India
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 285 Collections and/or Records:
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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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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.
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"My Political Life", volume IV: Leo Amery's personal correspondence regarding India, 1941, 1941-03 - 1941-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 8/5/39
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Sir George Schuster, mainly on Schuster's book on the Indian constitutional problem, "India and Democracy" and also printed private telegrams between Amery, the Viceroy [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun] and the Governor of Burma [later Myanmar, Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith], Nov-Dec 1941.
Dates:
1941-03 - 1941-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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"My Political Life", volume IV: paper on Indian Princes by Sir Kenneth Fitze, 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 8/5/51
Scope and Contents
Paper by Fitze [former adviser to Leo Amery] kept by JA for use on volume IV.
Dates:
1957
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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'Northern India', sheet 33, 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BGND D.102
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-sub-class:
These maps were compiled by the War Office. Printed on linen-backed paper.
Dates:
1927
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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NS I Chap 3-6 Note, 1841-01-01 - 1841-01-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 49: 17-18
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1841-01-01 - 1841-01-31
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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NS I Chap 3-7 Note, 1841-06-01 - 1841-06-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 49: 19-20
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin; written at Maer
(Note)
Dates:
1841-06-01 - 1841-06-30
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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NS I Chap 3-27 Note, 1854-10-01 - 1854-10-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 49: 43r
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1854-10-01 - 1854-10-31
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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NS I Chap 4-87 Note, 1857-11-01 - 1857-11-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 45: 102
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1857-11-01 - 1857-11-30
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From the Fonds:
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NS I Continental Extensions-3 Note, 1856-02-26
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 50: D12-D13
Scope and Contents
Arguments against Atlantis
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1856-02-26
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NS I Continental Extensions-8 Note, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 50: D19
Scope and Contents
The fact of extraordinary few peculiar plants in intertropical Africa / so wonderfully contrasted with S Africa
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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NS I Glacial Period-10 Note, 1857-11-14
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 50: E16
Scope and Contents
Suppose world were to grow 10° colder
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1857-11-14
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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NS I Glacial Period-43 Note, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 50: E52r
Scope and Contents
Seeing how isolated Equatorial Africa...
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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NS II Distribution of animals-55 Note, 1840-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.3: 78
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1840-01-01 - 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.