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North Africa (general region)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 296 Collections and/or Records:

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Horse-drawn vehicle, 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304K/31
Scope and Contents From the File:

Measuring 195 x 255 mm, this album contains sepia photographs 145 x 90 mm in size, two to a page, followed by 26 blank spaces. They are mainly of rural and urban scenes in North Africa. The only one captioned shows Timgad.

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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In narrow streets of town, 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304K/1-2
Scope and Contents From the File:

Measuring 195 x 255 mm, this album contains sepia photographs 145 x 90 mm in size, two to a page, followed by 26 blank spaces. They are mainly of rural and urban scenes in North Africa. The only one captioned shows Timgad.

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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In narrow streets of town, 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304K/4
Scope and Contents From the File:

Measuring 195 x 255 mm, this album contains sepia photographs 145 x 90 mm in size, two to a page, followed by 26 blank spaces. They are mainly of rural and urban scenes in North Africa. The only one captioned shows Timgad.

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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King Kalakaua and his sister, later Queen Liliuokalani, outside the palace at Honolulu, 1885 - 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309B/55
Scope and Contents

236 x 176 mm. A view showing King Kalakaua and his sister standing on the lawn, with the palace buildings and a crowd of Europeans and Hawaiians in the background. King David Kalakaua (1836-1891) ruled Hawaii from 1874 until his death in San Francisco in 1891.

Dates: 1885 - 1890
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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Laden camels, 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304K/28
Scope and Contents From the File:

Measuring 195 x 255 mm, this album contains sepia photographs 145 x 90 mm in size, two to a page, followed by 26 blank spaces. They are mainly of rural and urban scenes in North Africa. The only one captioned shows Timgad.

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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Laden camels, 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304K/30
Scope and Contents From the File:

Measuring 195 x 255 mm, this album contains sepia photographs 145 x 90 mm in size, two to a page, followed by 26 blank spaces. They are mainly of rural and urban scenes in North Africa. The only one captioned shows Timgad.

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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Laden donkey, 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304J/73
Scope and Contents From the File:

Measuring 205 x 265 mm, this album contains sepia photographs 145 x 90 mm in size, two to a page. None of these have captions, but they include one statue in Biskra.

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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Landing stage, Roseau, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30745B/1
Scope and Contents

238 x 176 mm. A view looking along the wooden jetty towards the low stone buildings which line the waterfront.

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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Landscape, chiefly mountainous, 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304L/21
Scope and Contents From the File:

Measuring 175 x 215 mm, this album contains sepia photographs 170 x 115 mm in size. Album spaces 65 and 74 are blank. There are no captions, but some photographs can be identified as Tunis by comparison with postcards in Y304H. Others may be mentioned in the 1922 North Africa Diary (see Introduction), e.g. the Cathedral (p.7/plate 57), Carthage (pp.12ff/plate 59ff), camels (p.66/plates 83, 84), and Porte de France (p.78/plates 49-50), but no detailed research has been attempted.

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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Literary: correspondence, mainly readers' comments, on volume 3 ("The Grand Alliance") of WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War")., Oct 1946 - Feb 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/54
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir George Rendel [British Ambassador to Belgium] and Andre de Staercke [Secretary to Prince Charles, Regent of Belgium] on the Belgian Congo [later Zaire, then the Democratic Republic of the Congo] contribution to the Abyssinian [later Ethiopia] campaign and Belgium's capitulation in 1940; "Bert", Sir Arthur Harris, on the date he became Commander in Chief, Bomber Command; Godfrey Carter on "Crusader" [British North African operation] and the battle at Sidi Rezegh...
Dates: Oct 1946 - Feb 1952
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: correspondence, mainly readers' comments on volume 4 ("The Hinge of Fate") of WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War")., Oct 1950 - Aug 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/57A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: General Sir Kenneth Anderson on 1st Army in north Africa; Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor] (6); Lieutenant-Colonel L V S Blacker (6); Captain John Broome on convoy PQ17; Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Browning on the raid on Bruneval [France]; ?Robert Chapman; Admiral John Godfrey; R G Gregory (4) and Josiah Francis, Australian Minister for the Army, on Australian troops and the Burma campaign; R V Jones on German use of "Window" [the code name...
Dates: Oct 1950 - Aug 1961
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: correspondence with consultants and others on WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War", mainly volumes 1 to 4), A-B., Sep 1945 - Jun 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/18A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: William Deakin (9); [George Gordon] Allen (16); Sir John Slessor on information on the Coastal Command in 1943; Thomas Allen, publisher, on Canadian editions of the memoirs (5); 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg] on Sir Edward Spears reviewing "Their Finest Hour" (volume 2); "Max", 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken]; Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall (2); Ernest Passant, Director of Research, Librarian and Keeper of the Papers, Foreign Office...
Dates: Sep 1945 - Jun 1950
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: correspondence with consultants and others on WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War", mainly volumes 1 to 4), C-I., Jun 1946 - Dec 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/19A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: 1st Lord Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann] on the atomic bomb; R V Jones; Sir Laurence Collier [British Ambassador to Norway]; William Deakin (12); Ian Colvin (4) including (2) on his book on [General Paul] von Kleist; Robert Sherwood; Sir Alfred Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord Norwich] (2); Sir Stafford Cripps sending on extracts from his diary for summer 1939; [George Gordon] Allen (2); Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall (3) including (2) on sending draft chapters to...
Dates: Jun 1946 - Dec 1950
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: correspondence with consultants and others on WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War", mainly volumes 1 to 4), J-Pownall., Jan 1946 - Apr 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/20A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: R V Jones on bombing science (4); Lieutenant-General Wladyslaw Anders [former Commander, Polish forces in Iran and Palestine] on the Katyn [Soviet Union] massacre; Denis Kelly [WSC's literary assistant] (7); William Deakin (10); Daniel Longwell [editor of Life Magazine]; Frank Rye on the Westminster by-election [1924]; "Bill", 1st Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry, Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Telegraph]; 1st Lord Portal [of Hungerford, earlier Sir Charles...
Dates: Jan 1946 - Apr 1950
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: correspondence with consultants (mainly volumes 5 and 6) and others on WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War"), G-Z., Feb 1947 - Jul 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/25A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Air Chief Marshal Sir Guy Garrod (3); Denis Kelly [WSC's literary assistant] (19); Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall (21); William Deakin (5); General 1st Lord Ismay (7); Prime Minister's Private Secretary John Colville (4); Henry Luce [owner and editor of Time Magazine] (28); Daniel Longwell [editor of Life Magazine] (2); Walter Graebner [London representative of Time-Life International]; Charles Wood [WSC's literary assistant] (64); Arthur Hayward [Chief Editor],...
Dates: Feb 1947 - Jul 1953
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Second World War", Volume 2 "Their Finest Hour": Chapter 24 "Dakar"., 11 Mar 1948-27 Aug 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/170/90-105
Scope and Contents Set of printed final galley proofs for chapter on Dakar [Senegal] annotated in pencil by CSC with queries and suggestions, often suggesting less detail "L'art d'ennuyer c'est de tout dire" [the art of irritating, or boring, is to say everything].Covers: plans for the Dakar expedition; landing Free French forces at Dakar; support for General Charles de Gaulle; meetings of the War Cabinet and Chiefs of Staff; delays in the transmission of messages enabling the passage of Vichy French warships;...
Dates: 11 Mar 1948-27 Aug 1948
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Second World War", Volume 2 "Their Finest Hour": Notes and comments by Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall., 02 Mar 1941 - 16 Jun 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/196A-C
Scope and Contents Includes notes and comments by Pownall on subjects including: factual and printing errors throughout Volume 2; the build-up to the German attack on the Soviet Union; the build-up to "Dynamo" [codename for the evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk, France]; the British Expedition Force; the meeting between 6th Lord Gort [Commander-in-Chief of British Field Force, earlier John Vereker] and General Maxime Weygand [Commander-in-Chief, French Army], May 1940; British casualties; the defence of...
Dates: 02 Mar 1941 - 16 Jun 1949
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Second World War", Volume 3 "The Grand Alliance": Chapter 1 "The Desert and the Balkans"., 08 Jan 1941 - 16 Jan 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/203A-B
Scope and Contents Includes typescript and galley proofs of Chapter 1 entitled "The Desert and the Balkans" (provisionally entitled "False Dawn in the Desert", "Hard Trials", and "Minutes of January 1941"), annotated with notes and corrections by various individuals including: WSC, Denis Kelly, William Deakin, Charles Wood, Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon], 1st Lord Wavell, 1st Lord Ismay, CSC, Lieutenant- General Sir Henry Pownall, Jay Gold and Randolph Churchill.Also includes proofs from: Chapter 2 "The...
Dates: 08 Jan 1941 - 16 Jan 1950
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: The Second World War, Volume 3 "The Grand Alliance", Chapter 19 "General Wavell's Final Effort 'Battleaxe'"., Apr 1948 - Oct 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/221A-B
Scope and Contents Includes typescript and galley proofs of Chapter 19 entitled "General Wavell's Final Effort 'Battleaxe'". Annotated with notes and suggestions by various people including: WSC, Denis Kelly, [1st Lord] Ismay, CSC, Sir Norman Brook [later 1st Lord Normanbrook, Secretary to the Cabinet], Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall, ?1st Lord Alanbrooke [earlier Field Marshal Alan Brooke], [George] Gordon Allen, William Deakin, and Charles Wood.Also includes: correspondence from Ismay (3) and Pownall...
Dates: Apr 1948 - Oct 1949
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: The Second World War, Volume 3 "The Grand Alliance", Chapter 22 "An African Pause. Defence of Tobruk [Libya]"., Apr 1948 - Dec 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/224A-B
Scope and Contents Includes typescript and galley proofs of Chapter 22 entitled "An African Pause. Defence of Tobruk" (provisionally entitled either "A Costly Interlude" or "An African Interlude"). Annotated with notes and suggestions by various people including: WSC, Denis Kelly, William Deakin, Charles Wood, CSC, [George] Gordon Allen, Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall, ?1st Lord Alanbrooke [earlier Field Marshal Alan Brooke], [1st Lord] Ismay and Sir Edward Marsh.Also includes sections of Chapter 23 "My...
Dates: Apr 1948 - Dec 1949
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: The Second World War, Volume 3 "The Grand Alliance", Chapter 30 "Operation 'Crusader': Ashore, Aloft and Afloat"., Nov 1941 - Dec 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/231A-C
Scope and Contents Includes typescript and galley proofs of Chapter 30 "Operation 'Crusader': Ashore, Aloft and Afloat" (provisionally entitled "Crusader", "Challenge in the Mediterranean" and "The Mediterranean- the lowest ebb in our fortunes". [Crusader was the codename for the British North African operation]. Annotated with notes and suggestions by various people including: WSC, Denis Kelly, William Deakin, Charles Wood, Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall, Sir Norman Brook [later 1st Lord Normanbrook,...
Dates: Nov 1941 - Dec 1949
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: The Second World War, Volume 4 "The Hinge of Fate", Chapter 43 "My Third Visit to Washington [United States]."., Aug 1948 - Nov 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/293
Scope and Contents Typescript and galley proofs of Chapter 43 "My third visit to Washington" (provisionally entitled "My Third Visit to the White House") annotated with suggested amendments and corrections by various people including Denis Kelly, William Deakin, WSC, Charles Wood, 1st Lord Ismay, Sir Edward Marsh, Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz], Sir Norman Brook [later 1st Lord Normanbrook, Secretary to the Cabinet] and Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall.Some source material also present in the file...
Dates: Aug 1948 - Nov 1950
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: typescript proofs and draft copies of the "Secret Session Speeches" containing WSC's speeches: "Britain Fights Alone" (20 June 1940), "Parliament in the Air Raids" (17 September 1940), "The Battle of the Atlantic" (25 June 1941), "The Fall of Singapore" (23 April 1942), and "Admiral [Jean] Darlan and the North African landings" (10 December 1942), with minor annotations by individuals including WSC and ?Charles Eade., Jan 1946 - Sep 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/70A-B
Scope and Contents

Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from WSC's secretary Jo Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow].Other subjects include: Dutch serialisation rights.Also includes: a note from Martin Gilbert (1963); details of word counts for speeches; cuttings from Life magazine serialisation; copies of Ons Vrije Nederland [Dutch magazine] containing the speeches.WSC's notes and source material for these speeches can be found in files CHAR 9/140-1, 147, 156, 174, 179, 184 and 187.

Dates: Jan 1946 - Sep 1946
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Man by alleyway, 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304K/37
Scope and Contents From the File:

Measuring 195 x 255 mm, this album contains sepia photographs 145 x 90 mm in size, two to a page, followed by 26 blank spaces. They are mainly of rural and urban scenes in North Africa. The only one captioned shows Timgad.

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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Man by door, 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304K/26
Scope and Contents From the File:

Measuring 195 x 255 mm, this album contains sepia photographs 145 x 90 mm in size, two to a page, followed by 26 blank spaces. They are mainly of rural and urban scenes in North Africa. The only one captioned shows Timgad.

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).