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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 256 Collections and/or Records:

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"A Daughter's Tale": material used, 1941, 1941-02 - 1993-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/7/8
Scope and Contents Includes: correspondence between MS, Sarah Oliver [earlier Sarah Churchill, later Sarah Beauchamp and Sarah, Lady Audley] and Clementine Churchill (copies and originals), on subjects including MS going up to Liverpool to see [? HMS Gurkha] and Sarah's training in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and her future war work, also including a copy of a letter from Sarah to John Paddy Carstairs on his films for the Ministry of Information; copies of letters from MS to her cousin Judy Montagu,...
Dates: 1941-02 - 1993-03
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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A small red sand pit on left hand side of lane connecting the Copthorn & Bishop's Castle Road, 1838-07-16

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 5: B19-B22
Scope and Contents

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin; written at Shrewsbury


(Note)

Dates: 1838-07-16
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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Audio podcasts for interviews conducted during the Centenary Year of Women in Parliament, 2017-11-15 - 2019-01-31

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOBA 1
Scope and Contents

76 podcast interviews collated for the publication 'When There's a Woman in the Room - #Vote 100 year January 2018 to January 2019' and written with journalists Jackie Ashley, Deborah McGurran and Linda Fairbrother. Sones' focus was primarily on recording interviews with MPs who champion public policy reforms through debates in Westminster Hall or by asking questions at PMQs.

For most podcasts, both 'raw' and 'edited' versions exist.

Dates: 2017-11-15 - 2019-01-31
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Authentische Geschichte des Klosters der unbeschuhten Franziskaner aus Irland und Schottland oder sogenannte Hiberner bei St Ambrosius in Prag 1629-1786

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4350
Scope and Contents

Contents: (p. 1) text in German, beginning 'Durch die zu Ende des xvi Jahrunderts unter der Köningin Elisabeth', and ending 'so werden dieselben hier unterdrückt'; (p. 7) 'Nachrichten über einige merkwürdigen Persönlichkeiten irländischer und schottischer Abkunft'; (p. 9) copy of a Latin foundation charter, the original being in the University Library, Prague; (p. 11) 'Erlaüterung des beiliegerenden bildlichen Prospektes'.

Dates: 1850 (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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BBC News: Budget - Scottish Poll Tax Debate, 1990-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/1/168
Scope and Contents

News footage on the rebate for Scottish Poll Tax payers.

Dates: 1990-03
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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BBC Scotland: interview with NK, 1991-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/1/202
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Includes: recordings of television interviews with NK and other members of the Shadow Cabinet; recordings of news bulletins featuring NK and Labour; recordings of speeches from Conference; party political broadcasts and election broadcasts; political documentaries; recordings of Prime Minister’s Questions, from the House of Commons.

Dates: 1991-03
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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Birds-159 Note, 1868-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 84.2: 213r
Scope and Contents

Mr Birkbeck has been assured by trustworthy men that if one of Golden Eagle in Scotland is kileed the pair is repaired soon


Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


(Note)

Dates: 1868-04-30
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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Box 13: Scotland.

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8386/13
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Papers relating to Manley's work in England and overseas

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Box 14: Scotland continued.

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8386/14
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Papers relating to Manley's work in England and overseas

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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By-elections: Paisley (South and North), Nov 1990, 1990-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 3/3/45
Scope and Contents

Includes: polling data; constituency profiles; staffing lists (for Paisley and Bootle, Merseyside); briefings, particularly on Labour policy on Scotland; programme for NK’s visit to Paisley; press-cuttings; press releases.

Dates: 1990-11
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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Catalogue of Vermes found in the Firth of Forth & other parts of Scotland by Prof Jameson, 1826-01-01 - 1826-12-31

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 5: A33-A36
Scope and Contents

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


(Note)

Dates: 1826-01-01 - 1826-12-31
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.
 Fonds

Collections concerning English and Scottish Historical events, 1571 - 1640

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.335
Scope and Contents A collection of letters, statements, speeches and notes on Scottish and English historical events dating from 1571 until 1640. Much of the information concerns events leading to the English Civil War. Including copies of: 'A Generall View of the Scriptures'; Elizabeth I's instructions to Sir Thomas Smith, 3 Dec. 1571; 'The Tyme the Place and Manner of the Scottish Queenes Death', c. 1587; James VI, speech to Scottish parliament, 19 June 1617; speeches by Lord Ellesmere and Henry Montague in...
Dates: 1641 (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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Common Market materials, including referendum, 1970-08 - 1976-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/22
Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers for and against British membership of the Common Market, with correspondents including: [David] Clive Jenkins, General Secretary, Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs; [William] John Biffen; Timothy Eggar, Personal Assistant to the Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Central Office; Ralph Bateman, President, Confederation of British Industry; Richard Body [Joint Chairman, Get Britain Out referendum campaign]. Papers include:...
Dates: 1970-08 - 1976-03
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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Constituency briefs: Scotland, 1987-03 - 1987-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 3/2/25
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Includes: campaign plans, particularly on general campaign strategy and organisation; schedules; lists of target seats; papers from various campaign committees and groups; papers on NK's national election tour, with regional constituency briefs; communications strategy; press information; polling data and reports; post-election reports.

Dates: 1987-03 - 1987-05
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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Correspondence on gravity surveys, 1928 - 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 8/83
Scope and Contents Correspondence regarding various gravity surveys, including the Miller (Ottawa Observatory) Survey of gravity measurements at different national observatories, with the results, 1928-1929; the magnetic and gravity survey cruise off the Western Isles of Scotland, 1931; the United States Gravity Survey of the Bahamas, 1931; a report of the Committee for Geodesy and Geodynamics, 1930, concerning pendulum observations at various gravity stations in England; and a copy of a plan of the position...
Dates: 1928 - 1933
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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Correspondence with MPs and Peers, surnames "BUD"- "BUT", 1975-8, 1975 - 1978

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/1/1/13
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence with: Nicholas Budgen MP; Esmond Bulmer MP; Frederick ("Freddy") Burden MP (includes a letter of congratulation to MT on her becoming Party Leader, February 1975); Baroness (Elaine) Burton of Coventry (includes a letter of congratulation to MT on her becoming Party Leader, February 1975); Michael Evan Victor Baillie, 3rd Lord Burton (includes MT’s handwritten letter to Burton on the future of the Conservative Party in Scotland, 4 September 1975); Adam Butler MP...
Dates: 1975 - 1978
Conditions Governing Access: Opened in April 2008 It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Devolution, 1976-03 - 1976-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 1/21
Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence on Scottish devolution, including: copy of the report by the Scottish Council (Development and Industry) on the Government White Paper on devolution; copies of correspondence between Sir William Lithgow [Chairman of Lithgows Limited and member of the Scottish Council (Development and Industry)] and George Thomson, Commissioner of the EEC, on protection for the Scottish fishing industry; talks by [George] Gordon Jackson [secretary of the Mallaig Harbour Authority] on...
Dates: 1976-03 - 1976-09
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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Education, 1982-12 - 1988-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 7/11
Scope and Contents

Notes and papers on the general state of education, including the effects of comprehensive reorganisation in Scotland.

Dates: 1982-12 - 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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Election tour briefing: Stockton, Cleveland and Glasgow, 1992-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHLD 2/14
Scope and Contents

Includes various Labour Party publications on Scotland.

Dates: 1992-03
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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Having conceived with Mr Kay that a "Zoological walk" to Portobello would not only be conducive to our own amusement, 1826-01-01 - 1827-12-31

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 5: A49-A51
Scope and Contents

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


(Note)

Dates: 1826-01-01 - 1827-12-31
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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Interview with Danielle Rowley, Labour MP for Midlothian and Paul Sweeney, Labour MP for Glasgow North East and shadow Scotland Minister: Giving 16 Year Olds the Vote, 2019-05-13

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOBA 2/1
Scope and Contents Sones speaks to Rowley and Sweeney after a Parliamentary debate on giving 16 year olds the vote, Rowley says that she was disappointed by the Conservative response when the debate had been positive. She goes onto the say that arguments against extending the voting franchise are very similar to the arguments made against giving women the vote. The Conservative minister used the phrase 'no taxation without representation' and argued that giving 16 year olds the vote, would mean you would have...
Dates: 2019-05-13
 Sub-Series

Journal of a tour in Scotland, 13 Aug. 1795-3 Sept. 1795

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5808-5809
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Accounts of walking tours through the north of England, Scotland, Wales, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight and south east England.

Dates: 13 Aug. 1795-3 Sept. 1795
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Labour Election Campaign, NK RALLY SECC, Glasgow [Scotland] [part 1], 1992-03-27

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/2/196
Scope and Contents

Speakers include [James] Gordon Brown, Labour Trade and Industry spokesman, and NK.

Dates: 1992-03-27
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Series: Access copies available.
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Labour Election Campaign, NK RALLY SECC, Glasgow [Scotland] [part 2], 1992-03-27

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/2/197
Scope and Contents

Speakers include NK, [Margaret] Peggy Herbison and Donald Dewar, Labour spokesman on Scottish Affairs.

Dates: 1992-03-27
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Series: Access copies available.
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": additional folios., 1938 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/744
Scope and Contents

Draft notes including: Magna Carta; William II; Henry I; medieval Scotland and Ireland; the Reformation; the American colonies; Sir Robert Walpole, 1737 - 1742; America, the western advance; the American Civil War; the battle of Gettysburg.Annotated.

Dates: 1938 - 1939
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.