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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 263 Collections and/or Records:

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Dukakis election tour, 1988-08 - 1988-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 3/3/11
Scope and Contents

Papers from a tour of California by Michael Dukakis, Democratic Candidate for the Presidency of the United States, during the American presidential election campaign.

Dates: 1988-08 - 1988-09
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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Dukakis For President, 1988-11-15

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/1/128
Scope and Contents

Material from Michael Dukakis's Democratic campaign for the American presidential elections, including: New Era; Leadership: 60; Funny; Say It; Steve; Failed; Crunch; Oval Office; Slash; Counterpunch; I’ll be Damned; Bush Spots: The Future; The Mission; Boston Harbor; Revolving.

Dates: 1988-11-15
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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Dukakis For President, 1988-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/1/129
Scope and Contents

? Duplicate of 26/1/128.

Dates: 1988-11
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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Economic files: Old War Debt to United States, 1932-11 - 1934-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/5/18
Scope and Contents Includes: Foreign Office statement of amounts due to the United States with copy of related correspondence between William Phillips, American Under-Secretary of State, Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador to the United States and Henry Stimson, American Secretary of State; Conservative and Unionist Central Office hints for speakers on war debts; press cuttings reporting speech by LSA on avoiding a default on the debt and also American replies to proposals from Britain; article by Archibald...
Dates: 1932-11 - 1934-11
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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Elymus condensatus / 8h 30 sponged space of leaf with [water at] 80-90[°F] in greenhouse & removed bloom [application of salt water], 1809-07-17 - 1882-07-20

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 68: 70r
Scope and Contents

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


(Note)

Dates: 1809-07-17 - 1882-07-20
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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Empire Parliamentary Association: correspondence, 1938-07 - 1942-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/7
Scope and Contents Correspondence, mainly with Sir T Drummond Shiels, Acting Secretary of the Association, and Sir Howard d'Egville [organiser and first secretary of the Association]. Other correspondents include: Malcolm MacDonald, British High Commissioner in Canada, on the value of d'Egville's work in Canada as an unofficial link with the American Congress; Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to the United States [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] advising leaving d'Egville to carry on his work in Canada...
Dates: 1938-07 - 1942-12
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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European questions: personal minutes, 1972-12 - 1974-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/9/20
Scope and Contents

Minutes on subjects including: the energy crisis; Concorde; relations between Europe and the United States; oil supplies and European foreign policy; a meeting with Egon Bahr; JA's visit to Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia] and meeting with President Josip Tito; progress towards European Monetary Union; European policy on the Mediterranean.

Dates: 1972-12 - 1974-02
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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Fan mail received by Duff Cooper concerning his American lecture tour trip, 1939 - 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DUFC 3/3
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes: correspondence; political papers; literary papers; diaries.

Dates: 1939 - 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Sub-Series

Files about America, 1915 - 1936

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HTRY 1/1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Includes files on America, Germany, India, and on various subjects including inflation and the Bank of England.

Dates: 1915 - 1936
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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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.
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General papers, 1984-08 - 1985-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 2/1/58
Scope and Contents Includes: report by Robert Worcester, Market and Opinion Research International Limited (MORI), on the American elections; transcript of a Weekend World programme on Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union; report on the Democratic convention; note for a National Executive Committee meeting on repealing anti-union legislation; agenda and minutes for Parliamentary party meetings; statement by the Attorney General on the sequestration of National Union of Mineworkers funds; papers on a dispute...
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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Good Morning America: interview with NK, 1987-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/1/99
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: 1987-03
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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Henry Kissinger, 1973-05 - 1974-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 3/2/42
Scope and Contents

Notes of CS's meetings with Kissinger, American Secretary of State, Dec 1974, on subjects including: the Middle East; Kissinger's view of the United States Congress; energy policy; general relations between the United States and Europe; China; trade negotiations; monetary reform; defence policy.

Dates: 1973-05 - 1974-12
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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Instructions on the U.S. Boundary Line

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 35/149
Scope and Contents An undated typescript copy of 'Draft of Instructions to the Officers acting as Principal Astronomers in the British Commission for defining the Boundary Line in North America under the Treaty of Washington' by G.B. Airy, 1843. The document includes sections entitled 'General Instructions'; 'Special Instructions'; 'To adjust a Transit Instrument'; 'To determine the Latitude by the Transit'; 'To determine the Latitude with the Altitude & Azimuth Instrument'; 'To determine the Sidereal...
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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Itineraries: Nixon-Kissinger meetings, Washington, 1973-01 - 1973-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 3/2/23
Scope and Contents Papers from CS's trade negotiations in the United States, February 1973, including: press cuttings; summaries and reports of talks; briefing notes; itineraries and travel arrangements with lists of persons to be met and consulted; correspondence with 3rd Lord Cromer, British Ambassador to the United States and former Governor of the Bank of England [earlier Lord Errington] on monetary reform, the need for a European monetary system, what the United States wanted out of the forthcoming GATT...
Dates: 1973-01 - 1973-04
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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Itineraries: United States and Greece, 1976-04 - 1976-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 3/2/56
Scope and Contents

Papers from CS's visits to Washington, New York and Athens and Crete for trade talks, May 1976, including: programmes and itineraries; correspondence on arrangements.

Dates: 1976-04 - 1976-11
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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Itineraries: United States energy conference, 1973-02 - 1974-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 3/2/31
Scope and Contents

Papers from CS's visit to Washington, February 1974, including the itinerary and programme and the schedule for CS's previous visit, 1973.

Dates: 1973-02 - 1974-02
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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Itineraries: Washington, 1973-09 - 1973-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 3/2/29
Scope and Contents

Papers from CS's visit to the United States for trade talks, October 1973, including: press releases; briefing notes; itineraries and programmes; copy of CS's speech to the European Chambers of Commerce, New York; records of meetings; transcript of the press conference with CS and William Casey, American Under-Secretary for Economic Affairs.

Dates: 1973-09 - 1973-11
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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Itineraries: Washington and Ottawa talks, 1973-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 3/2/28
Scope and Contents

Papers from CS's visit to the United States and Canada for trade talks, October-November 1973, including: steering briefs; calendar of events; talking briefs and background notes.

Dates: 1973-10
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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Journal, 1944-10 - 1945-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 2/3
Scope and Contents

Including Second World War service as head of the British Admiralty Delegation in Washington and at the Yalta Conference.

Dates: 1944-10 - 1945-03
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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Journalism refused, 1981-10 - 1986-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/4/2
Scope and Contents Commissions for various articles and media interviews declined by JEP, with correspondents including: Michael Jones [Political Editor] of the Sunday Times; Hayley Mills; Malcolm Ward, Editor of the Birmingham Daily News; Michael Foot; Daniel Brittain-Catlin, Cheerleader Productions (3); Eric Moonman, Director, Centre for Contemporary Studies; Richard Shepherd on his Private Members' Bill on hospital catering; representatives of Koh-i-Noor Magazine (3); Nicky Singer, Enigma Television Limited...
Dates: 1981-10 - 1986-12
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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Letter from Senator Edward Kennedy to Mr William F Davison regarding his decision to speak out against the violence in Northern Ireland, 1971-11-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MISC 88
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection comprises a wide variety of material from a number of different sources which have been deemed too small to be considered individual collections in their own right and have been grouped together under the heading "miscellaneous". Subjects covered include First and Second World Wars, the Falklands Campaign, and recollections of Sir Winston Churchill.

Dates: 1971-11-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Some material within the collection is closed to researchers.
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Letters from Canada and the United States, Apr. 1897-Sep. 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/B12
Scope and Contents

Letters to Jardine Matheson, Hong Kong, mainly regarding sugar. The correspondents include J.E. Lilly & Co.; Martin & Robertson (Robert Martin & Arthur Robertson); Mooney Biscuit & Candy Co. Ltd (including letters from its employee S.J. Cook); Henry Moss; H. Moss & Son; and E. Nicholson.

Dates: Apr. 1897-Sep. 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the Series: The originals of B1-11 are not available to readers, but microfilm copies may be ordered in the Manuscripts Reading Room using the microfilm reference numbers listed in this catalogue, which are also found in the Outline Catalogue.
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Letters from Lady Diana to John Julius, 1937-12 - 1940-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DIAC 1/6/1/2
Scope and Contents

Letters written while Lady Diana and Duff Cooper were on a lecture tour of the United States, on subjects including: crossing the Atlantic; the World's Fair, New York; efforts to repeal the Neutrality Act; meeting Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States; the rigours of the lecture tour; visiting Hollywood. Also includes an earlier letter on the death of Lady Diana's mother, Violet, Duchess of Rutland.

Dates: 1937-12 - 1940-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.