United Kingdom (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2843 Collections and/or Records:
Item
An English country cottage, 1910
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011V/10
Scope and Contents
203 x 153 mm. View looking along a road towards a part-thatched, part-tiled cottage. Location unindentified. Photograph by H.W. Taunt.
Dates:
1910
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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An entrance to the Galleries, 1885-12
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3016A/9
Scope and Contents
178 x 127 mm. View showing a gun emplacement in the Galleries above the North District of the town.
Dates:
1885-12
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
Andover, Aug. 1919, 1919-08
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/11
Scope and Contents
65 x 45 mm. A view of a group of eleven men in uniform stood posing for the camera. None are identified.
Dates:
1919-08
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).
Item
Andover, Aug 1919, 1919-08
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/245
Scope and Contents
45 x 65 mm. Showing two men in uniform (one wearing shorts) leaning against a hut. Both are carrying paperwork of some sort.
Dates:
1919-08
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).
Item
Andover. June 1919, 1919-06
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/239
Scope and Contents
60 x 45 mm. A view from the front of an aeroplane. There are two men in the cockpit, and four others are stood around the plane.
Dates:
1919-06
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).
Item
Anglo-Canadian Ministerial Economic Committee Meets in London, 1967-04
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/F/57
Scope and Contents
151 x 207 mm. The first meeting of the Anglo-Canadian Ministerial Economic Committee took place recently at Marlborough House, where the British delegates (left) led by Mr. Herbert Bowden, the Commonwealth Secretary are seen facing the Canadian delegation led by Mr Paul Martin, the Minister of External Affairs.
Dates:
1967-04
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
Anguilla from HMC House, Blowing Point, 1970
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham GG/2
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains slides covering most of the major islands of the group, both associated states and dependent territories. One relates to Marnham's official duties, the launch given to St Kitts in 1972.
Dates:
1970
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
Anguilla : St Martin from HMC house, 1970
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham GG/3
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains slides covering most of the major islands of the group, both associated states and dependent territories. One relates to Marnham's official duties, the launch given to St Kitts in 1972.
Dates:
1970
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
Annual reunion of Cambridge University Malayan Association, Dorothy Café, Cambridge, 11th March [? 1950s], 1950 - 1959
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 9/20
Scope and Contents
289 x 227 mm. Group photograph taken inside the café. Figures identified on the reverse are: T.L. TANG; J. SENIOR; S.C. WEE; H.P. BRYSON; Y.S. HON; Wan BAHARUDDIN; M.P.K. WONG; H.G. GAN; E.C. HICKS; A.S. RAZAK; K.K. HO; Noor ZAINAL; M.D. ARIF; Ma'arof Sheikh AHMAD; Saad Marzuki; Marek MARICAN; Doctor PURCELL; GOH; Mrs H.P. BRYSON; Mrs WHITEHORN; Mrs Maarof; H.N. CHONG; Raja Sir UDA; Tunku NORSA'ADAH; Mrs. HON; Mrs B.T. CHUA; Professor WHITEHORN; Mustapha MAHMUD; L.E. OSMAN; N....
Dates:
1950 - 1959
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
Another view in Sandy Bay, 1900
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30482B/19
Scope and Contents
204 x 144 mm. View looking along a wooded hillside towards mountains in the Sandy Bay area of Saint Helena.
Dates:
1900
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
Another view of the bar, 1936
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/Ile/79a
Scope and Contents
190 x 244 mm.
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).
Item
Another view of the opening session of the Lancaster House conference, 1979
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052U/19
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).
Item
Anwar Jalal Shemza, Pakistani artist, with some of his work, 1964, 1964
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011Y/19
Scope and Contents
181 x 157 mm. As captioned.
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).
Item
Ape's Hill, from Cabritar Point, 1866
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/5/114
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:
1866
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
Ape's Hill, Gibraltar, 1866
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/4/81
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:
1866
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
Appointment as Falklands Governor, 1953-08
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 256/11
Scope and Contents
A cutting from 'The Times' on Sir O.R. Arthur's appointment to the Falkland Islands and as C.M.G.
Dates:
1953-08
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).
Item
[Arch of Lincoln Castle], 1930 - 1937
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/1/289
Scope and Contents
135 x 85 mm. Postcard of an arch in the castles grounds. Lincoln Cathedral can be seen in the background.
Dates:
1930 - 1937
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
Archbishop Makarios' Press Conference after signing the London agreements, 1959-02
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018J/4A
Scope and Contents
Behind the Archbishop is Abbot Chrystostomos of Kykko, to whose right are Spyros Kyprianou and Bishop Anthimos of Kitium.
Dates:
1959-02
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
Archbishop Makarios' Press Conference after signing the London agreements, 1959-02
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018J/4B
Scope and Contents
Behind the Archbishop is Abbot Chrystostomos of Kykko, to whose right are Spyros Kyprianou and Bishop Anthimos of Kitium.
Dates:
1959-02
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
Architect’s design (not adopted) for façade of headquarters building, 1930 - 1936
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/II/b/1a
Scope and Contents
124 x 161 mm. Photograph of lithograph drawing, 1883.
Dates:
1930 - 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).
Fonds
Archives of the Royal Commonwealth Society
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ARCS
Scope and Contents
This collection is composed of the institutional records of the society. Major sections relate to its organisation and administration, charters and rules, membership, the construction and renovation of its headquarters in London, and the extension of branches within the United Kingdom and throughout the British Empire and Commonwealth. The archives also document the society’s many cultural, educational and philanthropic initiatives, often undertaken as collaborative projects with other...
Dates:
1868 - 1990
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
Archway, Beaumauras [i.e. Beaumaris] Castle, 1868, 1868
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/78
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A group of stereoscopic halves each measuring approximately 72 x 72 mm, showing general views of the architecture in the British Isles, Belgium and Paris.
Dates:
1868
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
Ardrossan, 1922
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/4/123
Scope and Contents
65 x 45 mm. Showing a woman, baby and small girl making sandcastles on a beach.
Dates:
1922
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
Ardrossan, 1922
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/4/124
Scope and Contents
45 x 65 mm. Showing a young girl making sandcastles on the beach.
Dates:
1922
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
Armed Knights, 1920
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/220
Scope and Contents
59 x 85 mm. A rock formation on the coastline at Land's End.
Dates:
1920
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).