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War

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

 Fonds

Annan: The Papers of Noel Gilroy Annan

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/NGA
Scope and Contents

The collection includes notes and drafts of published writings, texts of speeches given to the House of Lords and to other institutions, reference notes, subject files, engagement diaries, and personal papers.

Dates: 1889 - 2001
Conditions Governing Access: Some files are closed because they contain personal information. Most files which are marked as restricted access can be read with the written permission of the author. All other files may be consulted in the Archive Centre following the standard registration procedures.
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Barnaby Rich: Alarm to England

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3031
Scope and Contents

Fos 1, 61-4: mutilated. Inside front cover: 'No. 253', and bookplate of E. Knight. On fly-leaf: 'Dr Routh's sale of MSS at Sotheby's 1855.'

Dates: 1578 (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).
 Item

Box containing bits of pottery, clay pipes and coins found in West Lodge garden when it was dug up to grow vegetables, 1939 (during the war), 1939

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/KEN2/19/2/3
Scope and Contents

With note on the lid signed by H Hazeltine, December 1939.

Dates: 1939
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.
 Fonds

Brooke: The Papers of Rupert Chawner Brooke

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/RCB
Scope and Contents

This collection brings together items by and about Rupert Brooke from a variety of sources. It includes manuscript and typescript copies of Brooke's poetry and prose, correspondence between Rupert Brooke and others and a number of photographs. A limited amount of biographical and supplementary material, concentrated on items originating after Brooke's death, can also be found in this collection.

Dates: 1869 - 1989
 File

Catalogue of Pamphlets regarding the French Wars of Religion

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6672
Scope and Contents

Consists of slips numbered 1-44 and pasted into the volume, 36 folios. The slips are preceded by a letter from Tilley to the Librarian, A.F. Scholfield, 19 April 1933.

Dates: 1933 (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).
 File

Charles Sivrac: Memoirs

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4477
Scope and Contents

'Mes Souvenirs depuis mon enfance 1782 jusqu'à la presente annee', 108 folios. The main text is written in English.

Dates: 1858-1862
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).
 File

Diaries compiled by Lionel and Ethel Whitby, 1943 - 1956

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/WHI/2/3
Scope and Contents Mainly during foreign or academic tours. Although Lady Whitby accompanied Sir Lionel on some trips after the end of the Second World War, some of these diaries were written for each other, when separated by foreign travel and work, with the intention that they could read them when reunited. The diaries cover the latter part of the Second World War, when Dr Whitby was Commanding Officer of the Army Blood Transfusion Service, and his time as Regius Professor of Physic at the University of...
Dates: 1943 - 1956
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Generally open.
 File

Documents relating to the conduct of the Anglo-Dutch War of 1665-6, Late 1660s

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.06
Scope and Contents

(1) 'The narratives of Prince Rupert and the duke of Albemarle concerning the miscarriages in the late warr'; (2) 'Orders of the committee appointed to inquire into the miscarriages of the late warre', [13 February 1668; see MS Mm.05.11, no. 3]; the last leaf contains the summary of matters discussed under seven principal heads.

Dates: Late 1660s
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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).
 Fonds

History of France from Louis XII to Henri IV

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6756
Scope and Contents

Written in an early nineteenth century hand, and possibly a translation, 182 folios. Fos i, xi, 169, and the verso throughout are blank.

Dates: 1800 (Early 19th cent)
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).
 File

Italian History

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4438
Scope and Contents

'Delle historie memorabili contiene le Guerre d'Italia de' nostri tempi', possibly in the author's own hand.

Dates: 1656 (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).
 File

Italian writings on Venice in 1618

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4446
Scope and Contents

'Congiura dei Spagnuoli contro la republica di Venezia' and other writings relating to Venice in 1618.

Dates: 1700 (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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Keynes: The Papers of John Maynard Keynes

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/JMK
Scope and Contents This collection contains both the economic and personal papers of J.M. Keynes, spanning his childhood and student days, his work for the India Office and Treasury, drafts and other materials associated with the great economic treatises that bear his name, and assorted papers pertaining to his involvement in various academic and financial enterprises. The series within this collection have been arranged under the following categories: General subjects (IA-HP), Visits (RV-AV), Articles,...
Dates: 1868 - 1951
 Item

Letter about collecting their parents from London in the middle of an air raid and wartime work, 1940-09-17 - 1940-09-18

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/GUTH/7/1/20
Scope and Contents Adele and the children have been home for nearly three weeks and their parents had been to stay but had returned to London for a youth meeting their father was to take at Church. After the big bombings of London began, he had travelled to London to check on them after hearing no news and found them ready to leave, with the house on the corner of their road 'blown to bits'. Their parents were now staying with them in Cambridge which, apart from the occasional alarm, was so far spared from the...
Dates: 1940-09-17 - 1940-09-18
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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Letter of Colonel Murdoch to his wife, 1942, on conditions in Malaya before its fall to Japan, 31 Dec. 1942

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9750/67
Scope and Contents

Typescript letter extract.

Dates: 31 Dec. 1942
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 regarding his work for the War Office in London and in Cambridge, 1941-09-04 - 1941-09-06

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/GUTH/7/1/21
Scope and Contents His work for the War Office in interesting but hard and he is working eight long days followed by two days off. Adele and the children have now returned from North Wales and he had managed work so he could spend a few days together. He is getting to know London well after living in different areas for work and has seen several exhibitions. There is a smell of wood smoke in the air from the burning of damaged bits of St Thomas's by demolition workers. While he is engaged in war work, the...
Dates: 1941-09-04 - 1941-09-06
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
 Fonds

Louis Lucien Bonaparte: Letters to Alexander John Ellis

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6186
Dates: 1870-1888
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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Personal papers of Sir Lionel Whitby, Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge University (1945-56) and Master of Downing College, 1916 - 1964

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/WHI
Scope and Contents

Includes original articles, diaries, photographs and other papers, plus copies of originals held by the family of Sir Lionel Whitby. Also includes other items such as his undergraduate gown, medals and awards, copies of published books and secondary material donated by his family.

Dates: 1916 - 1964
Conditions Governing Access: Generally open.
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Professor William Keith Chambers Guthrie collection, 1915 - 1982

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/GUTH
Scope and Contents

Includes: personal papers and family correspondence, photographs and slides from travels, including holidays, speeches and reviews re Guthrie's various publications, with some limited papers from his tenure as Master.

Dates: 1915 - 1982
Conditions Governing Access: Some sensitive/confidential papers and uncatalogued items remain closed.
 Item

Quebec Conference diary, 5-26 September 1944, 1944-09

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/WHI/2/3/2
Scope and Contents Marked 'To Canada with the Prime Minister and Chiefs of Staff' inside front cover. A small pocket diary, about 30 pages of writing, written to his wife Ethel Whitby in his absence. Describes lunch with the Prime Minister on the train on the way to board the Queen Mary, 5 September, where Whitby joined Sir Alan Brooke, Admiral Cunningham and Sir Charles Portal. He refers to the 'noble Lord' (Churchill's physician, Lord Moran) and describes a sumptuous dinner on board on 6 Sept. Entries...
Dates: 1944-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Generally open.
 Series

Ration Cards from the First and Second World Wars, 1918 - 1941

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/KEN2/11
Scope and Contents

Various ration cards for different commodities and family members, including Muriel Kenny.

Dates: 1918 - 1941
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.
 Series

Remembering Selwyn students from the First World War, 2009-11 - 2010-10

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0276/SEHR/5/23
Scope and Contents

Includes copies of matriculation photograph of 1913 and sports teams photographs, tennis and cricket 1914 - on display in Ann's Court administration building, outside Tutorial Office, from Remembrance Day, 11 November 2009

Dates: 2009-11 - 2010-10
 Series

Selwyn College Memorial Library Display, 2010

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0276/SEHR/5/24
Scope and Contents

This was designed as a permanent display for the College Library in 2010 featuring photographs of students and sports teams from 1913 and 1914 including those students who were killed in the First World War: Matriculation 1914, Cricket team 1914, May Boat 1914 and Football team 1914. The display was taken down before the Library was refurbished in 2020.

Dates: 2010
 Series

Selwyn College Roll of Honour 1914-1918, 1918 - 2010

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0276/SEHR/1/23
Scope and Contents

Printed war list for First World War with additional typed list of names; Also further list of names from the Roll of Honour compiled by Archivist with details of year of matriculation and membership of any sports photographs; with copies of photographs of 1913/1914 sports teams used for the permanent Library display and based on the Remembrance display (2009); electronic copies of the roll of honour

Dates: 1918 - 2010
 File

V. Barocas, 'Internment Camp "S" St. Helen Island, Montreal, Canada', 1999-09-09

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 94/2/3
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of an autobiographical paper by Barocas concerning his internment during World War II and his subsequent employment at the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

Dates: 1999-09-09
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).
 Management Group

Whittle : file of papers relating to dealings with Frank Whittle's company, Power Jets. BT-H 'Special File no. 14750. Power Jets. Quantity Production'

 Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/WHITTLE
Scope and Contents

Letters, blueprints, drawings, orders, memoranda, telegrams.

Dates: 1940-01-26 - 1941-06-04