Records of the Camden Society comprising: minutes of the Camden Society 1838-1897 (6 vols); and index to minute books, 1870 (1 vol); Secretary's correspondence files, 1867-1897 (19 files); secretary's correspondence notebook, 1891 (1 vol); miscellaneous file with list of members, 1858-1861 (1 file); letter book, 1872-1875 (1 vol); subscriptions 1869-1880 (1 vol); Candidates and admissions register 1839-1896 (1 vol); printed report of the Camden Society, May 1842 (1 vol); A descriptive catalogue of the works of the Camden Society, John Gough Nichols, Westminster, J B Nichols and sons, 1862 (containing related papers pasted in [1860s-1970s].
Sem títuloPapers of Sir Geoffrey Elton relating to his publications, 1948-1994, comprising correspondence with historians and publishers, agreements, statements of royalties and other papers.
Papers are boxed as: Historical problems; Books; Miscellaneous publications; Miscellaneous series and Scripta minora; Sources in History; Fontana History of Europe; Correspondence on publications; Studies in History - files; Studies in History Correspondence 1975-1987; Studies in History meeting papers 1980-1991; Studies in History agenda and annual reports; Royalty Payments before 1989; Royalty Payments after 1989; and RHS correspondence.
Sem títuloPapers of George Prothero comprising:
personal correspondence 1886-1922 (15 bundles);
subject files, 1866-1921, arranged chronologically - including papers relating to his early academic career and publications, his memoir of Henry Bradshaw, the RL Nettleship memorial 1892-4, Lord Acton, and the Quarterly Review, 1866-1899 (16 bundles); papers relating to the British Academy, the death of Bishop Creighton, and Prothero's Presidency of the Royal Historical Society, 1900-1901 (8 bundles); correspondence and papers relating to bibliography and the teaching of modern history, 1902-1904 (5 bundles); Creighton and Harvard Lectures, `Colonial administration', 1905-1910 (12 bundles); Monypenny's Life of Disraeli, AJ Butler, Sir H Lyall, 1911-1912, (8 bundles); Quarterly Review, British Academy, Lady Ritchie Fund, pamphlet on the War (and related correspondence), etc; papers 1914-1920 (7 bundles); letter from CH Firth about foreign archives and a related paper, a collection of autograph letters, 1921 (4 bundles);
correspondence relating to the World War One 1914-1922 with British, European and American correspondents (6 bundles);
papers relating to historical studies c1871-1914, including undergraduate and other notebooks, papers on 16th and 17th century historical documents (Statutes, Court of High Commission, etc), notes for his Creighton Lectures on Napoleon III, manuscripts on contemporary international relations (5 bundles);
papers relating to the Bibliography of Modern British History including correspondence, notes on British and foreign libraries and archives, and other working papers 1904-1914 (5 bundles and a drawer of index cards (V/5));
and printed papers including newspaper cuttings, scrapbook, articles (for the Quarterly Review, etc) and papers relating to societies and associations (6 bundles).
Sem títuloPapers of the British National Committee comprising:
agenda and signed Committee minutes 1933-1992 (4 files); records of subscriptions and bank statements, 1972-1993 (1 box file); Correspondence 1972-1993 including papers concerning new management arrangements, 1993 (1 box file, 1 folder); Report for 1927-1928;
Papers relating to Anglo-French, Anglo-Italian, Anglo-Spanish, Anglo-Hungarian, Anglo-Czech, Anglo-Polish, Anglo-Soviet and other meetings, 1970-1993 (6 box files, 1 folder); papers of the International Historical Congress including programmes, proofs, bulletins, and ephemera for the International Historical Congress, London 1913, Brussels, 1923 and Warsaw 1933 (1 box) ; papers relating to International Congresses, 1980, 1985, 1990 (2 box files);
photographs of the first meeting of the International Congress of Historical Sciences, Lincolns Inn Hall, London, 1913; and delegates of the Fifth Congress International des Sciences Historiques, Brussels, 1923.
Sem títuloRecords of the Royal Historical Society comprising:
minutes of Council Meeting 1868-1996 (9 vols) and 1997-2000 (1 file); Council agenda books 1880-1939 (7 vols); Council attendance books 1905-1984 (3 vols);
agenda book for committees 1895-1939, (6 vols); attendance book for committees 1908-1990 (2 vols);
minutes of the Publication Committee 1891-1948 (5 vols) and 1953-2000 (1 file); Finance Committee 1890-1948 (5 vols); Research Support Committee, 1991-2000 (1 file); General Purposes Committee, 1993-2000(1 file); Library Committee, 1892-1948 (3 vols) and 1971-1986 (1 file); Library, finance and publications committees, 1948-1967 (1 file); Membership Committee, 1993-2000 (1 file); Special Committees, 1901-1924, 1914-1915, 1933-1936 (1 vol); Special Committee 1918-1937 with attendance lists 1914 (1 vol); Gibbon Commemoration Committee [1894] (1 vol); Magna Carta Commemoration Committee 1914 (2 vols); Studies in History editorial meetings, 1975-2000 (1 file);
Anniversary meetings, 1938-1999 (2 files); Domesday Conference and Centenary meeting, 1967-1968 (1 file);
[General] Meetings minutes and memoranda, 1933-1956 (3 vols); attendance book 1878-1884 (1 vol); Meeting attendance book 1914-1987 (5 vols);
Anderson Berry Prize extracted Council minutes relating to the prize, 1929-1939 (1 vol); Anderson-Berry Prize Trust account book Jun 1930-Jun 1969 (1 vol);
Library borrowing record, 1884-1932 (1 vol); Library ticket book, 1937-1989 (1 vol); Library Stock Register, 1915-1987(1 vol);
Roll (subscriptions lists/ members list) n.d (1 vol); RHS list of Fellows [1872-1921]; Roll of Associates [1935-1971] (1 vol); Roll of Fellows [1870-1939] (1 vol); Roll of Fellows 1949-1973(1 vol); Fellows and Corresponding members [1874-1963] (1 vol);
Treasurer's correspondence 1879-1881 (2 files); reports of the secretary and treasurer and printed programmes, 1878 1886 (1 file);
Scrap book containing news cuttings, tickets, invitations, printed programmes relating to the Gibbon Comemoration, Lausanne, 1894 and other meetings of the RHS, 1894-1912 (1 vol);
Financial records including: Treasurer's cash book 1881-1886 (1 vol); Account book for Bibliography of Modern British History Fund, 1912 (1 vol); ledgers 1904-1933 (3 vols); cash books, 1962-1977 (2 vols); statements of accounts, 1962-1970 (1 vol); donations books 1892-1926 (2 vols); Protheroe fund combined cashbook and ledger, 1935-1937 (1 vol); RHS stock of publications, 1898-1928 (1 vol)
Photographs including: black and white prints of the RHS dinner, Holborn Restaurant, 1922; RHS dinner, Holborn Restaurant, 1926 (2 copies); decorated letters to HM Queen Victoria on the 60th anniversary of her reign [1897]; and to King Edward, on the death of Queen Victoria, 1901; portraits of presidents of the society, [1868-present] (29 prints); portraits of Hubert Hall, Paul Vinogradoff, Henry Elliot Malden, James Frederick Chance, and Charles Johnson; image of statue of Francis Bacon;
Printed portraits of Rev William Coxe, Archdeacon of Wiltshire; Henry R Tedder; Rt Rev William Stubbs, Bishop of Chester; Emilio Harequain;
A number of personal papers and manuscripts including:
typescript copy of 'Diary kept during the journey through England during the years 1753, 1754 and 1755 by Rienhold R Angorstein', translated by Torsten Berg (1 file);
manuscript copy of 'Mission to the grand Moghul of Padre Rudolfo Aquaviva of the Society of Jesus, his life and death and of four other companions slain form hatred to the faith at Salsete in Goa. Described by Padre Daniel Bartoli [1606-1685] of the same society'. Translated from the Italian by E Rehatsek, (1 file);
manuscript transcripts of diplomatic material for a volume on Prussia by J F Chance, (1 bundle)
papers of Sheila Lambert (Lady Elton) comprising copy of a treatise attributed to William Lambarde (1536-1601) entitled 'Some certain notes of the order, proceedings, punishments and privileges of the lower house of parliament' edited by D C L Holland and John Woods, 1953, annotated by Lamberd in 1976(1 file);
papers of Frederick Solly Flood (1801-1888) Attorney General of Gibralta, comprising his unpublished manuscript submitted to the RHS for publication, titled 'Abridged history of the Writ of Habeas Corpus Cum Causa as a remedy against unlawful imprisonment to which every subject was entitled as a right from the sixth year of Richard I to the disenthronement of Charles I, 1886-1887, 570 pages. Also microfilm copy of this manuscript (1 box);
papers of Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829-1901) Director of the Camden Society, 1869-1897, comprising personal correspondence 1877-1888 (5 letters), and manuscript transcripts of the Verney family papers 1640-1657 (5 bundles);
papers of Rev Dr Charles Rogers (1825-1890), historiographer and secretary of the RHS from 1869-1881 comprising his will, autobiographical pamphlets and polemics;
papers of Basil Williams, comprising letters related to proposed publications, 1914-1921; and
signed woodcut prints of Cyril Saunders Spackman, depicting mainly Welsh castles, (11 prints).
For papers of Sir George Prothero and Sir Geoffrey Elton - see separate descriptions.
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