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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2632 Collections and/or Records:
Item
[Lt-Gen. Sir Alexander Hood, Governor of Bermuda], 1951 - 1953
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/2
Scope and Contents
The Governor of Bermuda signing a document, with O. R. Arthur standing by him. Hood (1888-1980) was a doctor who ended a military career as Director of Army Medical Services, 1941-48. He was Governor of Bermuda from 1949 until his retirement in 1955. Sir Winston Churchill commented 'I like Hood' and Lord Moran wrote of him: 'Hood is a full-blooded red-faced Scot with no neck to speak of, as if he had stepped down from a Raeburn portrait for our correction'.
Dates:
1951 - 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).
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Luccombe Chine, 1837
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/8/250
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:
1837
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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Luncheon Room, showing Parliamentary clock, 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/II/b/26
Scope and Contents
146 x 151 mm.
Dates:
1925
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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MacLean's Cross, Iona, 1874
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 21/2/14
Scope and Contents
115 x 167 mm.
Dates:
1874
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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Magdalen College, Oxford, 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/313
Scope and Contents
52 x 49 mm. A view of the exterior of the 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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Main entrance to Portsmouth Dockyard, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5051
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate.
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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Main Street, 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3016E/6
Scope and Contents
192 x 189 mm. A view looking down along Main Street, Gibraltar, busy with shoppers and cars.
Dates:
1965
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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Main Street (North), 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3016D/5
Scope and Contents
64 x 85 mm. A view looking along Main Street with pedestrians, cars and pony-traps.
Dates:
1935
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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Main Street, St Helena, 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30482B/4
Scope and Contents
206 x 145 mm. View looking north along Main Street, Jamestown, with the spire of St James' Church visible in the background, and an ornate cast-iron drinking fountain in the centre of the street in the foreground.
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Views of St Helena
Series
Major events, 1939 - 1968
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/III
Scope and Contents
This collection illustrates the experience of the RCS during the Second World War. It also documents the festival held to mark the completion of the post-war restoration of the headquarters in 1957 and the celebrations organised for the society's centenary in 1968.
Dates:
1939 - 1968
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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Major Flemming ('Lemnos'), 'Kings Cup' pilot, 1925 - 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/5/173
Scope and Contents
205 x 150 mm. Showing a three quarter length portrait of Lemnos stood before an aeroplane. Location unidentified but perhaps Pembrokeshire.
Dates:
1925 - 1926
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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Making beams ready to take in to the looms in the weaving shed : Blackburn, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16/5257
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format).
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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Making beams ready to take in to the looms in the weaving shed : Blackburn, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16/5258
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format).
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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Malaya [i.e. Malay Peninsula], 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC BEE/18
Scope and Contents
Captioned 'Campbell-Gray' in bottom right-hand corner.
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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Malayan bandit medal in London, 1950 - 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 9/27
Scope and Contents
202 x 151 mm. Showing a medal captured from terrorists in Malaya, bearing a likeness of Stalin and Lenin. A threepenny piece is placed beside the medal as an indication of scale.
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).
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Malayan Golfing Society dinner at (?) Littlehampton, circa 1970, 1970
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 9/40
Scope and Contents
212 x 163 mm. Showing the members of the Society at lunch in a hotel dining room. H.P. Bryson is seated at the front left side of the right hand table
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).
File
Malayan students in Britain during the Malayan Emergency, 1949-10-13 - 1950-04-26
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/2/10/1
Scope and Contents
Material related to concern for the welfare of Malayan students in Great Britain, and their exposure to Communist influences, expressed by the Association of British Malaya. The file includes minutes of a meeting at the Colonial Office on 27 June 1950, the draft of a paragraph for insertion in the April 1950 edition of ‘British Malaya’, and associated correspondence (12 sheets).
Dates:
1949-10-13 - 1950-04-26
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
Fonds
Malta, the Holy Land, etc
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011A
Scope and Contents
A collection of albumen prints which include views of the Middle East, Malta and Gibraltar by Robertson, Beato and others. The majority are of European works of arts and townscapes (many of the latter unidentified). There are also scenes at Woolwich. Plates 68-80 are uncaptioned and consist of miscellaneous engravings of weaponry, armour and archaeological sites.
Dates:
1850 - 1869
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Malvern Abbey, visited 16/4/85, 1885-04-16
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/133
Scope and Contents
111 x 154 mm. General exterior view of Malvern Abbey.
Dates:
1885-04-16
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Sydney Tyers album
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[Man approaching seal in grass], 1954-11 - 1957-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/167
Scope and Contents
160 x 195 mm. Exact location unknown.
Dates:
1954-11 - 1957-01
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
Manchester Branch Records [presumed missing], 1917 - 1923
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ARCS/8/12/8
Scope and Contents
The branch was formed on 1 Mar. 1917 and was closed in 1923. The archives include minutes and correspondence.
Dates:
1917 - 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).
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Manchester Royal Exchange, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16/5299
Scope and Contents
Half-plate. [Royal Exchange seen across cobbled road with tram lines].
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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Mandara Barracks and Clocktower of the Cambridge Hospital behind, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 22/5471
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format).
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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Manorbier Castle, 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/299
Scope and Contents
52 x 44 mm. A view of the castle and the road leading up to it.
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).
File
Map of Limehouse, 1927 - 1937
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 55/2
Scope and Contents
An undated sketch map of Limehouse and district at the time when Frederick Young lived there, 1800-1850. The map shows the sites of different places of interest that are mentioned in Ethel Young's memoir and how the district was before the commercial road and other changes were made.
Dates:
1927 - 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).