United Kingdom (nation)
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3896 Collections and/or Records:
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When fresh water supplies run short, fresh water ice has to be collected, 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/556
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse continues 'On this ice floe in Admiralty Bay 'Chippy' McLeod and Third Officer Brooke are collecting fresh water ice'.
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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Where the old home stood; demolition progress to the middle of February, 1935, 1980 - 1989
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/Ilc/4
Scope and Contents
118 x 90 mm. 'United Empire', XXVI, 1935, 138.
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).
Person
Person
Organization
Whitbread PLC (Hotel and Restaurant Company) (1742-Present) (United Kingdom)
Organization
Dates:
Existence: 1742 - 2024
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White Sand Bay. Lands End, 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/223
Scope and Contents
58 x 85 mm.
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).
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Person
Whitehouse, Constance Mary, CBE, 1910-2001 (Teacher and Conservative Activist)
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Dates:
Existence: 1910 - 2001
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Wick and Sally Clement when she rode to fetch me from penguins to catch plane, 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham B/74
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains slides mainly in thick plastic frames marked 'Photopia', made in Germany, dark grey with a red top. The exceptions are numbers 72-75 in Kodachrome cardboard frames which link up with C and numbers 37-38 and 99-103 which are in silver Sytec frames. Some of the frames have brief captions pencilled on them, but these are very hard to read. Others have labels stuck on. A roughly written numbered list was in the original box. The list which follows has been derived from these...
Dates:
1962
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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Wickam Clement, Fox Bay, 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham B/73
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains slides mainly in thick plastic frames marked 'Photopia', made in Germany, dark grey with a red top. The exceptions are numbers 72-75 in Kodachrome cardboard frames which link up with C and numbers 37-38 and 99-103 which are in silver Sytec frames. Some of the frames have brief captions pencilled on them, but these are very hard to read. Others have labels stuck on. A roughly written numbered list was in the original box. The list which follows has been derived from these...
Dates:
1962
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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'Wide a Wake Fair', Ascension, 1884-01-27 - 1884-01-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/51
Scope and Contents
200 x 146 mm. Showing huge numbers of nesting wideawakes (sooty terns) on Wideawake Plain, with a figure standing among them in the background. The breeding ground of these terns formed a valuable source of food for the naval garrison in the nineteenth century, who took thousands of eggs each year during ythe breeding season; these depredations do not appear to have posed any problems to the bird's survival however, and they were a considerable danger as they nested in their thousands...
Dates:
1884-01-27 - 1884-01-31
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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Wide awake Fair, Ascension, 1870 - 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011III/8
Scope and Contents
197 x 149 mm. With terns.
Dates:
1870 - 1929
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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Wide awake Fair, Ascension
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011III/10
Scope and Contents
100 x 150 mm. With terns.
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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William Hogarth Prints, 1880 - 1902
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K(LS)3
Scope and Contents
Reproductions of prints by the English artist. The slide containing Plate 3 of The Harlot's Progress is missing. The collection also includes an engraving of Henry Fuseli's painting Midsummer Night's Dream: Act IV, Scene 1
Dates:
1880 - 1902
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
Williams, Gerald, 1929-2016 (Journalist and Tennis Commentator)
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Dates:
Existence: 1929 - 2016
Person
Williams, Graham C., fl 1980s-1990s (Television Director and Producer)
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Dates:
Existence: 1980 - 1999
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Person
Person
Williams, Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain, Baroness Williams of Crosby, 1930-2021 (Politician and Academic)
Person
Dates:
Existence: 1930 - 2021
Person
Williamson, Malcolm, fl 1980s-2010s (Screenwriter and Television Producer)
Person
Dates:
Existence: 1986 - 2019
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[Willie] Musururwa, [[Joshua] Nkomo, [Robert] Mugabe and [Eddison] Zvobgo at a press conference , 1979
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052U/23
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).