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War (concept)

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

 Series

Correspondence: general, 1867-08 - 1930-01

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 5
Scope and Contents

This series of papers includes correspondence with MPs and notables of the period about current affairs and daily business. Correspondents include Herbert von Bismarck, Joseph Chamberlain, William Thomas Stead, Arthur John Bigge [later first Baron Stamfordham], Francis Knollys [later Viscount Knollys, Private secretary to King Edward VII and George V], Winston S. Churchill, and Maurice Hankey. Some of the volumes also include cuttings and printed material.

Dates: 1867-08 - 1930-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 File

From Peace to War, 1965 - 1968

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAN II/4/12
Scope and Contents

Comprising correspondence concerning contents and publishing. Also including letters of congratulation from Harold Macmillan and others (47).

Dates: 1965 - 1968
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Series

Further papers relating to University arrangements during and immediately after World War II, 1939 - 1949

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/War M
Scope and Contents

These chiefly Registry files relating to war-time provisions were not, apparently, there classified as 'War'. The file titles are recorded as found.

Dates: 1939 - 1949
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Letters from Archer Geoffrey Lyttelton to Margaret Lucy Becher and photograph of Lyttelton, 1914 - 1916

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAN III/01
Scope and Contents

Lyttelton writes of experiences during the war, of his experience at Ypres in 1914 as Lieutenant Colonel - he writes on a typewriter, missing the P. Includes a letter regarding Archer being fit for service again.

Dates: 1914 - 1916
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Sub-Series

Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos: letters and papers, 1906 - 1972

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAN I/8/1-12
Scope and Contents

Includes childhood and war time letters to his parents.

Dates: 1906 - 1972
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Sub-Series

Oliver Lyttelton: photographs, 1944 - 1970

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAN II/4/21/1-4
Scope and Contents

Including photographs of Oliver Lyttelton with the 5th Army in Italy during the Second World War, as Colonial Secretary, 1951-4, and at a meeting of the Trustees of Churchill College, 1958

Dates: 1944 - 1970
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Series

Papers relating to University arrangements during and immediately after World War II, 1939 - 1951

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/War
Scope and Contents

Thees files relating to University arrangements during World War II cover, among other matters, emergency provisions, short courses for armed services personnel and staff war service. File titles recorded as found.

Dates: 1939 - 1951
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Sub-sub-class

Photographs, 1880 - 1902

 Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAN II/3/26ii
Scope and Contents

Comprising a large number of photographs of Lyttelton and the Balfour family, and friends (115).

Dates: 1880 - 1902
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 File

Photographs during the Second World War, with the 5th Army in Italy, and as Minister of Production, 1944 - 1945

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAN II/4/21/1
Scope and Contents

Comprising 23 photographs.
Including a photograph of Winston Churchill, Clementine Churchill, Oliver Lyttelton and Clement Attlee, undated.

Dates: 1944 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 File

Printed list of staff war-service, 1939-45, 1945-02

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/CUP 25/8
Scope and Contents From the Sub-sub-group:

These are chiefly the financial and production records of the printing operation.

Dates: 1945-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Scholarly access to this material may be restricted if it contains information exempted from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, 2000. Please apply in advance to the Cambridge University Press Archivist.
 File

Record of impact of the war on Press personnel; marriages and deaths of employees; bombs falling on Cambridge, etc., with two copies of printed account of the Activities of the Press, 1940-2 by Walter Lewis, March 1943, 1939 - 1945

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Pr.B.26 (13)
Scope and Contents From the Series:

In this category is a wide variety of material, some originating from the printing house, some from the University.
As the new Press Archive catalogue is not yet complete, please use the 'Former / Other Reference' to request these items.

Dates: 1939 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Scholarly access to this material may be restricted if it contains information exempted from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, 2000. Please apply in advance to the Cambridge University Press Archivist.
 File

Red Cross and comforts book, 1940-03-01 - 1945-06-15

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/CUP 25/5
Scope and Contents

Comprises:- notes of sums received for Red Cross and Comforts for the troops, with loose pages including notes of wages, 1939-40.

Dates: 1940-03-01 - 1945-06-15
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Scholarly access to this material may be restricted if it contains information exempted from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, 2000. Please apply in advance to the Cambridge University Press Archivist.
 File

Roll of Honour; order of commemoration service; speech of the Vice-Chancellor; menu for dinner given on 17 Apr. 1920 by Syndics of the Press in honour of Press employees who served in H.M. Forces during the War, 1916 - 1920

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Pr.B.26 (16)
Scope and Contents From the Series:

In this category is a wide variety of material, some originating from the printing house, some from the University.
As the new Press Archive catalogue is not yet complete, please use the 'Former / Other Reference' to request these items.

Dates: 1916 - 1920
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Scholarly access to this material may be restricted if it contains information exempted from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, 2000. Please apply in advance to the Cambridge University Press Archivist.
 Fonds

The Papers of Alfred Lyttelton and Dame Edith Lyttelton, and their son Oliver Lyttelton (1st Viscount Chandos)

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAN
Scope and Contents

Political and personal correspondence and other papers.

CHAN 1, contains mainly papers of Hon Alfred Lyttelton and Dame Edith Lyttelton, with a smaller quantity of material of Oliver Lyttelton
CHAN II, consist mainly of papers of Oliver Lyttelton, with a smaller quantity of papers of Alfred and Edith Lyttelton


Dates: 1804 - 1972
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Fonds

The War of 1739 to 1748

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/RICH
Scope and Contents

Annotated typescript texts of seven lectures given by Richmond at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth [Hampshire] on the War of the Austrian Succession, concentrating on the naval aspects of the war between Britain, France and Spain.

Dates: 1912
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Sub-Series

Various eye witness accounts of the Boer War and World War I, 1900 - 1919

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAN I/9/1-3
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Political and personal correspondence and other papers.

CHAN 1, contains mainly papers of Hon Alfred Lyttelton and Dame Edith Lyttelton, with a smaller quantity of material of Oliver Lyttelton
CHAN II, consist mainly of papers of Oliver Lyttelton, with a smaller quantity of papers of Alfred and Edith Lyttelton


Dates: 1900 - 1919
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.