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Greece

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:

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A history of SOE [Special Operations Executive] activities in Greece, 1940-42, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 8/6/16
Scope and Contents

Annotated typescript by [?] Ian Pirie.

Dates: 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Closed for Cabinet Office review.
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a temple, 1910-01-01 - 1969-12-31

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add 8904.4: 1372
Scope and Contents

Photo of Greece


(Photo)

Dates: 1910-01-01 - 1969-12-31
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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'Ancient Greece A Short Historical Course for Service Personnel', undated, c. 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/1058/COL/11/13/MorisonA/1
Scope and Contents

Booklet produced by the Education, HQ, Land Forces Greece which includes an article by Morison. Also includes 2 small black and white photographs, one of a women and 2 girls, the other of a ?school class.

Dates: undated, c. 1945
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"Approach March": annotated draft of chapter, " Albania and the Greek civil war, 1948-49", 1967-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 8/3/56
Scope and Contents

Was intended to be chapter 52, but was not included in the published volume.

Dates: 1967-08
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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Arsenis, Gerasimos, 1931-2016 (Politician)

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Dates: Existence: 1931 - 2016
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Arthur Bernard Cook: Notebooks and Theocritus Material

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7347
Scope and Contents

Early notebooks, notes for Cook's lectures, and material relating to Theocritus.

Dates: 1887-1940 (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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Articles and related correspondence, 1948-03 - 1950-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 7/1/6
Scope and Contents Subjects include: the situation in Greece; the threat of war from the Soviet Union; Britain, Greece and the Balkans; Fitzroy Maclean's book "Eastern Approaches"; JA's visit to the Eastern Vilayets of Turkey, 1948 [see AMEJ 4/1/3 and 7/1/1]; the situation in the Middle East; impressions from JA's tour of Canada, 1949; Greece and her neighbours in the Balkans; resistance warfare; Imperial Preference and the Conservative Party; the Communist danger to the Commonwealth and Empire;...
Dates: 1948-03 - 1950-01
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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Book of sketches and watercolours by Agnes Kenny on Hellenic Cruises, 1932 and 1933, 1932 - 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/KEN2/5
Dates: 1932 - 1933
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Some records series are subject to confidentiality restrictions with the following closure periods: 30 years from date of creation for general administration files, legal records and financial files; 50 years from date of creation for governmental records, including papers of the College Governing Body and College Council, and constituent committees; 100 years from date of creation for personal and personnel records, including tutorial files, staff and fellows files and appointment records, personal finance and pension records. In addition sensitive correspondence and papers concerning College affairs such as disputes and disciplinary matters are closed for 100 years. Restrictions apply on some personal and private papers.
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Box 15, Q.1 - 185 ['Greek Scenery']

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/CLAS/2/15
Scope and Contents

These images all feature contemporary (Edwardian or up to late 1920s) Greece, emphasising Greek topography - valleys, rivers, mountains and coastline, rather than the specifcities of ancient sites or ancient architecture.

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Box 16, Q.190 - 401 ['Greek Scenery']

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/CLAS/2/16
Scope and Contents

These images all feature contemporary (Edwardian or up to late 1920s) Greece, emphasising Greek topography - valleys, rivers, mountains and coastline, rather than the specifcities of ancient sites or ancient architecture.

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Broadcasts, 1931-11 - 1952-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/17
Scope and Contents Texts of broadcasts by LSA on subjects including: Fairbridge Farm Schools in Australia; Empire defence; the economics of Empire; the 1935 Peace Ballot; the Empire and world peace; the politician versus the businessman; the Jewish settlement in Palestine; the Empire Producers Organisation; the way of peace; Germany's debt to European civilisation; tributes to Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; why Italy should not...
Dates: 1931-11 - 1952-07
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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"Clementine Churchill": source material, 1944, 1944-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/2/22
Scope and Contents

Notes and copies, including copies of correspondence between Winston Churchill and CSC, between CSC and Randolph Churchill, and an original letter from John Colville [Private Secretary to Churchill] to CSC from Greece, December 1944, on events in Athens.

Dates: 1944-12
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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Constantine II, 1940-2023 (King of Greece)

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Dates: Existence: 1940 - 2023
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Correspondence and logbook, 1938-01-19 - 1939-07-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/PCKR 1/11
Scope and Contents

Includes:
HAP's logbook as Naval Attaché at Athens [Greece], Ankara [Turkey], Belgrade [Yugoslavia, later Serbia], with letter to HAP from N Christitch, and HAP letters to JP.
2 letters from Admiral of the Fleet Sir [Alfred] Dudley Pound [1st Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff] to HAP.

Dates: 1938-01-19 - 1939-07-05
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 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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Cuttings on Greek, Cyprus and Turkey, 1969-08-25 - 1969-08-26

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 37/984
Scope and Contents

Two newspaper reports from the 'Guardian' on Greek-Cypriot relations with Turkey.

Dates: 1969-08-25 - 1969-08-26
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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Drawings of ships and harbours, 1875

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SDEE 1/2
Scope and Contents

Comprising pencil and pen-and-ink drawings.
Including views of Vigo, Spain; Aden (Yemen); Corfu and Zante (Zakinthos) in the Ionian Islands; Rhodes in the Dodecanese Islands; Suez from the Canal (Egypt); Gibraltar; Malta; Turkey, including Adalia (Antalya); and Salonica (Thessaloniki), Greece.

Dates: 1875
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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Drawings of ships and harbours

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SDEE 4/1
Scope and Contents

Comprising pen-and-ink and watercolour sketches.
Including views of Dartmouth; Albania; the Seychelles; Ceylon (Sri Lanka); Aden; India; and Corfu in the Ionian Islands.

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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Evert, Miltiadis, 1939-2011 (Mayor of Athens)

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Dates: Existence: 1939 - 2011
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"From the Dardanelles", 1915-02-20 - 1915-12-13

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WMYS 7/11/2
Scope and Contents Written from Paris, M.M. Paquebot, H.M.S. Dartmouth, H.M.S. Hussar, H.M.S. Euryalus, Moudros on Lemnos and H.M.S. Europa. Subjects include work done to make Lemnos a naval and military base, Wemyss' work at the Court Room on Lemnos, the small loss of life in British naval ships, the censorship of letters, the retirement of Sir Winston Churchill and Sir John Fisher, Wemyss' views of Australian, American and French troops, his hopes that the Bosphorus and Dardanelles will be...
Dates: 1915-02-20 - 1915-12-13
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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Gennimatas, Georgios, 1939-1994 (Politician)

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Dates: Existence: 1939 - 1994
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Greece, 1942-02 - 1943-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/1/63
Scope and Contents

Includes: order of service of intercession for Greece, from St Paul's Cathedral [London], 1943; pamphlet on resistance movements in Greece from the Union of Democratic Control; letter from JA to Leo Amery, introducing [Erroll] Graham Sebastian, the former British Consul-General in Athens.

Dates: 1942-02 - 1943-10
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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Greece, 1925 - 1975

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/NBKR 4/324-355
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: 1925 - 1975
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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