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Found in 286 Collections and/or Records:

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European Commission speeches, 2003-08 - 2003-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 16/2/122
Scope and Contents

Speeches mostly relating to reform of the Commission. Also includes script for a programme on Welsh football [see also KNNK 17/72].

Dates: 2003-08 - 2003-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Five notebooks containing lists of part of the library of James Wilson Rimington-Wilson at Broomhead Hall, near Sheffield, made by the owner, 1864-1877

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8219-8223
Scope and Contents

Note in Add.8219 by ANLM dated 28 Oct 1971 mentions six notebooks, a later note by AEBO dated 14/11/1979 notes that only five notebooks were acquired by the University Library in 1975: vol. '3' not received.

Dates: 1864-1877
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).
 Fonds

George Chawner: Papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6094-6144
Dates: 1900-1914 (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).
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Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, 1920 - 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BGND A.20
Scope and Contents

Menus from College functions (chiefly rowing) 1920-25, some signed on back by some of those attending.

Dates: 1920 - 1925
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Hamsell Stud, 1962-05 - 1972-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 11/22
Scope and Contents

Papers and correspondence on the partnership known as the Hamsell Stud, between CS and [A D D] Tim Rogers (former aide to Sir Winston Churchill), which was formed to own and manage the horses and interests in horses left to CS by Churchill.

Dates: 1962-05 - 1972-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Hillsborough and football safety, 1990-01 - 1992-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 4/13
Scope and Contents

Includes: briefing for and notes from meeting with the Hillsborough family support group; press-cuttings on football safety; report for Liverpool City Council on the Hillsborough disaster; notes from Tom Pendry [sport and tourism spokesman] and Kate Hoey on policy on all-seated football stadia.

Dates: 1990-01 - 1992-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Hillsborough family support group, 1989-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 4/12
Scope and Contents

Submission to the inquiry into the Hillsborough stadium disaster.

Dates: 1989-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Fonds

Hockey Club, 1926 - 1939

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCCS/3/4
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Management Group:

Records of Association Football, Boat, Cricket, Hockey, Rugby Union, Squash and Tennis Clubs, with occasional papers relating to University clubs.

Dates: 1926 - 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Management Group: More recent records may be closed under GDPR.
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ITN News: interview with Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, 1985-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/1/49
Scope and Contents

Interview on the Heysel Stadium disaster, Belgium [where football fans were killed during a riot before the European Cup Final].

Dates: 1985-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Lady Churchill's letters to Sir Winston, 1909 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 1/4
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: a strike and hunting near Blenheim Palace [Oxfordshire] (both 1912); attending military manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain; window breaking by suffragettes.

Dates: 1909 - 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Lady Churchill's letters to Sir Winston, 1912 - 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 1/6
Scope and Contents Subjects include: hunting; Canada possibly paying for 3 Dreadnoughts [1913]; Churchill's Home Rule speech [to the Ulster Liberal Association] in Belfast [Northern Ireland]; a miscarriage suffered by Clementine; the sinking of the Titanic; Clementine's letter to the Times ["Ought not women to be abolished?"] in answer to an article by Sir Almroth Wright ["Should women have votes?", though note that the letter itself is not present]; the effect of the National insurance Act; leaving Eccleston...
Dates: 1912 - 1913
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Lady Churchill's letters to Sir Winston, 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 1/7
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: a speech by David Lloyd-George [Chancellor of the Exchequer] on land reform, Oct 1913, the reaction of Churchill's cousin Sunny [9th Duke of Marlborough] and a naval proposal by Churchill; Jack Mitford's engagement to a German heiress; Clementine's appeal to Churchill not to fly any more; hunting; her love for him.

Dates: 1913
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Leisure, 1955 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ABMS 5/24
Scope and Contents Working papers on leisure, covering subjects such as sport; cinema attendance; television licences and viewing habits; overseas travel and behaviour of British holidaymakers; betting and gambling; the relationship between leisure and religion; leisure time budgeting, weekends, and working hours; arts patronage and funding; leisure facilities and community life; evening classes and adult education; hobbies; home life and DIY; and leisure in West Germany [later part of Germany], Poland, and...
Dates: 1955 - 1967
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Lists of Cambridge University Hockey Club teams for Varsity matches, 1890-1987 and results, 1890-1990; with a brief Club history, 1990

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.XXIII.1
Scope and Contents From the Management Group:

The category - Student administration and support records - comprises records relating to student admissions at all levels, graduate students, visiting senior scholars, student careers advice and welfare, together with the records of clubs and societies.

Dates: 1990
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).
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Literary: News of the World articles by WSC 2., May 1938 - Sep 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/615
Scope and Contents Includes annotated proofs, galley proofs and cuttings from the News of the World for: "Peopling the Wide, Open Spaces of Empire" on foreign emigration to parts of the British Empire, factors which prevent the British from emigrating, and developing the Empire through investment and emigration; "Why Not 'The United States of Europe'?" on the harm done by European rivalries and nationalism, fascism and communism, the economic benefits of European integration, and the role of Britain towards...
Dates: May 1938 - Sep 1938
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 6., 03 Aug 1941 - 05 Oct 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/695
Scope and Contents Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "Sport, the stimulant" on the effect of modern inventions on the average person, watching, playing, and making money from sport, pigeon racing, angling, motor transport, hiking, cycling, theatre, cinema, radio, reading, and moral considerations; "Why the navy runs on oil" on the advantages of oil over coal as a fuel for ships, its adoption by the Royal Navy during WSC's first term as First Lord of the Admiralty, and the Anglo-Persian oil...
Dates: 03 Aug 1941 - 05 Oct 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open.
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"Mr Churchill and Mr Eden visit the Empire Pool and Sports Arena, Wembley: chatting with Miss Cecilia Colledge", 1940-02-24

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW V 3/3/98
Scope and Contents Head and shoulders photograph of WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] and [Robert] Anthony Eden [Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, later 1st Lord Avon] meeting the British figure skater [Magdalena] Cecilia Colledge at Wembley [London]. Eden, on the left, wearing a dark coat and tie, is talking to Colledge; WSC, beside him, in a dark coat and black bow tie, is looking down; while Colledge, on the right, has her back mostly to the camera and is wearing a low-backed white dress with...
Dates: 1940-02-24
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original
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"Mr Churchill and Mr Eden visit the Empire Pool and Sports Arena, Wembley: greeting the Canadian Expeditionary Force ice hockey team", 1940-02-24

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW V 3/3/99
Scope and Contents

Three quarter length photograph of WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] and [Robert] Anthony Eden [Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, later 1st Lord Avon] meeting an ice hockey player at Wembley [London]. WSC, in a dark coat and black bow tie, is smiling and shaking the hand of the player (who has his back to the camera); Eden, wearing a dark coat and tie, is standing beside WSC, smiling. Various other men are standing around them.

Dates: 1940-02-24
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original
 Sub-Series

Negatives of images taken by Nigel Oakley as Varsity photographer, with index, 1953

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Phot.191
Scope and Contents

Cover mainly University and College sports clubs, including rugby, rowing, tennis, fencing; views of buildings such as Wren Library, King's College chapel, Gibbs Building; ballet and acting performances at the ADC; and Poppy Day. Images are described and individuals named on accompanying slips of paper and in a card index. Please use the card index first to identify likely images. No research has been undertaken to identify exactly which images were published in Varsity.

Dates: 1953
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).
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Newchapel Stud book, 1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 10/1/21
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Includes: papers relating to various properties owned by CS and MS, mainly Castle Mill House, Hampshire; accounts; papers relating to the settlement of the estate of MS's sister Sarah, Lady Audley [earlier Sarah Churchill, Sarah Oliver and Sarah Beauchamp], and letters of condolence on her death; papers on general family legal and financial affairs; papers on MS's literary contracts and copyright; correspondence on portraits and statues of Sir Winston Churchill.

Dates: 1957
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Official: Cabinet: papers 81 to 100., 10 Mar 1928 - 28 Mar 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/194
Scope and Contents Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, on the League of Nations and disarmament, negotiations with the Nanking [China] government and relations between Canada and Japan; Sir Douglas Hogg [later 1st Lord Hailsham], Attorney-General on the prerogative of the Crown; Leo Amery, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, on subjects including a Zionist loan, compensation claims in the Irish Free State [later Ireland], and the...
Dates: 10 Mar 1928 - 28 Mar 1928
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Cabinet: papers 131 - 150., 25 Apr 1928 - 04 May 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/197
Scope and Contents Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: 1st] Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] Secretary of State for India, on the Indian contribution to the home effective charges of the British army; Sir William Joynson-Hicks [later Lord Brentford] Home Secretary on subjects including a draft treaty of arbitration with the United States, a dog racing bill and land purchase in Northern Ireland; William Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, on a treaty with the United...
Dates: 25 Apr 1928 - 04 May 1928
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Cabinet: papers 141 to 170., Apr 1927 - May 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/159
Scope and Contents Includes papers on various subjects by various individuals including: two special reports on unemployment; Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, on Italy's interests in Albania, a request for assistance from Portugal, an arms embargo and the supply of arms to Canton [China]; Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour, on unemployment in the coal industry, the inspection of emigrants and the unemployment insurance bill; [4th Lord] Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne], Lord Privy Seal,...
Dates: Apr 1927 - May 1927
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Cabinet: papers 271 to 300., Nov 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/164
Scope and Contents Includes papers on various subjects by various individuals including: William Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary of State for War, on the draft treaty with Egypt and the importance of the Suez canal; the Committee of Imperial Defence on operations in the Canton [China] area; Anglo American relations; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on the trade outlook and poor...
Dates: Nov 1927
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Cabinet: papers 302 to 316., Nov 1927 - Dec 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/165
Scope and Contents Includes papers on various subjects by various individuals including: a report of the committee on unemployment in the coal trade; negotiations over a revised treaty with Iraq; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on forest policy, press attitude towards the totalisator; compensation claims in the Irish Free State [later Ireland]; Walter Guinness [later 1st Lord Moyne] Minister of Agriculture on agricultural co-operation; Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, on information from a Czech...
Dates: Nov 1927 - Dec 1927
Conditions Governing Access: Open