Malaysia
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
Barlow of Thornby Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Barlow of Thornby
Scope and Contents
1. Provenance and significance of the collectionThe papers in this collection document the varied interests of several generations of the Barlow family of Thornby, Northants, between c. 1850 and 2015, with some material going back to the 18th century.The collection is of considerable interest to a wide range of research: to social historians, as charting the rise of a yeoman and merchant family over several generations; to political historians, as covering the careers of...
Dates:
1707-2015
Conditions Governing Access:
Subject to the terms of the donation, access to papers after 1969 requires the permission of Mr Henry S. Barlow (hsbar@hotmail.com).
Additionally, access to some items is restricted under data protection legislation. These restrictions are marked on the catalogue.
Most of the papers are in good condition. In a few cases, where indicated, papers are currently awaiting conservation and therefore not available to readers.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Briefings for meetings, 1987-01 - 1987-02
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/46
Scope and Contents
Includes: briefing and correspondence on allegations by Lord Glenamara [earlier Edward Short] that the security services set up a false Swiss bank account in his name in 1974; note on a Police Inspectorate lunch; briefing for a meeting with Lim Kit Siang, General Secretary of the Malaysian Democratic Action Party; briefing for a meeting with Sam McCluskie on hunting; note for a meeting with Joan Lestor and Lord Pitt on the ethnic minority vote.
Dates:
1987-01 - 1987-02
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Broadcasts, 1955-10 - 1970-02
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 4/1/27
Scope and Contents
Annotated transcripts of television and radio interviews and broadcasts by JEP on subjects including: immigration; defence, particularly cuts in the Middle East, British withdrawal from Singapore (in interviews with Denis Healey, Secretary of State for Defence, 1967), and retaining use of nuclear weapons; floating exchange rates; JEP's book on the relationship between the Ministry of Health and the National Health Service, A New Look at Medicine and Politics; Parliamentary privilege and...
Dates:
1955-10 - 1970-02
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
File
Copy of a letter from Lettice Shillingford enclosing a letter of recommendation, written on Evan Davies' behalf, from Winston Churchill to a military officer in Malaya [later part of Malaysia], 1950
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/EDVS 2
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Log book, copy letters and photographs.
Dates:
1950
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Evan Davies
File
Correspondence A - L, 1926-12 - 1927-12
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/13
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Edward Grigg [Governor of Kenya, later 1st Lord Altrincham] on his visit home, settling a question of port handling in Kenya, and his health; Reginald Leigh [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary] on LSA's invitation to join the Academie Diplomatique Internationale; 1st Lord Athlone [Governor-General of South Africa] on the good effect of LSA's visit to South Africa and reaching a compromise with [?] Senator Nicolas de Wet (2); Sir Robert...
Dates:
1926-12 - 1927-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Correspondence A - Z, 1951-01 - 1952-03
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/45
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg] asking LSA to write an article on the state of sterling; Sir Denis Boyd, Principal of Ashridge College; Clement Attlee on receiving the Order of Merit; David Ben-Gurion; Sir Ernest Benn; John Biggs-Davison on his biography of George Wyndham; Sir Oswald Birley; Basil Blackwell [Chairman of Basil Blackwell and Mott Limited] on LSA's "The Elizabethan Spirit" and his miscellaneous writings (3); William Bowly on...
Dates:
1951-01 - 1952-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Correspondence L - Z, 1928-01 - 1929-01
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/16
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Henry Lewin (2); Basil Liddell Hart on an article by LSA on army reform; O Louwers, General Secretary of the Institut Colonial International, inviting LSA to join the institute (3); Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary of State for War, on a suggested honour for Major-General Charles Luard [General Officer Commanding Forces in South China]; Harry Luke, thanking LSA for his appointment as Colonial Secretary of Sierra Leone; Joseph Lyons, Premier of Tasmania; 14th...
Dates:
1928-01 - 1929-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
sub-sub-sub-subseries
Correspondence re Waugh and politics, 1959-1974
sub-sub-sub-subseries
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/I21/4/1/523
Scope and Contents
Correspondence regarding political issues concerning the region in which Henry Waugh & Co. Ltd and its successors conducted business, including Brunei, the Federation of Malaya, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand. The correspondence is comprised of originals and copies of letters to Matheson & Co. Ltd and copies of other letters. There are also many related papers, including press articles and monthly political and economic reports on the region.
Dates:
1959-1974
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson and Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf.
Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers.
Access is generally available to documents dated up to 1969. Access to some earlier records may be restricted under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.
File
Correspondence with Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Tuker, 1951-10 - 1952-06
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 2/2/36
Scope and Contents
Letters from General Tuker on the Malayan Emergency, passing on letters and press cuttings from a contact of Tuker's in a Gurkha Brigade stationed in Malaya [later Malaysia]. Also includes a paper by Tuker on Malayan bandits.
Dates:
1951-10 - 1952-06
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
Fonds
David Binnie: World tour diaries and photographs
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8558-8560
Dates:
1873-1874
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
File
Far East, 1933
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BGND B.16
Scope and Contents
Account of journey in Indo-China [later Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam] November 1933, 5pp typescript, with earlier typescript draft; copy of letter to his father on which the account was based; unfinished letter to father 2 April [?1933].
Dates:
1933
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
F.H.H. Guillemard: Photographs
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7957
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of twelve large numbered green box-files of monochrome photographs (the majority mounted on boards) of Japan and the Pacific islands. Around eighty percent of the photographs were taken during the voyage of the 'Marchesa'; the remainder probably date from the late 1870s, including photographs purchased by Guillemard, which include many of the smaller images in the collection. The name of Dr Guillemard and the place are recorded on the outside of the boxes. Pasted...
Dates:
c. 1875-1886
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
File
Geoffrey Amery: panorama photographs of Perak, 1910-07 - 1911-07
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 6/4/26
Scope and Contents
Photographs of [?] Amery's house in Perak [Malaya, later Malaysia] and the surrounding area.
Dates:
1910-07 - 1911-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Geoffrey Amery: papers on the census, 1901 - 1911-03
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 6/4/27
Scope and Contents
Reports, rough notes and official documents on the 1911 census for Perak [Malaya, later Malaysia].
Dates:
1901 - 1911-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Gold Coast [later Ghana] and British Guiana, Malaya, Palestine and British Guiana [Guyana], 1924-11 - 1929-06
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/4/15
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Cecil Hunter-Rodwell, Governor of British Guiana [later Guyana] on subjects including constitutional reform and the report of the British Guiana Commission, Hunter-Rodwell's wish to find another post, an anti-British campaign and the possibility of selling part of the colony to a foreign power; 1st Lord Plumer, High Commissioner for Palestine, on subjects including the financial situation of the Palestinian Government, relations with the French, particularly...
Dates:
1924-11 - 1929-06
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Harold Amery: photographs, 1898-01 - 1909-02
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 6/4/5
Scope and Contents
Photographs of: Perak, Malaya [later Malaysia], including work at a hydraulic tin mine at Chenderiang and various rural and social scenes; local people and scenes in Khartoum [Sudan], particularly local women, horses, camel racing, prison gangs, native troops and local sheikhs; popular views of Italian cities and works of art; scenes from Oxford.
Dates:
1898-01 - 1909-02
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Itineraries: Malaysia, 1974-09
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 3/2/38
Scope and Contents
Papers from CS's visit to Malaysia for trade talks, September 1974, including: itinerary and programme; records of meetings; press cuttings; text of CS's speech at the Financial Times conference on south east Asia's natural resources and the world economy, on the European Community's place in the world.
Dates:
1974-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Itineraries: Singapore, 1974-09 - 1975-10
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 3/2/37
Scope and Contents
Papers from CS's visit to Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia for trade talks, September 1974, including: itinerary and programme; letters of thanks; records of meetings; press cuttings.
Dates:
1974-09 - 1975-10
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
Kuala Krai [Kuala Kerai] tunnel construction photographs
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30325A
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs assembled by Albert George Clark (b. 1880), a railway tunnel foreman working on the Malay Peninsula [Malaysia] on the construction of tunnels in Kelantan state, forming part of the railway line from Kuala Lipis north to Tumpat. The precise location of the tunnels has not been established, but Clark seems to have been based in or around the town of Kuala Krai. The photographs depict some social scenes, aspects of the tunnel construction and railway construction...
Dates:
mid-1920s
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
Series
Legal Business, Overseas and International Affairs, 1947 - 1978
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DGFT 5
Scope and Contents
These papers mainly relate to African and Asian countries.
Dates:
1947 - 1978
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open (except for a few files which are closed under data protection) for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Letters from Lady Diana Cooper to Conrad Russell: transcripts, 1941-08 - 1941-10
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DIAC 1/1/20
Scope and Contents
Letters on subjects including: the journey to Singapore; settling in; visiting Java (Dutch East Indies [later Indonesia]), Malaya [later Malaysia], Rangoon and Mandalay [Burma, later Myanmar].
Dates:
1941-08 - 1941-10
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
'Malay Peninsula', sheet 46, 1926 - 1931
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BGND D.106
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-sub-class:
These maps were compiled by the War Office. Printed on linen-backed paper.
Dates:
1926 - 1931
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Malaya, 1952 - 1968
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/NBKR 4/518
Scope and Contents
Cuttings on Malaya [later part of Malaysia] and press releases on Malaysia
Dates:
1952 - 1968
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of two files which are still closed, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Malaysia, 1963 - 1965
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/NBKR 4/519
Scope and Contents
Cuttings, correspondence and notes on Malaysia
Dates:
1963 - 1965
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of two files which are still closed, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Minutes, 1960-11 - 1962-06
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/6/2
Scope and Contents
Copies of minutes by JA, mainly to Harold Watkinson, Minister of Defence, but also to the Prime Minister [(Maurice) Harold Macmillan, later 1st Lord Stockton] and Edward Heath [Lord Privy Seal], on subjects including: space flight; the RAF base on Addu Atoll, in the Maldives; long term requirements of the RAF; JA's impressions of the American and Canadian Air Forces; Malaysia; future defence requirements; defence of Kuwait; the airborne deterrent after 1970; RAF forces in Muscat [Masqat] and...
Dates:
1960-11 - 1962-06
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.