Myanmar (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1076 Collections and/or Records:
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Chin warriors, 1889 - 1891
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029A/34
Scope and Contents
108 x 150 mm. Portrait of three Chin warriors squatting in long grass.
Dates:
1889 - 1891
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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Burma Campaigns 1889-91
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Chinese Joss House at Bhamo, 1907-12 - 1908-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 10/5/350
Scope and Contents
265 x 365 mm watercolour.
Dates:
1907-12 - 1908-01
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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Chinese junk in the Rangoon river, 1907-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 2/289
Scope and Contents
[Distant view].
Dates:
1907-12
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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Chronology of the Kings of Ava, from 1364-1809 A.D., 1825 - 1841
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/2/6
Scope and Contents
4 pages.
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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Coffin lying in state in a Upoongyee-Kyoung, 1890 - 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/29
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:
1890 - 1927
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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Commander of the Thai Armies on the Burmese Frontier to the British General at Tavoy, 1825-02-24
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/5/1
Scope and Contents
Kradat phlao, 349 x 524 mm.
A letter from Chaophraya Mahayotha to Brigadier General Sir Archibald Campbell requesting permission for a party of Mons in Thai government service to visit their families in British occupied Lower Burma. An undated note on the reverse records that Burney obtained it from Campbell, probably before travelling to Bangkok in 1825.
Dates:
1825-02-24
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).
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Commencement of Capt. Burney's Journal of his Mission to North of Ava, 1835
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/2/3
Scope and Contents
2 sheets.
Dates:
1835
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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Commissariat elephants, Kalewa 95, 1895
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/36
Scope and Contents
156 x 111 mm. A view looking down onto the river bank where the commissariat are gathered with their keepers in a semi-circle at the water's edge.
Dates:
1895
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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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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[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).
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[Cooking by the river side, ? Kalewa], 1895
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/80
Scope and Contents
100 x 74 mm. A slightly blurred view showing a Burmese youth cooking on the river bank, with house boats moored beyond.
Dates:
1895
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
Copeland Diary 1917-18
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022IIII
Scope and Contents
An undated transcript of letters from Copeland to his mother describing his service in India, 1917-1918, illustrated with 101 photographs and 12 postcards of India and Burma, including architectural features, costumes and different racial groups. The majority of the images are either captioned or referred to in the narrative. Most of the photographs are circa 55 x 55 mm in size. The majority were taken by Copeland, but some are noted as the work of his fellow soldiers, and it is possible...
Dates:
1917 - 1918
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
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Copies of three official letters to Government of India, marked `Rec'd 28 October 1795’, 1827 - 1838
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/8/45
Scope and Contents
1 sheet containing:
1 Reports appointment of Rangoon Collector of Customs in B.E. 1154 (1792 A.D.)
2-3 About a Royal Order of B.E. 1155 (1794 A.D.).
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).
File
Copy of a letter from Siam to Ava, about the British annexations, 1827 - 1838
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/8/46
Scope and Contents
1 sheet.
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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Copy of a telegram from WSC to [Robert] Menzies [Prime Minister of Australia] regarding a loan to Burma [later Myanmar] to be debated [in the House of Commons], 4 May 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/2/2/12/1
Scope and Contents
Stating that it would be difficult for WSC to support the loan and asking how much it mattered to Menzies. Also expressing concern about the Karens [ethnic group in Burma, now Myanmar], that the Burma Government had "treated us with great ingratitude and harshness in all matters of British property", and that WSC felt it would be better to concentrate on Malaya [later part of Malaysia].
Dates:
4 May 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Acquired papers relating to Sir Winston Churchill
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Acquired papers relating to Sir Winston Churchill, after the end of his first term as Prime Minister
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Public and Political: General
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence
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Corner of Dalhousie Street, Rangoon, 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029D/8
Scope and Contents
147 x 101 mm. A view looking west towards the spire of the Sule Pagoda which divides Dalhousie Street into two parts, with the portico of the Town Hall in the right foreground. The annotation on the reverse states 'With view of Sooley [Sule] Pagoda and Municipal Offices on the right. Photo by J. Jackson, Rangoon'.
Dates:
1890 - 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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Corpse of Burmese man, 1870 - 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/43
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:
1870 - 1927
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).
Sub-sub-class
Correspondence, 1836
Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/2/17
Scope and Contents
1 Burmese translation of a Shan letter, dated 20 Mar 1836; with English translation by Bayfield (2 pages)
2 Letter, dated Ava 28 May 1836, from Capt. Hannay re expenses of mission to Singpho country (2 pages)
3 List, signed W. Hannay, of presents made (2 pages)
4 Torn sheet of paper with text of letter in Burmese script.
Dates:
1836
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
Correspondence on Siam, 1820 - 1830
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/5
Scope and Contents
This series contains twenty-one letters from the Siamese Government to Captain Henry Burney. RCMS 65/5/2-11 relate to his tenure as Envoy from the Governor General of India to the Siamese Court (1825-26). RCMS 65/5/12-21 date from his work in the civil administration of the Tenasserim Division of coastal Burma. Nineteen letters are ‘kradat phlao', traditional Siamese documents written in pencil on a thin paper made from the bark of the strebleus asper. Most consist of several sheets of paper...
Dates:
1820 - 1830
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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Henry Burney Collection
Sub-Series
Correspondence relating to the appointment of a British Resident at the Court of Ava, 1829
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/2/5
Scope and Contents
1. Letter from G.W. Swinton, Chief Secretary, dated 31 Dec 1829, to Henry Burney (18 pages)2. Undated copy of appointment (4 pages) 3. Letter from Lord William Cavendish Bentinck to the King of Ava (4 pages)4. Letter from G. Swinton to the ministers and generals of the King of Ava (6 pages)5. Letter from G. Swinton to the ministers and generals of the King of Ava, dated 31 Dec 1829 (6 pages)6. Letter from G. Swinton to A.D. Maingy, Commissioner for the Tenasserim...
Dates:
1829
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
Cremation of a poongyi [Burmese priest], undated, [late 1890s or early 1900s]
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029D/6
Scope and Contents
147 x 101 mm. View looking towards the elaborately carved wooden structure in which the priest's body lies, with spectators strolling among the flags and bunting in the foreground. The numerous ceremonies involved in the funeral of a priest draw spectators and participants from surrounding towns and villages and contribute an air of festival to the occasion. The annotation on the reverse states 'Photo by J. Jackson, Rangoon'.
Dates:
undated, [late 1890s or early 1900s]
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
Cremation of a Poongyi or Burmese priest, undated, [late 1890s or early 1900s]
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029D/5
Scope and Contents
146 x 101 mm. View looking towards the elaborately carved wooden structure in which the priest's body lies, with spectators strolling among the flags and bunting in the foreground. The numerous ceremonies involved in the funeral of a priest draw spectators and participants from surrounding towns and villages and contribute an air of festival to the occasion. The annotation on the reverse of the print states 'The body is embalmed and kept for about six months or a year until sufficient...
Dates:
undated, [late 1890s or early 1900s]
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
Crossing the moat, 1907-12 - 1908-01
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 3/394
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. Fort Dufferin. [Company of soldiers marching over footbridge with palace in background].
Dates:
1907-12 - 1908-01
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
Crossing the moat, 1907-12 - 1908-01
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 3/395
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. Fort Dufferin. [Company of soldiers marching over footbridge with palace in background].
Dates:
1907-12 - 1908-01
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
[Crowd at ceremonial event], 1885 - 1927
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/221
Scope and Contents
Taken on same occasion as Y3029Y/220.
Dates:
1885 - 1927
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).