Poland
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:
File
Baltic cruise, 1938-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DIAC 2/1/2
Scope and Contents
Account of a cruise aboard the Admiralty yacht Enchantress, to Danzig [later Gdansk, Poland], Finland, Sweden and Denmark.
Dates:
1938-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Copy of an unpublished memoir, 1922-46, 1926 - 1946
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CAVN 1/2
Scope and Contents
Comprising: Second Marriage and Poland: The Soldier as a Peacemaker; A Lame Staff Officer on a World Tour; Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms and Field Marshal; Three Cruises and Trips to India, Egypt and Italy; The Irish Guards; Some Links with the Liberals of Fifty Years Ago; The Guards Division: Lord Kitchener's Intentions Regarding It; Leadership (based on a talk given to soldiers in 1939); Two Valleys; London Duties; Some Thoughts on Disarmament as Affecting the Army;...
Dates:
1926 - 1946
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.
File
Correspondence and papers received from Professor John Hutchinson (2), includes papers relating to Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe] and Poland, May 1977- May 1983, 1977-05 - 1983-05
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/2/92
Scope and Contents
Part 1, 1977-79
Part 2, 1981
Part 3, 1982
Dates:
1977-05 - 1983-05
Conditions Governing Access:
Part 1 opened in February 2010; part 2 in March 2012; part 3 in March 2013; later material closed
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.
File
Correspondence on foreign observatories, 1961 - 1963
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 9/443
Scope and Contents
Correspondence regarding foreign observatories, including observatories in Turkey, Italy, Poland, Argentina, Belgium, Sweden and India.
Dates:
1961 - 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).
Sub-Series
Information Papers on Other Countries, 1939 - 1945
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/NERI 6/8
Scope and Contents
Poland
Dates:
1939 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Journal (London), 1938-05 - 1939-07
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LKEN 1/22
Scope and Contents
Including account of affairs in Poland, 23 Aug 1939, amongst other papers inserted.
Dates:
1938-05 - 1939-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Letters to Lady Wester Wemyss, 1920 - 1923
File
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.
File
'Marshal Pilsudski Memorial photographs', August 1938
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 113/4/3
Scope and Contents
Four photographs captioned on the back as follows: 1. 'Aug. 1938 "Pop Ivan" View from the Dome Parapet'.
2. 'Aug. 1938 "Pop Ivan" Cosmopolitan Crew. Polish, Russian, Romanian and Czechoslovak' (group shot showing seven individuals standing and seated in a doorway).
3. 'Aug. 1938 "Pop Ivan" Laying gold leaf on the Memorial Tablet to Marshall Pilsudski in the dome entrance'.
4. 'Aug. 1938 On top of "Pop Ivan" Ruthenia "Poland". A French artist who painted the murals inside the...
Dates:
August 1938
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
Meetings with overseas leaders, 1983-11 - 1992-02
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/2
Scope and Contents
Briefings, notes and correspondence on meetings, with individuals including: Milka Planinc, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, Nov 1983, on human rights issues; Turgut Ozal, Prime Minister of Turkey, on human rights and Cyprus, Feb 1986; Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, on economic issues, nuclear weapons, the development of the United Nations and Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; Hans-Dietrich Genscher,...
Dates:
1983-11 - 1992-02
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 Poland, 1996-04-24 - 1996-04-26
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/6/14
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Visits and meetings, mostly relating to European transport policy and trans-European network issues.
Dates:
1996-04-24 - 1996-04-26
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Papers relating to MT's visit to Poland, 2-4 November 1988 (1), 1988-11
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/10/135
Scope and Contents
Includes: press cuttings
Dates:
1988-11
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in July 2018
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.
File
Papers relating to MT's visit to Poland, 2-4 November 1988 (2), 1988-11
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/10/136
Scope and Contents
Includes: press cuttings and note from Bernard Ingham (MT's Chief Press Secretary)
Dates:
1988-11
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in July 2018
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.
File
Photographs of Lise Meitner and others, 1915 - 1916
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MTNR 8/4/3
Scope and Contents
Comprising 17 black-and-white photographs and 7 original negatives.
Photographs of Lise Meitner during the First World War, including the military hospital in Lemberg [now L'viv, Ukraine], where she served as a nurse and X-ray technician, 1915-16 (10), and photographs of Trient [now Trento, Italy] and the Lublin Ghetto [now in Poland], which she visited, 1916 (8).
Dates:
1915 - 1916
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Sub-Series
Poland, 1931 - 1948
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/NBKR 4/560-567
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:
1931 - 1948
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.
File
Poland, 1950-08 - 1960-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ROSK 4/82
Scope and Contents
Notes on the invasion of Poland and the German and Polish navies.
Dates:
1950-08 - 1960-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Potsdam Conference, 1938 - 2001
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LEGT 1
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection comprises George Leggett's diary of the Potsdam conference, souvenirs and papers connected with his time in Potsdam, and electronic transcripts of the diary.
Dates:
1938 - 2001
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Item
Reflection on reading my Geological notes [continued] Ms p 9, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 42: 148
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(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.
Fonds
Robinson: The Papers of Professor Joan Violet Robinson
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/JVR
Scope and Contents
This collection contains texts, correspondence, notebooks and photographs related to Joan Robinson, as well as copies of texts by some other economists. Although the documents could be used to illuminate the personal life of Joan Robinson, the strength of the collection lies in what they reveal about her economic thought and that of her contemporaries. Titles of items throughout are taken from the item itself unless they are in square brackets, when they are archivally given to convey some...
Dates:
1920 - 1986
Conditions Governing Access:
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
Scrapbook relating to the career of Tom Broadbent at Grubb Parsons, compiled c.1982
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 113/4/2
Scope and Contents
Family scrapbook recording Broadbent's career for Grubb Parsons, including photographs, official documents (including travel passes) and handwritten explanatory notes by Broadbent [and a son/daughter]. It covers: 1. Broadbent's 1938 visit to Mount 'Pop Ivan', Poland, and the opening day of the Observatory there. Broadbent had designed the dome and telescope there and was sent by Grubb Parsons to complete the telescope mounting. He personally did the electrical wiring and fitted...
Dates:
compiled c.1982
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
Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: personal minutes, 1973-06 - 1974-02
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/9/23
Scope and Contents
Minutes on subjects including: general policy towards the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; discussions from JA's visit to Romania, Jun 1973; discussions from JA's visit to Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia], Sept 1973; discussions from JA's visit to Poland, Sept 1973; discussions from JA's visit to Hungary, Nov 1973.
Dates:
1973-06 - 1974-02
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.
Fonds
The Papers of David Roden Buxton
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9848
Scope and Contents
Includes travel diaries and correspondence with family, friends and colleagues. Also included are numerous photographs and negatives of European churches and architectural features.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1927-08-23 - 1994-07-06
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
Fonds
The Papers of Rowland Kenney and Kit Kenney
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNY
Scope and Contents
Comprising official papers, correspondence and notebooks mainly relating to Norway and Finland.
The papers focus on Rowland Kenney's work in Norway during the two World Wars and on Kit Kenney's work in Finland and Norway during the Second World War.
Dates:
1906 - 1952
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
File
Transcript of interview: Andrew Carter, 2006
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 112
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.
Dates:
2006
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.
File
Transcript of interview: Charles Crawford, 2008
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 117
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.
Dates:
2008
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.