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Libya (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

 Fonds

Commonwealth Royal Tour, 1953-1954

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 320
Scope and Contents

The principal part of the collection is a set of programmes and guides prepared for the different legs of the Royal Tour. These are supplemented by related correspondence and papers compiled by the Royal Empire Society and others. The collection is in English with the exception of one item in English and Arabic.

Dates: 1953 - 1954
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).
 Fonds

East Africa and Ceylon [Sri Lanka] during the 1940s

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468AA
Scope and Contents Collection of 248 photographs, chiefly amateur. Most captions are derived from the original album pages or the printed titles of postcards. Photographs without measurements are approximately 80 x 60 mm in size, and this suggests that they may have been taken by the collector, with the others acquired from colleagues or purchased.The photographs, housed in two albums, were found pushed through the letterbox of Woodspring Museum. They had clearly suffered from damp, the albums were...
Dates: 1940 - 1949
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).
 File

French North Africa, 1931-07 - 1938-08

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 334/2
Scope and Contents

Newscuttings concerning Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and the Sahara.

Dates: 1931-07 - 1938-08
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

Reynolds: The Papers of Joyce Maire Reynolds (1918-2022), classical epigrapher

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3437/JMRD
Scope and Contents This archive comprises the working papers of Joyce Reynolds, including her own handwritten and typescript drafts of her academic publications, off-prints of those articles, correspondence with scholars seeking her advice on challenging inscriptions which required translation, copious photographs of Classical inscriptions, archaeological sites, architecture and statuary from Rome, the ancient city of Aphrodisias in western Turkey and from across Libya. Another aspect of professional life was...
Dates: 1912 - 2022
 File

'Tocra antiquities, G. H. Q., M. E. F. 1944' and later correspondence on inscriptions from Cyrenaica, 1944-06-26 - 1971-01-13

 File
Reference Code: GBR/3437/JMRD/5/1
Scope and Contents The earliest papers in the file date to 1944. These comprise correspondence as follows: Marcus Tod to H. I. Bell on inscriptions from Tocra (Teuchira) copied by Bell's cousin, Major Humphrey Thackrah, togteher with a list of notes on the inquiry by J. Allan, typescript, 2 ff., dated 1944/08/16 H. Thackrah to Brigadier D. C. Cumming summarising the findings for his commanding offcier, typescript on pink paper, 1 f., dated 1944/10/27 4 leaves of typescript memos from C. J. Gadd...
Dates: 1944-06-26 - 1971-01-13
 File

Transcript of interview: Lord Levy, 2023

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 224
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 2023
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
 File

Transcript of interview: Sir Geoffrey Adams, 2023

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 228
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 2023
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
 Series

Working files for Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/3437/JMRD/3
Scope and Contents Working files which document the transcription and translation of ancient Greek and Latin incriptions from Cyrenaica. This region is located in eastern Libya, during the Roman period it was also called the Pentapolis (Five Cities) and is geographically located on the plateau of the Jebel Akhdar (the Green Mountain), flanked to the west by the Gulf of Sidra (the Greater Syrtis), to the north by the Mediterrnean. JMR collaborated closely with Richard Goodchild on the corpus and the...