India
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 437 Collections and/or Records:
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Results sent from Hyderabad to H. Spencer Jones at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, 1930 - 1941
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 81/22
Scope and Contents
Results of the observations of Eros, 1930-1931, made with the 13" Astrographic Refractor, Hyderabad. Sent in two sets; each includes a cover letter from W. Bhaskaran (dated Apr. 1940. and 11 Mar. 1941).
Dates:
1930 - 1941
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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Review by Butler of Mark Bence-Jones's 'Palaces of the Raj', 1973
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Reference Code: GBR/1058/COL/11/2/ButlerR/3
Scope and Contents
Review by Butler for an unknown publication.
Dates:
Publication: 1973
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Review of the noble army: 'are you ready?' (see also album - gg)
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Reference Code: GBR/1849/FP/158/2/A/II/29
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Review of the noble army: 'are you ready?' (see also loose collection - 29)
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Reference Code: GBR/1849/FP/158/2/A/I/gg
Fonds
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7490
Scope and Contents
The collection consists mainly of official papers from the last phase of Mayo's political career. The papers cover most aspects of policy-making and execution: military, diplomatic and security matters, economic policy, transport and communications, agriculture, famine relief and health, the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh to India during 1869 and 1870, and Mayo's assassination. Some papers also provide insights into the working relationships amongst officials and amongst members of the...
Dates:
1868-1872
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
Person
Series
RO and RGO Solar Plates Contact Prints, 1873-06-02 - 1972-08-02
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 51
Scope and Contents
The 1873-1917 prints in this class were made from glass plate negatives which are no longer extant. The plates were the product of a solar observation programme begun in 1873 at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich but are thought to have been destroyed in the First World War. The sequence of images is a continuation of RGO 67: Kew Observatory solar photographs (1858-72) and is itself continued by RGO 50: Royal Observatory Greenwich and Royal Greenwich Observatory, Herstmonceux Solar Plates...
Dates:
1873-06-02 - 1972-08-02
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).
Fonds
Robert Needham Cust: Case Judgements
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6198-6201
Scope and Contents
Judgements in cases in Lahore and Amritsar.
Dates:
1858-1860
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
Person
File
Russia (BBC Television Byline): correspondence with BBC, 1988-07 - 1989-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/5/7
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, mainly with representatives of the BBC on JEP's appearance on the Byline programme ('Embracing the Bear'), on the Soviet Union, with other correspondents including: [Richard] Geoffrey Howe, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.
Also includes: photographs of filming in the Soviet Union, with JEP interviewing Russians; details of JEP's expenses and payment; reprints of articles on the Soviet Union; outline of the programme structure, treatment and...
Dates:
1988-07 - 1989-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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"Salter-Ethel Bullard Correspondence, 1929-1931": relating to Salter’s visits to India, China and Japan., 1929 - 1931
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SALT 1/8
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Personal and political papers; with notes and correspondence collected by Professor Sidney Aster in the course of writing the official biography of Salter.
Dates:
1929 - 1931
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
Scrapbook of George Turnour Horton Atchison
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10497
Scope and Contents
The archive is comprised of a scrapbook of fixed items (GBR/0012/MS Add.10497/1-46), mainly relating to the military career of George Turnour Horton Atchison (1833-1861), compiled after his death in China by his sister, Anne Beatrix Granville Atchison, together with loose items interleaved in the scrapbook, which have been housed in a separate folder (GBR/0012/MS Add.10479/47-90). The loose items’ previous location in the scrapbook (which has been foliated 1-44 by the archivists) has been...
Dates:
1851-1861
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Six experimental vats, similar to photo number 9
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Reference Code: GBR/1849/FP/158/2/A/II/55
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Six small experimental vats: general view of six small experimental vats
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Reference Code: GBR/1849/FP/158/2/A/II/9
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Six small experimental vats (see also loose collection - 9)
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Reference Code: GBR/1849/FP/158/2/A/III/4
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Small experimental vats (see also loose collection - 9)
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Reference Code: GBR/1849/FP/158/2/A/I/s
Fonds
Some Account and Observations concerning Germany
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.38
Scope and Contents
Including list of emperors from Charlemagne. At fo. 24v in the same hand is an account of 'Meat bought in for the house since April 19 1703'. Written from the opposite end of the book are: fo. 33v: log of the ship 'Mary' from Surat towards England, 25 and 26 May 1700. fo. 32v: letter from Thomas Walker to an unidentified recipient, undated [18th cent.], followed (fos. 31v-24r) by an account of Walker's travels in India. fo. 5v: 'Jack Brandish' (18th cent.)
Dates:
1700-1703 (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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'Southern India', sheet 45, 1926
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BGND D.105
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-sub-class:
These maps were compiled by the War Office. Printed on linen-backed paper.
Dates:
1926
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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Sowing indigo with hand drill (see also album - m)
Item
Reference Code: GBR/1849/FP/158/2/A/II/24
File
Special correspondence: Auchinleck, 1941-06 - 1949-01
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/2/1
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck on subjects including: what Auchinleck could do following retirement; the end of his time as Commander-in-Chief, India; the press campaign alleging discord between himself and Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten [Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia] and its adverse effect on Auchinleck's organisation (1944); his hope of returning to active military command and suggestion that he might take on a civil position in the meantime (1943);...
Dates:
1941-06 - 1949-01
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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Special correspondence: Jan Smuts, 1903-09 - 1950-10
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/2/24
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Smuts on subjects including: accounts of military operations on the Tugela River [South Africa]; the Irish Convention (1917); the Palestine Campaign; the need for a separate Air Staff; costs of the separate war fronts; peace negotiations following the First World War; migration to South Africa; the Locarno Pact; the Imperial Conference (1926); LSA's Empire Tour; the proposal that Smuts should become High Commissioner of Palestine; the South African flag; the League of...
Dates:
1903-09 - 1950-10
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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Special correspondence: Professor Sir Reginald Coupland and Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, 1940-09 - 1945-10
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/2/6
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Sir Reginald Coupland [Beit Professor of History of the British Empire at Oxford University] and Sir Ernest Oppenheimer on subjects including: Coupland's books "The Indian Problem", "Indian Politics" and "India, A Re-statement"; regional government for India; India's future position in the world; the Indian constitution; Mohandas Gandhi's protest policy; the Congress Party's hostility to political minorities; Coupland's part in Sir [Richard]...
Dates:
1940-09 - 1945-10
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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Special correspondence: Sir Winston Churchill, 1940-05 - 1955-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/2/4
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Sir Winston Churchill on subjects including: organisation of the War Cabinet; the value of air transport, and LSA's view that the Air Ministry did not give it enough importance; averting famine in India; monetary and commercial policy and the possibility of this causing a split in the Conservative Party; the lifelong friendship between Churchill and LSA; honours for LSA; policy on European Union and India after the war; Army reform; Palestine; the possibility of India...
Dates:
1940-05 - 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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Specimen crossbred (Indian thorough bred)
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Reference Code: GBR/1849/FP/158/2/A/I/nn
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Speeches, 1953-01 - 1953-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/47
Scope and Contents
Texts, drafts and speaking notes for speeches by LSA on subjects including: tributes to Cecil Rhodes; economic policy, particularly on Commonwealth trade and Imperial Preference; tribute to J L Garvin; the place of the Commonwealth in the world; Indian constitutional development over the war years; the poet Horace; tribute to 11th Lord Lothian [earlier Philip Kerr] and the Lothian Lecturer, Ernest Manning, Premier of Alberta [Canada]; the Crown and Africa; tribute to Chaim Weizmann; Europe,...
Dates:
1953-01 - 1953-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.