arranged alphabetically. III. Series of 'K4' notebooks, labelled as follows: 1. Periodicals. Misc. II; 2. Sandrin Iriai Yakihota; 3. Shinden; 4. Fertilisers; 5. Nosho 1; 6. Nosho 2; 7. Nosho 3; 8. Fertilisers 2; 9....
Dates:
1950 (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
File
Literary: Maps [source material, possibly for 'The World Crisis' and/or 'The Second World War'], 1918
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/5/5
Scope and Contents
Comprising a printed map showing populations of Ests, Letts, Lithuanians and Poles in North East Europe (map was attached to a memo (not present) by A J Balfour [Foreign Secretary] on "Baltic Provinces", 18 Oct 1918, which was circulated to the Cabinet, [paper] 987-4); a printed map of Poland showing "racial distribution" of Poles, Germans, Slavs, and Lithuanians (from "Poland F.O. 987-5 Cab. A. J. Balfour, Oct 1918"): and a printed map showing Russian food supplies in the Russian Soviet...
Dates:
1918
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
File
Literary: 'The Aftermath', Volume 4 of 'The World Crisis': Hand-coloured map of Russia showing advances against Petrograd [later Leningrad and St Petersburg] between 11 Oct 1919 and 22 Oct 1919, c.1919-c.1929
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/5/4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Containing material relating to WSC's literary work including 'The World Crisis' and 'Marlborough: his life and times'.
Dates:
c.1919-c.1929
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
File
Literary: The World Crisis: Maps, 1914-[c.1921]
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/5/2
Scope and Contents
Comprising a hand drawn map of battle lines in Russia (18 Nov 1919); a printed map of the Balkan States showing frontiers (published by the Royal Geographical Society in the Geographical Journal, 1914); a printed map of assumed distribution of the Soviet Army in Russia (27 Jan 1920, printed on top of a printed map Admiralty War Staff map, March 1915); a printed map of battle lines and locations of armies in Eastern Europe including Poland and Ukraine [possibly showing the Soviet-Polish War...
Dates:
1914-[c.1921]
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
File
Log book of HMS Resolution, 1772 - 1775
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/58
Scope and Contents
The log book of HMS Resolution compiled by William Wales during the passage to the South Seas under the command of Captain James Cook.
Dates:
1772 - 1775
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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
Maps, 1818 - 1846
Series
Reference Code: GBR/590/ADSW/02
Scope and Contents
Comprising annotated maps kept by Adam Sedgwick. These cover a number of locations including the United Kingdom and other countries.
Dates:
1818 - 1846
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.
The Collections Research Centre [West Cambridge] is open from Monday to Friday, 10:00-13:00 and 14:00-17:00. A prior appointment made at least two weeks in advance, and two forms of identification are required.
File
Official: Admiralty: Annotated "Map of the peninsula of Gallipoli and the Asiatic shore of the Dardanelles", 1908-c.1918
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/7/3
Scope and Contents
Printed by the War Office with lines added by hand showing French forces, British forces, Australian forces, and [other defences].
Dates:
1908-c.1918
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
File
Official: Admiralty: Report of the Committee on Asiatic Turkey, Jun 1914-Jul 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/7/4
Scope and Contents
Comprising a "secret" printed report of a committee that met to "consider the nature of British desiderata in Turkey in Asia in the event on a successful conclusion of the war". Includes coloured maps of schemes of annexation, zones of interest, Ottoman independence, and an Ottoman devolutionary scheme. Also contains a printed "Sketch Map of the Persian Gulf and Arabia" with coloured lines marking various boundaries (produced by the Geographical Section,...
Dates:
Jun 1914-Jul 1915
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
File
Ordnance Survey maps, 1888 - 1909
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 7/63
Scope and Contents
Ordnance Survey maps showing tramways, railways and generating stations in London:1. Ordnance survey map of London, No. 271, showing the Royal Observatory and the surrounding area, 1894.2. Ordnance survey map of South East London, No. 11 SE, 1894-1896 edition.3. Large scale ordnance survey map of the Royal Observatory and the surrounding area, 1900.4. Ordnance survey map of London marked to show the nearest points of the rail systems to the Royal Observatory,...
Dates:
1888 - 1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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
Papers of John Franklin-Adams, 1897 - 1909
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 75
Scope and Contents
Two journals by Franklin-Adams recording his astronomical work from 1897, when he first established an observatory at his house, until 1909, thus covering his time spent mapping the southern heavens at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope (1902-1904).
Dates:
1897 - 1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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
Plans, maps and engraving of Cambridge, 1601 - 1952
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/P.I
Scope and Contents
From the Management Group:
The category - Assets records - comprises records relating to property and personnel. Accounting material is in this category, alongside records of endowments, charitable trusts, buildings and employees.
Dates:
1601 - 1952
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at 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
Road Map of South-East England
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4244
Scope and Contents
A map of the road route between London and Littlehampton and the return, 26 folios. The road is coloured yellow and the rivers blue. There are many pencil sketches of buildings and what appear to be rough drafts of the map. On fos 9 and 18 are lists of expenses incurred at various places en route, and on fo. 8v a timetable of the journey. Inside the front cover is some pencilled shorthand.
Dates:
1800 (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
Sub-Series
Talks, 1880 - 1886
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/590/SGWC/02/01
Scope and Contents
This series includes manuscripts of papers read at Sedgwick Club meetings. Some include sketches, maps and diagrams.
Dates:
1880 - 1886
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
Very fragile material- access may only be possible with support from staff. Please seek guidance from museum staff.
Fonds
The Papers of Adam Sedgwick
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/590/ADSW
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises 64 notebooks and 11 boxes of annotated field maps, 1818-1858. There are also notes and papers relating to geology university teaching syllabuses, 1821 and 1832.
Dates:
1818 - 1856
Conditions Governing Access:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.
The Collections Research Centre [West Cambridge] is open from Monday to Friday, 10:00-13:00 and 14:00-17:00. A prior appointment made at least two weeks in advance, and two forms of identification are required.
Found in:
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
Fonds
The Papers of William Bernard Robinson King
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/590/WBRK
Scope and Contents
The collection contains notebooks from the Second World War concerning water boreholes; rolls of maps; lantern plates marked "Channel"; typed manuscripts; a presentation copy of "Work of Royal Engineers in the European War 1914-1919, Geological Work on the western Front 1922"; handwritten notes on the retreat to Dunkirk; reports on specimens; dress medals; OBE and Military Cross; a silver cigarette case from colleagues at the Geological Survey, 1916; certificates of honorary degrees and...
Dates:
1909 - 1961
Conditions Governing Access:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.
The Collections Research Centre [West Cambridge] is open from Monday to Friday, 10:00-13:00 and 14:00-17:00. A prior appointment made at least two weeks in advance, and one form of identification is required.
Found in:
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
Series
University estate plans and related records, 1724 - 1892
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/D.P.
Scope and Contents
From the Management Group:
The category - Assets records - comprises records relating to property and personnel. Accounting material is in this category, alongside records of endowments, charitable trusts, buildings and employees.
Dates:
1724 - 1892
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at 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).