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Great Britain (island)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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[British Cotton Growing Association meeting, Manchester, November 29 1909], 1909-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/97
Scope and Contents 208 x 158 mm. Showing Bell standing among a group of the British Cotton Growing Association in a Manchester street. The only other identified figure in the group is James Arthur Hutton (1862-1925), at the left of the photograph. Hutton, a co-founder of the Association, devoted many years work to the development of the cotton trade in the Empire and published a number of books on the subject. Bell's speech at the meeting pointed out that foreign competition was taking a disproportionate...
Dates: 1909-11
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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[House party at Highbury, near Birmingham, 23 January 1899], 1899-01-23

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011N/2
Scope and Contents 341 x 284 mm. Mounted on card. Group portrait of guests at a weekend house party at Joseph Chamberlain's residence near Birmingham. The figures in the group are:Sir Henry Hesketh BELL: see introduction to collection for biographical notes.Sir Edward Walter HAMILTON (1847-1908): Treasury official 1870-1902.Thomas Henry SANDERSON (1841-1923), 1st Baron Sanderson: entered Foreign Office 1859; Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1894-1906.Mrs Mary C....
Dates: 1899-01-23
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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Sharwell's, Milford on Sea. May [1911], 1911-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011E/3
Scope and Contents

165 x 121 mm. Showing Bell seated on a garden bench with two young children. No further information has been found as to the identity of the Sharwells.

Dates: 1911-05
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).