Women
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 434 Collections and/or Records:
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Official: Cabinet: War Policy Committee: statements., 19 Aug 1915 - 23 Aug 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 21/58
Scope and Contents
Includes 2 copies of statements by: Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Trade, on numbers of people employed in services "of national importance", the employment of women in the railway industry and the extent of enlistment from the industrial classes; Walter Long, President of the Local Government Board, on the use of the national register to recall skilled men from the army for munitions work and on compulsory service; and Reginald McKenna, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on economic...
Dates:
19 Aug 1915 - 23 Aug 1915
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Colonial Office: correspondence., 01 Jun 1921 - 30 Jun 1921
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 17/6
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Edwin Montagu [Secretary of State for India] on subjects including the Aga Khan's claims for reparations from Germany, the appointment of ?John Thompson and his conviction that Indians should be given equal status (5); Sir Laming Worthington-Evans [Secretary of State for War] on expenditure and troops in Palestine and Mesopotamia [Iraq] (6); Leo Amery [Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Colonies] on the Empire settlement policy (3); David Lloyd George, Prime...
Dates:
01 Jun 1921 - 30 Jun 1921
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: War Cabinet: Demobilisation Committee: memoranda., 02 Nov 1918 - 26 Nov 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/50
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on demobilisation issues including: [1st] Lord Cave, Home Secretary, on the demobilisation of enemy aliens; WSC, Minister of Munitions; [Sir Arthur] Duckham on industrial transition; [1st] Lord Inchcape [earlier James Mackay] on capital issues; Sir Stephenson Kent [Controller-General of Civil Demobilisation and Resettlement] on training for women and building licenses; Christopher Addison [Minister in Charge of Reconstruction] on subjects including the...
Dates:
02 Nov 1918 - 26 Nov 1918
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: War Cabinet: Demobilisation Committee: minutes., 31 Oct 1918 - 20 Dec 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/49
Scope and Contents
Includes draft and final copies of minutes of statements made by: General Jan Smuts; Austen Chamberlain; George Barnes; [Sir] Edwin Montagu; Christopher Addison [Minister in Charge of Reconstruction]; George Roberts, Minister of Labour; Sir Stephenson Kent [Controller-General of Civil Demobilisation and Resettlement] and Sir David Shackleton [Permanent Secretary Ministry of Labour]. Subjects discussed include: the organisation and accommodation of government offices; the regulation of war...
Dates:
31 Oct 1918 - 20 Dec 1918
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: War Cabinet: Prime Minister's Directives., 29 Dec 1944 - 17 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/14
Scope and Contents
Printed directives by the Prime Minister, WSC, on subjects including: correspondence between WSC and President Franklin Roosevelt on American voting powers in the United Nations; post-war demand for airfields, including a report by the Chiefs of Staff; records of speeches and a conversation between WSC and Stalin at the Yalta Conference [Soviet Union]; the allocation of man-power, including the release of women from the Forces; telegrams between WSC and [Mackenzie King] Prime Minister of...
Dates:
29 Dec 1944 - 17 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: War Cabinet: various papers., 06 Nov 1917 - 28 Nov 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/3
Scope and Contents
Includes papers on various subjects by various individuals including: WSC, Minister of Munitions, on duplication and waste of effort and military labour; Arthur Balfour [Foreign Secretary] on the war; Sir Edmund Wyldbore-Smith on foreign contracts and manpower; Sir Auckland Geddes, Minister of National Service, on the recruitment of women for occupations of national importance, foreign contracts and manpower and the maintenance of the armed forces; Sir Reginald Brade [Secretary, War Office]...
Dates:
06 Nov 1917 - 28 Nov 1917
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Opening address at a UNITAR seminar on "Creative Women in Changing Societies", Oslo, Norway, 1980-07-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/NICL 7/4/70
Scope and Contents
Comprising typescripts of Nicol's address.
Dates:
1980-07-09
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Ordination of Women, 1985-06 - 1993-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/74
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, mainly on the Deacons (Ordination of Women) Measure (1986), with correspondents including: [Claude] Anthony Kilmister, Chairman, Prayer Book Society (9); Patrick Cormack (4); Margaret Hewitt, National Co-ordinator of Women Against the Ordination of Women; Ronald Bowlby, Bishop of Southwark, on a likely clash between the General Synod and Parliament; Hugh Montefiore, Bishop of Birmingham on JEP's imputation that the Church was using underhand methods; Lord Bridge of Harwich,...
Dates:
1985-06 - 1993-07
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.
Series
Other Feminist issues, 1947 - 1953
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HCAM 2
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection held at Churchill Archives Centre concern Cam’s career at Harvard and to some extent her interests after retirement.
Dates:
1947 - 1953
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Helen Cam
Fonds
Papers of Eileen Power and Michael Postan
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8961
Scope and Contents
Power's papers includes material on EEP's time at Girton, research notes, lecture notes, papers on broadcasts and index cards. Postan's papers includes research material and correspondence and papers. Abbreviations: EEP: Eileen Power MMP: Michael Postan CRP: Lady Cynthia Postan
Dates:
1920-1940
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
Fonds
Papers of Nancy Lane
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10351
Content Description
Comprises: personal and biographical papers, including honours, appointments and life-history; papers relating to WiSETI (Women in Science, Engineering and Technology Initiative) and other related initiatives to promote women in SET; papers relating to talks, lectures and overseas trips on the topic of women in science; notes for Part II Zoology lectures; correspondence; interview with Pamela Smith for 'Women at Cambridge' event; photographs.
Dates:
1944 - 2020
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Papers of the Barnard and Lynn families
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10586
Scope and Contents
The material includes: Certificates for educational and musical achievement awarded to Charles Barnard and Gladys M. Barnard; correspondence with French pen-friends, 1914-1919; printed items relating to the First World war, including two copies of ‘The truth about German atrocities’, 1915; a letter of appointment as a shorthand typist for the Railway Passengers Assurance Company to Constance Barnard, 1916; assorted newspaper cuttings; royal memorabilia, including prayer cards for Queen...
Dates:
1869-1991
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Papers of the Degrees for Women Syndicate, 1868 - 1900
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Synd.II
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Management Group:
The category - Teaching, learning and research records - comprises records relating to curriculum delivery and examination, further research and the award of degrees; also such adjuncts to study as laboratories, the Botanic Garden and University Library.
Dates:
1868 - 1900
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).
Sub-Series
Papers relating to commemoration of admission of women to full degrees in 1948, 1998
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Degr.M.17
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Management Group:
The category - Teaching, learning and research records - comprises records relating to curriculum delivery and examination, further research and the award of degrees; also such adjuncts to study as laboratories, the Botanic Garden and University Library.
Dates:
1998
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).
Fonds
Papers relating to the Women in Science, Engineering and Technology Initiative (WiSETI), 1993 - 2007
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/WiSETI
Scope and Contents
WiSETI has its origins in 1993 when the University joined the Opportunity 2000 Campaign. Opportunity 2000 aimed to maximise the potential of female employees and improve their recruitment and retention prior to the start of the new millennium. WiSETI was formally created in 1999 with support from the Human Resources Division, funding from the Vice-Chancellor and oversight of an Advisory Board, to address the under-representation of women in Science, Engineering and Technology (SET)....
Dates:
1993 - 2007
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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Persian diary, 1892-04 - 1892-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LASC 2
Scope and Contents
Copy of diary kept by Florence Lascelles, Mary, Lady Lascelles and Gertrude Bell while on a journey from London to Teheran [Iran].
Dates:
1892-04 - 1892-05
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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Personal: Clementine S Churchill: Correspondence., Dec 1915 - 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/118A-B
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from CSC to WSC written while he served on the Western Front. Part A comprises original letters: part B comprises typescript transcripts prepared circa 1945.
Dates:
Dec 1915 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Personal: Family etc.: correspondence A - L., 16 Oct 1943 - 16 Sep 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/41
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: George Spencer-Churchill, on subjects including WSC's writing and the political situation (3); Lady Caroline Spencer-Churchill; Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill; CSC on subjects including WSC's holiday at Lake Como [Italy], his painting, Chartwell [Kent], Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames], and the Council of Foreign Ministers (18); Horatia Seymour; Mary Churchill on her posting to Britain; John S Churchill (3); Pamela Digby [earlier Pamela Churchill, later Pamela...
Dates:
16 Oct 1943 - 16 Sep 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Series
Podcasts for interviews conducted during the Centenary Year of Women in Parliament, 2017-11-15 - 2019-01-31
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOBA 1
Scope and Contents
76 podcast interviews collated for the publication 'When There's a Woman in the Room - #Vote 100 year January 2018 to January 2019' and written with journalists Jackie Ashley, Deborah McGurran and Linda Fairbrother. Sones' focus was primarily on recording interviews with MPs who champion public policy reforms through debates in Westminster Hall or by asking questions at PMQs.Topics include a range of issues from the centenary of women’s suffrage to Brexit debates. These...
Dates:
2017-11-15 - 2019-01-31
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Policy, 1950's, 1953-01 - 1957-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/2
Scope and Contents
Minutes, papers and correspondence of the Conservative Policy Study Group on subjects including: education (including memorandum by 2nd Lord Hailsham, [Minister of Education, earlier Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone]); agriculture; industrial policy; national insurance; taxation; defence regulations; social services; pensions; nationalised industries; the structure of the Social Services Ministries; the People's League for the Defence of Freedom and the Middle Class...
Dates:
1953-01 - 1957-11
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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Policy Review: beginning of phase 2, 1988-05 - 1989-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 2/2/26
Scope and Contents
Includes: summaries of the phase 1 reports; first report of the Social Justice and Economic Efficiency group; note on opportunities for involvement in phase 2; minutes of and notes for convenors’ meetings on phase 2; notes for NK’s remarks to the Parliamentary party on the Policy Review; note by the General Secretary, Larry Whitty, on the Review and Labour Listens campaign; annotated notes from the Policy Director, Geoff Bish, on phase 2; paper on women and Labour; outline programmes agreed...
Dates:
1988-05 - 1989-01
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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Policy Review: Democratic Rights group, 1987-11 - 1988-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 2/2/25
Scope and Contents
Minutes, submissions and papers from group meetings, on subjects including: electoral reform; freedom of information; women’s rights; lesbian and gay rights; children’s rights; employment and social security; legal advice services and legal aid; a Bill of Rights; legal rights.
Dates:
1987-11 - 1988-12
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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Policy Review: industrial legislation, 1989-03 - 1990-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 2/2/10
Scope and Contents
Includes: text of a statement by Tony Blair on the social charter and the rights of people at work; note by Michael Meacher, employment secretary, and Eddie Haigh, Assistant General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, on the People at Work review group and legislative protection for the unions; notes on Labour’s policy on union immunity; note by Lord Irvine [legal and home affairs spokesman] on weaknesses in the Review on strike ballots and secondary action; draft note on...
Dates:
1989-03 - 1990-05
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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Political: Constituency: Dundee: Correspondence., 01 Jan 1912 - 31 Dec 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 5/14
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include Sir George Ritchie (Consituency Chairman); The Women's Freedom League (Dundee Branch); Herbert Samuel (Postmaster General).Subjects include the possibility of giving Admiralty work to Dundee shipbuilders; Female suffrage; Irish Home Rule; Post Office Telephones and Telegraphs.
Dates:
01 Jan 1912 - 31 Dec 1912
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency: Dundee: Correspondence., 01 Jan 1913 - 31 Dec 1913
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 5/15
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include Herbert Samuel, Postmaster General (3); Dundee Women's Suffrage Society; Dundee Liberal Association; The Independent Labour Party (Dundee Branch).Subjects include Female suffrage; telegraph links with Dundee; the strike of Leven textile workers; the claims of Dundee over Aberdeen for the site of new wireless station; the Scottish Temperance Bill.
Dates:
01 Jan 1913 - 31 Dec 1913
Conditions Governing Access:
Open