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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 142 Collections and/or Records:

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Papers relating to MT's visit to the Far East (Japan, China, Hong Kong & India), 17-28 September 1982 (2), 1982-09

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/10/38
Scope and Contents Includes: MT’s handwritten notes and annotations Includes: schedules for visit to Japan; details of the UK delegation on the visit; with notes on MT's clothes required during the visit, annotated by her; annotated draft of MT's speech to the Japanese Press Club, Tokyo, 21 September 1982; briefing note for John Coles (MT's Private Secretary for Overseas Affairs) from John Holmes (Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary) on MT's forthcoming meeting with Japanese Prime Minister...
Dates: 1982-09
Conditions Governing Access: Opened in March 2013 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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Papers relating to MT's visit to the Far East (Japan, China, Hong Kong & India), 17-28 September 1982 (3), 1982-08 - 1982-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/10/39
Scope and Contents

Includes: briefing material received before the visit, including letter from Lord (Malcolm) Shepherd, August 1982; copies of notes of MT's meetings with Prime Minister and Premier Zhao Ziyang, China, 22 and 24 September 1982, by John Coles (MT's Private Secretary for Overseas Affairs); notes by Coles of MT's meeting with Vice-Chairman Deng Xiaoping, 24 September 1982; and Foreign Office report on visit by Percy Cradock (UK Ambassador to China), 7 October 1982

Dates: 1982-08 - 1982-10
Conditions Governing Access: Opened in March 2013 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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Papers relating to the G7 summit, Bonn, Germany, 2-4 May 1985, 1985-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/10/90
Scope and Contents

Includes: schedules; and briefing cards for MT's bilateral meetings with President (Francois) Mitterrand of France and Prime Minister (Yasuhiro) Nakasone of Japan

Dates: 1985-05
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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Passport, 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BGND A.51
Scope and Contents

China, Japan, Hong Kong.

Dates: 1933
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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Personal correspondence, 1945 - 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 9/526
Scope and Contents Personal correspondence of H. Spencer Jones concerning visits, awards, lectures, manuscripts, articles and book reviews, with related papers, including the following items:Correspondence with the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1948-1949.Correspondence with the National Physical Laboratory, the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, the B.B.C., the Royal Society, Sir David Brunt and Dr Bart Bok, 1949-1952.Correspondence with F. Hoyle, Dr R.A. Lyttleton,...
Dates: 1945 - 1952
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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Personal Papers of Doreen Simmons, 1980 - 2018

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Simmons
Scope and Contents The personal papers of Doreen Simmons listed here are held in digital form only. They comprise personal and biographical items, written work and papers relating to talks and lectures given by Doreen Simmons. Practically all of the written work and talks are on the subject of sumo wrestling. They cover a span of about thirty-five years, although it may be that they represent only a selection of her output. The personal materials include biographical articles on DS, photographs and obituaries....
Dates: 1980 - 2018
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Photograph album of China and Japan, 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/TUCK 3/4
Scope and Contents

Mainly comprising views of Nanking and Kyoto.
With loose photographs, paper tokens and postcards.

Dates: 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Certain files containing sensitive personal information about living people have been closed for 80 years. All closures are noted in the catalogue.
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Photograph album of China, Hong Kong and Japan

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/TUCK 3/7
Scope and Contents

Including some hand-tinted photographs.
With loose photographs and paintings on silk.
Also with a photograph of Florence Tuck [sister] and schoolchildren in fancy dress at Chilliwack, Canada.

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Certain files containing sensitive personal information about living people have been closed for 80 years. All closures are noted in the catalogue.
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Photograph album of Japan

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/TUCK 3/5
Scope and Contents

With loose photographs of China and Japan, including views of Nanking and Japanese military exercises; postcards, including views of Nikko; prints; and a railway ticket.
Including both photographic prints and negatives.
Bound in silk.

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Certain files containing sensitive personal information about living people have been closed for 80 years. All closures are noted in the catalogue.
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Photograph album of Japan

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/TUCK 3/8
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Papers mainly comprising diaries, letters to his family, photographs, printed books, pamphlets and lectures notes. The collection also includes a medal awarded to Tuck whilst at the Greenwich Hospital School, 1891.

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Certain files containing sensitive personal information about living people have been closed for 80 years. All closures are noted in the catalogue.
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Photograph album of Japan

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/TUCK 3/9
Scope and Contents

A souvenir album of a ceremonial occasion, apparently a naval shore party or fête.

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Certain files containing sensitive personal information about living people have been closed for 80 years. All closures are noted in the catalogue.
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Photographs and invitations from Japan, 1905 - 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/TUCK 3/6
Scope and Contents

Photographs mainly comprising views of ships and a naval shore party.

Dates: 1905 - 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Certain files containing sensitive personal information about living people have been closed for 80 years. All closures are noted in the catalogue.
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Photographs and postcards of China and Japan, 1900 - 1914

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

With a list of loose photographs, postcards and other archival items, titled "Items from Mrs Vincent Townend". Eleanor Margery Vincent-Townend, née Tuck, was Oswald Tuck's sister.

Dates: 1900 - 1914
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Certain files containing sensitive personal information about living people have been closed for 80 years. All closures are noted in the catalogue.
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Photographs and postcards of China and Japan, 1900 - 1908

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

Papers mainly comprising diaries, letters to his family, photographs, printed books, pamphlets and lectures notes. The collection also includes a medal awarded to Tuck whilst at the Greenwich Hospital School, 1891.

Dates: 1900 - 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Certain files containing sensitive personal information about living people have been closed for 80 years. All closures are noted in the catalogue.
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Photographs of Carron and other AEU officials, 1952 - 1967

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CARN 7/2
Scope and Contents

Taken at committee meetings, at TUC at Blackpool, at AEU headquarters, at the opening of he Liverpool AEU offices, on visits to USA and Japan and at Peckham Manor School

Dates: 1952 - 1967
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Sub-Series

Photographs of Carron's visit to Japan, 1967

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CARN 7/17
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Papers mainly comprising correspondence, diaries, articles, speeches, press cuttings and photographs.

Dates: 1967
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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Photographs of JA's visits to China and Japan, 1977-01 - 1978-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 10/120
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Photographs of JA, on subjects including his Second World War mission to Albania (some used in his book "Sons of the Eagle"), and official visits and ministerial photographs, particularly of JA as Secretary of State for Air, Minister of Aviation and Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Dates: 1977-01 - 1978-05
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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Press cuttings album, 1910 - 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/TUCK 3/12
Scope and Contents

Mainly about Oswald Tuck's articles, lectures and broadcasts on Japan, naval history and other subjects. Also some items about theatrical performances by the Admiralty Dramatic Society and a local theatre group in Bromley [also see correspondence]
With ephemera and photographs.

Dates: 1910 - 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Certain files containing sensitive personal information about living people have been closed for 80 years. All closures are noted in the catalogue.
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Press cuttings album about Japan, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/TUCK 3/11
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Papers mainly comprising diaries, letters to his family, photographs, printed books, pamphlets and lectures notes. The collection also includes a medal awarded to Tuck whilst at the Greenwich Hospital School, 1891.

Dates: 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Certain files containing sensitive personal information about living people have been closed for 80 years. All closures are noted in the catalogue.
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Press cuttings relating to MT’s visit to Moscow and Japan, September 1989, 1989-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/16/44
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series describes the contents of the personal filing kept by Margaret Thatcher’s while at No 10 Downing Street and are items which were of particular interest or importance to her. Many of these papers complement or are duplicated in other series. This personal files series was added to after her departure from Downing Street in 1990. There are some papers from Margaret Thatcher's early political career (1949-), but generally very little before she became Prime Minister in 1979....
Dates: 1989-09
Conditions Governing Access: Opened in March 2019 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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Private letters: Japan, 1859-1887

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/B4
Scope and Contents

Private letters sent from places in Japan.

Dates: 1859-1887
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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Private letters to Japan, Mar. 1872-Aug. 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/C44
Scope and Contents

Press copies of letters from Jardine Matheson, Shanghai. The authors are John Bell-Irving, F.B. Johnson, William Keswick and Herbert Smith. The recipients are John Bell-Irving, Yokohama; Henry Gribble, Nagasaki; Ryle Holme, Nagasaki; F.B. Johnson, Yokohama; J.J. Keswick, Nagasaki and Yokohama; G. Morrison; John Pitman, Yokohama; Herbert Smith, Yokohama; and Edward Whittall, Yokohama.

Dates: Mar. 1872-Aug. 1879
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson and Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf. Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers. Access is generally available to documents dated up to 1969. Access to some earlier records may be restricted under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.
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Rhoda Watson: Journal of tour in Japan

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8561
Scope and Contents

Journal of a tour of Japan, 29 July - 31 October 1892, 173 pages, some of which are unused. The volume contains inserted material, including trading cards, photographs, postcards, maps, and menus from RMS Empress of Japan. The diary is in English, but some of the additional items are in Japanese.

Dates: 1892
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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"Salter-Ethel Bullard Correspondence, 1929-1931": relating to Salter’s visits to India, China and Japan., 1929 - 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SALT 1/8
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Personal and political papers; with notes and correspondence collected by Professor Sidney Aster in the course of writing the official biography of Salter.

Dates: 1929 - 1931
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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Speeches and articles, 1978-01 - 1978-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 7/1/57
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: Soviet designs on Africa; Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]; council housing; a profile of R A Butler; relations between China, Japan and the Soviet Union; common interests with Japan; the revolution in Iran.

Dates: 1978-01 - 1978-12
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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