First World War (1914-1918)
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 1514 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
Photograph albums of Henry Richard Wallis relating to British Central Africa [Nyasaland; now Malawi] and Uganda
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3051C
Content Description
Two photograph albums chronicling Wallis' period of employment with the colonial service and a folder of biographical information assembled by the donor.
Dates:
c. 1895 - 1917
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Photographs and negatives from the First World War, 1917-04
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 10/2/19
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers include: correspondence; domestic and personal papers; early family correspondence, particularly among ELS's mother's relatives; diaries, including ELS's journals as a liaison officer with the French from the First World War and as Head of the British Mission to de Gaulle during the Second World War; some political papers and military maps; speeches and articles; manuscripts of books and short stories, with literary correspondence and original and copied source material from...
Dates:
1917-04
Conditions Governing Access:
Please notify staff at least 5 working days in advance if you would like to consult this material as it will need to be removed from freezer storage
File
Photographs of events and visits, 1914 - 1923
File
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/SEW/4/3/2/2
Scope and Contents
Includes: interior of the Tipperary Club meeting room in Fitzroy Street; several photographs of Tipperary meetings and social events, including women with children and garden party (with children's train track) in Downing Master's Lodge garden and sewing sand bags for the war effort; exhibits for homemade toy exhibition, including dolls' house (2) and Red Cross hospital (6) made by Marion and Margery Seward; visit of Admiral Weekes (in naval uniform), Lady Jellicoe (with Mrs Keynes), Lady...
Dates:
1914 - 1923
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open
Found in:
Downing College
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Personal, Private and Academic papers of Downing members and associates
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Papers of Sir Albert Charles Seward, Master of Downing College (1915-1936)
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Family papers and photographs of Albert Charles Seward and Marion Seward and their children (mainly copies)
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Papers of Marion Seward
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Tipperary Club: papers and photographs (copies)
File
Photographs of Lise Meitner and others, 1915 - 1916
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MTNR 8/4/3
Scope and Contents
Comprising 17 black-and-white photographs and 7 original negatives.
Photographs of Lise Meitner during the First World War, including the military hospital in Lemberg [now L'viv, Ukraine], where she served as a nurse and X-ray technician, 1915-16 (10), and photographs of Trient [now Trento, Italy] and the Lublin Ghetto [now in Poland], which she visited, 1916 (8).
Dates:
1915 - 1916
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Photographs of others: Max Planck, 1908 - 1944
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MTNR 8/8/9
Scope and Contents
Comprising 35 black-and-white photographs.
Including photographs of Max Planck reading in a library, 1908 (1); Max Planck hiking in the mountains, undated, 1938-9 (3); and portrait photographs of Max Planck by Lotte Meitner-Graf, undated (6).
With a press cutting of a photograph of Max Planck (in German), undated.
Also with photographs of Max Planck's wife, Marga (née von Hösslin), children and grandchildren, undated, 1913-44 (25). Including a portrait photograph of Marga Planck...
Dates:
1908 - 1944
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Photographs of others: Otto Hahn, 1915 - 1916
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MTNR 8/8/6/2
Scope and Contents
Comprising 26 black-and-white photographs.
Photographs of Otto Hahn during the First World War. Including a photograph of destruction at Verdun and a completed postcard to Lise Meitner from Otto and Edith Hahn.
During the First World War, Otto Hahn saw action in Belgium and was then recruited to Pioneer Regiment No. 36, a specialist unit in chemical warfare organised by Fritz Haber.
Dates:
1915 - 1916
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Photographs of Somerville as Fleet Wireless Officer on the staff of Vice-Admiral Sir John de Robeck in the Dardanelles, 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 5/10
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, official papers, lectures, articles, broadcasts and photographs
Also including papers of Commander John Somerville about his father, 1950-91
Dates:
1915
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
Photographs of William Joseph Ward
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302P
Scope and Contents
Comprises a series of photograph albums relating to Ward's work and travels in India, particularly relating to Rangoon and Calcutta, and various customs houses in British India. The albums also cover Ward's war service in East Africa and Iraq. There is a small amount of personal family material which gives an indication of the social life of the Wards.
Dates:
1911 - 1938
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Photographs of Winston Churchill and Clementine Churchill during the war, 1915 - 1970-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 6/2/13
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Churchill with Rear-Admiral Ernest Troubridge, Portsmouth [Hampshire]; on a seaplane in Portsmouth harbour, Apr 1914; stepping down into a launch before inspecting naval installations in Scotland, summer 1914; inspecting cadets from HMS St Vincent, 1914; Clementine speaking at the YMCA canteen for munitions workers, Edmonton [London], Aug 1915; Churchill speaking to munitions workers at Enfield, Sept 1915; with General Emile Fayolle [Commander 33rd Army Corps], France, Dec...
Dates:
1915 - 1970-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
Photographs taken by Lieutenant R W A Ivermee, RAF
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/IVRM
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the slides in the collection were prepared for a lecture called 'Bombs and Bolos' on the British campaign against the Bolsheviks in North Russia in 1919. These have all been placed in section 1. The other slides include a group showing the surrender of the German Grand Fleet at Scapa Flow and the surrender of the German submarines at Harwich in November 1919. There are also a few slides of British warships (most of which were in the Grand Fleet) and two of the Suez Canal. All...
Dates:
1918 - 1919
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
File
Pocket diary, 1914
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 1/5
Scope and Contents
Including First World War service.
Dates:
1914
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Pocket diary, 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 1/6
Scope and Contents
Including First World War service during the Dardanelles campaign.
With a press cutting.
Dates:
1915
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Pocket diary, 1916
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 1/7
Scope and Contents
Including First World War service.
Dates:
1916
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Pocket diary, 1917
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 1/8
Scope and Contents
Including First World War service.
Dates:
1917
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Pocket diary, 1918
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 1/9
Scope and Contents
Including First World War service.
Dates:
1918
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
Poems by Siegfried Sassoon
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10193
Scope and Contents
Notebook comprising fair copies, with some revisions, of poems by Siegfried Sassoon, together with illustrations and decorations. Some of the poems bear the date of their composition. Sassoon presented the notebook to Lady Ottoline Morrell in January 1917 and made additions to it in subsequent years. Contents:Preliminary matter:• [1r]. ‘To victory’ (newspaper cutting from The Times, 15 Jan. 1916)
• [1v]. Feather
• [2r]. Title page
• [2v]. ‘Edition’ statement and...
Dates:
1916-[1930s]
Conditions Governing Access:
The volume 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
Press cutting album, 1915 - 1925
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 9/113
Scope and Contents
Notices of decorations and honours awarded to ELS and of his being wounded. Includes a photograph of black American soldiers on the Verdun road during the First World War.
Dates:
1915 - 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Press Cuttings, 1914 - 1924
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 5/16
Scope and Contents
Including: LSA and the First World War; Britain and her Dominions.
Dates:
1914 - 1924
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Propaganda, political intelligence and Foreign Office work, 1914 - 1929
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 6
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers including: material from JWHM's work for the War Propaganda Bureau (Wellington House), 1914–17, and subsequently the Political Intelligence Bureau, 1917-18 and Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office, 1918–20; correspondence and papers on JWHM's role as Historical Adviser to the Foreign Office, particularly on the history of the war and of the Peace Conference; correspondence on the founding of the British Institute of International Affairs (later...
Dates:
1914 - 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Item
'Psychiatry and the War', 19190418
Item
Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/4/16
Scope and Contents
The article highlights the relevance of Sigmund Freud's theories to this area of study.
Dates:
19190418
File
Public and political: account of the operations of the 189th infantry brigade on 28-29 Sep., 1918
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/104
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers in this class relate to WSC's activities as a person in public life other than those as MP for a particular constituency or as a Minister, and the class inevitably forms a miscellany of papers of widely differing kinds and value. They include notes and correspondence with colleagues, acquaintances, and the general public, on topics of contemporary general interest, on party political matters, and on appointments to various positions, together with invitations to speak at meetings...
Dates:
1918
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
File
Public and political: chapters 1 to 10 of Lieutenant-General Sir Gerald Ellison's history of the Gallipoli and Dardanelles campaign, with related papers., 1924
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/140
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers in this class relate to WSC's activities as a person in public life other than those as MP for a particular constituency or as a Minister, and the class inevitably forms a miscellany of papers of widely differing kinds and value. They include notes and correspondence with colleagues, acquaintances, and the general public, on topics of contemporary general interest, on party political matters, and on appointments to various positions, together with invitations to speak at meetings...
Dates:
1924
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
File
Public and political: chapters VI and XII of the official history of the Gallipoli campaign, with related correspondence., 1928
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/162
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers in this class relate to WSC's activities as a person in public life other than those as MP for a particular constituency or as a Minister, and the class inevitably forms a miscellany of papers of widely differing kinds and value. They include notes and correspondence with colleagues, acquaintances, and the general public, on topics of contemporary general interest, on party political matters, and on appointments to various positions, together with invitations to speak at meetings...
Dates:
1928
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
File
Public and political: correspondence of 1917 concerning the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry., 1915 - 1917
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/97
Scope and Contents
Includes copies of letters from 1915, and proposals for an attack on the island of Sylt in the North Sea.
Dates:
1915 - 1917
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
File
Public and political: correspondence relating to the naval memoirs of Admiral Sir Roger Keyes., 1933
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/203
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers in this class relate to WSC's activities as a person in public life other than those as MP for a particular constituency or as a Minister, and the class inevitably forms a miscellany of papers of widely differing kinds and value. They include notes and correspondence with colleagues, acquaintances, and the general public, on topics of contemporary general interest, on party political matters, and on appointments to various positions, together with invitations to speak at meetings...
Dates:
1933
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.