Europe (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 4596 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Opening of the Lancaster House conference, 1979
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052U/18
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Collection of black and white press agency and official photographs (including 5 duplicates) relating to developments during 1965-80, from the time of Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of Independence (UDI) until the emergence of the republic of Zimbabwe. Many were collected to illustrate articles in 'Commonwealth in Focus', and some were reproduced in the 'Commonwealth in Focus' exhibition 1982. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.
Dates:
1979
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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Opera House, 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3017B/7
Scope and Contents
290 x 234 mm. Showing the junction of Ordnance Street and Kingsway (Strada Reale) with the ornate Opera House on the corner and 'karrozzin' (horse-drawn cabs) parked in the roadway. Built between 1861 and 1866, the building was largely destroyed by bombing during the Second World War.
Dates:
1912
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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Opera House
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 3/5
Scope and Contents
275 x 210 mm.
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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Oratory
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 3/33
Scope and Contents
275 x 210 mm.
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).
File
Other countries, 1900 - 1953
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 75/6/5
Scope and Contents
Two photographs taken in Malta, one of which is dated 1907; a photograph taken in Gibraltar, c. 1900-1910; and a postcard from Grand Cayman, 1953.
Dates:
1900 - 1953
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).
Series
Other events, 1889 - 1990
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/IV
Scope and Contents
A series of photographs documenting events hosted by the society or in which it was involved, often in cooperation with the Joint Commonwealth Society's Council.
Dates:
1889 - 1990
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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O.U.A.E. [Oxford University Arctic Expedition], Newcastle, June 21, 1924-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/4/196
Scope and Contents
105 x 80 mm.
Dates:
1924-06
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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O.U.A.E [Oxford University Arctic Expedition], Spitsbergen, 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/5/190
Scope and Contents
105 x 80 mm. Showing a man stood beside a seaplane.
Dates:
1924
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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Our arrival in London, May 8th 1906, 1906-05-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 7/205
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the rest of visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. Subjects include: visits to Aden, Cairo, and Corfu on the return journey to the U.K., with arrival in London on May 8, 1906. Appended are photographs taken during the visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales to Madrid for the wedding of King Alfonso XIII and Queen Ena (May 31,...
Dates:
1906-05-08
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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Outer harbour, 1835 - 1850
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/8/255
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...
Dates:
1835 - 1850
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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Outside Buckingham Palace, 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/282
Scope and Contents
76 x 68 mm. Frederick Tymms and two women.
Dates:
1950
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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Outward Voyage on the Athlone Castle, 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305P/6
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
An album recording the visit of Lord and Lady Hewart to South Africa. The album is inscribed 'To Lord and Lady Hewart: A Momento [sic] of a Trip to South Africa'. It was presumably the work and gift of a friend who travelled with them as it covers the entire journey from leaving Southampton to their return. The photographs are amateur work and are fully described in captions written in white ink, not always easily legible, on the black pages of the album. The captions have been recorded...
Dates:
Other: 1936
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).
File
Overseas branches, 1936 - 1990
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/X
Scope and Contents
a. Views
b. Events
Dates:
1936 - 1990
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).
File
Overseas tours, 1940 - 1985
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/VII
Scope and Contents
a. Commonwealth Interchange Study Group Operations (CISGO)
b. Others
Dates:
1940 - 1985
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).
File
Oxford, 1954 - 1989
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ARCS/8/2/36
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
These files include annual reports, accompanied in some cases by explanatory letters, reports of annual general meetings, statements of accounts and other papers.
Dates:
1954 - 1989
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).
Item
Oxford, 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/309
Scope and Contents
53 x 48 mm. Three people standing outside a building, possibly Magdalen College.
Dates:
1950
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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[Oxford], 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/310
Scope and Contents
53 x 48 mm. A wall bounding a garden, possibly at Magdalen College.
Dates:
1950
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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[Oxford], 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/311
Scope and Contents
53 x 44 mm. The exterior of a building, possibly Magdalen College.
Dates:
1950
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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[Oxford], 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/312
Scope and Contents
53 x 50 mm. Three people outside a building, possibly Magdalen College.
Dates:
1950
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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Oxford, 1948-06
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/63
Scope and Contents
110 x 75 mm. Showing Tymms and his wife and another woman posed in the street.
Dates:
1948-06
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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Oxford Colonial Conference, 1956-07-25
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/F/17
Scope and Contents
156 x 203 mm. Left to right: Mr. P.S.W. Goldson (British Honduras), Mr. A. Gomes (Trinidad) and Mr. A Kironde (Uganda).
Dates:
1956-07-25
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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Oxford Colonial Conference, 1956-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/F/18
Scope and Contents
206 x 155 mm. Officials of twenty seven Labour Ministries and Departments in Colonial Territories and representatives of the Colonial Office met in Oxford for a specially convened Labour Administration conference. Photo shows delegates Mr D.S. Adegbenro (Western Region, Nigeria) and Chief Festus Sam Okotie-Eboh (Federation of Nigeria).
Dates:
1956-07
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).
File
Oxford University Arctic Expedition 1933, 1933-06 - 1934-05
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 364/1/2
Scope and Contents
This file contains two versions of a diary kept by Benson during the expedition. The first, shorter text is entitled 'Diary (Abridged)'. The second is an expanded version written during Apr. and May 1934, 'The full private diary kept on the expedition, together with additional notes and conclusions which were not included in the original'. The latter includes copies of the 'Meteorological observations taken by B Sledge Party, July to Sept. 1933' and of the meteorological report Benson...
Dates:
1933-06 - 1934-05
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).
Fonds
Oylarin Tümü Denktaş’a
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 403
Scope and Contents
Turkey had invaded Cyprus on 20 July 1974, fearing that the rights of the island’s Turkish minority were threatened by the recent EOKA coup advocating union with Greece. Once the fighting ceased, the island remained divided, and the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus was founded on 13 February 1975 in the northeastern area under Turkish control. This Turkish Cypriot political poster was collected in 1975 by the geologist Edward Spooner, who was surveying a copper mine at Limni on the...
Dates:
1975
Conditions Governing Access:
Stored in the second drawer of the RCS plan chest.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Item
Oyster Fleet, Whitstable, Whitsun '23, 1923
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/4/130
Scope and Contents
80 x 110 mm.
Dates:
1923
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).