London
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1992 Collections and/or Records:
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William Graham on the cause of annual variation in magnetic variation and two methods of determining longitude, 1787 - 1788
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/42: 33-54
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Correspondence regarding the effects of magnetic variation on the mariner's compass, the use of magnetic variation to establish longitude and the cause of magnetic variation.
Dates:
1787 - 1788
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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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William Greaves' tables of circularities, quadratures, etc., 1806-01-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/54: 230-244
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The first part of collection is comprised of papers concerning the internal affairs of the Board of Longitude, including the granting of awards, accounts, minutes, committee papers, petitions and memorials, the loan of instruments, publications and the payment of staff. These are followed by a wide range of papers relating to the Board's work, concerning clocks, chronometers and other instruments; longitude and latitude; magnetic variation; schemes and inventions; tables; pendulum...
Dates:
1806-01-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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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William Henry Playfair: Memoranda
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6305
Scope and Contents
The volume contains notes on bridge construction and on watercolour painting (fos 2-12); a journal of an excursion from Edinburgh to Arran and back, 1-9 May 1811, with notes of expenses (fos 13-20 and 44r-43r); undated notes of other travelling expenses (fo. 47r); pencil sketches, one of a crane at Bell Rock Lighthouse (fos 47v and 45); and addresses of London tradesmen (fo. 42v). Fos 42-47 are entered from the back of the book. Fos 20v-42r are blank. Administrative / Biographical History
Dates:
1850 (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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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William Hewett on an instrument for maritime surveying, 1820-02-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/30: 300-302
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The first part of collection is comprised of papers concerning the internal affairs of the Board of Longitude, including the granting of awards, accounts, minutes, committee papers, petitions and memorials, the loan of instruments, publications and the payment of staff. These are followed by a wide range of papers relating to the Board's work, concerning clocks, chronometers and other instruments; longitude and latitude; magnetic variation; schemes and inventions; tables; pendulum...
Dates:
1820-02-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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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William Hyslop on squaring the circle and on longitude at sea, 1823
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/54: 273-283
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The first part of collection is comprised of papers concerning the internal affairs of the Board of Longitude, including the granting of awards, accounts, minutes, committee papers, petitions and memorials, the loan of instruments, publications and the payment of staff. These are followed by a wide range of papers relating to the Board's work, concerning clocks, chronometers and other instruments; longitude and latitude; magnetic variation; schemes and inventions; tables; pendulum...
Dates:
1823
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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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William Lax's correspondence relating to tables, 1812 - 1822
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/46: 123-154
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Correspondence regarding various astronomical and nautical tables.
Dates:
1812 - 1822
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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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William Martin on perpetual motion, 1807 - 1822
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/54: 135-141
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The first part of collection is comprised of papers concerning the internal affairs of the Board of Longitude, including the granting of awards, accounts, minutes, committee papers, petitions and memorials, the loan of instruments, publications and the payment of staff. These are followed by a wide range of papers relating to the Board's work, concerning clocks, chronometers and other instruments; longitude and latitude; magnetic variation; schemes and inventions; tables; pendulum...
Dates:
1807 - 1822
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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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William Peskett on various discoveries, 1818-12-15
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/54: 334-336
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The first part of collection is comprised of papers concerning the internal affairs of the Board of Longitude, including the granting of awards, accounts, minutes, committee papers, petitions and memorials, the loan of instruments, publications and the payment of staff. These are followed by a wide range of papers relating to the Board's work, concerning clocks, chronometers and other instruments; longitude and latitude; magnetic variation; schemes and inventions; tables; pendulum...
Dates:
1818-12-15
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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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William Scoresby on a chronometrical compass, 1824-03-15
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/30: 362-364
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The first part of collection is comprised of papers concerning the internal affairs of the Board of Longitude, including the granting of awards, accounts, minutes, committee papers, petitions and memorials, the loan of instruments, publications and the payment of staff. These are followed by a wide range of papers relating to the Board's work, concerning clocks, chronometers and other instruments; longitude and latitude; magnetic variation; schemes and inventions; tables; pendulum...
Dates:
1824-03-15
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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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William Scoresby on experiments with a dipping needle at Liverpool and Greenland, 1823
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/43: 408-428
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Correspondence regarding the effect of magnetic variation on the mariner's compass, the use of magnetic variation to establish longitude and the cause of magnetic variation.
Dates:
1823
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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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William Shires on an improvement in the quadrant, 1828-03-28
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/30: 398-400
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The first part of collection is comprised of papers concerning the internal affairs of the Board of Longitude, including the granting of awards, accounts, minutes, committee papers, petitions and memorials, the loan of instruments, publications and the payment of staff. These are followed by a wide range of papers relating to the Board's work, concerning clocks, chronometers and other instruments; longitude and latitude; magnetic variation; schemes and inventions; tables; pendulum...
Dates:
1828-03-28
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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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"With 'my better half'", 1940-09-25
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Photo 1/324
Scope and Contents
Photo shows WSC and CSC sitting on board a naval auxiliary patrol vessel on the Thames, travelling towards the East London docks. WSC is wearing an overcoat and hat and has his arm around CSC. CSC sits close to him wearing a fur coat and head scarf.
Dates:
1940-09-25
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original.
Fonds
Women’s Parliamentary Radio publications and podcasts, conducted by Boni Sones with contributions by Jackie Ashley, Deborah McGurran and Linda Fairbrother
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOBA
Scope and Contents
Podcasts produced by Women's Parliamentary Radio , consisting mainly of interviews with British MPs, and publications based on those interviwes. The material focuses mainly on the work experiences of women MPs, along with some broader interviews regarding issues affecting women.Publications and associated podcasts covered are the 'When There's a Woman in the Room' series, parts 2-4...
Dates:
2017-11-15 - 2019-11-14
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Words of anthem composed for funeral of Darwin C R [Harrison & Sons], 1882-04-26
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 215: 4e
Scope and Contents
Printed; by Sir John Frederick Bridge; written at London printed sheet
(Printed)
Dates:
1882-04-26
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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WSC electioneering in Westminster, 1924-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW II 5/1
Scope and Contents
Photographs from WSC's by-election campaign for the Abbey division, Westminster [London], where he stood (unsuccessfully) as an Independent anti-Socialist candidate.
Dates:
1924-03
Conditions Governing Access:
Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original
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WSC electioneering in Westminster, 1924-03
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW II 5/2
Scope and Contents
Photographs from WSC's by-election campaign for the Abbey division, Westminster [London], where he stood (unsuccessfully) as an Independent anti-Socialist candidate.
Dates:
1924-03
Conditions Governing Access:
Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original
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