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Literature

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 2138 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 28 Aug 1899

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/67/5-6
Scope and Contents

Letter from [Sir] Bindon Blood (Plaisange, Mussoorie, North West P[rovinces, India]) to Lady Randolph Churchill in which he congratulates her on the Anglo Saxon Review and says that he is sure that several Indian princes will subscribe to it; suggests people in India who might be willing to contribute; expresses pleasure that WSC's "The River War" is to be published and discusses the progress of the Boer War.

Dates: 28 Aug 1899
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.
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(Untitled), 27 Sep 1899

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/67/8-9
Scope and Contents Letter from [Sir] Bindon Blood (Plaisange, Mussoorie, North West Provinces [India]) to Lady Randolph Churchill in which he declines to write an article for the Anglo Saxon Review as he thinks that it would be unwise to publish his "dangerously advanced views on military matters". He suggests that Major G J Younghusband could write an article about the policy of [Lord] Curzon [Viceroy of India, later Lord Curzon of Kedleston] on the North West Frontier and says that he is sending some...
Dates: 27 Sep 1899
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.
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(Untitled), [1947]

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/116/45-51
Scope and Contents

Literary proofs of a transcript of a memorandum [see CHAR 28/116/1-14] concerning the resignation of Lord Randolph Churchill [by Sir Henry Drummond Wolff]. For the extended version of WSC's biography of Lord Randolph Churchill, published in 1952. Printed. Annotated in red ink.

Dates: [1947]
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.
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Wickenden and Other Letters, 1936-01 - 1951-08

Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 1/6/13
Scope and Contents Personal correspondence, with correspondents including (Henry) James Wickenden, on subjects including his posting to India (20); Major-General Ross McCay [Military Secretary, India]; Colin Hardie [Tutor in Classics, Magdalen College, University of Oxford] on post-war degree courses at Oxford that Wickenden might apply for; Denys Winstanley [Vice-Master of Trinity College, University of Cambridge] on places Wickenden might apply for; Patrick Duff, Senior Tutor, Trinity College (5); ...
Dates: 1936-01 - 1951-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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William Shakespeare: general correspondence and papers on authorship question, 1988 - 1992

Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/3/22
Scope and Contents From the Sub-sub-class:

Material on JEP's theological, historical and literary interests.

Dates: 1988 - 1992
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
 Fonds

William Williams: Welsh Compositions

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6172
Scope and Contents

Compositions in Welsh by William Williams, with a sermon or religious text found in the church of Strata Florida, Cardiganshire.

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).
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Winston Churchill: Great Nobel Prizes, 1970

Reference Code: GBR/0014/WLFF 1/1/2
Scope and Contents

Manuscript of book on Churchill as a winner of the Nobel prize for Literature, (Edito-Service, Geneva, 1970).

Dates: 1970
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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Working with Randolph Churchill, 1961-08 - 1967-08

Reference Code: GBR/0014/WLFF 2/7
Scope and Contents

4 pieces of writing about working on the Official Biography. Possibly unpublished or intended as publicity material.

Dates: 1961-08 - 1967-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Management Group

Wren : Hoi Anamerukismoi ton hagion graphon, tou anakechorekotos. Ruminations on Holy Scripture from a cell.

Reference Code: GBR/0273/WREN
Scope and Contents As Beaumont's account (WREN 1) explains, part of the MS was published in the 'Increpatio [rebuke/chastisement] Bar Jesu' published by Matthew Wren's son, also Matthew, in 1660 (Londini, typis Jacobi Flesheri. Prostant apud Cornelium Bee, in vico Litle-Britain dicto). The full title is 'Increpatio Bar Jesu, sive, Polemicæ adsertiones locorum aliquot S. Scripturæ, ab imposturis perversionum in catechesi Racoviana collectæ hinc inde, per Matthæum Wren F ; ex opere prægrandi meditationum...
Dates: 1641 - 1660
 Series

Writings, 1932 - 1987

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CLVL 3
Scope and Contents

History essays, copies of diary entries, and papers relating to articles and other publications by Colville.

Dates: 1932 - 1987
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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WSC and "The Second World War", 1948 - 1949

Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW II 11/1
Scope and Contents

Presscuttings from WSC's war memoirs serialised in the Daily Telegraph.

Dates: 1948 - 1949
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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WSC and "The Second World War", 1948 - 1949

Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW II 11/2
Scope and Contents

Presscuttings from WSC's war memoirs serialised in the Daily Telegraph.

Dates: 1948 - 1949
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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WSC: "The New World" ("A History of the English-Speaking Peoples" Vol II), 1956

Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW II 13
Scope and Contents

American reviews.

Dates: 1956
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.