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Found in 440 Collections and/or Records:

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Special correspondence: Sir Winston Churchill, 1940-05 - 1955-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/2/4
Scope and Contents Correspondence with Sir Winston Churchill on subjects including: organisation of the War Cabinet; the value of air transport, and LSA's view that the Air Ministry did not give it enough importance; averting famine in India; monetary and commercial policy and the possibility of this causing a split in the Conservative Party; the lifelong friendship between Churchill and LSA; honours for LSA; policy on European Union and India after the war; Army reform; Palestine; the possibility of India...
Dates: 1940-05 - 1955-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Speeches, 1953-01 - 1953-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/47
Scope and Contents Texts, drafts and speaking notes for speeches by LSA on subjects including: tributes to Cecil Rhodes; economic policy, particularly on Commonwealth trade and Imperial Preference; tribute to J L Garvin; the place of the Commonwealth in the world; Indian constitutional development over the war years; the poet Horace; tribute to 11th Lord Lothian [earlier Philip Kerr] and the Lothian Lecturer, Ernest Manning, Premier of Alberta [Canada]; the Crown and Africa; tribute to Chaim Weizmann; Europe,...
Dates: 1953-01 - 1953-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Tabulated results from Hyderabad [India], 1930 - 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 81/18
Scope and Contents From the Series: Records for the 1930-1931 parallax programme of the Royal Observatory Greenwich and Cape Observatory to determine the solar parallax (distance to the Sun) by observations of the minor planet Eros and comparison stars. The records comprise tabulated data sets based on photographic observations taken at Greenwich and at various international observatories (RGO 81/2-48), along with 20 volumes of micrometric measurements of photographic observations of Eros and comparison stars from...
Dates: 1930 - 1931
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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The Papers of Lieutenant-General Thomas Corbett

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CORB
Scope and Contents The collection provides a wealth of information about the training of Staff Officers at Quetta for the Indian Army in the 1920s and 1930s. This material is unexpectedly apposite today since so many Staff College exercises were based on warfare on the North West Frontier and in Afghanistan with Russia as the ultimate enemy. There are numerous files relating to Corbett's endeavours to convert Indian Army cavalry units into armoured vehicle divisions to meet the fighting requirements...
Dates: 1906 - 1950
Conditions Governing Access: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Lord Lloyd of Dolobran

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLLD
Scope and Contents The papers consist of: personal material, including photographs, press cuttings and correspondence; papers on Eastern affairs, including reports and correspondence from Lloyd's time at Constantinople and official copies of telegrams to and from the Turkish Government; papers and correspondence from Lloyd's various Eastern postings in the First World War; papers from India, during Lloyd's governorship of Bombay and also later papers from Lloyd's membership of the India Group; official...
Dates: 1879 - 1966
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please cite as Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, GLLD
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The Papers of Peter John ("Jack") Warren

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WRRN
Scope and Contents

Typescript memoirs of Warren's training as a Royal Artillery artificer, 1919-25, and his experiences as an NCO in a Pack Battery in England, India and Waziristan [now in Pakistan], 1925-33 (including photographs)

Dates: 1980 - 1981
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Philip Cunliffe-Lister, First Earl of Swinton

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SWIN
Scope and Contents

The papers in this collection reflect the events of both Swinton's personal and professional lives. There are family letters and mementoes as well as speech notes, engagement diaries and political correspondence.

Dates: 1833 - 1974
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open (except for 1 closure marked on the catalogue) for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Professor Max Born

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BORN
Scope and Contents

Papers and correspondence of Professor Max Born, his wife and children, and material concerning their family history. Including photographs and artefacts.

Dates: 1811 - 2009
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
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The Papers of Sir Dingle Foot

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DGFT
Scope and Contents

The material held at Churchill Archives Centre deals with Sir Dingle's career as a Liberal and then a Labour Member of Parliament, as well as with his distinguished position in the legal profession, particularly with regard to Commonwealth countries and with his literary skills.

Dates: 1909 - 1979
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open (except for a few files which are closed under data protection) for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR, CHUR and CHAQ
Scope and Contents The papers consist of original documents accumulated by Sir Winston Churchill throughout his life (1874-1965). They have been divided into three sections: the Chartwell Papers (CHAR) and the Churchill Papers (CHUR), with some additional material (CHAQ). Together, the three sets of papers cover the following major areas:Personal (CHAR 1, CHUR 1 and CHAQ 1/1 and 2/1), 1884-1965The papers of Churchill as a private person. They include correspondence with or about his...
Dates: The majority of files date from the 1870s to 1965.
Conditions Governing Access: 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.
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Transactions with the Royal Society, 1858 - 1861

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/391
Scope and Contents

Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The material includes lists of the candidates for election into the Royal Society, 1858, 1859, 1860 and 1861; diagrams of the National Standards of Length; correspondence on the Meridional Arc of India; and a printed paper on the Royal Society Club.

Dates: 1858 - 1861
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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Transcript of interview: Charles Cullimore, 2009

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 119
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 2009
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
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Transcript of interview: Denis Doble, 2004

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 84
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 2004
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
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Transcript of interview: Desmond Higgins, 2010

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 124
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 2010
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.