great britain

Great Britain. Cabinet Office.

The Center holds over 450 reels and 200 fiche of Cabinet Office records produced by the Public Record Office and other micropublishers. This material usually should be requested under this entry format: Great Britain. PRO. CAB [class number/volume number]. The Center's holdings of substantial or complete CAB sets are listed below (many partial sets may be found in the catalog).

Great Britain. PRO. CAB 63/1-191. Hankey papers.

This set contains the correspondence and papers of Lord Hankey relating to his work as a minister during World War II. Contents include memoranda and reports prepared for ministers and the Cabinet; his engagement diaries 1926 to 1937; accounts of his visit to Dominion countries (South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Canada) 1934 to 1935 and his discussions there on matters of defence; correspondence and papers relating to his work in government during the Second World War including, in particular, a number concerning defence,

Papers of Sir James Graham

Cataloged as "Intrigue, influence, and power in nineteenth century British politics" and now part of the "Papers of Great British Statesmen and Politicians" series, this set contains the papers of Sir James Graham, British statesman and reformer. Graham was Home Secretary during the Chartist Disturbances in the premiership of Robert Peel.

Elizabethan Ireland and the settlement of Ulster : the Carew papers at Lambeth Palace Library.

Sir George Carew held several official positions in Ireland and England from 1574 to 1611. During his various terms in office, he carefully preserved and annotated many letters and documents, both ancient and modern. The Carew papers cover the administration of Ireland and the settlement of Ulster during the 16th and early 17th centuries.

Records of the Court of Arches at Lambeth Palace Library.

 This microfiche and microfilm set reproduces the records of approximately 10,000 cases of the ecclesiastical court of appeals for southern England and Wales from 1660 to modern times. These include matrimonial, testamentary, and parochial cases and cases relating to the manners and morals of clergy and laity (including defamation). The Center holds the following categories of records:

Sir William Clarke manuscripts, 1640-1664.

Sir William Clarke was one of the chief secretaries to the Generals of the Parliamentary and Cromwellian army from the end of the Civil War to the Restoration. Clarke's papers concern the British Civil War and the Army and military proceedings, particularly in Scotland. This collection of manuscripts represents one of the most significant sources for the study of the Civil War period outside the State Papers. There is an introduction and guide to the contents at the beginning of each reel.