Asia (continent)
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Found in 15914 Collections and/or Records:
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Memorandum on labour troubles in Kelang, 1941-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/1/11
Scope and Contents
Report by the District Officer, J.S.W. Reid, on the causes and course of labour disputes involving the Kelang Indian Union, with advice upon how the conflict may be resolved (4 sheets).
Dates:
1941-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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Memorandum on Mr Crawfurd's Commercial Treaty with the Burmese, 1830 - 1839
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/2/23
Scope and Contents
4 pages.
Dates:
1830 - 1839
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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Memorandum on state boundaries, 1970
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/15/16
Scope and Contents
This is a brief discussion of boundary issues between Malaya and Siam after 1909 (3 sheets).
Dates:
1970
Conditions Governing Access:
For conservation reasons, this item must be viewed on Master Microfilm Reel 8239.
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Memorandum on the Kingdom of Ava, 1825 - 1841
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/2/2
Scope and Contents
21 sheets.
Dates:
1825 - 1841
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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Memorandum on the Malayan Emergency, 1948-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/33/2
Scope and Contents
A memorandum on the Malayan government's response to the insurgency, probably issued while Churchill was British Advisor, Kelantan. A list of planters and other officials who received it is appended (2 copies, 14 sheets).
Dates:
1948-08
Conditions Governing Access:
For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8227C.
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Memorial Church, 'All Souls', Cawnpore, 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022L/28
Scope and Contents
259 x 207 mm. General view of All Souls Memorial Church, Cawnpore, which was built to the north of Wheeler's Entrenchments. Begun in 1862, this church, built in Lombardic Gothic style of red brick and ashlar and dominated by a tall campanile, was designed by WaIter Granville (architect of the High Court and the Post Office in Calcutta). It was not consecrated until 1875 at a final cost of over £20,000.
Dates:
1880 - 1889
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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Memorial cross in barracks, Cawnpore, 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022L/29
Scope and Contents
207x261mm. Showing the memorial cross near the barracks in the Cawnpore cantonment. It bears the following inscription: 'In a well under this cross were laid, by ye hands of their fellows in suffering, ye bodies of men, women, and children, who died hard by during ye heroic defence of Wheeler's Entrenchment when beleaguered by the rebel Nana. - June 6th to 27th A.D. MDCCCLVII.' 250 members of the garrison were buried in this well.
Dates:
1880 - 1889
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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Memorial Cross, Residency, Lucknow, 1905-12-26 - 1905-12-28
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 9/154
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints, of an approximate size of 80 x 100 mm, mounted on card, six to a page, in a padded black leather album inscribed on the cover India 1905-06 from C.C. and 'Photographs taken by Sir Charles Cust Bt. 1905-06' is written on the fly leaf in Queen Marys hand. Sir Charles Cust took this collection of amateur photographs while accompanying the Royal Party. Most of the photographs have elegant hand-written captiions, but these are not always very explicit - some portraying...
Dates:
1905-12-26 - 1905-12-28
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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Memorial Garden, Cawnpore, 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022L/32
Scope and Contents
271x213mm. View of the Memorial Garden in the north-east section of the city looking along the avenue towards the memorial. The gardens were laid out in memory of the prisoners, mainly women and children who were captured at the Sati Chaura Ghat and subsequently murdered at the Bibigarh as General Havelock's column marched to recapture Cawnpore.
Dates:
1880 - 1889
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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Memorial Hospital, Ludhiana: Dr. Guy Constable interviewing, 1960 - 1969
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/1/29
Scope and Contents
80 x 79 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.
Dates:
1960 - 1969
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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Memorial to Captain Light, Penang, 1930 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/53
Scope and Contents
62 x 88 mm. Showing the statue of Captain Francis Light (1740-1794), founder of Prince of Wales Island (Penang) in 1786. Light died of malaria on the island and was buried in the old Protestant Cemetery in Northam Road, George Town. The bronze statue designed by Frederick J. Wilcoxson, was originally sited in Fort Cornwallis and was unveiled in 1939. It was removed during the Japanese occupation and re-erected in 1946 in front of the High Court in Light Street. The only known...
Dates:
1930 - 1939
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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Memorial Well, 1860 - 1869
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022B/123
Scope and Contents
291 x 233 mm. Duplicate of Y3022D/36.
Dates:
1860 - 1869
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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Views of India
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Memorial Well, Cawnpore, 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022L/33
Scope and Contents
236x186mrn. View of the statue and screen erected over the well where the victims of the Bibigarh massacre were buried. The enclosure is in the form of an octagonal screen in the Gothic style designed by Sir Henry Yule and inscribed over the entrance arch is 'These are they which came out of great tribulation'.
Dates:
1880 - 1889
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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Memorial well, Cawnpore [Kanpur], 1870 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022G/67
Scope and Contents
235 x 279 mm. View of the marble angel carved by Carlo Marochetti in the Memorial Gardens in Cawnpore [Kanpur].
Dates:
1870 - 1879
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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'Memories of Kemaman District, Terengganu, 1934-1936', 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/28
Scope and Contents
A description of the social life and customs, economic conditions, religious beliefs and recreation of the district's inhabitants (3 copies, 10 sheets).
Dates:
1963
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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Memories of Kuala Lumpur, 1962-02-10 - 1962-04-14
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/15/20
Scope and Contents
Two oral history recordings made by Mrs Dorothy Nixon:
1. The end of a road (Batu Road)
Nixon recalls changes in the architecture and occupants of the road during the period from the 1920s to the 1960s (14 minutes).
2. The constant green (Selangor Padang)
Nixon discusses the history of the green and the buildings located near it from its early years as home of the Selangor Club in 1884 to the 1960s (14 minutes).
Dates:
1962-02-10 - 1962-04-14
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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[Men fishing in river], 1941 - 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/13/15
Scope and Contents
140 x 80 mm. Showing men stood thigh deep in the river, using long handled fishing nets. There are large piles of a light coloured substance behind them on the river bank.
Dates:
1941 - 1944
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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[Men leading horses through forest], 1936 - 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/12/73
Scope and Contents
130 x 85 mm.
Dates:
1936 - 1938
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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Men poling my boat, seen from interior of boat, 1904 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 12/125
Scope and Contents
As captioned.
Dates:
1904 - 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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Men wearing costume of Thibetan [Tibetan] devil dancers. Exterior of Llama Monastery. Near Darjiling. Note black portion of walls round door & window, 1908-01 - 1908-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 10/5/520
Scope and Contents
365 x 270 mm watercolour.
Dates:
1908-01 - 1908-02
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).
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Men wearing masks and costumes of Devil Dancers, 1908-01 - 1908-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 4/520
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate.
Dates:
1908-01 - 1908-02
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).
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Men with snakes and mongoose, 1908-01 - 1908-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 4/565
Scope and Contents
Near the Golden Temple.
Dates:
1908-01 - 1908-02
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).
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Men, women and soldiers carrying children during 1923 earthquake and typhoon, 1923
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 35/30
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, largely undated captions.
Dates:
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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Menghadap at Sri Menanti, Negri Sembilan, 1934, 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/16
Scope and Contents
197 x 148 mm. Showing Tuanku Abdul Rahman and his consort Tunku Ampuan Kursiah seated on the decorated dais in the audience hall for the Menghadap. The triennal menghadap was inaugurated at Sri Menanti in 1901 and on these occasions the ruling chiefs paid homage to the Yang di-Pertuan Besar in front of members of the royal family and government officials. Sheppard (1965) states that Abdul Rahman held his first menghadap in 1937, but the presence of Caldecott and London in the following...
Dates:
1934
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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Men’s Hospital, Isfahan [Eşfahān], 1906 - 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 33/6
Scope and Contents
The medical mission first had been established in 1879.
Dates:
1906 - 1938
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).