Politics
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 155 Collections and/or Records:
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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.
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Leicester's Commonwealth, seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.04.33
Scope and Contents
'The Copie of a letter written by a Master of Arts in Cambridge to his friends in London, concerninge some talke passed of late betweene two worshipfull and grave men about the present estate and some proceedinge of the Earle of Leicester and his friends in England. Conceived, spoken, and published, &c. A.D. 1584.' This is the celebrated libel afterwards known as Leicester's Commonwealth, the reputed author of which was Robert Parsons the Jesuit, who, however, is said to have disowned...
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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Letters of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, 1565 - 1598
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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).
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Letters on leaving office, 1962-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KLMR 6/19
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Harold Macmillan and Lord Hailsham [Quintin Hogg].
Dates:
1962-07
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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Liber regiæ monarchie reg[ni] Siciliæ, 1555 - 1556
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.02.25
Scope and Contents
Transcripts of official documents of the Kingdom of Sicily 1082-1555. The title is on f. 1, which is torn, and pasted to f. 4, which is blank. On f. 5 begins an address to the emperor Charles V; the signatures of the councillors follow (on f. 7), with an impression of the seal of the kingdom of Sicily. At the end of the fourth volume, on f. 1522, are the certificates of the prothonotary and of 'Jurati nobilis civitatis Messane'. The latter is dated 'viio Martii xiiii. Ind. 1555', with the...
Dates:
1555 - 1556
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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List of commissioners of the peace, 1653
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.08.01
Scope and Contents
A list of those in the Commission of the Peace for each county in England, 1653. The names of William Lenthall, speaker of parliament, and Oliver Cromwell, captain general, with those of the commissioners of the great seal, and a few others, head the list in every county. On the back is an old lettering 'Peace Book, 1653'.
Dates:
1653
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
Literary: Articles, 1908 - 1939
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLLD 23
Scope and Contents
Typescripts, drafts and proofs.
Dates:
1908 - 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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Literary: Speeches, 1909 - 1957
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLLD 22
Scope and Contents
Typescripts, notes and material for speeches.
Dates:
1909 - 1957
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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
Fonds
Louis Lucien Bonaparte: Letters to Alexander John Ellis
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6186
Dates:
1870-1888
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
Minutes of meetings of the Cambridge University Socialist Society and its precursor, Cambridge University Fabian Society, signed, 1911 - 1958
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.47
Scope and Contents
The records that survive are all minute books with a few items such as publicity leaflets enclosed.
Dates:
1911 - 1958
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).
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Minutes of meetings of the committee of the Cambridge Fabian Society, signed, 1977-10-02 - 1984-02-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.44.1
Scope and Contents
Includes detailed results of elections, lists of committee post holders (at rear) and a 'Handbook and Programme' for Michaelmas Term 1983. The handbook contains a forward by Rt Hon Michael Foot MP, the Chairperson's introduction, a list of officers and of the committee, the programme of speakers and events (to include David Blunkett, later MP) and a transcript of Clause 4 of the Labour Party Constitution.
Dates:
1977-10-02 - 1984-02-05
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).
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Miscellaneous documents, many relating to lands and rights held by or intended to be granted to Charles, Prince of Wales, 1619 - 1626
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.09.36
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘Extenta maneriorum domini Edwardi illustris regis Anglie et Francie primogeniti, principis Wallie, ducis Cornubie et comitis Cestrie, facta ... anno regni regis Edwardi tertii post conquestum XIXo’; (2) certificates of the auditor of the exchequer of the value of sundry parcels of lands in different counties, intended to be included in a grant to be made by King James I to Charles, prince of Wales, 1619; (3) ‘The names of such spirituall lyvings in England as are in the guifte of the...
Dates:
1619 - 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).
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Modus tenendi Parliamentum apud Anglos, by Henry Elsynge, c 1660
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ll.03.04
Scope and Contents
'Modus tenendi Parliamentum apud Anglos. In twoe bookes. Composed by Henry Ellsing, Clerk of the Parliaments.’ For a notice of Sir Henry Elsynge (c. 1606-1656), see Anthony Wood's Athenæ Oxoniensis, where this work is said to have been mostly taken from one with a similar title by the father of Sir Henry (Henry Elsynge, bap. 1577-1635), who was clerk to the House of Lords, as the son was to that of the Commons. Henry Ellsing, Clerk of the Parliaments, must be the father, as that title...
Dates:
c 1660
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
Oliver Lyttelton: speeches, 1942 - 1971
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAN II/4/17/1-30
Scope and Contents
CHAN II/4/17/A/1 contains original listings of Lyttelton's speeches 1942-1971
Dates:
1942 - 1971
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 the Lyttelton family, 1804 - 1972
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAN I
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:
1804 - 1972
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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Parliamentary argument, Early 1640s
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.09.57
Scope and Contents
'An argument in the lower house of parliament against the late canons. Dec. 9, 1640.' Transcript of E. Bagshawe, Two Arguments in Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-21, or author's draft prepared for press.
Dates:
Early 1640s
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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Particulars of a royal loan, c 1606
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.02.28
Scope and Contents
'The names of such [in all the counties of England and Wales] to whome privy seales have byn directed in the late loane to his ma’tie'. It is noted in the margin of p. 1 'They wch are noted with the monethes upon their heads thorough the whole booke have paied: others that have the letter d. were dischardged, and the others I suppose did not send at all'.
Dates:
c 1606
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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Personal correspondence, 1932-08-15 - 1956-11-28
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 1/1/11
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Winston Churchill, on subjects including the presence of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in Parliament (2); R A Butler, on subjects including his thanks to JEP for his work in the Conservative Research Department (8); 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis], Chairman of Conservative Central Office (2); Iain Macleod, Minister of Health, reproaching JEP for his attitude and asking for his help; Leo Amery on the position taken up by JEP and Julian Amery on the Suez...
Dates:
1932-08-15 - 1956-11-28
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Personal correspondence, 1957-01-07 - 1958-12-17
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 1/1/12
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Frederick Bishop [Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister] on the resignation of the Prime Minister, Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon]; [Maurice] Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Stockton] on JEP's acceptance of the position of Financial Secretary to the Treasury, and the possibility of a future Privy Counsellorship for him; Eden on JEP's new position; the Rev. W W S March on a church memorial to JEP's parents [Albert Powell and Ellen...
Dates:
1957-01-07 - 1958-12-17
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
Series
Personal: Lady Lloyd and additional material, 1901 - 1963
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLLD 4
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with Lord Lloyd and with other members of Lady Lloyd's family.
Dates:
1901 - 1963
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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
Fonds
Philip Noel-Baker Associated
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/NBKR AS
Dates:
1912 - 2022
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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.
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Political testament of Cardinal Richelieu, late seventeenth or early eighteenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.05.02
Scope and Contents
'Testament politique de monsieur le cardinal de Richelieu'.
Dates:
late seventeenth or early eighteenth 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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Political tracts, c 1640
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.04.24
Scope and Contents
30 political tracts, including speeches to Parliament in 1627 and 1628.
Dates:
c 1640
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
Press Cuttings about Sir Robert Mowbray
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MOWB
Scope and Contents
Albums of press cuttings about Sir Robert's political career. A few menus are included in the albums.
Dates:
1873 - 1898
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre