Politics
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 154 Collections and/or Records:
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Copies of medieval royal, parliamentary and legal records, Seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.09.10
Scope and Contents
(1) Brief notes of petitions to parliament, 8 Edw. II; (2) brief titles of the acts passed 8 Edw. II; (3) brief records of parliament, 4-8, 13-15, 17, 20, 25 and 50-51 Edw. III and 10 and 21 Ric. II; (4) ‘De reformatione pacis inter regem H. 3um et Lewlinum filium Griffini principem Walliæ’; (5) brief records of parliament, 21 Ric. II; (6) ‘Privilegia pro villa Colteshall’, beginning ‘H dei gra. rex Angliæ’ and dated ‘ap. Wudstock XVI die Junii’; (7) a proclamation of King Stephen; (8)...
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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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Copy of an unpublished autobiography, 1901-45
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/STRS 1/1
Scope and Contents
Comprises: Preface; Chapter 1, Early Memories; Chapter 2, Into Parliament; Chapter 3, The House of Commons; Chapter 4, The Soviet Union; Chapter 5, Henry Moore, By-Election Songs, and Waterloo Bridge; Chapter 6, The Spanish Civil War; Chapter 7, Collapse of MacDonald's Government; and Chapter 8, Wartime.
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Copy of an unpublished autobiography, 1945-90
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/STRS 1/2
Scope and Contents
Comprises: Chapter 9, Post-War; Chapter 10, Dalton and Gaitskell; Chapter 11, The Steel Industry Battle; Chapter 12, The Atomic Bomb and Soviet Spies; Chapter 13, Slaugham; Chapter 14, Bevan's Resignation; Chapter 15, Theatre Censorship; Chapter 16, Museum Charges and Clay Cross; Chapter 17, Miscreants; and Chapter 18, The Lords.
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence of King James I, Early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.04.25
Scope and Contents
Copies of letters from King James I, addressed to various persons, 1603-1614 and undated. Incomplete: the first three letters and part of the fourth are missing. All but one are written in Latin, with a summary in English prefixed to each Latin letter. Most of the letters are to the king of Denmark. The other recipients are: the duke of Saxony; the archbishop of Cologne; Sophia queen dowager of Denmark; the ‘duke of Meckleburgh’ [Mecklemburg?]; the chancellor of Denmark; the king of Poland;...
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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).
Fonds
David Ricardo: Correspondence and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7510
Scope and Contents
The collection includes manuscripts of several of Ricardo's works, correspondence between Ricardo and James Mill, letters to Thomas Malthus ans letters to Ricardo's brother in law, J.H. Wilkinson. Also included is correspondence and papers from the twentieth-century concerning the Ricardo Papers.
Dates:
1794-1976 (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
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Dialogue on Mary queen of Scots, Late sixteenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.04.17
Scope and Contents
A dialogue between a traveller and a civilian on the right of bringing the queen of Scots to trial, written shortly after the discovery of Babington's conspiracy; begins 'An honest gentleman, my familier friende, somtyme student in Oxforde of the civill lawe ...'.
Dates:
Late sixteenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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).
Series
Diaries, 1951 - 1961
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KLMR 1
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, speeches, articles, personal papers, press cuttings and photographs.
With press cuttings relating to his father, William Thompson Fyfe, 1906-7.
Dates:
1951 - 1961
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 Lord Kilmuir
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Digest of the laws and usage of parliament, 1707
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.19
Scope and Contents
'Lex parliamentaria in domo superiori, or the laws and usage of parliament alphabetically digested'.
Dates:
1707
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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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Documents chiefly relating to English domestic and foreign politics in the early seventeenth century, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.02.32
Scope and Contents
Copies made in four different hands; the titles to the several articles, except the last, are those prefixed in the manuscript. (1) ‘The manner of the sicknes and death of prince Henrye, sonne to kinge James, anno 1612’; this is an extract from Sir Charles Cornwallis, ‘The life and death of our late most incomparable and heroique prince Henry, prince of Wales, &c.’, printed in 1641; (2) ‘By the Compa. of Marchant Adventers. Reasons against bras money, for ye quoyning whereof a new mynt...
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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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Documents relating to impositions, Early seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.03.17
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘An argument uppon the question of imposicions, devided into sundry chapters by Sir John Davie, knight, one of his majesties learned councell in Ireland, with an answeare to it’ (see also MS Ff.05.21); (2) ‘A remonstrance delivered to his majestie in writinge after the inhibition given by him to the lower house of parliament, as well by word of mouth as by letters, not to proceed in the examininge his right to impose without the assent of parliament’; (3) ‘To the king’s most excellent...
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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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Documents relating to the public revenue for 1688 to 1691, 1688-1691
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.13.33
Scope and Contents
'A brief state of the incomes and issues of their majesties publick revenue from the 5th day of November 1688 to the 29th of September 1691 with memorandums made by the commissioners constituted by one act of parliament made in the second year of their majestys reign, entitled An Act for appointing and enabling commissioners to examine, take and state the publick accounts of the kingdom'. See also MSS Dd.13.09-16.
Dates:
1688-1691
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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).
Fonds
Edward Byles Cowell: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6406-6409
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, sermons, lectures, articles and other miscellaneous papers.
Dates:
1810-1903
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
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Edward Harley, 3rd Earl of Oxford : Diary of Proceedings in Parliament
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6851
Scope and Contents
284 folios. The diary comprises two volumes which have been bound into one. The versos are mainly blank. Inside the front cover: '21888 Ph B44.563' (in pencil). There is an index to vol. 1 at fos 139v-142. Fo. i v (vol. 2) has notes in the text hand. Fo. 1: 'from Puttick sale 1849'. Fos i in both volumes have the label '268/2' (19th century).
Dates:
16 Apr. 1734-17 Jan. 1751
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
Fonds
Edward Moran: Letters to him regarding The Globe
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9324
Scope and Contents
Letters to Edward Moran, sub-editor of 'The Globe' in the 1830s from various Government officers, supplying information for publication in 'The Globe' or contradicting reports already published. A few letters are addressed to J. Gorton, possibly another of The Globe's sub-editors. The Globe was a London evening newspaper founded in 1803 by Christopher Blackett. It merged with the Pall Mall Gazette in 1921. The correspondence has been calendared to provide short summaries of the contents,...
Dates:
1832-1834
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Eighteenth-Century Political and Other Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6342
Scope and Contents
Political papers, verses, and other miscellaneous material, 160 folios. (Fo. 1) Three drafts of a memorandum or treatise on political and social reform in France, in French, dated 1780-1783, 1788 and September 1789. The concluding section and index are at fos 82-83. (Fo. 84) Copy of Capitulations agreed between England and Turkey, in Italian, 1675. (Fo. 94) Portions of a treatise on conchology, by an English writer, in Italian. (fo. 143) [Jacques] Montet, 'Observations sur les Castors qu'on...
Dates:
1750 (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
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Historical Collections, consisting chiefly of Speeches and Proceedings in Parliament in the years 1625, 1626, Sixteenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.04.38
Scope and Contents
Ff. 7 and 8 are misplaced after f. 10.
Dates:
Sixteenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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).
Sub-Series
Hon. Alfred Lyttelton: correspondence, 1859 - 1912
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAN I/2/1-35
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:
1859 - 1912
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Imperial commission, 1543
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.72.08
Scope and Contents
Commission from the Emperor Charles V to concert measures with King Henry VIII for carrying on the war against France; with the seal attached.
Dates:
1543
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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).
Fonds
John Acton, 1st Baron Acton: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4607-5021
Scope and Contents
1. Family papers The papers contain material relating to the Actons of Naples: Commodore John Acton, his nephew J.F.E. Acton and H. Acton, a midshipman; material concerning the Dalberg family, particularly the family property on the Rhine, at Herrnsheim; a few manuscripts relating to Lord Granville; and the 1st Lord Acton's personal papers, including those covering his early years, his parliamentary career and interest in Ireland, relations with his family, and the period of his life spent...
Dates:
c. 1650 - 1900
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
Fonds
John Massie: Letters to him
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8988
Scope and Contents
Correspondence received by Massie on Liberal politics, women's suffrage, biblical studies, and education. Notable correspondents include the politicians Joseph Chamberlain, William Gladstone and Arthur Wellesley Peel, and the suffragist Millicent Fawcett. The correspondence is arranged in alphabetical order by name of sender with 'miscellanea' placed at the end of the correspondence. The whole collection has been calendared to provide short summaries of the contents, including some direct...
Dates:
1870-1928 (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
Fonds
John Ward: Correspondence and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6157
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers of John Ward, including letters from W.E. Gladstone; Charles, 2nd Viscount Canning; Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston; and Sir William Hutt.
Dates:
1815-1885
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
Fonds
John Winston Spencer Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough: Political Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9271
Scope and Contents
Political papers, mostly relating to Churchill's three offices of state: Lord Steward of the Household, 1866-7, with correspondence, accounts and papers relating to Queen Victoria's household; Lord President of the Council, 1867-8, with correspondence between Marlborough and Prime Ministers, Lord Derby and Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Mayo, Duke of Richmond and Queen Victoria, the last mostly confined to times of Privy Council meetings; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1876-80, with correspondence and...
Dates:
1840-1880
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Journal of parliamentary proceedings, 1626
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.12.20-MS Dd.12.22
Scope and Contents
A journal of proceedings in the second parliament of King Charles I, written by a member of the House of Commons. The writer has made many corrections, and in two or three places has employed shorthand. At the end is 'Sic abeunt omnes et cessat gloria regni. Finis parlamenti inchoati 6o die Febr. 1625, et determinati dissolutique 15 die Junii 1626. Stante. D. B.'
Dates:
1626
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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).
File
Lecture notes on politics
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 4/7
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
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Letters of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, 1565-1598
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.03.56
Scope and Contents
A volume of 137 original letters, for the most part from William Cecil, Lord Burghley, to his son Sir Robert Cecil during the years 1593-98, and dealing principally with affairs of government. Many of them are autograph, others have only a few lines at the end in Lord Burghley’s handwriting, and others have only his signature. They are endorsed ‘The Lo. Tresr to my Mr’.The main sequence is prefixed by a letter from Sir William Cecil ‘To my very loving frend Mr William Phayer, the...
Dates:
1565-1598
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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).