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Item
[Proclamation of the accession of H. M. Queen Elizabeth II], 1952-02-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/17
Scope and Contents
There is no inscription on the print, but judging by the nature of the ceremony and the black arm bands worn by the participants, this photograph was taken during Queen Elizabeth's accession ceremony and shows the listening crowd. The print is stamped on the reverse with 'Bermuda News Bureau'.
Dates:
1952-02-06
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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[Proclamation of the accession of H. M. Queen Elizabeth II], 1952-02-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/18
Scope and Contents
There is no inscription on the print, but judging by the nature of the ceremony and the black arm bands worn by the participants, this photograph was taken during Queen Elizabeth's accession ceremony and shows the listening crowd.
Dates:
1952-02-06
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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[Proclamation of the accession of H. M. Queen Elizabeth II], 1952-02-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/19
Scope and Contents
There is no inscription on the print, but judging by the nature of the ceremony and the black arm bands worn by the participants, this photograph was taken during Queen Elizabeth's accession ceremony and shows the listening crowd. The print is stamped on the reverse with 'Bermuda News Bureau'.
Dates:
1952-02-06
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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[Proclamation of the accession of H. M. Queen Elizabeth II], 1952-02-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/20
Scope and Contents
There is no inscription on the print, but judging by the nature of the ceremony and the black arm bands worn by the participants, this photograph was taken during Queen Elizabeth's accession ceremony and shows a group inside Government House. The print is stamped on the reverse with 'Royal Gazette Photo'.
Dates:
1952-02-06
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).
Person
Organization
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Professor Abdus Salam, Pakistani scientist, teaching in London, 1964, 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011Y/12
Scope and Contents
157 x 204 mm. Showing Professor Salam writing on a blackboard. Professor Salam (born 1926), a scientist of international repute, was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College in 1956.
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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Progress Photograph, November 18th, 1935, 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/Ilc/15
Scope and Contents
107 x 80 mm.
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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Progress Picture, October 20th, 1935 (view from Northumberland Avenue, showing girder structure), 1980 - 1989
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/Ilc/13
Scope and Contents
115 x 85 mm. ‘United Empire’, XXVI, 1935, 627.
Dates:
1980 - 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).
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Progress picture of the New Building, August 15th, 1935, 1980 - 1989
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/Ilc/10
Scope and Contents
115 x 85 mm. View of girders etc., looking towards the Embankment. 'United Empire', XXVI, 1935, 529.
Dates:
1980 - 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).
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Progress picture of the New Building, September 15th, 1935, 1980 - 1989
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/Ilc/11
Scope and Contents
115 x 85 mm. View of rising girder structure, from similar position to that of March. ‘United Empire’, XXVII, 1935, 582.
Dates:
1980 - 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).
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Progress: The Dining Room in the Making, 1980 - 1989
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/Ilc/19
Scope and Contents
115 x 85 mm. 'United Empire’, XXVII, 1936, 220.
Dates:
1980 - 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).
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Proof sheet of RCS/IId/19 and a similar shot, 1968
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/Ild/20
Scope and Contents
Each 122 x 96 mm.
Dates:
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).
Organization
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Prunella Scarlett and Godfrey Morrison, with 'Commonwealth' montage, 1979 - 1980
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/Ilg/79
Scope and Contents
35 mm. transparency.
Dates:
1979 - 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).
Person
Pryor, Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas, Sr., 1940-2005 (Actor and Comedian)
Person
Dates:
Existence: 1940 - 2005
File
Public and Political: General: correspondence with Charles Wood, former literary assistant of WSC, on an offer to proof read "Into Battle", the printer's bill from [George G] Harrap [and Company], the whereabouts of William Deakin, and the bombing of his house in Golder's Green [London]., Jan 1941 - Nov 1941
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/433
Scope and Contents
Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from WSC's secretary [Kathleen] Hill; details of a Robert Wood.
Dates:
Jan 1941 - Nov 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: correspondence with or about Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz]., Jan 1940 - Nov 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/410
Scope and Contents
Other correspondents include: Sir John Reith [Minister of Information] on meeting Reves; "D M" [Desmond Morton, Personal Assistant to WSC]. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence by WSC's secretary [Kathleen] Hill.Subjects covered by the file include: Reves' views on disseminating British propaganda in the "neutral countries", including praise for WSC's broadcast [of 20 January]; Reves' naturalisation; Reves going to the United States to undertake propaganda work for North and...
Dates:
Jan 1940 - Nov 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Defence., 06 Nov 1936 - 20 Jan 1942
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/371A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents on defence issues include: Sir Thomas Inskip [Minister for Co-ordination of Defence, later 1st Lord Caldecote]; Harry Sellar, Private Secretary to Inskip (2); Leslie Hore-Belisha, Secretary of State for War, on subjects including the arming of the Guards Battalions; Sir Kingsley Wood, Secretary of State for Air, on showing WSC [air construction graphs]; 1st Lord Swinton [former Secretary of State for Air, earlier Philip Cunliffe-Lister and Philip Lloyd-Greame] on the formation...
Dates:
06 Nov 1936 - 20 Jan 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Public and Political: General: Defence: Correspondence and papers., 09 Jan 1937 - 23 Feb 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/302
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Philip Gibbs on the inefficiency of the RAF; Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt [former Vice-President of the Tank Board] (2); Sir William Beveridge [Director of London School of Economics and Political Science]; Oswald Frewen on working with German and Italian sailors, German fanaticism, Italian aid to Franco and how the policies of Neville Chamberlain [Prime Minister] encourage Germany and Italy; Leo Amery; Basil Liddell Hart; Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald Henderson...
Dates:
09 Jan 1937 - 23 Feb 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: General public correspondence., Jan 1940 - Aug 1940
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/400
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Arthur Bateman criticising the government; Alfred Bergman, ?director of Remington Typewriter Company, on his campaign to persuade the United States to enter the war (14); Edward Hulton, Managing Director of Picture Post, requesting an interview with WSC. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from WSC's secretaries [Kathleen] Hill and [Gwen] Davies, [Admiralty] Private Secretary [Bernard] Sendall, [Prime Minister's Private Secretaries] "J H P" [John Peck],...
Dates:
Jan 1940 - Aug 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: General Public correspondence, C-D. [please note the majority of the file dates from 1943]., Nov 1941 - Dec 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/472A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: [2nd] Lord Chaplin sending brandy; Sylvia Checkley sending birthday wishes and flowers (5); [1st] Lord Davidson on an appeal fund for Wilson Carlisle, founder of the Church Army (2); Major-General [Charles] Constantine on meeting WSC and receiving a signed photograph from him; Captain A M Dick requesting an autographed photograph (4); [Bernard] Sendall [Principal Private Secretary to Minister of Information] and [James] Drawbell on Drawbell's book "All Change Here"....
Dates:
Nov 1941 - Dec 1943
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, A-B., Jan 1941 - Dec 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/416
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: [2nd] Lord Aberdeen [and Temair, earlier Lord Haddo] on [Mary] Churchill [later Lady Soames]; [Bernard] Sendall [Principal Private Secretary to Minister of Information]; Vice-Admiral [Sir] Guy Royle [Naval Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty] on his knighthood and the death of [Rear-]Admiral [?John] Fitzgerald; Captain Maurice Mansergh [Director of Trade Division, Admiralty] and Rear-Admiral Stuart Bonham-Carter on receiving honours; Mabell, Lady Airlie;...
Dates:
Jan 1941 - Dec 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, A-B, many congratulating WSC on becoming Prime Minister and praising his leadership and speeches. [please note that almost the whole file dates from 1940]., Jun 1903 - Feb 1941
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/392A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Vyvyan Adams (4) including (2) on his attending a meeting addressed by WSC; [John] Sandeman Allen on [David Lloyd George]; [1st] Lord Alness [earlier Robert Munro]; Julian Amery [Attache HM Legation, Belgrade] on articles by WSC for publication in Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia] (4); Leo Amery [Secretary of State for India and Burma, later Myanmar] sending on a 1903 letter from WSC to him on...
Dates:
Jun 1903 - Feb 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, C-D., Jan 1941 - Dec 1941
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/417
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: [4th] Lord Camden [John Pratt] on rationing on the Riviera, France; [1st] Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry] (2); [Arnold] Heeney, Clerk of the Privy Council, Canada, on the Privy Council oath; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin] and "B B" [Brendan Bracken, Prime Minister's Parliamentary Private Secretary] on the death of Ronald Cartland; Freda, Marquesa de Casa Maury [earlier Freda Dudley Ward], on a "health-giving lamp" and the Feathers Club (2); Robert...
Dates:
Jan 1941 - Dec 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open