Russia
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 79 Collections and/or Records:
Series
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.
Item
Flora Rossica C Ledebour vol 1 1842 / Count all - but not vars marked a - not subvarieties, 1842-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 16: 121br
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1842-01-01 - 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.
Sub-Series
Information Papers on Other Countries, 1943 - 1944
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/NERI 6/10
Scope and Contents
Russia
Dates:
1943 - 1944
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Lady Spencer-Churchill's correspondence and personal papers, 1885 - 1975
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 3
Scope and Contents
Subjects covered by the material in this section include: Chartwell; Russia and CSC's visit in 1945; work in WSC's Essex constituency, Wanstead and Woodford; and the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA).
Dates:
1885 - 1975
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
'Manchuria' [China], sheet 23, 1931
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BGND D.100
Scope and Contents
2nd edition.
Dates:
1931
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Memoir of Eugen Millington-Drake, 1889 - 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MLDK 9/18
Scope and Contents
Upstream: Seventy Years on the Thames and the Plate
Memoirs of Sir Eugen Millington-Drake
Edited by Jill Quaife
Volume 1: 1889-1915Comprising a memoir edited by Millington-Drake’s Personal Assistant Jill Quaife, using Millington-Drake’s diaries, articles published in the Macnaghten Old Boy Circulars [a publication for students who attended Eton when Hugh Vibart Macnaghten was a housemaster from 1898 to 1902], and other passages written by his sister, Jessy. The record was...
Dates:
Existence: 1889 - 1915
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The diaries and letter books (ref. MLDK 11) may only be seen with the permission of the family. The rest of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Minutes of ‘X’ meetings, 1918-05 - 1918-07
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/3/34
Scope and Contents
Notes of War Cabinet discussions [between David Lloyd George, Prime Minister, 1st Lord Milner, Secretary of State for War and General Sir Henry Wilson, Chief of Imperial General Staff] on subjects including: the Western front in France and Italy; American forces on the Western front; reinforcements from Ireland; the situation on the Western front, including mingling British and French forces; the situation in Russia, including Japan's intervention; future military policy; the German...
Dates:
1918-05 - 1918-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Miscellaneous papers, 1959
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 10/675
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous papers, including a handwritten paper by Sir Richard Woolley on the minimum mass of a star; a note by Woolley on observations of the Sun in very long wave lengths; a letter from D. Lynden-Bell of Clare College, Cambridge, regarding a method of finding general solutions of the Lionville equation without assuming any special velocity distribution such as the ellipsoidal 'law'; and a report by Woolley on his impressions of a visit to Russia.
Dates:
1959
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).
File
NK's visit to Russia, 1996-11-24 - 1996-11-26
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/6/22
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Visits and meetings, mostly relating to European transport policy and trans-European network issues.
Dates:
1996-11-24 - 1996-11-26
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
NK's visit to Russia, 1996-11-24 - 1996-11-26
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/6/23
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Visits and meetings, mostly relating to European transport policy and trans-European network issues.
Dates:
1996-11-24 - 1996-11-26
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Item
NS I Chap 3-93 Note, 1866-03-01 - 1866-03-31
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 49: 109r
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1866-03-01 - 1866-03-31
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.
Item
NS II Palaeontology, geology-209 Note, 1840-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.9: 236
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1840-01-01 - 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.
Series
Other travel records, 1945 - 1965
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0272/JVR/12
Scope and Contents
This series comprises passports and miscellaneous documents related to Joan Robinson's travels in Europe, Asia and Cuba. Documents include notes of names (many not in Joan Robinson's hand), maps, forms, guides and ration coupons.
Dates:
1945 - 1965
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.
File
Papers on general administration, 1965 - 1968
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 10/699
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers regarding general administrative matters at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, including memoranda on hours worked; correspondence concerning the introduction of Science Research Council conditions of service management with regard to the Isaac Newton Telescope; reports by G.H. Herby on Soviet astronomy; material on the provision of information for the annual report; and disclaimer notices on car parks.
Dates:
1965 - 1968
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).
File
Papers on standards, 1809 - 1843
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/345
Scope and Contents
Printed papers on standards, including English Acts of Parliament; conversion tables for Scottish Measures; Russian, Bavarian and Sardinian Laws concerning weights and measures; and newspaper cuttings. There are also unprinted petitions, reports and comparisons, including petitions from the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, and a draft of a former bill (1758) relating to weights and measures.
Dates:
1809 - 1843
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).
File
Papers on the Committee on Space Research, 1958 - 1963
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 9/599
Scope and Contents
Agenda and minutes of meetings of the British National Committee on Space Research and sub-committees; letters concerning attendance at meetings; and reports on meetings, activities and proposals. The papers include the following items:Report by Sir Graham Sutton on the 13th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics at Berkeley, California, August 1963.Papers on a report to the Committee on Space Research, 1963.Correspondence on a grant...
Dates:
1958 - 1963
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).
File
Papers on the International Astronomical Union, 1948 - 1952
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 9/619
Scope and Contents
Papers regarding the International Astronomical Union, including the following items:Statement concerning Professor P. Swings's nomination for a Gold Medal, 1952.R. Atkinson's comments on a circular by Dr Sadler, 1952.Correspondence regarding the publication of the reports of various commissions, 1952.Correspondence with Professor Lindblad concerning candidates for the new Executive Committee, 1952.Correspondence with Dr Jackson regarding funding,...
Dates:
1948 - 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).
File
Papers on the National Committee for Astronomy, 1949 - 1958
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 9/583
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to National Committee for Astronomy, including letters regarding meetings, minutes of meetings, reports, proposals and other material, including correspondence regarding grants for Dr Ferraro and others for visits to Moscow for spectroscopy meetings. The papers also include the following items:Papers regarding rockets and satellites, including the first Russian satellites, 1957-1958.Correspondence with Dr Merton, Professor McCrea and others regarding...
Dates:
1949 - 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).
File
Papers on the Nautical Almanac Office, 1938 - 1956
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 8/26
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with the Nautical Almanac Office and related papers, in fifteen sections, including the following material:(1) Astronomical navigation tablesCorrespondence with D.H. Sadler regarding George G. Hoehne's 'Practical Celestial Air Navigation Tables', 1943.Correspondence with D.H. Sadler regarding astronomical tables, 1942.Memorandum by Sadler titled 'Polar Navigation. A Device for Drawing Position Lines within 15 Degrees of the Pole',...
Dates:
1938 - 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).
Sub-sub-series
Papers on the U.S.S.R., 1946 - 1973
Sub-sub-series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 16/308
Scope and Contents
General correspondence and other papers regarding the U.S.S.R., principally the Institute for Theoretical Astronomy of the Academy of Sciences, Leningrad, including material on the exchange of data.
Dates:
1946 - 1973
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).
File
Personal correspondence, R-Z, 1956 - 1958
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 10/916
Scope and Contents
Personal correspondence of Sir Richard Woolley regarding lectures, dinners, membership of various institutions, newspaper interviews, book reviews and other subjects. There is correspondence with tradesmen, insurance companies and hotels; with various societies, universities, schools, observatories and other institutions; and with individuals. The correspondents include S.D. Pickelman, Crimean Astrophysical Observatory; the Royal Society of Arts; the Royal Society of Health; Russian...
Dates:
1956 - 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).
Fonds
Personal Papers of Rhoda Power, 1917 - 1985
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Power, R
Scope and Contents
Rhoda Power's surviving papers listed here comprise the diaries she kept of her experiences in revolutionary Russia in 1917-18; a series of letters which she wrote during her travels in South and North America in 1946-47 for circulation amongst her friends; and publishers' agreements. There are photographs of Rhoda Power in the papers of Eileen Power at GCPP Power, E 1/1.
Dates:
1917 - 1985
Found in:
Girton College Archive
/
Personal Papers
File
Photograph album of HMS Southampton, 1916 - 1918
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MRDN 1/3
Scope and Contents
Including photographs of damage to HMS Southampton after the Battle of Jutland, 1916; expeditions to Norway, including Kors Fjord, undated, and Russia with Sir Eric Geddes, including Murmansk, 1918; a band of musicians on board ship, undated, and deck hockey and acrobatics, undated; and submarines, airships, aeroplanes and other ships, including HMS Furious, HMS Chatham, HMS Repulse, HMS Birkenhead, HMS Chester, HMS Ramillies, HMS Shannon, HMS Minotaur, USS Delaware, and the Russian...
Dates:
1916 - 1918
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Photographs, 1901 - 1967
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DSND 20
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The material covers much of Lord Duncan-Sandys public life. Papers, reports and correspondence document the ministries in which he served and there are also constituency correspondence, speeches, publications, press cuttings and photographs. A number of papers exist relating to his involvement in the campaign to restore Capital Punishment, the European Movement and the Civic Trust.
Dates:
1901 - 1967
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open to researchers. Information about closures can be obtained from Churchill Archives Centre.
Sub-Series
Russia, 1917 - 1963
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/NBKR 4/605-652
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:
1917 - 1963
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.