Greece
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Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Chiefly circulars, newsletters etc of Greek Committee Against Dictatorship, 1970, 1973
File
Identifier: Coll-1586/J/2/J.70
Dates:
1970, 1973
Collection of Admiral Henry Craven St John
Collection
Identifier: Coll-1872
Scope and Contents
This collection is composed of effects that belonged to Henry Craven St John, a young Lieutenant (later Commander, then Admiral) who brilliantly fought against pirates in the Chinese Seas in the 1860s. It includes: a presentation scroll to Commander Henry Craven St John, conveying thanks for his fighting piracy at Laksui (1866); a covering letter from the Admiralty (1866); a mahogany and brass-fitted medicine box (1860s); and an album of c. 300 watercolours executed by Henry Craven St John,...
Dates:
1850s-1870s
Correspondence, chiefly regarding Summer School in Spetsai, 1969
File
Identifier: Coll-1586/J/2/J.67
Scope and Content
The material consists of correspondence, chiefly regarding the Summer School in Spetsai, organised by F.H.C. Crick and others, dated 1969.
Dates:
1969
Duplicated typescript and printed material regarding the situation in Greek universities and calls for a boycott, 1969
File
Identifier: Coll-1586/J/2/J.69
Dates:
1969
Geological Survey notebook 'V V bis', 1897
Item
Identifier: Coll-74/1/8
Scope and Contents
General drawings made primarily in Greece and Russia, along with notes of those present on the 'Volga Excursion' from the 7th International Geological Congress, 1897, St Petersburg.
Dates:
1897
Geological Survey notebooks, 1877-1900
Series
Identifier: Coll-74/1
Scope and Contents
The series of Geological Survey notebook consists of:
- 10 volumes, chronologically arranged (1877-1900)
Dates:
1877-1900
Photo album of Alexander Falconer Giles and family, 1898-1919
Item
Identifier: Coll-1828/6/1
Scope and Contents
Photorgaph album containing approx. 120 pictures, one postcard and five house plans.
One postcard from Paris representing a Notre-Dame gargoyle, sent to Alexander F. Giles in 1914
Greek archaeological sites in Eleusis, Mycenae and Corinth, undated
Two group pictures of officers at Skateraw Camp, 1905-1906
Photographs of Scottish scenery, such as the...
Dates:
1898-1919
"Polar diaries" and slides documenting David Sugden's research expeditions, 1962-2022
Series
Identifier: Coll-2044/2
Scope and Contents
This series contains six original travel and research notebooks, seven printed and edited diaries, and four boxes of slides, all documenting David Sugden's field work and research expeditions throughout his career, mainly to Antarctica and the South Shetland Islands, the Falkland Islands, East Greenland, and the Pindus Mountains, Greece.There are six original diaries, in notebooks:
"South...
Dates:
1962-2022