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India

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 439 Collections and/or Records:

 Fonds

Bowater Sanderson: Naval Journal

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9516
Scope and Contents

The journal (c. 305 pages) begins in September 1747, describing the voyage out to India, and concludes with the return of Royal Duke to England on 5 June 1750. The volume includes navigational exercises, transcribed sailing directions and pencil landfalls, and a sketch of the British settlement at Oriocopong.

Dates: 1747-1750
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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Briefings for meetings, 1988-11 - 1988-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/75
Scope and Contents

Briefings for meetings with individuals including: the new Israeli Ambassador, Yoav Biran; John Edmonds, General Secretary of the GMB union and Tom Burlison, Regional Secretary; Maharajkrishna Rasgotra, the new Indian High Commissioner; members of the British karate team. Also includes note on NK and the Enniskillen Memorial service.

Dates: 1988-11 - 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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Broadcasts, 1931-11 - 1952-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/17
Scope and Contents Texts of broadcasts by LSA on subjects including: Fairbridge Farm Schools in Australia; Empire defence; the economics of Empire; the 1935 Peace Ballot; the Empire and world peace; the politician versus the businessman; the Jewish settlement in Palestine; the Empire Producers Organisation; the way of peace; Germany's debt to European civilisation; tributes to Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; why Italy should not...
Dates: 1931-11 - 1952-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Burma-India separation, 1933-02 - 1935-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/5/29
Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence on the separation of Burma [later Myanmar] from India, particularly on LSA's work as chairman of the financial settlement tribunal. Correspondents include: Sir Samuel Hoare [Secretary of State for India, later 1st Lord Templewood] (11); David Monteath [Assistant Secretary, India Office]; Sir [Samuel] Findlater Stewart [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India]; William Croft [Private Secretary to Hoare]. Also includes: report of the Financial...
Dates: 1933-02 - 1935-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Cassia glauca / Cassia pubescens / cotyledons, 1878-11-13 - 1878-11-21

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 209.6: 55-56
Scope and Contents

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


(Note)

Dates: 1878-11-13 - 1878-11-21
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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"Clementine Churchill": Central Women's Advisory Committee Conference India debate, 1933, 1967-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/1/77
Scope and Contents

Notes, transcripts and copies of cuttings on CSC's speech to the Conservative women's conference on India.

Dates: 1967-11
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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Colour slides, mainly of overseas visits by Harold Macmillan, 1957-03 - 1960

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/NRBK 2/1
Scope and Contents Includes: a guard of honour at the Bermuda Conference, 1957; the Commonwealth tour by [Maurice] Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Stockton], Jan-Feb 1958, including India, particularly Delhi, and the Khyber Pass, a guard of honour at Singapore, New Zealand, including Dunedin and Christchurch and Australia, including Queensland and Sydney; Macmillan's visit to the Soviet Union, Feb 1959, including Moscow, Kiev and Leningrad, and an image of Macmillan and John Selwyn Lloyd,...
Dates: 1957-03 - 1960
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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Commonwealth relations, 1948-02 - 1950-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/75
Scope and Contents Correspondence, papers and cuttings on the 1948 and 1951 Conferences of Commonwealth Prime Ministers and particularly the position of India, with correspondents including: Sir Clive Baillieu on LSA's role in promoting Commonwealth unity; Clement Attlee, Prime Minister, on keeping India in the Commonwealth (2); Winston Churchill [Leader of the Opposition] on not being embittered by the past [on India] and the need to save what they could from the wreck (2); Sir Alan Lascelles [Private...
Dates: 1948-02 - 1950-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Commonwealth Tour, 1958-01 - 1958-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/NRBK 2/5
Scope and Contents

Spare slides from the tour of [Maurice] Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Stockton], including: the Khyber Pass and massed pipers and bands rehearsing for the Independence Day parade, India; the Dunedin festival, Old Crocks’ Race and departing from Christchurch, New Zealand; Sydney and Queensland, Australia; house in Ceylon [later Sri Lanka].

Dates: 1958-01 - 1958-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.