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South Africa

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 227 Collections and/or Records:

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Private and personal letters A - Z, 1904-01 - 1904-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/5/3
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir William Anson [Warden of All Souls’ College, University of Oxford] and Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education, on funding for an Imperial History professorship at Oxford (3); Alfred Beit on funding the history professorship (4); Charles Firth [Regius Professor of Modern History, Oxford]; Edward Bond on the possibility of LSA standing as a parliamentary candidate for Nottingham; Thomas Brassey, suggesting that LSA should take his place on the Managing...
Dates: 1904-01 - 1904-12
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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Private and personal letters A - Z, 1905-01 - 1950-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/5/4
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir William Anson [Warden of All Souls’ College, University of Oxford] on the Beit Imperial History professorship at Oxford (2); [?] William Hewins on putting LSA up as a possible parliamentary candidate for South Manchester (2); P F S Amery (3); Edward Arnold on sales of LSA's "The Problem of the Army"; [Charles] Moberly Bell [Assistant Manager of the Times] on arrangements with the New York Times and Canadian press, sales of the Times History of the South...
Dates: 1905-01 - 1950-04
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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Private and personal letters A - Z, 1906-01 - 1906-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/5/5
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Major Albert Andrew on the Times History of the South African War and shortcomings in military training (2); Hugh Arnold-Forster [former Secretary of State for War] on an Army Order reissued by his successor, Richard Haldane and a critical Times review of his book ["The Army in 1906: a Policy and a Vindication"] (2); Arthur Balfour; Jacques Bardoux; Gertrude Bell; [Charles] Moberly Bell [Assistant Manager of the Times] on his concerns about completion of Times History...
Dates: 1906-01 - 1906-12
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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Private and personal letters A - Z, 1907-01 - 1907-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/5/6
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Hugh Arnold-Forster [former Secretary of State for War] on saving the Militia; Robert Baden-Powell on setting up the Boy Scouts; [Charles] Moberly Bell [Assistant Manager of the Times] on the costs of [Robert] Erskine Childers's volume of the Times History of the South African War; Francis Higgins Bernard on local views of Tariff Reform (2); William Bridgeman on Tariff Reform relating to agriculture; Robert Borden [Leader of the Conservative party in Canada] on...
Dates: 1907-01 - 1907-12
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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Private and personal letters A - Z, 1908-01 - 1908-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/5/7
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Hugh Arnold-Forster [former Secretary of State for War] on subjects including writing a series of articles on military matters and thanking LSA for writing a preface [? to Arnold-Forster's "English Socialism of To-Day"] (3); Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman [Prime Minister]; Arthur Balfour [Leader of the Conservative Party], on citing trade figures from Wolverhampton [Staffordshire] during a debate (2); Sir Hesketh Bell [Governor of Uganda] on his sleeping...
Dates: 1908-01 - 1908-12
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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Private and personal letters A - Z, 1909-01 - 1909-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/5/8
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Mary Arnold-Forster; [Charles] Moberly Bell [Managing Director of the Times] on sales of the Times History of the South African War and the Times's refusal to be associated with it any more (8); Robert Borden on suggestions by LSA for Imperial loans and Canada's share in Imperial defence (2); John Buchan [later 1st Lord Tweedsmuir]; [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain on subjects including LSA standing for the Bordesley seat [Birmingham, Warwickshire] (2); Joseph Chamberlain,...
Dates: 1909-01 - 1909-12
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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Private and personal letters A - Z, 1909-12 - 1910-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/5/9
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: [Charles] Moberly Bell [Managing Director of the Times]; Henry Birchenough, sympathising with LSA's defeat as candidate for East Wolverhampton [Staffordshire]; Charles Boyd; Thomas Brassey on LSA's ideas for an Imperial Constitution; [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain on LSA's defeat at Wolverhampton and an Imperial Constitution (3); Joseph Chamberlain on LSA's campaign for Bow and Bromley [London] (2); [Robert] Erskine Childers on his book [? "War and the Arme Blanche"] and...
Dates: 1909-12 - 1910-12
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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Private and personal letters A - Z, 1911-01 - 1911-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/5/10
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: [Charles] Moberly Bell [Managing Director of the Times]; Robert Borden [Leader of the Canadian Conservative Party] on subjects including the attitude of the Canadian Prime Minister, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, to the Colonial Conference and Borden's chances in the next elections (2); Reginald Brade, Assistant-Secretary, War Office, on suggestions by LSA relating to control of war correspondents and the publication of damaging news; George Buckle [Editor of the Times],...
Dates: 1911-01 - 1911-12
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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Proofs of "Materials for the history of South Africa": volume I, 1897 - 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 3/74
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Written by JWHM [?] as a history of the administration of 1st Lord Loch [former Governor of Cape and High Commissioner for South Africa].

Dates: 1897 - 1898
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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Proofs of "Materials for the history of South Africa": volume II (extracts), 1897 - 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 3/75
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Written by JWHM [?] as a history of the administration of 1st Lord Loch [former Governor of Cape and High Commissioner for South Africa]. Also includes some rough notes by JWHM on the administration of the territories under the control of the British South Africa Company, and also the cover of "The Phantom Rickshaw" by Rudyard Kipling.

Dates: 1897 - 1898
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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Public and political: British Council, 1938 - 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLLD 20
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Diaries from Lloyd's tours for the Council, with correspondence and other papers.

Dates: 1938 - 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please cite as Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, GLLD
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Report on seeing in South Africa, 1956

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 37/881
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An undated report, in French, by G. Courtes and J. Dommanget entitled 'Rapport au Comite sur les quatre premiers mois de prospection en Union Sud Africaine', reporting on the seeing conditions in South Africa, with a copy of a letter to the authors from M. Boehmke, 29 February 1956.

Dates: 1956
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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Report on the climate of South Africa, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 37/866
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A report by H. Siedentopf entitled 'Climate of the Union of South Africa'.

Dates: 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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Report on the climate of South Africa, 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 37/1208
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A two-part report on the 'Climate of South Africa'. Part 1 concerns 'Climate Statistics'; part 2 concerns 'Rainfall Statistics'.

Dates: 1954
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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Reports on South Africa, 1956

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 37/868
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Two reports, in French, on observations and site testing in South Africa: 'Prospection systématique de 1'union Sud-Africaine' by B. Guinot, and 'Rapport General De MM. Courtes et Boulon sur la Prospection Francaise en Afrique du Sud' by J. Boulon and G. Courtes.

Dates: 1956
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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Republic of South Africa, 1946 - 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BLGN 8/8
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Printed propaganda apparently sent to HMB. Includes pamphlets, magazines, press cuttings and correspondence.

Dates: 1946 - 1970
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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Rhodesia and South Africa, 1979-01 - 1996-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/78
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Correspondence with the general public on the political conditions in Rhodesia [Zambia and Zimbabwe] and South Africa.

Dates: 1979-01 - 1996-11
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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Rough notes, 1985-08 - 1986-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 10/1/22
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Notes from pocketbooks, mainly on sanctions against South Africa and apartheid.

Dates: 1985-08 - 1986-08
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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‘Sara’s S African Diary and letters associated’, 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BULL 12/5/2
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Letters to William Bull from Sara Bull regarding her journey to the Cape. The small book includes family trees, maps and diary entries

Dates: 1927
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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Selection of MT's correspondence formerly stored in her safe, "G"-"M", September 1975-October 1978, 1975-09 - 1978-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/18/2
Scope and Contents Includes papers from: Sir Michael Havers on his visit to South Africa, May 1977; MT’s correspondence with Edward Heath MP and Fred Mulley MP (Secretary of State for Education and Science) relating to education "PARs" [Programme and Analysis Reports] being available to Select Committees, September 1975-March 1976, including copy of MT’s handwritten letter to Mulley, 15 October 1975; copy of MT’s handwritten letter to Edward ("Ted") Heath MP congratulating him on his Penistone speech, 6 July...
Dates: 1975-09 - 1978-10
Conditions Governing Access: Opened in July 2009 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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Sir James Stephen: Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7888
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Includes correspondence of Stephen and papers relating to a life of Stephen written by Dr. Evelyn Christian Martin.

Dates: 1807-1953 (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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South Africa, 1924-11 - 1926-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/4/7
Scope and Contents Correspondence with 1st Lord Athlone, Governor General and with General James Hertzog, Prime Minister, on subjects including: the Imperial Conference, 1926, particularly changes to the status of Governors General with the creation of High Commissioners and the impression made by Hertzog; the South African flag; transferring Swaziland [later Eswatini] to South Africa; communications between the British and Dominion Governments; 1st Lord Byng, Governor General of Canada and his refusal to...
Dates: 1924-11 - 1926-12
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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South Africa, 1927-02 - 1929-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/4/8
Scope and Contents Correspondence with 1st Lord Athlone, Governor General and with General James Hertzog, Prime Minister, on subjects including: the British General Election, 1929; the cost of development in Swaziland [later Eswatini]; finding new administrators for the Protectorates of Swaziland, Basutoland [later Lesotho] and Bechuanaland [later Botswana]; the South African flag; the status of the South African High Commissioner in London; LSA's visit to South Africa during his Empire Tour. Other...
Dates: 1927-02 - 1929-06
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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South Africa, 1926 - 1979

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/NBKR 4/17-23
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The papers cover every aspect of Lord Noel-Baker's very full and varied career and include constituency papers, Labour Party material, extensive sections on domestic and international affairs, peace and disarmament, sport, books and articles, speeches and correspondence.

Dates: 1926 - 1979
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of two files which are still closed, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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South Africa, 1993-05 - 1994-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 8/12
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Papers and correspondence on MS's visit to the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, with a group from the National Theatre Studio, Sept-Oct 1994.

Dates: 1993-05 - 1994-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.