Asia (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:
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Commonwealth Seminar on changing patterns in the organisation and conduct of foreign policy, Singapore March 9-14 1970, 1970-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/172
Scope and Contents
139 x 89 mm. Showing the delegates seated in the conference room.
Dates:
1970-03
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).
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Commonwealth Talks on Tariffs, 1949-03-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/F/5
Scope and Contents
206 x 253 mm. Photo shows Mr Harold Wilson making the opening speech at the meeting of Commonwealth nations on tariffs. Left to right: The High Commissioner for Pakistan, Habib I. Rahintoola; Mr. Stephen Holme (2nd Sec. Overseas Trade); Mr. Harold Wilson (pres. Board of Trade); R.J. Shackle, (U.K. Adviser on Commercial Policy); and L.D. Wilgress (High Commissioner for Canada).
Dates:
1949-03-31
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).
File
Commonwealth Tour: Autumn 1955, 1955-08-30 - 1955-11-04
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/2/2
Scope and Contents
Detailed diary written whilst Smedley visited the United States (including Hawaii), Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Tasmania, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Bombay, Bangladesh and Pakistan with Lord Home, Commonwealth Secretary, 1955-57 (143 sheets).This file also includes a pamphlet entitled, ‘The Frontier: a miscellany prepared for the RH Earl of Home on the occasion of their visit to Peshawar on 1st November, 1955’, with complimentary note inside; invitation cards to Smedley from Government...
Dates:
1955-08-30 - 1955-11-04
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).
Series
[Commonwealth Universities], 1946 - 1986
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WW 3/2
Scope and Contents
Includes material on Universities throughout the Commonwealth of Nations.
Dates:
1946 - 1986
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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Commonwealth Universities, 1980 - 1990
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 401/1
Scope and Contents
This is an unedited draft of a book in which Alexander set out to give 'a personal account of my contacts with universities in the developing countries of the Commonwealth.'It begins with the background of Alexander’s own university education at Auckland, Cambridge and London; describes Raffles College and the University of Malaya; and his work at the University of Ibadan and the contribution of its Physics Department during the International Geophysical Year 1957-58. Considerable...
Dates:
1980 - 1990
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).
Fonds
Commonwealth Universities
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 401
Dates:
1949 - 1997
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
Series
[Commonwealth Universities], 1946 - 1991
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011KKK/1-434
Scope and Contents
Includes material on Universities throughout the Commonwealth of Nations. Many, though not all, of the slides were taken by Ian Maxwell.
Dates:
1946 - 1991
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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Communal Washing Day, Hong Kong Island, 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3038E/8
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A series of thirty-two photographs taken by Douglas Moore in 1949, depicting views and aspects of the lives and conditions of the inhabitants of Hong Kong. The photographs were printed and mounted for an exhibition at the North Staffordshire Polytechnic in the 1980s. The average size of each print (inner mount measurement) is 290 mm x 360 mm. The photographs are each individually captioned on the reverse and are accompanied by Mr Moore’s introductory caption for the exhibition:Hong...
Dates:
1949
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).
Series
Communications, 1982
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311E CO
Scope and Contents
Singapore is a sophisticated communications centre with links to almost all parts of the world. It is a focal point for more than 150 major shipping lines, more than 33 international airlines, with direct telecommunications facilities to 105 countries. Its telephone density of 26 telephones per 100 population is the third highest in East Asia.
Dates:
1982
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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Life in Singapore 1982
Series
Communications, Commerce and Industry, 1982
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311C/5-20
Scope and Contents
A series of photographs relating to communications, commerce and industry in Singapore.
Dates:
1982
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
/
Singapore 1982
File
Communism and subversion, 1948-08 - 1970-12
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/5/7
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning the spread of communism and the outbreak of the Malayan Emergency, including letters by A.H. Dickinson, Rene Onraet, H. Fairburn, A.S. Haynes, Shenton Thomas, J.C. Barry and Hugh Bryson. The file also includes the following articles: Blythe, W.L., ‘’The interplay of Chinese secret and political societies in Malaya’, ‘Eastern world’, Mar. and Apr. 1960 (typescript)‘Communism in Malaya’, ‘London tidings’, 6 Mar. 1948‘Communism in Malaya:...
Dates:
1948-08 - 1970-12
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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Company Bungalow. Quetta, 1898 - 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AAA/42
Scope and Contents
85 x 60 mm.
Dates:
1898 - 1901
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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Company in Camp, Chasma Tangi. 1899, 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AAA/28
Scope and Contents
100 x 55 mm.
Dates:
1899
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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Company in Camp, Chasma Tangi. 1899, 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AAA/29
Scope and Contents
150 x 105 mm.
Dates:
1899
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
Comparative Vocabularies of Burmese, Mogaung Kantha (Burma Shan), Thai, Pi? (Lao of Chieng-mai), and Taung-thu of Pwela, 1827 - 1838
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/8/33
Scope and Contents
European paper foolscap notebook, 260 x 380 mm, ruled into six columns across each opening.
Dates:
1827 - 1838
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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Complete collection of articles produced from the coconut palm. Made in 1883 [Exhibited at] F[orestry] Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1884, 1884
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/59
Scope and Contents
278 x 210 mm. View of the coconut productions exhibit shown at the Edinburgh Forestry Exhibition of 1884. Products include furniture, matting, brooms, ladles, toys, etc.
Dates:
1884
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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Compound of village headman, Yapahu, 1907
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/53
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate.
Dates:
1907
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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Computer science is taught at 'A' level in junior colleges, 1982
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311E E/2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Education in Singapore is tailored to meet the needs of the people as well as the economy. It caters for the inclinations, aptitudes and interests of pupils by streaming them into academic studies, vocational training or apprenticeship schemes.The school curriculum stresses bilingualism (English plus mother tongue is compulsory), science, mathematics, moral and social values and extra-curricular activities.There are 297 primary schools, 116 secondary schools, 22 full schools...
Dates:
1982
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
Computer science is taught at 'A' level in junior colleges, 1982
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311E E/3
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Education in Singapore is tailored to meet the needs of the people as well as the economy. It caters for the inclinations, aptitudes and interests of pupils by streaming them into academic studies, vocational training or apprenticeship schemes.The school curriculum stresses bilingualism (English plus mother tongue is compulsory), science, mathematics, moral and social values and extra-curricular activities.There are 297 primary schools, 116 secondary schools, 22 full schools...
Dates:
1982
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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Computers have taken Singapore by storm, 1982
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311E O/1
Scope and Contents
The caption continues 'Some of the world's leading computer firms have set up plants here'.
Dates:
1982
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
Conference of Penggawas at Residency, 24th July 1930, 1930-07-24
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/22
Scope and Contents
291 x 230 mm. Showing Kelantan Penggawas (headmen) seated round tables on the lawn in front of the Residency at Kota Bahru [i.e. Baharu]. A.S. Haynes is seated at the right of the centre table.
Dates:
1930-07-24
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
[Conghis, Birharis Priests, Rangoon, Burma. A man looks on from the balcony above], 1875
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/45
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
This collection is mostly of albumen prints of photographs taken in Burma [Myanmar] in the later nineteenth century. Many are captioned and the captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. Many photographs have been identified as the work of Felix Beato. All of these photographs belonged to Rodway Swinhoe (1863-1927), who may have bought them after the closure of Beato's emporium in Mandalay c.1906. On...
Dates:
1875
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
Congregation leaving Winter Chapel, All Saints’ Srinagar, on Good Friday, 4 Apr. 1969, 1969
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/3/78
Scope and Contents
108 x 102 mm glossy print.
Dates:
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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Congregation outside Qalat Church, 1906 - 1938
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 33/1
Scope and Contents
Colour
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).
Item
Conical rock in Scinde [Sind] Valley, 1864
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022I/55
Scope and Contents
97 x 104 mm. Photograph by Bourne, no. 903.
Dates:
1864
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).