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Observations made on the voyage, 1801-1805, 1801 - 1805
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/64: 107-211
Scope and Contents
The observations form a continuous run, with occasional headings based on location (reproduced here).
Dates:
1801 - 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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Observations of John Crosley, 1801 - 1803
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 4/186
Scope and Contents
Observations made by John Crosley on his voyage to New Holland (Australia) on board HMS Investigator to carry out surveying.
Dates:
1801 - 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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Observations of the solar eclipse of 1802, 1802-03-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/68: 80-81
Scope and Contents
Taken off the south coast of Australia and probably connected with Flinders' voyage.
Dates:
1802-03-04
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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Observations on a voyage of discovery of the HMS Investigator, 1801 - 1807
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/66
Scope and Contents
Astronomical observations, calculations, etc., made during voyages of discovery.
Dates:
1801 - 1807
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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Observations on seawater (temperature, gravity and tides), 1801 - 1805
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/65: 149r-154r
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Made in HMS Investigator during a voyage of discovery to the South Sea in the years 1801-1805.
Dates:
1801 - 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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Official: Cabinet: Chanak Committee., 15 Sep 1922 - 30 Sep 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/15
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Hugh Trenchard, Air Chief Marshal, Chief of Air Staff, on diverting RAF men aboard the "Braemar Castle" from Iraq to Constantinople [later Istanbul, Turkey] in case of war with Turkey (2); Sir Laming Worthington-Evans [Secretary of State for War] on stopping Turkish arms traffic; 10th Lord Cavan [Chief of Imperial General Staff, earlier Lord Kilcoursie]; General Sir Charles Harington, [General Officer Commanding -in-Chief, Allied Forces of Occupation in Turkey] on...
Dates:
15 Sep 1922 - 30 Sep 1922
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: Committee on the representation in the Dominions of His Majesty's Government in Great Britain., 12 May 1927 - 14 Jul 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/179
Scope and Contents
Includes committee minutes of statements made by WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Balfour, Lord President of the Council, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, [4th Lord] Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne], Lord Privy Seal, Leo Amery, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton] President of the Board of Trade, on schemes of representation suitable for the circumstances in the dominions New Zealand,...
Dates:
12 May 1927 - 14 Jul 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: Imperial Conference Documents Committee., 21 May 1926 - 13 Oct 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/140
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: minutes, conclusions and the 2nd report of the committee; 6th Lord Clarendon [earlier Lord Hyde], Chairman of the Overseas Settlement Committee, and Terence Macnaghten, Vice-Chairman, on British family settlement in Canada; the Brussels Maritime Law Conventions; future international exhibitions; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer; a Treasury memorandum on financial assistance to the dominions; overseas settlement in...
Dates:
21 May 1926 - 13 Oct 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: Industrial Control: papers., Sep 1915 - Oct 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 21/63
Scope and Contents
Includes papers on various subjects including: a report of the industrial control committee on shipping; notes on the shortage of shipping due to World War I and its effect on the trade of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa; problems of transporting wheat to the United Kingdom from North America; freight rates; state control of coal mines and profits and export of coal; and comparison of imports (of food, minerals, etc) before and after the war.
Dates:
Sep 1915 - Oct 1915
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: papers 1 to 20., Jan 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/152
Scope and Contents
Includes: a memorandum by Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame,later Lord Swinton] President of the Board of Trade, Ronald McNeill [later 1st Lord Cushendun, Financial Secretary to the Treasury] and First Lord of the Admiralty [William Bridgeman] on financing lighthouses in the Red Sea; Cunliffe-Lister on imports and exports of leather bags, trade outlook including details of various industries, exports and colonial trade, and the state of industry and company law;...
Dates:
Jan 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: papers 26 to 49., 02 Feb 1928 - 17 Feb 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/192
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: [1st] Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] Secretary of State for India, on the 'indianisation' of the Indian army and relations with Afghanistan; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on reaction to his taxation scheme, Irish loyalists and railways in Iraq; Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health, on the local authority emergency provisions act; Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, on relations between France and the...
Dates:
02 Feb 1928 - 17 Feb 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: papers 201 to 220., Jul 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/161
Scope and Contents
Includes papers on various subjects by various individuals including: Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on the position of the heavy steel industry; the report of a committee on the representation of the British government in the dominions including notes on the situations in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the Irish Free State [later Ireland]; a report on affairs in the Soviet Union; the Committee of...
Dates:
Jul 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: papers 340 - 359., 09 Feb 1926 - 25 Oct 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/102
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: a letter from the National Confederation of Employers Organization on the coal dispute; Leo Amery, Secretary of State for the Dominions, on the status of the Union of South Africa, and as Secretary of State for the Colonies, on rubber exports restriction; James Hertzog, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, on status; Harry Batterbee [Assistant Secretary], Dominions Office, on the dominions' claims to seats on the...
Dates:
09 Feb 1926 - 25 Oct 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: Standing Committee on Expenditure., 20 Dec 1927 - 06 Feb 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/214
Scope and Contents
Includes papers relating to the overseas settlement schemes including copies of agreements between the British Government and Australia, New Zealand and Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe] and copies of correspondence including letters from [14th] Lord Lovat [earlier Simon Fraser].
Dates:
20 Dec 1927 - 06 Feb 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Colonial Office: Cabinet Papers., 23 Jan 1921 - 29 Dec 1921
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 17/13A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Maurice Hankey (6); David Lloyd George, Prime Minister; Austen Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer (2) and Edwin Montagu [Secretary of State for India] objecting to the use of Indian troops in the garrison of Palestine.Cabinet papers on subjects including: affairs in the Middle East, Egypt, South Khurdistan, Mesopotamia [Iraq] and Palestine; mandates for Mesopotamia and Palestine; the 1921 Imperial Conference; the 1921 Middle East Conference; the empire...
Dates:
23 Jan 1921 - 29 Dec 1921
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Colonial Office: Colonial Conference 1907: printed papers., 1906 - 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/28
Scope and Contents
Includes papers on the representation of Australian states; the function of the Committee of Imperial Defence; the "Strategical conditions of the Empire from the military point of view"; the possibility of assimilating war organisation throughout the Empire; patterns and provisions of equipment and stores for colonial forces; desirability that the Colonial Governments should give their orders for ordinance stores through the War Office; naval defence; statement of the military and naval...
Dates:
1906 - 1907
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Colonial Office: Colonial Conference: Colonial preference: notes and printed papers., 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/30
Scope and Contents
Includes notes on Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada; statements and reports of House of Commons business; Colonial Office, Board of Trade and Foreign Office notes and printed papers (including by 9th Lord Elgin and Kincardine [Secretary of State for the Colonies] and WSC); Commonwealth of Australia papers; resolutions of the Australian, Cape Colony [South Africa], and New Zealand governments for the conference; details of decisions of previous conferences; WSC's hand-written...
Dates:
1907
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Colonial Office: Colonial Conference: printed minutes of proceedings., Apr 1907 - May 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/29
Scope and Contents
Subjects covered by the minutes include the constitution of the conference; the organisation of the Colonial Office; colonial representation on the Committee of Imperial Defence; military defence; naval defence; emigration; naturalisation; double income tax; silver coinage; decimal currency and metric system; imperial court of appeal; preferential trade; imperial surtax on foreign imports; coastwise trade; commercial treaties; trade marks and patents; trade statistics; company law; admitting...
Dates:
Apr 1907 - May 1907
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Colonial Office: Correspondence., 01 Mar 1921 - 13 Apr 1921
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 17/3
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 1st Lord Stamfordham [earlier Sir Arthur Bigge]; Leo Amery, Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Colonies, on subjects including Prince Djemil Toussoun, the Colonial Office estimates and the Imperial Cabinet (2); 3rd Lord Stradbroke [earlier George Rous] on his position as Governor of Victoria [Australia]; Edwin Montagu [Secretary of State for India] on India office expenses, the transfer of the administration of Aden [South Yemen, later part of Yemen] and his...
Dates:
01 Mar 1921 - 13 Apr 1921
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Colonial Office: Correspondence., 06 Jun 1921 - 30 Jul 1921
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 17/7
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Herbert Samuel [High Commissioner in Palestine] on the sentiments of the Jews and difficulties in Palestine (2); Sir Laming Worthington-Evans [Secretary of State for War] on expenditure on British troops in Transjordan [later Jordan]; Sir Lawrence Guillemard [Governor of Straits Settlements (later Singapore and part of Malaysia) and High Commissioner for the Malay States, later part of Malaysia]; Stanley Baldwin [President of the Board of Trade] on payments to...
Dates:
06 Jun 1921 - 30 Jul 1921
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Colonial Office: Correspondence., 02 Aug 1921 - 29 Aug 1921
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 17/8
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Herbert Samuel [High Commissioner in Palestine] on the civil administration in Palestine and the military troops (2); Sir Laming Worthington-Evans [Secretary of State for War] on the reduction of British troops in Mesopotamia [Iraq]; Edwin Montagu [Secretary of State for India] on the unequal status of Indians in South Africa and in Kenya (6); Leo Amery [Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Colonies] on subjects including recommendations for homours; General Sir...
Dates:
02 Aug 1921 - 29 Aug 1921
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Colonial Office: Correspondence., 01 Nov 1921 - 29 Dec 1921
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 17/11
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Herbert Samuel, High Commissioner in Palestine on the cost of maintaining military forces in Palestine and the achievements of T E Lawrence [later T E Shaw "Lawrence of Arabia"] (3); Lord Plumer, Governor of Malta; Sir Maurice Hankey on the appointment of governors (2); Sir Francis Newdegate [Governor of Western Australia] on finances (5); Prince Arthur of Connaught [Governor General and Commander in Chief South Africa] on responsible government and Rhodesia [later...
Dates:
01 Nov 1921 - 29 Dec 1921
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Colonial Office: Correspondence., 05 Mar 1922 - 30 Apr 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 17/23
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Brigadier-General Sir Frederick Guggisberg, Governor and Commander in Chief, Gold Coast [Ghana]; Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Private Secretary to WSC, Secretary of State for the Colonies]; 1st Lord Forster, Governor General and Commander in Chief, Australia, on the position of Sir Francis Newdegate [Governor of Western Australia]; Newdegate on the importance of the position of Governor to preserve British interests and on the expense of maintaining the...
Dates:
05 Mar 1922 - 30 Apr 1922
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Colonial Office: Correspondence., 03 May 1922 - 28 Jun 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 17/24
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Francis Newdegate [Governor of Western Australia] and 1st Lord Forster, Governor General and Commander in Chief, Australia on the financial difficulties of maintaining their positions; Prince Arthur of Connaught [Governor General and Commander in Chief South Africa] on South African affairs, criticism of the peerage given to Sir J B Robinson and the position of Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe and Zambia]; [General Jan] Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] on complaints...
Dates:
03 May 1922 - 28 Jun 1922
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Colonial Office: correspondence, mainly on South African affairs., 01 Dec 1906 - 31 Dec 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/18
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Leander Jameson [Premier, Cape Colony, South Africa] through Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson [Governor and Commander in Chief, Cape Colony] on German refugees in the Cape (3); James Kier Hardie on the ?Hansas Line in Nigeria; Sir Frederick Lugard [High Commissioner and Commander in Chief of Northern Nigeria]; Joseph Robinson; James Ramsay Macdonald on the representation of Australian states at the colonial conference; Austen Chamberlain on a constituent's complaint...
Dates:
01 Dec 1906 - 31 Dec 1906
Conditions Governing Access:
Open