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Mexico

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

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Correspondence on foreign observatories, 1958 - 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 9/437
Scope and Contents

Correspondence regarding foreign observatories, including those in Czechoslovakia, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland, Argentina, Turkey, Portugal, Japan, Germany, Belgium, Finland and Denmark.

Dates: 1958 - 1961
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 foreign observatories, 1953 - 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 9/431
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with foreign observatories, including those in Finland, Belgium, Mexico, South Africa (the Union Observatory), Italy, Sweden, Japan, Switzerland, Rome, Argentina and Brazil.

Dates: 1953 - 1958
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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Field notebooks and travel journals, 1945 - 1979

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0272/JVR/11
Scope and Contents This series comprises items that constitute a personal record of Joan Robinson's travels in Europe, Asia and Central America. They include travel notes, itineraries, and field notes recording visits to factories, farms, and other places. Particularly detailed are the notes taken while in China during 1963-4, 1967 and 1972.Most of Joan Robinson's field notes were placed in notebooks on which the recto sides of the sheets were used, then the notebook turned round and started again from the...
Dates: 1945 - 1979
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Access to some material in this collection is restricted while the author is still living, on the ground that it touches on their private or professional concerns. Other material has been reserved because, in the College's opinion, the contents of these files might be considered confidential, or offensive, by living people other than the author. Further information about such restrictions will be provided in the records of relevant items and files.
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Galapagos Insects, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 46.2: B7
Scope and Contents

Insects / In these genera two of the islands have each their own species


Note; by Charles Robert Darwin Insects / In these genera two of the islands have each their own species


(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.
 Fonds

George Robert Graham Conway: Transcripts from National Archives of Mexico

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7226-7306
Scope and Contents Transcripts of volumes of Inquisition Records from the National Archives of Mexico. The majority of the transcripts concern legal suits and trials. There is also material describing the family and descendants of particular individuals, including Juan Suarez Davila and Diego Suarez Pacheco, 1529-1588; Martin Lopez and Geronimo Lopez; Don Tristan de Luna y Arellano and his son, Don Carlos, 1559-1611; Don Tristan de Arellano, 1575-1634; Rodrigo de Vivero, 1597-1673; and Don Rodrigo de Vivero,...
Dates: 1923-1943
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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Itineraries: Mexico, 1973-10 - 1975-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 3/2/44
Scope and Contents Papers from CS's visit to Mexico for trade talks, April 1975, including: itinerary and programme; records of meetings; text of CS's speech at a luncheon given by the Mexican Businessmen's Council for International Affairs; correspondence with Sir John Galsworthy [British Ambassador to Mexico] and Jennifer, Lady Galsworthy on arrangements; briefing notes and correspondence on a statue of Sir Winston Churchill by Oscar Nemon in Mexico City, to be unveiled by MS; press release, cuttings and...
Dates: 1973-10 - 1975-06
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Fonds

John Smart: Letters from North America

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8663-8664
Scope and Contents

Letters from John Smart in America to his mother, pasted into scrapbooks with additional material, including postcards, photographs, newscuttings and printed items, with comments and explanations by Smart.

Dates: 1932-1953
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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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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NS I Glacial Period-38 Note, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 50: E47r
Scope and Contents

Organ Mt / Second letter to Lyell from Bunbury


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 Means of distribution-100 Note, 1854-03-26

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.2: 102r
Scope and Contents

Asa Gray in letter to Hooker uses same argument as Dana about representative species


Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


(Note)

Dates: 1854-03-26
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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Papers on longitude and solar eclipses, 1849 - 1858

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/113
Scope and Contents Miscellaneous pieces on longitude and solar eclipses. The papers concerning longitude include pieces to ascertain the longitudes of Boston (by W.C. Bond), Durham, Cork and Haulbowline, the boundary between the U.S.A. and Mexico, and Batavia. The longitudes of Ipswich and Madras are also briefly mentioned. The material on eclipses include the eclipse of the Sun of 11 May 1724, with a contemporary illustration; a map of the world; the solar eclipse of 19 July 1748; the lunar eclipse of 28 July...
Dates: 1849 - 1858
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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Papers on tides, longitude and invasion, 1859 - 1860

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/474
Scope and Contents Papers concerning tides, the Claudian invasion of Britain and the determination of longitudes. There is material on the 'Eclipse of Thales'; a paper by F. Diaz Covarrubios determining the geographical position of Mexico; D. May's observations in the neighbourhood of River Quarra (West Africa); Airy's comments on Lewis' essay on Julius Caesar's invasion; an article in 'The Times' on Caesar's invasion; Airy's paper on the landing of Claudius; C. Merivale's two articles, one on Claudius'...
Dates: 1859 - 1860
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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Papers on time signals, 1939 - 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 9/629
Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers regarding time signals, including the following items:Correspondence between H. Spencer Jones, H.M. Smith and the Admiralty concerning equipment required and installations at Abinger, clock radio receivers and aerial systems, 1952-1955.Correspondence with Central Rediffusion Services Ltd and the Admiralty concerning the availability of the 6 pips time signal for the Independent Television Authority, 1955.Correspondence between R. Atkinson and...
Dates: 1939 - 1955
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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Papers relating to the visit of the President of Mexico, Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, 12 June 1985, 1985-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/10/93
Scope and Contents

Includes: schedules; briefing cards for MT's bilateral meeting with Hurtado; and top copy of the speech given by MT at a luncheon, 10 Downing Street (with handwritten annotations by MT)

Dates: 1985-06
Conditions Governing Access: Opened in October 2015 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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Photographs, 1930 - 1987

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0272/JVR/13
Scope and Contents

This series comprises visual images of Joan Robinson and her family, and several others related to her travels in Asia and the Americas. These are predominantly photographs, but also include slides and postcards.

Dates: 1930 - 1987
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Access to some material in this collection is restricted while the author is still living, on the ground that it touches on their private or professional concerns. Other material has been reserved because, in the College's opinion, the contents of these files might be considered confidential, or offensive, by living people other than the author. Further information about such restrictions will be provided in the records of relevant items and files.
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Photographs from JA's visit to Peru and Mexico, 1964-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 10/82
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of JA visiting a British factory in Mexico City, meeting the Mayor of Lima and the Peruvian Minister of Aviation, at a reception in Cusco and visiting Machu Picchu.

Dates: 1964-01
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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Transcript of interview: Dame Judith Macgregor, 2019 - 2020

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 192
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 2019 - 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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Transcript of interview: Sir William Harding, 2014

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 143
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 2014
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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Visit to Nicaragua and Mexico, 1985-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/13
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, briefings and draft statement on NK’s visit to Nicaragua for the inauguration of [José] Daniel Ortega as President and his visit to Mexico. Correspondents include Baroness Young, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Dates: 1985-01
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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Visit to Nicaragua and Mexico, Jan 1985, 1983-10 - 1985-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/15
Scope and Contents

Detailed briefing on Central America, including general briefings and information specific to El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Mexico.

Dates: 1983-10 - 1985-03
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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Visit to Nicaragua and Mexico, Jan 1985, 1984-08 - 1985-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/16
Scope and Contents Briefings, schedules and correspondence on arrangements, with correspondents including: Francisco Cuevas de Cancino, Mexican Ambassador to Britain; Francisco d’Escoto, Nicaraguan Ambassador; Miguel d’Escoto, Nicaraguan Minister of Foreign Affairs. Also includes: schedules for September 1984 [for a cancelled visit]; shorthand notes of NK’s meetings with Fidel Castro [President of Cuba], Bayardo Arce, member of the Nicaraguan National Directorate and Father Cesar Jerez; notes on NK’s meeting...
Dates: 1984-08 - 1985-01
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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Visit to Nicaragua and Mexico, Jan 1985: briefings, 1985-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/17
Scope and Contents

Mainly briefings on Mexico, including draft speech notes for the end of NK’s visit to Mexico.

Dates: 1985-01
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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Visit to Nicaragua and Mexico, Jan 1985: cuttings, 1985-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/19
Scope and Contents

Press cuttings on Central America and NK’s visit.

Dates: 1985-01
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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Visit to Nicaragua and Mexico, Jan 1985: notebook, 1985-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/18
Scope and Contents

Notes from the visit, mainly in shorthand.

Dates: 1985-01
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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