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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1261 Collections and/or Records:

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H.M.S. Jumna, 1878 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022NN/1
Scope and Contents

195 x 126 mm. General view of the troopship Jumna at her moorings at an unidentified location (London Docks?). The Jumna was a barque-rigged screw ship with iron hull.

Dates: 1878 - 1879
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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House purchase society for Ceylonese in Britain, 1964, 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011Y/16
Scope and Contents

203 x 157 mm. Showing a meeting of the newly formed Nivasa Housing Society at the Ceylon Tea Centre, London.

Dates: 1964
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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H.P. Walker receiving the Honorary Pingat Pangkuan Negara from Tuanku Abdul Rahman, London, June 1968, 1968-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 9/35
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206 x 152 mm. Showing the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tuanku Abdul Rahman (1903-) shaking hands with Henry Philip Walker who had served as doorman at Malaysia House for 30 years. The investiture took place in the office of the Malaysian High Commission in London.

Dates: 1968-06
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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Ian Smith in London for the Lancaster House conference on Rhodesia, 1979-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052U/10
Scope and Contents

Photograph by Press Association.

Dates: 1979-09
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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Imperial Conference, London, June to Aug. 1921, 1960 - 1988

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/19
Scope and Contents

172 x 114 mm. Half-tone plate from ‘United Empire’ 12 facing p. 551, of group photograph taken at the rear of 10 Downing St., naming principal participants.

Dates: 1960 - 1988
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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Imperial Conference, London, May to June 1911, 1960 - 1988

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/12
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255 x 205mm. modern print of a photograph of a group outside the Colonial Office. Showing Prime Minister H.H. Asquith, who presided, Lewis Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the Prime Ministers of Newfoundland, New Zealand, Canada, Australia and South Africa.

Dates: 1960 - 1988
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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Imperial Conference, London, May to June 1937, 1960 - 1988

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/33
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138 x 51 mm. Photocopy showing Neville Chamberlain (who replaced Baldwin as Prime Minister during the Conference) with participants, some of whom are identified.

Dates: 1960 - 1988
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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Imperial Conference, London, Oct. to Nov. 1923, 1960 - 1988

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/20
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133 x 169 mm. photograph of painting by Douglas Chandor showing Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and other participants in the Conference Room of 10 Downing St. Also includes a photocopy of ‘United Empire’ 15 (1924), 423.

Dates: 1960 - 1988
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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Imperial Conference, London, Oct. to Nov. 1926, 1926 - 1973

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/25
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240 x 168 mm. Shows King George V with Stanley Baldwin and the Prime Ministers of Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, the Irish Free State and Canada. Attached is a photocopy of the same photograph with signatures and identifications from Cecil Edwards, ‘Bruce of Melbourne’ (1965), p. 214 and a reproduction in the ‘Daily Mail’, 31 July 1973. There is also a framed copy with the signatures of the Prime Ministers.

Dates: 1926 - 1973
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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Imperial Conference, London, Oct. to Nov. 1930, 1960 - 1988

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/29
Scope and Contents

203 x 78 mm. Photocopy of a group photograph of participants taken in the garden of 10 Downing Street, with Ramsay MacDonald in the centre and some identifications.

Dates: 1960 - 1988
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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Imperial War Conference, London, June to July 1918, 1960 - 1988

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/18
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172 x 114 mm. Half-tone plate from ‘United Empire’ 9 facing p. 277, of an official group photograph naming those included.

Dates: 1960 - 1988
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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Imperial War Conference, London, Mar. to Apr. 1917, 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/15
Scope and Contents

155 x 110 mm. Official photograph taken in the garden of 10 Downing St.

Dates: 1917
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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Impression of Assembly Hall: pencil drawing by Adrian Hill, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/Ile/21
Scope and Contents

353 x 252 mm.

Dates: 1934
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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Impression of the first permanent Headquarters, 15 The Strand, 1934 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/II/b/1
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285 x 195 mm. Occupied from 1872 to 1885. Pencil sketch by Adrian Hill prepared for the rebuilding appeal brochure.

Dates: 1934 - 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).
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In Regents Park, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5002
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). [Five young people and a child looking the camera].

Dates: 1909
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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Interviews with NK, 1991-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/2/161
Scope and Contents

Side 1 includes: press interviews during NK's visit to the European Parliament on various aspects of European political and monetary union and the British view of federalism; press interviews during a visit to the London Docklands, on development of the Thames riverside.

Side 2 (the first 30 minutes are very low volume): interview on subjects including Europe and a think tank on improving the systems of government.

Dates: 1991-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Series: Access copies available.
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Invitations, 1935 - 1988

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/10/5
Scope and Contents

This file contains correspondence, invitations and other material relating to public events that Smedley attended, including the printed orders of the memorial service for George VI, February 1952 and of the ceremonial parade to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, in June 1953, in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia.

Dates: 1935 - 1988
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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J. Beasley talking to E. Bevin at the Prime Ministers’ Meeting, Oct. 1948, 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/55
Scope and Contents

252 x 202 mm.

Dates: 1948
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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John Daly, head porter, at entrance to building, 1961-05-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/Ild/24
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157 x 211 mm.

Dates: 1961-05-09
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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John Daly, head porter, at entrance to building, 1961-05-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/Ild/25
Scope and Contents

154 x 206 mm.

Dates: 1961-05-09
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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Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe at a press conference in the fifth week of the Lancaster House conference, 1979

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052U/21
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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June 1911 Cape Regiments Lord Roberts inspecting S.A. [South African] Contingent in London, 1960 - 1980

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011Q/10
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127 x 86 mm. Showing Field Marshall Earl Roberts inspecting troops from various South African units at the Duke of York's School, London. These troops formed some of the many contingents which came to London for the Coronation procession of King George V. A number of different annotations appear on the reverse including one which may identify some of those pictured. Photograph by Gale and Polden, Aldershot.

Dates: 1960 - 1980
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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King George VI with the Prime Ministers of Southern Rhodesia, Ceylon, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, Britain and India at Prime Ministers’ Meeting, Oct. 1948, 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/46
Scope and Contents

241 x 190 mm. with three later copies.

Dates: 1948
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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Ladies' Drawing Room, 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/llh/16
Scope and Contents From the Sub-sub-class:

Views of the society's Northumberland Ave. headquarters and of some of the branch buildings.

Dates: 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).
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Ladies’ Drawing Room, 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/Ile/54
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202 x 152 mm. (9 copies). Smaller sepia print of RCS IIe/53.

Dates: 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).