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Amos: Diaries and photographs of Anne Elizabeth Fisher (later Pike and Amos)

Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/AMO
Scope and Contents Handwritten diaries and photograph album, with some loose enclosures. The diaries provide a detailed description of the daily social life of a wealthy young lady during the Victorian era, in London and on visits around the country, including dinners, dances and parties, concerts, galleries, theatre and academic lectures. Many include lists of 'books recommended' or read. From 1864, Anne gave detailed accounts of sermons she had heard and exhibitions in London, also describing first-hand...
Dates: 1852 - 1900
 Fonds — ADCT

Archives of the ADC Theatre, 1956 - 2019

Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/ADCT
Scope and Contents The ADC Theatre Archive contains records from August 1973 onwards. These include some records of theatre administration, production management, and marketing literature but the collection is predominantly comprised of material relating to productions and performances, for example, applications to direct, flyers, posters, programmes, photographs and reviews.Records of productions and performances by CUADC prior to August 1973 can be found as part of the Amateur Dramatic Club Archive -...
Dates: 1956 - 2019
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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Archives of the Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club, 1855 - 2017

Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/CUADC
Scope and Contents

The archive contains records of club governance and administration, including the first committee minute book from 1855, some financial and membership records, a significant quantity of material relating to productions and performances, and records relating to the wider activities of the club such as annual dinners and garden parties. There are notable gaps in the records, some of which for the period after August 1973 are filled in the archives of the ADC Theatre (see: UA/ADCT).

Dates: 1855 - 2017
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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Cambridge University European Theatre Group: Records and Papers

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8714
Scope and Contents

Tour notes, correspondence, accounts and posters.

Dates: 1967-1991
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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Christopher Hassall: Letters to George Benson and related papers

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10400
Scope and Contents

Correspondence written by Christopher Hassall to his friend George Benson, together with related items including a diary volume with entries by Hassall, literary texts by Hassall, notes by Benson, letters between other correspondents, and printed items.

Dates: 1933-1963
Conditions Governing Access: 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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Copy of an unpublished autobiography, 1945-90

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

Comprises: Chapter 9, Post-War; Chapter 10, Dalton and Gaitskell; Chapter 11, The Steel Industry Battle; Chapter 12, The Atomic Bomb and Soviet Spies; Chapter 13, Slaugham; Chapter 14, Bevan's Resignation; Chapter 15, Theatre Censorship; Chapter 16, Museum Charges and Clay Cross; Chapter 17, Miscreants; and Chapter 18, The Lords.

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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Correspondence and accounts of the Senior Treasurer, Cambridge University European Theatre Group, 2009 - 2011

Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.121.1
Scope and Contents

Includes lists of members.

Dates: 2009 - 2011
Conditions Governing Access: This material is closed to scholars for 80 years from the date of creation under data protection legislation.
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Correspondence B, Part 2, 1904-11-11 - 1940-03-02

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAN I/5/3
Scope and Contents

Comprising correspondence with Enid Bagnold; Arthur Balfour including correspondence about the National Theatre project (6); Frances Balfour; Betty Balfour (4); David Balfour; Duggy Balfour about Oliver (2); May Balfour; WF Barrett; Sir JM Barrie (2); Hilaire Belloc; A Birrell (2); Ernst Boller (10); RH Brand; Addison Bright; Ivor Brown; Sir E Burne-Jones;and Philip Burne-Jones (2).

Dates: 1904-11-11 - 1940-03-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Item — DCPP/AMO/6

Diary of Anne Elizabeth Fisher, vol VI, 1856-07-12 - 1857-05-06

Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/AMO/6
Scope and Contents Includes, at the back: list of books read, 1856, letters written and received in 1856 and 1857. Includes pressed flower, list of people invited to a party, 30 Jan 1857, list of contributions for Mrs Wilson, 22 Dec 1856 and small sketch of a fish. Journal begins in Southend, before travelling to Hastings (St Leonards) on 25 July and, after a brief stay in London, on to Tatton Park. Notable entries include: (30 August) visit to Liverpool and Birkenhead, concert at the Philarmonic Hall...
Dates: 1856-07-12 - 1857-05-06
 Fonds — Multiple Containers

Edward Rose: Correspondence and papers

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9526
Scope and Contents The surviving correspondence contains many letters from actors, actresses and theatre managers, about current productions for the London stage, and for tours in the provinces. A few letters mention the production of Rose's plays in the USA. There are letters from hopeful authors offering their novels for dramatization, from people agreeing or declining to lecture to the Playgoers' Club, and from friends wanting theatre tickets. Two owners of stately homes (Lord Barnard and Lord Donington)...
Dates: 1880-1904 (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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Edward Rose: writings and family correspondence

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10138
Scope and Contents MS Add. 10138 contains scripts (draft and later versions) of plays and other writings by Rose, as well as family correspondence covering Rose’s life from childhood until his death. Other writings by Rose include ‘The Rose Reader’ (a book outlining a method to teach children to read), a novel and poetry. Collected souvenir programmes and promotional material relating to 19th century theatre are also included. The correspondence (MS Add.10138/3) has been calendared to provide short summaries...
Dates: c.1852-1915
Conditions Governing Access: The MS Add.10138 Edward Rose papers are owned by the University of Cambridge and are open for consultation under the normal regulations of the University Library's manuscripts collections; see http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/manuscripts/. Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Edward Rose: Writings and family correspondence, Add. 10138
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George Crotch and Joseph Ebsworth: Extracts and Notes

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5374
Scope and Contents

504 folios. The main part of the volume is taken up with 'The Return from Parnassus', an extract from Sir Thomas Hawkins's Origins of English drama, 3, p. 301. The contents also include: (fo. 2) notes on J.E. Tennent, 'Ceylon'; (fo. 441) extracts from A. Ramsay, Tea-table miscellany, Calliope or the musical miscellany and the Saturday magazine; (fo. 446) notes on entomology. Fos 4, 82-440, 454 and many of the versos are blank.

Dates: 1860-1868
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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Letters from John Julius to Lady Diana from Beirut, 1957-06 - 1957-12

Reference Code: GBR/0014/DIAC 1/6/2/25
Scope and Contents Letters sent while John Julius was on his way from Belgrade to take up his new post as Second Secretary at the British Embassy in Beirut [Lebanon] and from Beirut itself, on subjects including: disapproval of the new British Ambassador to Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia], Sir John Nicholls and his wife; the visit to Belgrade by Sir Laurence Olivier and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre company, with their production...
Dates: 1957-06 - 1957-12
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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Literary: articles., Jan 1936 - Sep 1936

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/540
Scope and Contents Annotated proofs and press cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "I Was Astonished by Morocco" following WSC's visit to Morocco; "Why Not a Channel Tunnel" on the trade and military advantages of a tunnel; "St Helena" on Napoleon at St Helena and a new play on the subject; "International Affairs" on the need to defend democracy; "Radio, Newsreel, or the Press" on the superiority of the press in supplying news and the need for a free press.Also includes: a letter from Adam Marshall...
Dates: Jan 1936 - Sep 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: correspondence with and about Sir Edward Marsh., Oct 1933 - Oct 1954

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/2
Scope and Contents Others correspondents include: Sir William Haley, [Editor] of the Times, on WSC writing a tribute on Marsh's death (2); 10th Lord Elgin and Kincardine [earlier Lord Bruce]; James Stewart-Murray [?9th Duke of Atholl]; David Garnett on his publishing a volume of T E Lawrence's [T E Shaw, "Lawrence of Arabia"] letters. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: Denis Kelly [literary assistant to WSC]; secretaries Grace Hamblin, Anthony Montague Browne, Lettice Marston [later Lettice...
Dates: Oct 1933 - Oct 1954
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: News of the World articles by WSC 2., May 1938 - Sep 1938

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

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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Mark Brown: Musical scores for productions of the 7:84 Theatre Company

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10430
Scope and Contents

Comprises scores for: (/1) 'The Fish in the Sea'; (/2) 'Yobbo Nowt' (photocopy); (/3) 'Lay-Off'; and (/4) 'Bitter Apples' (photocopy, with a covering note by Brown).

Dates: 1975-1979
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MS speeches, 1994-05 - 1996-10

Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 7/16
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: MS's memories of 1st Lord De L'Isle, at the opening of an arboretum at Penshurst Place [Kent]; MS's election to the Company of Skinners; the 120th anniversary of Winston Churchill's birth; the theatre as an international commodity and means of communication (the Tacitus Lecture, 1995); Churchill's painting; the 30th anniversary of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust; tribute to Sir Fitzroy Maclean.

Dates: 1994-05 - 1996-10
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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National Theatre: box set of programmes, 1988

Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 9/23
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Correspondence with various societies and organisations of which MS was a patron or trustee, mainly various Churchill-related bodies, and also the National Theatre, where MS served as Chairman, 1989-95.

Dates: 1988
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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National Theatre: copies of Chairman’s correspondence, 1989-12 - 1993-05

Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 9/24
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: congratulations to actors and directors on various productions; cuts to the guest night list; thanks to supporters; invitations; the Rayne Award; the Gala performance of Carousel; the American tour of Richard III; the Theatre's Arts Council funding; the Olivier Awards.

Dates: 1989-12 - 1993-05
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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National Theatre: copies of Chairman’s correspondence, 1993-05 - 1996-07

Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 9/25
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: criticism of the process for selecting a new Director of the National Theatre; MS's departure from the Chairmanship; membership of the Board; the 'Masterplan' for changes to the theatre; the Rayne Award; the exhibition of the Somerset Maugham collection of theatrical paintings; fundraising; congratulations to actors and directors on various productions.

Dates: 1993-05 - 1996-07
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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National Theatre: expenses, Chairman and personal, 1989-04 - 1995-08

Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 9/26
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Correspondence with various societies and organisations of which MS was a patron or trustee, mainly various Churchill-related bodies, and also the National Theatre, where MS served as Chairman, 1989-95.

Dates: 1989-04 - 1995-08
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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National Theatre: later papers, 1995-07 - 2013-04

Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 9/28
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and papers relating to the National Theatre after MS had stepped down as Chairman, but remained a trustee of the National Theatre Foundation. Includes extracts relating to MS from a history of the National Theatre by Daniel Rosenthal.

Dates: 1995-07 - 2013-04
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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National Theatre: theatre diary, 1991 - 1995

Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 9/27
Scope and Contents

Includes letters between Richard Eyre [Artistic Director of the National Theatre] and Sir [Arthur] John Gielgud on his 90th birthday.

Dates: 1991 - 1995
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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