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Germany

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1099 Collections and/or Records:

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German Newsletters, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/STKH 1/5
Scope and Contents

Comprising a colour facsimile copy of a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings about King-Hall's German newsletters to the middle classes, professional men and Nazi officials, including Dr. Goebbels.

Dates: 1939
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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Germany, 1919 - 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/NBKR 4/264-321
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: 1919 - 1965
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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Germany, 1929 - 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/NBKR 4X/12
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: 1929 - 1938
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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Germany, 1925 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ZVEG 1
Scope and Contents

This series mostly consists of material relating to post-war reconstruction in Germany.

Dates: 1925 - 1950
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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Germany: articles by Sandys and press cuttings, 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DSND 3/11
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: 1946
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.
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Germany, Deutsch-Englische Gesellschaft, 1952-02 - 1953-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/2/92
Scope and Contents

Papers and correspondence on an Anglo-German conference organised by Deutsch-Englische Gesellschaft, and a set of extracts from the German press, on defence and political issues.

Dates: 1952-02 - 1953-07
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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"Give us the tools", 9 Feb 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/150A/52-75
Scope and Contents Notes for WSC's broadcast (BBC) on the war situation including: the repulsion of the threat of German invasion, the Blitz and the bombing of Britain; the strength of British spirit; the Italian attack on Greece; successes in Libya and Egypt, including victory at Sidi Barrani under General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander in Chief Middle East] and General [Henry] Wilson; successes of the British Mediterranean Fleet against the Italian navy under Admiral [Sir Andrew] Cunningham...
Dates: 9 Feb 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Goa, 1961 - 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/NBKR 4/323
Scope and Contents

Cuttings on Goa

Dates: 1961 - 1962
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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Harriet Susan Miller: Continental Tour Journal

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6230
Scope and Contents

Journal by Harriet Miller of tours on the continent with her husband, Professor W.H. Miller, 1856 and later.

Dates: 1856 (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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"Headway towards Freedom and Peace", Nov 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/132/111
Scope and Contents Pamphlet including on pages 18-19 an article by WSC entitled "In truth and earnestness" on the price of peace, the future of the League of Nations Union, the Munich agreement and WSC's warnings, call for action and for Britain to lead. Pages 33-35 include the text of WSC's broadcast to the United States (16 October 1938, [United States National Broadcasting Company]) entitled "The defence of freedom and peace" on the need for the democracies, including the United States, to unite against the...
Dates: Nov 1938
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Historical reports, 1917-09 - 1919-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/3/53
Scope and Contents Notes on subjects including: historical relations between Germany and France, particularly on Prince Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of Germany, and the Franco-Prussian War, Serbia and the Balkans, German colonial policy in Africa, Germany's alliance with Turkey and general German policy, 1894-1904; the Casablanca Incident [Morocco] of 1908; German attempts to prevent an alliance between Britain, France and Russia (1904-5); the Conference of Algeciras [Spain] (1906); Kaiser Wilhelm II; the...
Dates: 1917-09 - 1919-09
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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"History of Germany", 1895-08 - 1914-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 3/79
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Notes and drafts for a history of 19th century Germany. This is probably for works that JWHM was commissioned to write for the Cambridge Historical Series in 1895 and 1901 and never finished, but some sections may also relate to "A short history of Germany and her colonies" (1914), written by JWHM with Walter Alison Philips, and Arthur William Holland as part of the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Dates: 1895-08 - 1914-08
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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"Hitler file 1", 1937-04 - 1937-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LUNG 1/9
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Hitler's Private Office entertainment file, including: list of diplomatic visitors; minutes by Otto Meissner, Hitler’s Chief of Staff and State Secretary of the Presidential Chancellery; guest lists, invitation cards, menus and seating plans for various events, particularly a trade fair. Found by Lunghi in the Reich Chancellery, July 1945.

Dates: 1937-04 - 1937-11
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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Invitations: Christian Democratic Union, 1975 - 1979

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 4/3/5
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Correspondence on CS's invitations to the CDU [Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands] European conferences at Hanover [Germany], 1976, and at Kiel, 1979, with correspondents including Margaret Thatcher, Leader of the Conservative Party, apologising for not being able to attend the 1979 conference due to the impending General Election, and Helmut Kohl, Chairman of the CDU. Includes texts of speeches by CS and Thatcher.

Dates: 1975 - 1979
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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Journal of a tour in Germany, 1786-1789

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4377
Scope and Contents

Also includes a memorandum of 'Places worth seeing in Mr. Skynner's Tour with my cousin in June 1783', 90 folios. According to a note by John Lee of Hartwell inside the front cover, the writer was Colonel Sir William Lee, and the cousin William Lee Antonie Esq. of Colworth, Bedfordshire. Pp. 89-180 are blank. Inside the front cover: 'Hartwell Library repaired May 1831', in the hand of J. Lee.

Dates: 1786-1789
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Letter from Thomas Henry Farrer to Charles Robert Darwin; written at [Germany], 1868-10-26

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 164: 47
Scope and Contents

Letter from Thomas Henry Farrer to Charles Robert Darwin; written at [Germany]


(Letter)

Dates: 1868-10-26
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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Letters from Berlin, 1895-10 - 1907-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LASC 3
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Copies of letters to Lascelles at the beginning and at the end of his term as British Ambassador to Germany, with correspondents including: William Goschen [Secretary of Embassy, Russia], congratulating him on his appointment; Tristram Ellis on pictures he had painted for Lascelles; Lord Augustus Loftus on the situation in Berlin; Sir Francis Oppenheimer, British Consul-General at Frankfort-on-Main.

Dates: 1895-10 - 1907-12
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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Letters on resignation from the government, 1990, 1990-07 - 1990-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RIDL 2/8
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Letters on NR's resignation from the government

Dates: 1990-07 - 1990-08
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Letters relating chiefly to the Reformation in Germany

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.712
Scope and Contents Includes 81 letters from the archives of the Baumgärtner family of Nuremburg, the majority to Hieronymus Baumgärtner the elder (d. 1564). With one exception the letters are from those with surnames beginning M to W. Also including 28 letters of a miscellaneous character, about half being addressed to secular rulers or authorities, including members of the Lichtenberg family, and members of the ruling house of Saxony. Collection includes one printed item: Des XX Psalm Auslegung inn Reim ......
Dates: 1516-1746
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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Letters to Lady Wester Wemyss, 1920 - 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WMYS 7/12
Scope and Contents Written from Hotel Vouillemont and the Travellers' Club in Paris, 94 Piccadilly, the Naval & Military Club, the Royal Automobile Club, 59 Pont Street and the Beefsteak Club in London, Wemyss Castle in Fife, Wrotham Park in Hertfordshire, H.M. Dockyard in Portsmouth, Hopetoun House near Edinburgh and Innischonain in Argyll. Subjects include the attitude of Germany to the Peace, Home Rule in Ireland, the attempt to get to the bottom of the fraudulent pamphlet 'The Jewish Peril',...
Dates: 1920 - 1923
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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Letters to Sandys from Sir Horace Rumbold on Sandys' appointment as Third Secretary at the Embassy, Berlin, and on his transfer from Berlin, October 1930 & January 1933, 1930 - 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DSND 1/1
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: 1930 - 1933
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.
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Literary., 1925 - 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/202
Scope and Contents Proofs and an offprint of WSC's article entitled "The German Splendour" on WSC's visits to Germany in 1906 and 1906 to see Kaiser Wilhelm II and the manoeuvres of the German army. Includes WSC's observations on the strength of the German army and navy compared to British forces, on German artillery, and military techniques (which are compared to those used at the Battle of Omdurman).Proofs and an offprint of WSC's article entitled "Consistency in Politics" which includes: observations on the...
Dates: 1925 - 1927
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 12, "The Victorian Age" [eventually included in volume 4, "The Great Democracies"]: various revises., 1956 - Jan 1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/438A-C
Scope and Contents Includes typed drafts and galley proofs (some described as first or second proof, first, second, third, last or final revise, "dead duplicate", or "returned empties") for: chapters entitled "The Rise of Germany", "Gladstone and Disraeli", "Home Rule for Ireland", "Lord Salisbury's Governments", "America from 'Reconstruction' to World Power" or "America in 'Reconstruction'" or "American Reconstruction" and "America as a World-Power", and "The Dawn of the Twentieth Century"; notes on the...
Dates: 1956 - Jan 1957
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": volume 4, "The Great Democracies": final proofs., Jan 1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/439A-B
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Includes galley proofs of the entire volume [with the exception of the index]: introductory pages and books 10-12, "Recovery and Reform", "The Great Republic", and "The Victorian Age" [chapter 7 of which, "The Dawn of the Twentieth Century" is renamed "The South African War" in the published volume].With very minor suggested amendments and notes from various people [secretaries, literary assistants, etc.] including: [Alan Hodge].

Dates: Jan 1957
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: Articles., 08 Dec 1918 - 31 Dec 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/36
Scope and Contents 1. British Naval Supremacy, 8 Dec 1918 [carbon] 2. The Whole World is at a Standstill, 12 Jan 1919 [carbon] 3. The Foreign Policy of Britain, 22 June 1919 [carbon] 4. Our Armaments after the War, 29 June 1919 [carbon] 5. The Truth About the Navy, 9 Nov 1919 [carbon] 6. Can Labour Govern?, 16 Nov 1919 [carbon] 7. Russia and Germany, 23 Nov 1919 [carbon] 8. America and The Treaty, 30 Nov 1919 [carbon] 9. The Right to Strike, 7 Dec 1919 [carbon] 10. The Red Fever, 25 Jan 1920 [carbon] 11....
Dates: 08 Dec 1918 - 31 Dec 1919
Conditions Governing Access: Open