Higher education
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Series
Australian National University, 1952 - 1965
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CKFT 14
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Papers comprising laboratory notebooks, articles, lectures, correspondence and photographs.
Also includes records of the Kapitza Club, 1922-58 and 1966, and copy papers of the Maud Committee, 1940-1.
With offprints of papers by Ernest Rutherford, 1872-1913.
Dates:
1952 - 1965
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Canadian British Education Committee, 1948-07 - 1951-06
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/58
Scope and Contents
Correspondence on the formation and work of the Committee to encourage British students to study in Canada, with correspondents including: 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken]; [Henry] Harold Hemming, Chairman of the Committee (7); Gilbert Flemming, Ministry of Education (3).
Also includes: minutes; annual report for 1949.
Dates:
1948-07 - 1951-06
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Churchill College, 1930 - 1968
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CKFT 12
Scope and Contents
This series of papers covers a wide range of issues in relation to the founding of the college, and includes photographs.
Dates:
1930 - 1968
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Education: Universities, 1953 - 1963
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ABMS 5/15
Scope and Contents
Working papers on higher education, covering subjects such as student numbers; university entrance exams, scholarships, and prizes; Oxbridge and redbrick university development and buildings; graduate careers and employment; undergraduate 'mental ill health'; leisure and reading habits of students; government grants to universities, funding, and student loans. Consists largely of press cuttings, articles, and survey data, with Abrams's notes. Includes a copy of 'Cambridge Opinion' (1959)...
Dates:
1953 - 1963
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Emergency Provisions (Northern Ireland) Bill (1987), 1978 - 1987-04
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/31
Scope and Contents
Papers and correspondence on the bill, including: details of the 1978 Emergency Provisions Act, with review by Sir George Baker; copy of the 1987 bill, with explanatory and financial memorandum; amendments to the bill by Standing Committee [chaired by JEP]; reports of the Standing Committee on the bill; note by JEP on trial delays in Northern Ireland, with a submission by the Northern Ireland Association for the care and resettlement of offenders on prisoners detained for indeterminate...
Dates:
1978 - 1987-04
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.
Sub-Series
Higher Education of Women, 1880 - 1933
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/CUR 61-61.2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The University Registry guard books were assembled from the 1860s onwards to accommodate loose papers and are the precursors to modern subject files. They comprise documents of all kinds on every aspect of University administration; for example, accounting, professorships, degrees, University officers, property, Colleges, and relations with the town of Cambridge. There are lists of the contents compiled by Registrary Luard (1862-91) and successors at the front of each volume. Titles are...
Dates:
1880 - 1933
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).
Series — NC
Newspaper cuttings on Higher Education, 1974 - 2010
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/NC
Scope and Contents
This is a series of photocopies of newspaper articles (latterly print-outs from the world wide web) on Higher Education matters in general and the University in particular, circulated in the central University offices. There are some gaps where staff were not free to make the compilations.
Dates:
1974 - 2010
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).
File
Papers relating to academics, February 1975-May 1978, 1975-02 - 1978-05
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/1
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with Conservative academics and memoranda setting out policy objectives for establishing better links with the world of Higher Education.
Also includes notes for MT by Adam Butler MP (her Parliamentary Private Secretary) of a discussion on energy policy with academics (at a lunch attended by MT), 8 November 1977.
Also includes correspondence with: Vernon Bogdanor; Leon Brittan MP; Dr Keith Hampson MP; Professor Sir William Hawthorne; Professor John Harold...
Dates:
1975-02 - 1978-05
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in January 2009
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
Fonds
Personal Papers of Beryl Platt, 1939 - 2015
Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Platt
Scope and Contents
The papers listed here comprise personal and biographical records; papers relating to Beryl Platt's Cambridge years; speeches and lectures delivered by Beryl Platt; papers deriving from her work in the House of Lords; and papers deriving from her periods of office as Chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission and Chancellor of Middlesex University. Each section is arranged broadly chronologically.
Dates:
1939 - 2015
Found in:
Girton College Archive
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GBR/0271/GCPP, Personal Papers
Fonds
Personal papers of Sir Lionel Whitby, Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge University (1945-56) and Master of Downing College, 1916 - 1964
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/WHI
Scope and Contents
Includes original articles, diaries, photographs and other papers, plus copies of originals held by the family of Sir Lionel Whitby. Also includes other items such as his undergraduate gown, copies of published books and secondary material donated by his family.
Dates:
1916 - 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Some records series are subject to confidentiality restrictions with the following closure periods:
30 years from date of creation for general administration files, legal records and financial files;
50 years from date of creation for governmental records, including papers of the College Governing Body and College Council, and constituent committees;
100 years from date of creation for personal and personnel records, including tutorial files, staff and fellows files and appointment records, personal finance and pension records. In addition sensitive correspondence and papers concerning College affairs such as disputes and disciplinary matters are closed for 100 years.
Restrictions apply on some personal and private papers.
Series
University of Cambridge and Churchill College, Cambridge, 1969-08 - 1981
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ROSK 18
Scope and Contents
Including papers about Churchill Archives Centre.
Dates:
1969-08 - 1981
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.