United Kingdom (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3777 Collections and/or Records:
Person
Person
Person
Person
Person
Organization
Organization
Organization
Item
Mediterranean and St. George's and Windsor Batteries from Queen's (1 gun) Battery, 1866
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/4/72
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
Meeting in Commonwealth Hall viewed from the gallery, 1979 - 1980
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/Ilg/56
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).
Item
Meeting of Commonwealth Finance Ministers in London, 1952-01-17
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/F/13
Scope and Contents
203 x 256 mm. This picture shows the Ministers at the Treasury where the meeting took place. Left to right are: The Hon. J.R. Jayawardene (Ceylon), The Hon. Chaudri Mohammed Ali C.I.E., .O.B.E., (Pakistan), The Rt. Hon J. Maynard Sinclair, D.L., M.P., (Northern Ireland), His Excellency Mr. V.K. Krishna Menon, (India), the Rt. Hon. S.G. Holland (New Zealand), the Rt. Hon. R.A. Butler, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Fadden, K.C.M.G., (Australia), the Hon. D.C. Abbott...
Dates:
1952-01-17
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
Meeting of the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Defence Science at Lancaster House, London, 1950-07
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/F/6
Scope and Contents
152 x 206 mm. General view of the Meeting of the Commonwealth Advisory Committee, with Mr. Shinwell, the Minister of Defence Speaking.
Dates:
1950-07
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
Meeting of the Commonwealth High Commissioners in London, 1951-03
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/F/9
Scope and Contents
185 x 241 mm. Left to right: His Excellency the Rt. Hon. W.J. Jordan (New Zealand), His Excellency Dr. A.L. Geyer (South Africa), His Excellency the Hon. E.J. Harrison, M.P. (Australia), the Rt. Hon. Lord Ogmore, (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State), His Excellency Mr. L.D. Wilgress (Canada), His Excellency the Hon. E.A.P. Wijeyeratne (Ceylon), His Excellency Mr. Habib Ibrahim Rahimtoola (Pakistan), the Rt. Hon. P.C. Gordon-Walker, M.P. (Secretary of State). The High Commissioner for...
Dates:
1951-03
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
Meeting on the Common Fund, 1978-04-13
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/F/79
Scope and Contents
176 x 238 mm. A merry moment at London’s Marlborough House today for the two day Commonwealth Ministerial meeting on the Common Fund, delegation leaders, (left to right), Australia’s Mr Victor Garland, Minister for Special Trade Representations; Commonwealth Secretary General Mr Shridath S. Ramphal of Guyana, and Britain’s Mr Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade.
Dates:
1978-04-13
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
Item
Melrose Abbey, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16/5239
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). [General view of ruined abbey].
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).
Item
Melrose Abbey from the S.E. [i.e. south-east], 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 16/5242
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).
File
Memoirs 1, 1920 - 2000
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 360/1
Scope and Contents
In this volume Bowen describes his parents, childhood, early and secondary education at the Sloane School, Chelsea, during 1922-33, and early artistic influences which inspired him. He discusses employment with a firm of chartered accountants after leaving school, evening classes at Chelsea School of Art, and tuition by Austin Spare between 1933 and 1939. The memoir narrates Bowen’s military training and service during the Second World War, including the Battle of Arras and evacuation at...
Dates:
1920 - 2000
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
/
Donald Bowen Collection
File
Memoirs 2, 1953 - 2001
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 360/2
Scope and Contents
In this volume Bowen recounts his work as Exhibitions Officer at the Imperial Institute from 1953 to 1962. It discusses the history and management of the institute, working conditions, and the planning and organisation of exhibitions. Bowen also discusses the production of maps to accompany Kenneth Bradley, ed. ‘The Living Commonwealth’ (London, 1961). There are also further notes on Austin Spare who died in 1956. Bowen describes the renaming of the institute as the Commonwealth Institute in...
Dates:
1953 - 2001
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
/
Donald Bowen Collection
File
Memoirs 3, 1969 - 2007
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 360/3
Scope and Contents
In this volume Bowen describes an educational visit to West Africa in 1968 organised by the Institute, a lecture tour in Canada undertaken in 1969 after an invitation to address the Canadian Society for Education through Art, and visits to Denmark to lecture in 1972 and 1978. A major section discusses Bowen’s work as Curator. He reflects upon the selection and organisation of two hundred exhibitions with varying media in the Art Gallery between 1962 and 1979, featuring the work of Scottish,...
Dates:
1969 - 2007
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
/
Donald Bowen Collection
Item
Memorial window of J.H. Speke, 1969-08-31
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 22/30/4/3
Scope and Contents
90 x 90 mm. Consisting of a massive black marble sarcophagus, with a cross of bronze inlaid in the top and a band of bronze with the inscription: 'Sacred to the memory of John Hanning second son of William and Georgina Speke who dies September 15th 1864 aged 37 years'. Behind it an arch has been recessed in the church wall in the centre of which is a trophy in relief consisting of a gun, a sword and a sextant and the motto: 'A nilo praeclarus.' At the top of the monument is a bust of the...
Dates:
1969-08-31
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).
Item
Men leaving Portsmouth Dockyard for Saturday half-holiday, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5043
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). [View of men walking towards camera with sheds and chimneys behind].
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).
Item
Men leaving Portsmouth Dockyard for Saturday half-holiday, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5044
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Rear view of crowd of men].
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).