Second World War (1939-1945)
Subject
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Found in 2775 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
‘Gold Coast 1944-5’: Photograph album of Flt. Lt. Edmund Bell
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448X
Content Description
Comprises a photograph album of approximately 140 black-and-white images on 30 pages, all dated and captioned by Edmund Bell. The album is housed in a bespoke solander box by Stephen Conway, inlaid with the crest of the Gold Coast Colony. The images relate to Bell's time as a Navigation Officer in Transport Command stationed at Accra (Headquarters No 114 Wing, Royal Air Force) in the Gold Coast [Ghana]. The images depict Bell's journeys from Accra from to Karachi, Cairo, Sudan, Trinidad and...
Dates:
1944 - 1945
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Item
Hamburger Illustrierte (Hamburger Illustrated), 5 October 1944
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MISC 119/2
Scope and Contents
Photojournalistic newspaper published in Nazi Germany. Single copy of this edition: Nummer 40, 5 Oktober 1944.
Dates:
5 October 1944
Conditions Governing Access:
This collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
"Haste to the Battle" (1963), 1962 - 1965
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MLTN 1
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Papers comprising correspondence, notes and press cuttings relating to military history
Dates:
1962 - 1965
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 Jim Moulton
Fonds
Hermann Braunholtz: family and personal papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9845
Scope and Contents
Includes diaries, correspondence, photographs, medals and a set of postage stamps.
Dates:
1890s-2010s (year range approximate)
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
Historical papers: Second World War, 1939-1941, 1950-08 - 1980-08
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ROSK 4
Scope and Contents
[?] Papers used in the official naval history of the Second World War.
Dates:
1950-08 - 1980-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Historical papers: Second World War, 1942-1945, 1949-08 - 1982-08
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ROSK 5
Scope and Contents
Papers used in the official naval history of the Second World War. Many files contain later transcripts of wartime documents
Dates:
1949-08 - 1982-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
Honor Earl: Pastel portraits ('Warriors of the Empire') and papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9397
Scope and Contents
During the Second World War, Earl was commissioned to prepare a series of pastel portraits of service men and women from what were then British dominions and colonies (described as 'Empire servicemen'), including Trinida, Newfoundland, Southern Rhodesia [i.e. Zimbabwe] and Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka]. The portraits were exhibited at the Royal Empire (late Commonwealth) Society in December 1945 as 'Warriors of the Empire'. The collection also includes a series of portraits of North American...
Dates:
1939-1946 (Circa)
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
Sub-Series
India Office and the Second World War, 1934 - 1955
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/6
Scope and Contents
Papers, correspondence and speeches from LSA's time in the War Cabinet as Secretary of State for India and Burma [later Myanmar], including: memoranda written by LSA on India and other subjects for the War Cabinet; telegrams and minutes issued and received by LSA on Indian political and military affairs, mainly consisting of messages to and from the Viceroy of India (initially 2nd Lord Linlithgow, [earlier Lord Hopetoun], then 1st Lord Wavell) and also the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill;...
Dates:
1934 - 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Item
Invitation for Raven to attend an address by Smuts at the Guildhall in London about the progress of the War, 19431019
Item
Reference Code: GBR/1849/FP/269/9/xiii/q
Dates:
19431019
Fonds
Jean Kilgour Hart: diaries
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10262
Scope and Contents
Two diaries of a student of Queen Mary College, University of London, evacuated to King's College, Cambridge, during the Second World War.
Dates:
1942-1943
Conditions Governing Access:
The diaries are 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
JEP War Memories (for Imperial War Museum), reels 1-8, 1987 - 1988
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 5/1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Cassette recordings of speeches and radio interviews and broadcasts by JEP.
Dates:
1987 - 1988
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
Digital access copies available
File
Journal, 1943-10 - 1944-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 2/2
Scope and Contents
Including Second World War service in command of the Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean.
Indexed.
Dates:
1943-10 - 1944-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Journal, 1944-10 - 1945-03
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 2/3
Scope and Contents
Including Second World War service as head of the British Admiralty Delegation in Washington and at the Yalta Conference.
Dates:
1944-10 - 1945-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Journal and accompanying papers, 1940-10-25 - 1940-11-19
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 5/37
Scope and Contents
ELS's journal kept following "Operation Menace", the Anglo-French landings at Dakar [Senegal], including a large number of copies of telegrams and correspondence from the same period between ELS and individuals including: Major Desmond Morton [Personal Assistant to Winston Churchill]; MS; General Charles de Gaulle, Chief of Free French.
Also includes aerial photographs of the Dakar expedition.
Dates:
1940-10-25 - 1940-11-19
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Lady Churchill's letters to Sir Winston, 1940-06-27
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 1/24
Scope and Contents
Letter on Clementine's concern that Churchill was unpopular among his colleagues and staff because of his rough, sarcastic and overbearing manner.
Dates:
1940-06-27
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
CSCT 1 has been fully digitised. If you would like to access the digital copy, please ask ahead of your visit or you can request files to be sent to you via our remote service/reprographics service, at
File
Lady Churchill's letters to Sir Winston, 1941-08 - 1941-12
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 1/25
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Clementine's view that Churchill should take his doctor, Sir Charles Wilson [later 1st Lord Moran] with him on the journey to [Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, for the Atlantic Charter meeting]; Clementine's rest cure [at Champneys, Buckinghamshire]; Randolph Churchill's new post [attached to the fact-finding mission of Averell Harriman, President Franklin Roosevelt’s Special Representative, in the Middle East]; the bad handling of rail transport on the Bank Holiday;...
Dates:
1941-08 - 1941-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
CSCT 1 has been fully digitised. If you would like to access the digital copy, please ask ahead of your visit or you can request files to be sent to you via our remote service/reprographics service, at
File
Lady Churchill's letters to Sir Winston , 1942
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 1/26
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Clementine's Red Cross Aid to Russia Fund; the changes to Churchill's War Cabinet, and Clementine's view that it would be better to leave 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister of Supply, earlier Max Aitken] out of it and have Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps instead; her distress about Randolph Churchill joining a parachute unit [part of the SAS, Special Air Service] rather than rejoining his regiment, because of the anxiety it would cause Churchill; Churchill's visit to Washington...
Dates:
1942
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
CSCT 1 has been fully digitised. If you would like to access the digital copy, please ask ahead of your visit or you can request files to be sent to you via our remote service/reprographics service, at
File
Lady Churchill's letters to Sir Winston, 1942-08, 1943
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 1/27
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Churchill's departure [for Casablanca, Morocco, January 1943] and the bad behaviour of Smoky the cat; Churchill's extra journey to Turkey; stories of atrocities carried out by German soldiers in the Soviet Union against both Soviet forces and Italians; news of the Allied forces entering Tunis and Bizerta [Tunisia]; an unexpected visit from Sarah Oliver [earlier Sarah Churchill, later Sarah Beauchamp and Sarah, Lady Audley]; the success of the campaign in North Africa and...
Dates:
1942-08; 1943
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
CSCT 1 has been fully digitised. If you would like to access the digital copy, please ask ahead of your visit or you can request files to be sent to you via our remote service/reprographics service, at
File
Lady Churchill's letters to Sir Winston, 1944-06 - 1944-12, 1945-01
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 1/28
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Churchill's flight to Malta [on his way to the Yalta Conference], January 1945; searching for a new house in London [28 Hyde Park Gate]; the suspense of the D-Day landings; Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames]'s ATS [Auxiliary Territorial Service] battery firing at V-1 rockets; Clementine's difficult relationship with Randolph Churchill; the rudeness of General Charles de Gaulle; visits to Chequers [Buckinghamshire], including one from Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the...
Dates:
1944-06 - 1944-12; 1945-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
CSCT 1 has been fully digitised. If you would like to access the digital copy, please ask ahead of your visit or you can request files to be sent to you via our remote service/reprographics service, at
File
Lady Churchill's letters to Sir Winston including telegrams from Russia, 1945-02 - 1945-07
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 1/29
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: the journey to the Yalta Conference; the death of Admiral Sir William Goodenough; public concern at conditions in France and Clementine's suggestion that Churchill could influence the Americans to release transport for food and coal distribution; Churchill's success at Yalta [Soviet Union]; a V-2 rocket attack on part of the Fulmer Chase Maternity Home for officers' wives [of which Clementine was Chairman]; Clementine's journey to the Soviet Union for the Red Cross Aid to...
Dates:
1945-02 - 1945-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
CSCT 1 has been fully digitised. If you would like to access the digital copy, please ask ahead of your visit or you can request files to be sent to you via our remote service/reprographics service, at
Fonds
Lady Isabel Marian Schonland: papers, photographs and printed material relating to South African affairs
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8703
Scope and Contents
Papers, correspondence and research materials concerning Schonland's authorship of parts of the narrative of the 'Union War Histories', a history of South Africa's involvement in the Second World War, and her work in promoting harmonious race-relations in South Africa, including work with the Institute of Race Relations. The collection includes papers relating to a survey commissioned by the South African Institute of Race Relations on 'the needs of Urban African Women'. A small amount of...
Dates:
1939-1964 (Circa)
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
Item
Letter about his work with Turkey and Germany re the chrome trade, 1941-09-27
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/GUTH/7/2/36
Scope and Contents
The letter mostly relates to his work surrounding the chrome trade between Turkey and Germany. They hope to persuade the Turks to give the Germans a 'downright refusal’ but this will be against their will. They would like to find a solution along the lines of the 'Tarvisio incident’, or a ‘German-Turkish barter’ where German goods are sent to Turkey before Turkish goods are exported. He describes it as a ‘touchstone or test case for the Turks’ good faith’. He sent his findings to 'T.R.' who...
Dates:
1941-09-27
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
Open.
Item
Letter from Cambridge to Adele and the children at Capel Curig, North Wales, 1940-07-03
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/GUTH/7/2/15
Scope and Contents
He is glad he had accompanied them to Wales at the weekend so he had seen the beautiful mountains and shared such a memorable weekend. The Master [of Peterhouse College] is expecting a commission from the War Office, so was heading to Somerset to see his wife beforehand. He had stayed in College playing bowls until the light failed, then read old letters from Adele in the first years of their friendship, before their engagement. Miss Weiss called, concerned that she might be interned like...
Dates:
1940-07-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
Open.
Item
Letter from Peterhouse to Adele at Capel Curig, North Wales descibing his LDV duties in Cambridge and College life, 1940-07-04 - 1940-07-05
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/GUTH/7/2/16
Scope and Contents
He is treating his letters to her as 'a sort of diary'. Last night there was an L. D. V. (Local Defence Volunteers) parade until 9 - there are to be three a week. The De Bruynes had been to look at their house - the Cornfords had told him that the offer was still open [for the Guthries to stay?], but he had told Cornford that, depending on the length of her stay in Wales with the children, they might move later in the summer. He is enjoying living in his rooms in College and seeing more of...
Dates:
1940-07-04 - 1940-07-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
Open.
Item
Letter from Searle to an Unknown Recipient, 1941-04-03
Item
Reference Code: GBR/1058/COL/11/19/SearleCS/1
Scope and Contents
1 pencil manuscript letter signed from Searle to 'Sir' [likely a member of Pembroke College] detailing Searle's new posting as Regimental Medical Officer. He notes his pleasure at receiving the Pembroke College Magazine.
Dates:
1941-04-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is currently being catalogued. For access please contact the Archivist in the first instance.