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France (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 263 Collections and/or Records:

 Item

[Troops in no man's land], 1915 - 1918

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/8
Scope and Contents

190 x 145 mm.

Dates: 1915 - 1918
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

Typed extracts from diaries, 1946-08-07 - 1947-03-27

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HOBE 1/10
Scope and Contents

Subjects include Hore-Belisha's trip to Germany and Paris [France] in August 1946.

Dates: 1946-08-07 - 1947-03-27
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Individual closures of files are indicated in the catalogue.
 File

Uganda and Northern Nigeria 1908-12, 1908-11 - 1912-03

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D
Scope and Contents

A scrapbook album containing prints by various photographers, including Alfred Lobo. The prints are of various sizes and the majority are captioned in Bell's hand. Captions composed for this catalogue are enclosed in square brackets. Among the scenes and events depicted in the album are the Kampala Exhibition of 1908, views of Government House, Entebbe, the visit of Winston Churchill to Uganda in 1907, sleeping sickness sufferers in Uganda and durbars in Northern Nigeria.

Dates: 1908-11 - 1912-03
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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[Unidentified group], 1911 - 1929

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/10
Scope and Contents

205 x 150 mm.

Dates: 1911 - 1929
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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Versailles, May 1920, 1920-05

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/4/15
Scope and Contents

65 x 45 mm. Showing formal gardens.

Dates: 1920-05
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).
 Sub-Fonds

View of Metz, 1930 - 1989

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 59/11
Scope and Contents

An undated print of an engraving by Johan Peeters described in pencil as 'a 17th century picture of the country in which the American army are now operating'.

Dates: 1930 - 1989
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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View of the cemetery showing the memorial seat with the lines from 'In Flanders Fields' inscribed on it, 1918 - 1980

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062K/2
Scope and Contents

160 x 115 mm.

Dates: 1918 - 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).
 Series

Views of Marseilles, 1922

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304H/1-7
Scope and Contents From the File:

Measuring 220 x 285 mm, this album contains postcards, some of which are coloured. The majority portray Algiers (including 12 of the museum), Algerian people, Biskra, and the ruins of Timgad, Constantine, Tunis and Carthage.

Dates: 1922
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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Visit to Paris, 1939-08-21

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HOBE 5/64
Scope and Contents

Typed notes of a conversation Hore-Belisha held with General Maurice Gamelin [Commander-in-Chief of the French Army] and Edouard Daladier [French Foreign Minister] in Paris [France].

Dates: 1939-08-21
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Individual closures of files are indicated in the catalogue.
 File

Visit to see the German Rhine fortifications, 1938-12-31

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HOBE 5/45
Scope and Contents

Hore-Belisha's account of his visit to see the German Rhine fortifications with General Hering, Military Governor of Strasbourg [France] and of his discussions with Hering and General Maurice Gamelin [head of the French General Staff] in Paris about the Maginot Line.

Dates: 1938-12-31
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Individual closures of files are indicated in the catalogue.
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Watercolour views of the Middle East, Far East and France, 1925-27, 1925 - 1927

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011L
Scope and Contents

An album containing watercolour views of landscapes painted by Bell. The majority were painted during Bell's study tour of foreign colonial administration in the Far East 1925-26.

Dates: 1925 - 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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Whale shot by a man-of-war at Cape Coast, 1900

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448U/19
Scope and Contents

195 x 145 mm. For another view of the dead whale surrounded by spectators see Y30448U/18.

Dates: 1900
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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Women's European tour, 1951

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 219/1/2
Scope and Contents

A typescript diary of the tour of 1951, presumably compiled by its leader, Rena Datta, interleaved with black and white photographs and other inserted items. There is a list of tour members at the front with captioned photographs of each member of the party. Loose at the start of the album are two typescript pieces on the tour.

Dates: 1951
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).