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Includes correspondence, both personal and professional, biographical material, professional papers from Thurstan Shaw’s time in Africa, archaeological notebooks and lecture notes.

Scope and Contents Comprises a series of research or subject files, containing mostly notes, lecture notes, occasional correspondence, offprints, illustrations and drawings. Also included is a file of notes on archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge University, with investigation into provision for archaeology in UK Universities, a file on the history of archaeology at other British universities and a file of notes gathered for a history of archaeology and archaeologists. The titles of some subject files...

Scope and Contents Comprises: notes and drawings relating to Lethbridges publications, including 'Recent excavations in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk' (1931); material relating to the expedition to Jan Mayen Island in the Arctic and later expeditions to Greenland and Iceland; the Gogmagog site notebook and drafts of 'Gogmagog - the Buried Gods'; manuscript and typescript drafts of other published works; notebooks and sketches; material relating to cruises in West Scotland; collected...

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Typescript autobiographical memoir 'The ivory tower', with a prefatory notice by Mena Lethbridge in which the work is described as 'a picture of Cambridge Academic life between the two World Wars'.

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Comprises: various notebooks relating to expeditions or specific excavation sites or projects; correspondence and collected notes on 'witches', 'pagan burials', Fenland waterways and Fenland research.