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Lionel Dunsterville (1865-1946): Letters to his sister May

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9498
Scope and Contents This collection of correspondence of his youngest sister May (later Mrs Lionel Armitage), consists substantially of letters from Lionel Dunsterville, covering schooldays with Kipling at the United Services College, Westward Ho!, and extending up to the time of his marriage in 1897. Many letters include plans or amusing sketches, and some from Dunsterville as a schoolboy are written in blood or secret inks. Kipling features intermittently - in the schoolboy series there is one certain...
Dates: 1875-1922 (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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Literary: Articles, 1908 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLLD 23
Scope and Contents

Typescripts, drafts and proofs.

Dates: 1908 - 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please cite as Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, GLLD
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Literary: Speeches, 1909 - 1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLLD 22
Scope and Contents

Typescripts, notes and material for speeches.

Dates: 1909 - 1957
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please cite as Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, GLLD
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Literary: 'The Second World War': Volume 5 'Closing the Ring': Source material: Directives File (printed War Cabinet papers), 21 Jul-21 Oct 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/2/3/66
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Many files relate to ‘The Second World War’ and include correspondence with WSC’s literary assistants (William Deakin and Denis Kelly), Henry Pownall (military consultant), George Gordon Allen (naval consultant) and other consultants including Hastings Ismay and Isaiah Berlin. Also includes war-time documents which were source material for ‘The Second World War’.

Dates: 21 Jul-21 Oct 1943
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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Lord Lloyd's diaries, 1901 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLLD 26
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers consist of: personal material, including photographs, press cuttings and correspondence; papers on Eastern affairs, including reports and correspondence from Lloyd's time at Constantinople and official copies of telegrams to and from the Turkish Government; papers and correspondence from Lloyd's various Eastern postings in the First World War; papers from India, during Lloyd's governorship of Bombay and also later papers from Lloyd's membership of the India Group; official...
Dates: 1901 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please cite as Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, GLLD
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Lord Randolph Churchill: Correspondence and Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9248
Scope and Contents Political and personal correspondence, including letters from most leading political figures of the time, Joseph Chamberlain, the Lord Justice Gerald Fitzgibbon, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, third Marquis of Salisbury, and Sir Henry Drummond Wolff. The correspondence with Gerald Fitzgibbon sheds much light on Churchill's own career. Comprises letters written to Churchill by political and personal associates, and copies of letters written by him, covering the period 1870 - 1895,...
Dates: 1870-1894
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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Mammals-21 Note, 1868-03-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 83: 21
Scope and Contents

Much struck at the oddness & distinctness of the colours of various Antelopes


Note; by Charles Robert Darwin; written at Zoolog[ical] Soc[iety]


(Note)

Dates: 1868-03-11
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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Mammals-99 Note, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 83: 101r
Scope and Contents

The Indian C[ercopithecus?] oryzu[?] of Ceylon became spotted in summer dress


Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


(Note)

Dates: 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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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Man (used)-19 Note, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 85: A32r
Scope and Contents

Mr Scott tells me after attending at my request to subject in India that he has never noticed a man with a beard darker than his hair but sometimes with it lighter-coloured


Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


(Note)

Dates: 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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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Max and Hedi Born in India, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BORN 6/2/29
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Photographs of Max and Hedi Born, family, friends, ancestors, and contemporary scientists.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
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Measurement of a meridional arc, 1800 - 1803

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 4/112
Scope and Contents Measurement of a meridional arc from Trivandeporum to Paudree, India, and of the arc perpendicular to the meridian. The volume includes accounts, observations and experiments performed by Brigade Major William Lambton on the latitude 12º32'N.1. An account of the measurement of the base line and an explanation and experiments performed on the chain and their comparative lengths.2. Commencement of the operations from the base: the large theodolite.3. Angles taken with...
Dates: 1800 - 1803
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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Measurement of a meridional arc, 1805

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 4/113
Scope and Contents Measurement by Brigade Major William Lambton of the meridional arc from Puchapollian to Paughur and of the arc perpendicular to the meridian.1. Measurements of an arc extending from latitude 10º59'50".14 to 13º59'51".62 and the measurement of an arc perpendicular to the meridian in latitude 12º55'10".24.i. The meridional arc.ii. Experiments made for comparing the chains previous to the experiment.iii. Tables containing the particulars of...
Dates: 1805
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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Measurement of the Bangalore baseline, 1800 - 1801

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 4/114
Scope and Contents An account by Brigade Major William Lambton of the measurement of a base line near Bangalore, together with the particulars of a geographical survey around Mysore. The book is divided into two parts. The first section is comprised of an account of the measurement of the base line near Bangalore and descriptions of the instruments used to determine the latitude and meridian lines for taking the horizontal angles. The second part is an account of the principal operation of the survey, with an...
Dates: 1800 - 1801
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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Memoir (in place of interview): Sir Colin Imray, 2002

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 54
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 2002
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
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Memoir: Warwick Morris, 2009 - 2020

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 194
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 2009 - 2020
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
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Military sketches and plans

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4217
Scope and Contents A series of sketches and plans, mostly of hill forts in India, with a map of settlements in New South Wales (fo. 75), a sketch of Tristan da Cunha (fo. 78), views near Cork (fos 78 and 83), and maps of parts of Arabia and the Persian Gulf (fo. 87), 109 folios. The original artist is named in the following cases: Capt H. Mitchel (fos 9 and 14), Capt. J.J. O'Donoghue (fos 12, 27, 34, 41, 42, 47, 49, 53, 81, 95 and 106), Lieut. Nutt, Bombay Engineers (fo. 16), Semboo Sing (fos 54, 55 and 58),...
Dates: 1826 (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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Miscellaneous articles, 1947-01 - 1948-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/29
Scope and Contents Texts of papers by LSA on subjects including: the Commonwealth and European unity; the 1948 Commonwealth conference; Empire unity and world peace; common interests of the Commonwealth and the United States; a single world economics system, compared to regional or group economics; the Commonwealth as a world power; Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; the political situation in India; Conservatism and the Conservative...
Dates: 1947-01 - 1948-10
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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Miscellaneous meteorological papers, 1884 - 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 7/131
Scope and Contents (1) Miscellaneous papers, 1888-1889Index sheet, 1889.Index sheet, 1888.Letter to W.G. King from H.C. Fox, 1888.Unsigned and undated memorandum [1888].Letter from W. Ellis to H.C. Fox replying to his letter, 1888.Letter from the R.M. College, Kingston, Ontario, and a reply from W. Ellis, 1888.Letter from W. Hoshen Richards regarding droughts and a reply from W. Ellis, 1888.Letter regarding cup...
Dates: 1884 - 1904
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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Miscellaneous notes, quotations and correspondence, 1907-12 - 1952-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 6/3/135
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Wilfrid Laurier; Julian Amery; Pamela, Lady Lytton (2); Sir William Goodenough; [William] Mackenzie King; Elizabeth Goudge (2); [Cicely] Alice, Lady Salisbury; LSA; Lady Katharine Seymour, lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, passing on the Queen's thanks for AFA's sympathy [on the death of King George VI]; [?] Mary, Duchess of Devonshire (2); Denholm Fraser [Political aide to the Secretary of State for India] regretting that LSA was leaving the...
Dates: 1907-12 - 1952-10
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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Miscellaneous scientific papers, 1855 - 1856

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/470
Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers on various scientific topics. The papers begin with work on electricity and magnetism, including W. Thomson's transfer of galvanic currents; J. Tyndall's lecture on magnetic repulsion delivered to the Royal Institution; and C. Chalmers' notes on electricity. There are samples of J.C. Clark's chemical telegraph; material on I.K. Brunel's proposal of voyages to India; various barometer readings; longitudes of Paris, Lancaster, Torbay and Algeria; and a letter by D....
Dates: 1855 - 1856
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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Miscellaneous speeches, 1940-12 - 1947-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/30
Scope and Contents Annotated speech notes by LSA on subjects including: the future of Parliament; the London Library; United Europe; the political situation in India; relations between Britain and South America; London House [later Goodenough College]; the international situation; Burma [later Myanmar]; the record of the Labour Government; the Washington Loan Agreement, and its effect on the British export trade; the Indian constitutional problem; Britain's place in Europe; Empire Preference and the export...
Dates: 1940-12 - 1947-07
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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Miscellaneous speeches and articles, 1929-12 - 1947-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/5/12
Scope and Contents Texts of speeches and articles by LSA on subjects including: the report of the Palestine Commission; colonial claims; the Geographical magazine; British agriculture in relation to the Dominions; sugar duties and Imperial Preference; the Import Duties Bill (1932); maintaining naval strength; the worldwide economic depression; Kingsley Fairbridge and the Empire Farm Schools; failures of the League of Nations; Magna Carta and political freedom in the modern era; Dutch policy in the East Indies...
Dates: 1929-12 - 1947-08
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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"My Political Life": notes for corrections, Volume IV, 1940-07 - 1955-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 8/83
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Andrew Acheson, Assistant Secretary, Cabinet Office; Professor James Butler [Chief Historian for the Official Military Histories of War]; Major-General Ian Playfair; John Ehrman [Historian, Cabinet Office]; 1st Lord Salter; Clement Attlee, recalling the decision to keep [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] out of the War Cabinet; Robert Boothby, recalling the rebellion against Chamberlain; General Sir Alan Brooke [Chief of...
Dates: 1940-07 - 1955-07
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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"My Political Life": Volume III, "The Unforgiving Years", original typescript chapters 1-11, 1953-08 - 1954-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 8/86
Scope and Contents

Annotated typescript, covering: economic and Empire policy, 1929-31; the collapse of the Conservative Government and formation of the Coalition Government; Imperial Preference; the India Act; LSA's travels in Europe, meeting with Hitler and LSA's non-political work; pacifism, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia [later Ethiopia] and the drift to war; the abdication crisis; appeasement.

Dates: 1953-08 - 1954-12
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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"My Political Life": Volume IV, chapters 6-8, 1953-08 - 1955-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 8/85
Scope and Contents

Text, including annotations by Francis Turnbull [Principal Private Secretary to LSA as Secretary of State for India] on LSA's Indian policy.

Dates: 1953-08 - 1955-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.