Theatre
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 70 Collections and/or Records:
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National Theatre: later papers, 1995-07 - 2013-04
File
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
File
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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Photograph album from "The Miracle", given to Lady Diana Cooper by the producer, Charles Cochran, 1932-09
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DIAC 5/6
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes: correspondence, particularly with Conrad Russell, Windham Baldwin and Lady Diana's son John Julius, mainly written by Lady Diana in diary form; detailed travel diaries, often consisting of copies of letters to Russell and to John Julius; literary material, mainly relating to Lady Diana's autobiography; some photographs of Lady Diana.
Dates:
1932-09
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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Photograph album of productions at the National Theatre, 1988-95, 1995-07
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 6/1/31
Scope and Contents
Black-and-white photographs, presented to MS to mark her retirement at Chairman of the Royal National Theatre Board. Includes a covering letter from Richard Eyre, Artistic Director.
Dates:
1995-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Sub-Series
Plays, 1909 - 1955
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW IV 1
Scope and Contents
Scripts of plays written by Lady Randolph, together with related correspondence and financial papers.
Dates:
1909 - 1955
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: Woodford [Essex]: correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, A-G., Mar 1948 - May 1949
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/49
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Lena Prescott, Private Secretary, Ministry of Health (4); [David] Nenk, Ministry of Education; J T Williams, Private Secretary, War Damage Commission (5); Frederick Mummery, Honorary Secretary and Agent, Woodford Conservative Association (7); [Patrick] Kinna, Foreign Office (2); ?[Humphrey] Penderell Bright; Percy Cohen [Joint Director] and Iain MacLeod of the Conservative Research Department; Leah Manning; J P C Seale, Private Secretary, Air Ministry (3); Tom Driberg...
Dates:
Mar 1948 - May 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
Open (folios 250-8 opened in 2022).
File
Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, F - H., 19 Feb 1951 - 18 Oct 1956
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/93A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent, Woodford Conservative Association (9); Gordon Wilson, Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War (2); Robert Armstrong, [later Lord Armstrong of Ilminster], Private Secretary [to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Gordon Downey [Assistant Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (3); W E Forsyth, constituent (4); Robert Pittam, Private Secretary to the Home Secretary; Maurice Dean,...
Dates:
19 Feb 1951 - 18 Oct 1956
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, T - Z., 06 Feb 1952 - 04 Dec 1956
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/97A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Woodford Conservative Association, including John Harvey [Chairman, and MP for Walthamstow East, Essex] (2) and W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent (11); Gerald Nabarro [MP for Kidderminster, Worcestershire]; Hugh Ellis-Rees, Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War; Josiah Beale [Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation]; Raymond Gedling [Assistant Private Secretary to the...
Dates:
06 Feb 1952 - 04 Dec 1956
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, except for folios 483 - 489, closed for 75 years until 2028 on data protection grounds due to the presence of sensitive and personal information on a potentially living individual.
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Press cutting album on Lady Diana Cooper’s performance in "The Miracle", 1924-02 - 1926-01
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DIAC 5/5
Scope and Contents
Includes some photographs.
Dates:
1924-02 - 1926-01
Conditions Governing Access:
Unfit for production but digital surrogate is available.
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Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, C-D., Jan 1943 - Jun 1944
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/464
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: "E R" [Eleanor Roosevelt] and John Russell [2nd Secretary] (British Embassy, Washington [United States]) (2) on communications with a US sculptor Stirling Calder and his bust of WSC; [1st] Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry], High Commissioner for Canada [in the United Kingdom] Vincent Massey, Chilean Ambassador [to Great Britain] Manuel Bianchi, and Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia [later Czech Republic and Slovakia] Jan Sramek, on WSC's health problems; Sir...
Dates:
Jan 1943 - Jun 1944
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, C-D., Jan 1942 - Dec 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/441
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Edward Campbell on the death of his son; Malcolm MacDonald, British High Commissioner in Canada, passing on a request for WSC's autograph; "Porchy", [6th] Lord Carnarvon [earlier Lord Porchester] (2), Sir Philip Chetwode, and Sir Stafford Cripps sending birthday greetings; Victor Cazalet; "R C" [1st Lord] Cecil [of Chelwood, earlier Lord Robert Cecil] on WSC's "two Archbishops"; [Rodney] Gallop (Foreign Office); "Bobbety", Lord Cranborne [earlier Robert Gascoyne...
Dates:
Jan 1942 - Dec 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, E-G., Jan 1943 - Jan 1944
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/465
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Charles Eade [editor] of the Sunday Dispatch and Leslie Graham-Dixon thanking WSC for gifts of his books; Admiral Sir Edward Evans [later 1st Lord Mountevans] sending a book for WSC; General Dwight Eisenhower (2) on receiving a picture of WSC and WSC's illness; James Forrestal [Under Secretary of the United States Navy] on WSC's recovery; "B B" [Brendan Bracken] on "Lee's Lieutenants" by Douglas Freeman; Arthur Grenfell on early flying experiences with WSC; Sir Edward...
Dates:
Jan 1943 - Jan 1944
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, E-G., Jan 1942 - Dec 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/442
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Charles Eade [Editor] of the Sunday Dispatch (3) and Lovat Dickson [Director] of MacMillan and Company (2) on subjects including Eade going to Egypt and WSC binding copies of his works for him; Sir Crisp English on WSC's acute appendicitis in 1922; Michael Foot, [Acting] Editor, Evening Standard, on Low's cartoon "Winterton's Nightmare"; [Sir Alexander] Erskine-Hill congratulating WSC on his speech of 23 April; Wilfred Fish [WSC's dentist]; [Alan] Hodge [Assistant...
Dates:
Jan 1942 - Dec 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, T-Z., Jan 1942 - Dec 1942
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/447
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Mavis Tate and Sir Reginald Wingate supporting WSC's leadership; Cecil Thomas, editor of the Daily Mirror, on his brother, [Sir] Shenton Thomas [Governor of Straits Settlements (later Singapore and part of Malaysia) and High Commissioner for the Malay States, later part of Malaysia] and Singapore; "Bendor", [2nd] Duke of Westminster, (4) on subjects including the landings in North West Africa, meeting WSC, and reminisces; Sir Courtauld Thomson on gifts of a desk once...
Dates:
Jan 1942 - Dec 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Fonds
Records of the Cambridge University Gilbert and Sullivan Society, 1981 - 2005
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.83
Scope and Contents
The files relate to the administration of the society and the mounting of productions, usually the responsibility of a sub-committee and/or production team. There are no photographs.
Dates:
1981 - 2005
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
Records of the Committee of Management of the ADC Theatre, 1950 - 1983
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Min.VII.141
Scope and Contents
From the Management Group:
The category - Corporate management records - embraces records of the central decision-making bodies, University officers such as the Vice-Chancellor and the Registrary, and their administrative support. It includes constitutional records.
Dates:
1950 - 1983
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Sub-Management Group:
The minutes of some Committees are closed to scholars for periods of years; see each catalogue entry for further detail.
Fonds
Records of the Garrick Club, 1833 - 1847
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.48
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:
1833 - 1847
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
Records of the Marlowe Dramatic Society, 1907 - 1954
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.78
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:
1907 - 1954
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
Rupert Chawner Brooke: Draft of John Webster and the Elizabethan drama (London, 1916).
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6202-6203
Scope and Contents
Includes an appendix and a typescript of chapters from the same work.
Dates:
1911-1912
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
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Scarborough Play Bills
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4020
Scope and Contents
Series of drafts or copies of bills for plays performed in the summer season in Scarborough, Yorkshire. Inside the front cover: '175' (in circle, pencilled), with the bookplate of Hymen Packer.
Dates:
1754
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
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Shakespeare, 1945 - 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RBTN 5/23
Scope and Contents
Papers and correspondence on MAR’s interest in the theatre, mainly relating to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 1946. Correspondents including: Donald Wolfit on the refusal of the British Council to support his Canadian tour and developing theatre at Stratford (2); Dame [Agnes] Sybil Thorndike on MAR's Shakespeare Festival oration and the development of Stratford (3); Sir Barry Jackson, Director of the Stratford-upon-Avon Festival Company, on the development of Stratford (2); 3rd Lord...
Dates:
1945 - 1947
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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Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, 1926-06 - 1942-04
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCKN 7/12
Scope and Contents
Papers and correspondence from McKenna's work on the Advisory Committee of the new memorial theatre at Stratford-on-Avon [Warwickshire), with correspondents including: Sir Archibald Flower, Chairman of the Board of Governors (22); Edward Grenfell [later 1st Lord St Just] (6); John Davis; William Bridges-Adams [Director of the Shakespeare Festival]; [Frank] Dudley Docker (2); Guy Dawber [President of the Royal Institute of British Architects] on the competition to find an architect for the...
Dates:
1926-06 - 1942-04
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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South Africa, 1993-05 - 1994-10
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 8/12
Scope and Contents
Papers and correspondence on MS's visit to the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, with a group from the National Theatre Studio, Sept-Oct 1994.
Dates:
1993-05 - 1994-10
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
Theatre Programme Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8544
Scope and Contents
Theatre programmes, playbills, postcards of cast members, photographs, newspaper cuttings, magazines, letters, and personal record books, with accompanying explanatory notes, collected by Charles Woods, and including programmes and posters from his own shows as Horace Watson. The programmes are grouped into sets: New Theatre and Theatre Cinema (over 1,000 items), Festival Theatre (c. 100), Arts Theatre (over 2,000), London Theatres (c. 300), and Horace Watson items (c. 50). There is also a...
Dates:
1906-1981
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
Item
(Untitled), 28 Mar 1941
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/21B/177
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC to Harry Crookshank [Financial Secretary to the Treasury] expressing displeasure at his non-co-operation on the easement of the Sunday opening of theatres.
Dates:
28 Mar 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open