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First World War

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

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'An Elegy for Claude' by J. Feakins, 2016

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Reference Code: GBR/1058/COL/11/13/Mothe/1
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Dissertation submitted to Sussex University being a semi-fictional account of de la Mothe's life.

Dates: 2016
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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

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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).
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P.S. Laurie Wartime diaries and World War files, c.1918, 1939-1945, 1990-1982

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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
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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).
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Royal Observatory, Greenwich and R.G.O. History Papers (including Philip S. Laurie Papers), 1761-c.1982

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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).