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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 967 Collections and/or Records:

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Correspondence, telegrams and papers on France, 1940 - 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 1/137
Scope and Contents

Personal correspondence and general files.

Dates: 1940 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Edward Spears and Mary Borden / Correspondence
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Correspondence with Charles de Gaulle, 1956-01 - 1962-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW V 1/15
Scope and Contents

Correspondence between Churchill and de Gaulle, President of France, on subjects including messages of goodwill, including Churchill's congratulations on de Gaulle's election, a referendum on independence for Algeria and de Gaulle's survival of an assassination attempt, and various gifts of books and photographs.

Dates: 1956-01 - 1962-08
Conditions Governing Access: Closed for review.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Broadwater Collection / Papers relating to Sir Winston Churchill / Correspondence
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Dame Edith Lyttelton née Balfour: writings, 1884 - 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAN I/6/1-12
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Political and personal correspondence and other papers.

CHAN 1, contains mainly papers of Hon Alfred Lyttelton and Dame Edith Lyttelton, with a smaller quantity of material of Oliver Lyttelton
CHAN II, consist mainly of papers of Oliver Lyttelton, with a smaller quantity of papers of Alfred and Edith Lyttelton


Dates: 1884 - 1943
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Alfred Lyttelton and Dame Edith Lyttelton, and their son Oliver Lyttelton (1st Viscount Chandos) / Papers relating to the Lyttelton family
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David Binnie: World tour diaries and photographs

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8558-8560
Dates: 1873-1874
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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library
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Debré, Michel Jean-Pierre, 1912-1996 (Prime Minister of France)

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Dates: Existence: 1912 - 1996
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Diary, 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/9
Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships within the Foreign Office and diplomatic service, including with Samuel Hore-Belisha and The Viscount Halifax; the work load at the Foreign Office and Cadogan's increasing strain; the crisis with the ice-free harbour at Narvik in Norway in April 1940; the intrigue surrounding a new prime minister and the invasion of Holland and Belgium in May 1940 as well as the general progress of war and the consequences of the fall of France in the summer of...
Dates: 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Alexander and Theodosia Cadogan / Diaries
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Diary, 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/13
Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships with Churchill, the War Cabinet, and the Foreign Office; Cadogan's involvement in overseas diplomatic visits; ongoing disputes between the Soviet Union and Poland relating to borders and the Curzon Line; meetings and preparations for Operation Overlord and the D-Day landings; notes on the progress of the Italian Campaign and Allied progress in France, Belgium, and Greece; discussions on 'World Organisation' and post-war planning; concerns...
Dates: 1944
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Alexander and Theodosia Cadogan / Diaries
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Diary of a tour in France and Italy with his brother Cuthbert, 22 July 1826-27 Oct. 1826

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6807
Dates: 22 July 1826-27 Oct. 1826
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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Joseph Romilly: Diaries
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Diary of motor trip to Touraine [France], 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ROSK 1/2
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, manuscripts of books, articles, lectures, broadcasts, preparatory notes, copies of original papers used in research, card indexes, subject files for the official naval history of the Second World War, press cuttings, microfilms and photographs.

Dates: 1920
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Stephen Roskill / Juvenilia
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Diplomatic life: Paris [France], 1967 - 1987

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 3
Scope and Contents

Includes MS's engagement diaries, photographs and correspondence on arrangements for official visits.

Dates: 1967 - 1987
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Lady Soames
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Draft letter to Monsieur Julian Canelas, Directeur de l'Observatoire a l'Isle de St Leon, 1806-12-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 4/185: 2
Scope and Contents

Letter on occultations of stars and a solar eclipse. There are notes on Stephen Groombridge's circle on the reverse.

Dates: 1806-12-11
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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives / Papers of Nevil Maskelyne / Draft letters to Ewart, Canelas, Dollond, Crosley and Inman
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Draft texts by Martin Meredith, with some annotations, and transcripts of CS's official despatches and telegrams, 1984-08 - 1985-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 10/14
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: CS's visit to the Soviet Union, May 1964, as Minister of Agriculture; negotiations with Charles de Gaulle and Georges Pompidou, Presidents of France, over Britain's entry into Europe, 1969-71; the Soames Affair, 1969; the decline and fall of de Gaulle and the 1969 referendum.

Dates: 1984-08 - 1985-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Baron Soames / Memoirs
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Drake: the papers of Montague Garrard Drake

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Reference Code: GBR/1058/DRA
Scope and Contents

Pembroke holds five volumes and one draft volume of Montague Garrard Drake’s travel diaries, written on paper with vellum limp binding and leather ties.

Dates: 1710 - 1712
Found in: Pembroke College Library and Archive
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Eighteenth-Century Political and Other Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6342
Scope and Contents Political papers, verses, and other miscellaneous material, 160 folios. (Fo. 1) Three drafts of a memorandum or treatise on political and social reform in France, in French, dated 1780-1783, 1788 and September 1789. The concluding section and index are at fos 82-83. (Fo. 84) Copy of Capitulations agreed between England and Turkey, in Italian, 1675. (Fo. 94) Portions of a treatise on conchology, by an English writer, in Italian. (fo. 143) [Jacques] Montet, 'Observations sur les Castors qu'on...
Dates: 1750 (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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library
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Empire Parliamentary Association: correspondence, 1938-07 - 1942-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/7
Scope and Contents Correspondence, mainly with Sir T Drummond Shiels, Acting Secretary of the Association, and Sir Howard d'Egville [organiser and first secretary of the Association]. Other correspondents include: Malcolm MacDonald, British High Commissioner in Canada, on the value of d'Egville's work in Canada as an unofficial link with the American Congress; Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to the United States [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] advising leaving d'Egville to carry on his work in Canada...
Dates: 1938-07 - 1942-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Leopold Amery / Public and Political / 1940s and post-war
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"European Unity", 28 Mar 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/33C/578-622
Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (House of Commons) on subjects including: relations between Britain, France, West Germany [later part of Germany] and the Soviet Union; the presence of West Germany in the European Assembly, in Western defence and a united Europe; reconciliation between France and West Germany and the lead being taken by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, Federal Chancellor of Germany; mutual assistance between Britain, France and West Germany for the good of Europe; reasons...
Dates: 28 Mar 1950
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Churchill Papers / Speeches / Speeches: House of Commons and Non-House of Commons: Speech notes and source material.
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Extract from memoirs: Sir Donald Logan, 2002

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 62
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 2002
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
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Extracts from Churchill broadcasts, 1909 - 1964-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WCHL 3/18
Scope and Contents

Extracts taken mainly from a Columbia Masterworks recording KOL 7000 "I Can Hear it Now: Winston Churchill". Includes transcripts of the extracts, and also transcripts of Churchill's broadcasts which were given in French, and extracts from his speeches relating to France.

Dates: 1909 - 1964-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Closures are noted in the catalogue.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / Other Deposited Collections Relating to Sir Winston Churchill / Churchill's Recorded Speeches
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Fabius, Laurent, b 1946 (Prime Minister of France)

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Field ambulance units, 1915 - 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 11/2
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and papers on MS's First World War hospital work in France, and on the formation, administration and closure of the Hadfield-Spears Mobile Hospital Unit, of which she was Directrice, in France and the Levant during the Second World War.

Dates: 1915 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Edward Spears and Mary Borden / Mary Borden
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found the earth in the intestinal canal praesepe cum lapillis commixtum, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 64.1: 93
Scope and Contents

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin lacks beginning


(Note)

Dates: 1809-01-01 - 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.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Darwin Archive / 'Earthworms': portfolios / 'Earthworms': notes / 'Earthworms': notes
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France, 1925 - 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HTRY 1/34
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Includes files on America, Germany, India, and on various subjects including inflation and the Bank of England.

Dates: 1925 - 1937
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Ralph Hawtrey / Treasury Papers
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France, 1936 - 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/NBKR 4/256-263
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: 1936 - 1955
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.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Baron Noel-Baker / International Affairs
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France, 1940 - 1982

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/NBKR 4X/10-11
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: 1940 - 1982
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.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Baron Noel-Baker / International Affairs / Additional International Affairs
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France, 1977, 1977

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 10/12
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Overseas tours by JEP.

Dates: 1977
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.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Enoch Powell / Tours

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