First World War
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Item
'An Elegy for Claude' by J. Feakins, 2016
Item
Reference Code: GBR/1058/COL/11/13/Mothe/1
Scope and Contents
Dissertation submitted to Sussex University being a semi-fictional account of de la Mothe's life.
Dates:
2016
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Diary, 1914-06-14 - 1919-07-19
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 3/1
Scope and Contents
Eleanor Brett, Viscountess Esher kept a typescript entry for most days during the First World War, ranging in length from a single line to a paragraph, sometimes reproducing extracts from letters, telegrams, and newspaper articles. She appears to have written her diary retrospectively. Throughout her diary, she interspersed short anecdotes from soldiers about their military experiences and character profiles of politicians, diplomats, journalists, nurses, artists, and other individuals she...
Dates:
1914-06-14 - 1919-07-19
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Medals, coins, badges and commemorative plaques, 1554 - 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/KEN2/19/1
Dates:
1554 - 1919
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Some records series are subject to confidentiality restrictions with the following closure periods:
30 years from date of creation for general administration files, legal records and financial files;
50 years from date of creation for governmental records, including papers of the College Governing Body and College Council, and constituent committees;
100 years from date of creation for personal and personnel records, including tutorial files, staff and fellows files and appointment records, personal finance and pension records. In addition sensitive correspondence and papers concerning College affairs such as disputes and disciplinary matters are closed for 100 years.
Restrictions apply on some personal and private papers.
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Memoir of Eugen Millington-Drake, 1889 - 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MLDK 9/18
Scope and Contents
Upstream: Seventy Years on the Thames and the Plate
Memoirs of Sir Eugen Millington-Drake
Edited by Jill Quaife
Volume 1: 1889-1915Comprising a memoir edited by Millington-Drake’s Personal Assistant Jill Quaife, using Millington-Drake’s diaries, articles published in the Macnaghten Old Boy Circulars [a publication for students who attended Eton when Hugh Vibart Macnaghten was a housemaster from 1898 to 1902], and other passages written by his sister, Jessy. The record was...
Dates:
Existence: 1889 - 1915
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The diaries and letter books (ref. MLDK 11) may only be seen with the permission of the family. The rest of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Photographic postcards, chiefly of Normandy and Scotland , c.1910-1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/10/1/3
Scope and Contents
Postcards with scenes of: /1-10a. victory celebrations in Paris at the end of World War I (1919); /11-54. France (Rouen, Caen, Falaise, Mont-Saint Michel, Dijon, and Bayeux); /55. Belgium (Dixmude); /55-99. Scotland (including Oban, Glen Etive, Benderloch, St Andrew’s Castle, Taynuilt, Inveraray, Inverness, Iona, Lochbuie, Island of Mull): /100-119. England (including Stanbridge Earls, Carisbrooke Castle, Lincoln, Ashley, and New Milton); /120-124. Palermo; /125. Boston; and /126-128. Temple...
Dates:
c.1910-1967
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-Series
P.S. Laurie Wartime diaries and World War files, c.1918, 1939-1945, 1990-1982
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 107/1
Scope and Contents
Laurie worked in the Solar Department at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, which remained open throughout the Second World War. This section includes two wartime diaries kept by Laurie, along with photocopies and a related article. There are two second world war files: one comprised of war-era circulars, notices, and ration lists etc.; the other comprised of bomb damage reports for the ROG. There is also a handwritten 'Klaxon warning' notice giving orders for dome watchers in the event of...
Dates:
c.1918, 1939-1945, 1990-1982
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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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'ROG History 1914-1918, First World War', 1918 or later
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 107/1/6
Scope and Contents
Typescript recounting the work of remaining ROG staff during the First World War in the cleaning and adjustment of binoculars as part of the war effort. Author unknown [Philip S. Laurie?].
Dates:
1918 or later
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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
Royal Observatory, Greenwich and R.G.O. History Papers (including Philip S. Laurie Papers), 1761-c.1982
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 107
Scope and Contents
Files relating to the history of the Royal Observatory Greenwich and RGO, Herstmonceux, compiled and in many cases, created by, Philip Stevenson Laurie. Laurie worked at the ROG/RGO from 1935 to 1977, beginning as a Temporary Computer before going on to become the Head of the Solar Department. While most of his career involved solar work, Laurie also had a passion for ROG/RGO history and became increasingly involved with the RGO’s Archives. On 1 October 1974, he was transferred to full-time...
Dates:
1761-c.1982
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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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Scrapbook, 1914-06-28 - 1914-12-31
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 3/2
Scope and Contents
This scrapbook documents how Eleanor spent the first year of the First World War. It begins as Eleanor recounts hearing about the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, from Prince Louis of Battenberg who sat at the next table to her and her family at the Savoy on 28 June 1914. During 1914, Eleanor re-commenced the running of First Aid classes for women, which she ran from the Duke of York’s Headquarters in Chelsea, London, with St John’s Ambulance. In September 1914, her scrapbook...
Dates:
1914-06-28 - 1914-12-31
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Scrapbook, 1915-01-01 - 1915-12-31
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 3/3
Scope and Contents
The scrapbook opens with a description of Eleanor visiting the French Front, dining in Compiegne and being given a tour of a hospital. Eleanor and Reginald travelled back to London where Eleanor continued her work running First Aid classes at the Duke of York’s Headquarters in between seeing Sylvia [daughter], Zena [daughter-in-law], and their families and swallowing a chicken bone where she ‘thought my last moment had come’. Eleanor returned to Paris, where she comments on the heightened...
Dates:
1915-01-01 - 1915-12-31
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Scrapbook, 1916-01-01 - 1916-09-14
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 3/4
Scope and Contents
The scrapbook opens with a poster ‘Taisez-Vous! Méfiez-Vous! Les Oreilles Enemies Vous Écoutent’ (translated as Shut up! Beware! Enemy Ears Are Listening To You) which Eleanor captions: ‘This notice was put up in all rail way carriages, trams, public buildings of all kinds in France’, as well as a list of battles which began in 1916. Like other scrapbooks in the series, Eleanor combines reflections on her own experiences of the war with military battles which she notes on small pieces of...
Dates:
1916-01-01 - 1916-09-14
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Scrapbook, 1917-03 - 1917-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 3/6
Scope and Contents
Like other scrapbooks in the series, Eleanor combines reflections on her own experiences of the war in typed diary entries, with military battles which she notes on small pieces of paper on the right-hand side of her volume. She illustrates her scrapbooks with postcards, photographs, newspaper clippings, illustrations, letters, and signatures of people she has met; letters, and ephemera.In her diary entries Eleanor reflects on: visiting Compiegne [France]; visiting outskirts of...
Dates:
1917-03 - 1917-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Scrapbook, 1916-09 - 1917-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 3/5
Scope and Contents
Eleanor opens this scrapbook with a photograph of the Queen of Spain and dates of key military battles in 1916 and 1917, the period covered by the scrapbook. Like other scrapbooks in the series, Eleanor combines reflections on her own experiences of the war in typed diary entries, with military battles which she notes on small pieces of paper on the right-hand side of her volume. She illustrates her scrapbook with postcards, photographs, newspaper clippings, illustrations, and signatures of...
Dates:
1916-09 - 1917-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Scrapbook, 1919-01 - 1920-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 3/9
Scope and Contents
This is the final scrapbook made by Eleanor Brett, Viscountess Esher, and is the most sparsely populated out of all the volumes. She notes at the beginning of the volume how she did not keep a detailed diary after 1918, so the dates included ‘are only a few dates of interest’. The book largely revolves around recording her social and travel arrangements from 1919-1920. Contents include: a letter addressed to Miss Hackett [Norah Desmond Hackett] on 29 January 1919, co-founder of the...
Dates:
1919-01 - 1920-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Scrapbook, 1917-09 - 1918-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 3/7
Scope and Contents
This scrapbook largely covers Eleanor's time in Paris, before travelling back to London and later Scotland. Like other scrapbooks in the series, Eleanor combines reflections on her own experiences of the war with military battles which she notes on small pieces of paper on the right-hand side of her volume. Eleanor accompanies many of her typescript entries with postcards, photographs, newspaper clippings of the people and events mentioned.In her diary entries, Eleanor reflects...
Dates:
1917-09 - 1918-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Scrapbook, 1918-03 - 1918-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 3/8
Scope and Contents
Unlike other scrapbooks in the series, this volume opens with a series of photographs showing warfare on the front lines. These photographs capture prisoners, refugees, soldiers, tanks, and ammunition mules in various locations across France, including Ham, Arras, Peronne, Roye, Aveluy, Bapume, Mailly-Maillet, Hénencourt, Bouzincourt, Albert and Doullens. Like other scrapbooks in the series, Eleanor goes on to combine reflections on her own experiences of the war with military battles which...
Dates:
1918-03 - 1918-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.