Germany
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1115 Collections and/or Records:
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Colonial League Bulletins, 1939-02 - 1940-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/5/53
Scope and Contents
Prints of the Colonial League weekly news bulletin, mainly on Germany's claim to her former colonies in Africa and colonial affairs in general, particularly relating to Africa.
Also includes: notes by LSA on publishing colonial propaganda through the weekly bulletins, and on the League's purpose.
Dates:
1939-02 - 1940-03
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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Colonial League correspondence, 1938-10 - 1946-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/5/54
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Abe Bailey; [Ferdinand] Stephen Joelson, Director of East Africa Limited, on founding the League with LSA; 4th Lord Harlech [earlier William Ormsby-Gore] on the implications of German colonies in Africa, and the importance of retaining Tanganyika [later Tanzania]; Sir Henry Page Croft, on his hopes for agreement with Germany; 1st Lord Trenchard on publicizing the risks of giving back Germany's former colonies and his reasons for keeping out of the League (2); 1st...
Dates:
1938-10 - 1946-05
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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Commemorative programme of King Edward VII's visit to Kiel, 1904
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SDEE 5/12
Scope and Contents
Detailing schedules, names of ships, procedure and guest list.
With maps showing the route.
Dates:
1904
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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Common Market, 1994-01 - 1997-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 7/9
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with the general public on British membership of the European Economic Community, with correspondents including: Andrew Alexander; William Cash [Chairman of the European Foundation]; Noreen Davis, Honorary Secretary of Wolverhampton South West Conservative Association (4); Patrick Nicholls on JEP's views, particularly on Germany's economic domination of Europe (2); Elisabeth Sandys (2); Richard Shepherd.
Also includes: pamphlet by William Cash, 'Are we really winning...
Dates:
1994-01 - 1997-07
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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Conservative Research Department: reports, 1952-04 - 1954-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/2/97
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: old age pensions; the Transport Bill; the convertibility of sterling; foreign affairs, particularly Germany, the Soviet Union and Korea [North Korea and South Korea]; the Colonial Development Corporation; the political situation in Nigeria; the Economic Survey, 1953; housing; the Finance Bill, 1952; the Empire Settlement Bill, 1952; the Government's first six months in office.
Dates:
1952-04 - 1954-07
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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Copies and originals of correspondence and notes by Martin Gilbert on the origins of the Second World War, 1931 - 1968-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RDCH 3/6/2/61
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: [Alfred] Duff Cooper [British Ambassador to France, later 1st Lord Norwich] writing to Robert Boothby on Boothby's views [in his book "I Fight to Live"] of David Lloyd George and Sir Charles Mendl [former Press Attaché at the British Embassy, Paris] particularly on whether Ambassadors ever took Mendl's advice; Sir Horace Wilson [former Head of the Civil Service] on a meeting which he was said to have had with the German official Helmut Wohltat in 1939; Lewis Namier...
Dates:
1931 - 1968-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. The catalogue includes details of some material in the collection which is currently too fragile to be produced and researchers should seek advice from Archives Centre staff about accessing this material.
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Copy extracts from the diary of the German Naval Attaché in Stockholm, 1940 and 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DENM 6
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Papers comprising a memoir, correspondence and official papers about his work as Naval Attaché in Stockholm, 1940-5
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Correspondence, 1921 - 1967
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CKFT 20
Scope and Contents
This is a wide-ranging series, covering a large proportion of Cockcroft's career from his time at university until his death. Retaining Cockcroft's own arrangement, the series has been split into sections including: general correspondence with scientists; correspondence with particular individuals; correspondence arranged by subject; correspondence with and on the numerous people who asked for Cockcroft's help in finding various positions, after the Second World War; miscellaneous papers;...
Dates:
1921 - 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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Correspondence A - Z, 1936-12 - 1937-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/27
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Joe Amery (3); Harold Armstrong; Mary Arnold-Forster; 1st Lord Baden-Powell; Sir Abe Bailey; Stanley Baldwin (2); Richard Bennett [Canadian Leader of the Opposition] on the proposed Anglo-American trade treaty; Stanley Bruce [High Commissioner for Australia in London] on the Imperial Conference; Edward Keeling, Secretary of the British School of Archæology in Iraq, inviting LSA to become President of the school; James Butler; [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain [Prime...
Dates:
1936-12 - 1937-12
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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Correspondence A - Z, 1938-01 - 1938-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/28
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Harold Armstrong, suggesting Jan Smuts as a war leader (2); Sir Abe Bailey (3); Stanley Baldwin; [Charles] Vernon Bartlett, congratulating LSA on his letter to the press about the Munich Crisis; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken], criticizing a speech by [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister; Richard Bennett, Canadian Leader of the Opposition on the chances of a commercial treaty between Britain and the United States, and the results for Canada; 1st Lord...
Dates:
1938-01 - 1938-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Correspondence: general, 1867-08 - 1930-01
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 5
Scope and Contents
This series of papers includes correspondence with MPs and notables of the period about current affairs and daily business. Correspondents include Herbert von Bismarck, Joseph Chamberlain, William Thomas Stead, Arthur John Bigge [later first Baron Stamfordham], Francis Knollys [later Viscount Knollys, Private secretary to King Edward VII and George V], Winston S. Churchill, and Maurice Hankey. Some of the volumes also include cuttings and printed material.
Dates:
1867-08 - 1930-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Sub-Series
Correspondence of Airy, Christie and others, 1876 - 1890
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/786
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Airy and W.H. Christie on a great range of business and scientific matters, including computer's salaries, photographic measurements with micrometers, reduction of the 1874 transit of Venus, star position errors, spectral lines, the Time Ball, the Robert Medal, transit instruments, German longitudes, staff leaves of absence, standards, the tides of Malta, Navy telescopes, tradesmen's bills, a holiday forwarding address, chronograph sheets, distribution lists for...
Dates:
1876 - 1890
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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Correspondence on a quartz crystal clock, 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 9/125
Scope and Contents
Correspondence regarding the disposal of a quartz crystal clock, which was removed from Germany after the Second World War as part of the German reparations.
Dates:
1951
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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Correspondence on foreign observatories, 1958 - 1961
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 9/437
Scope and Contents
Correspondence regarding foreign observatories, including those in Czechoslovakia, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland, Argentina, Turkey, Portugal, Japan, Germany, Belgium, Finland and Denmark.
Dates:
1958 - 1961
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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Correspondence on German observatories, 1945 - 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 9/455
Scope and Contents
Correspondence regarding German observatories, including correspondence with Professor A. Kopff, Heidelberg, Germany; a comparison by Kopff of the systems of the General Catalogue and Third Fundamental Catalogue, 1949; and correspondence with O. Heckmann of the Bergadorf Observatory, Germany.
Dates:
1945 - 1951
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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Correspondence on planetaria, 1946 - 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 9/550
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with the Admiralty and the Science Museum regarding proposals for a London Planetarium; correspondence with the U.S.S.R. Embassy and Trade Delegation concerning Zeiss Planetaria; reports on planetaria in Vienna and Germany; and correspondence with the Australian Scientific Research Liaison Office.
Dates:
1946 - 1947
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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Correspondence on the Göttingen Lectures, 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 9/650
Scope and Contents
Correspondence of Robert Atkinson regarding his visit to Germany for the University of Göttingen lectures, including the following items:Correspondence with the Foreign Office and H. Spencer Jones, including copies of Spencer Jones' correspondence with the Admiralty.Correspondence with O. Heckmann, Hamburg Observatory; F. Becker, Bonn University Observatory; and Professor ten Bruggencate, University of Göttingen (in German), with Atkinson's handwritten notes, 'Die...
Dates:
1950
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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Correspondence with foreign observatories, 1964 - 1968
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 10/779
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with various overseas observatories, A-R, including the following items:Australia: papers concerning the 150-inch telescope proposal, the use of the Isaac Newton Telescope at the Mount Stromlo Observatory, and other observatories.Egypt: correspondence concerned mainly with the Helwan Observatory, including observing trips, maintenance and students studying at the Royal Greenwich Observatory.Africa: correspondence with various African observatories,...
Dates:
1964 - 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).
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Correspondence with German observatories, 1955 - 1960
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 9/462
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with German observatories, including correspondence with Professor O.H.L. Heckmann, Dr H. Haffner, J. Dick and Professor G. Rienacker.
Dates:
1955 - 1960
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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Correspondence with MPs and Peers, surnames "HOWE (GEOFFREY) 2", October 1976-circa January 1978, 1976-10 - 1978
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/1/1/31
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with Sir Geoffrey Howe MP (includes: his note for MT, "Inflation proofed pensions", 1 November 1976; report of his visit to meet management and unions at British Leyland’s Cowley works, 16 November 1976; copy of his statement to a meeting of the Backbench Finance Committee, 25 January 1977; his letter attached a report to the Conservative Research Department by Konrad Zweig, "The concerted action in Germany", May 1977, with MT’s handwritten annotations; his report on...
Dates:
1976-10 - 1978
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in November 2003
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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Correspondence with the Control Office for Germany and Austria, 1946 - 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HLSM 2/38/17
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Originally stored in small brown files, some of which were parcelled up in brown paper, and numbered in Roman numerals.
Correspondence between Quintin Hogg and government departments, mainly comprising correspondence about concerns or complaints of his Oxford constituents, 1938-50.
With some later correspondence in response to letters from members of the public, 1973-7.
Dates:
1946 - 1947
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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Correspondence with the Royal Society, 1937 - 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 9/564
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous correspondence with the Royal Society relating mainly to the re-establishment and expansion of astronomy after the Second World War. The papers include the following items:Correspondence concerning the re-equipping of Cambridge observatories, 1948.Minutes of the meeting of the Gassiot Committee on 31 October 1947, with reports from the Kew and Eskdalemuir Observatories.Correspondence concerning Maskelyne manuscripts, 1947.Correspondence regarding...
Dates:
1937 - 1948
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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Cuttings and Cartoons relating to WSC, 1933-10 - 1936-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Press 29 A/1
Scope and Contents
Career: Randolph Churchill contests the Wavertree [Liverpool] by-election and is defeated; WSC reconciled with government; WSC returned to parliament but not the Cabinet; reviews of WSC’s "Marlborough".
Domestic Policy: Annual meeting (1933) of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations - Discussion of slum campaign, Imperial defence and reform policy; WSC supports the need for home grown food stuffs.
Foreign Policy; WSC leads opposition to the...
Dates:
1933-10 - 1936-06
Conditions Governing Access:
Available as digital surrogates only, to protect the fragile original.
Unknown
"Defence", 16 Mar 1950
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/33B/217-272
Scope and Contents
Speech notes for WSC's speech (House of Commons) on subjects including: ministerial appointments in defence; the need for greater openness with the House of Commons; retaining a reformed National Service scheme; recruitment for the regular army; the defence of Western Europe, particularly West Germany [later part of Germany], against the Soviet Union and its satellites; reducing the Royal Navy; the threat from Soviet submarines and the need to develop aircraft carriers and anti-submarine...
Dates:
16 Mar 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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