University Library – Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Whilst most links lead to catalogue records on Janus (the University of Cambridge's archives catalogue) a few lead to records on 'Archives Hub' or 'Access to Archives'. These are national archive catalogues on which the University Library has also catalogued some of its archive collections.
Archives
HPS-related internal administrative records of the Univerity from 1266 to the present (archives of departments, colleges, clubs, etc.). These include:
- Archives of the Department of Anatomy
- Archives of the Department of Biochemistry
- Archives of the Botanical Garden
- Archives of the Faculty of Biology 'B'
- Cavendish Laboratory Archives
- Archives of the Department of Chemical Engineering
- Archives of the Department of Chemistry
- Archives of the Mathematical Laboratory and its successor, the Computer Laboratory
- Archives of the Department of Engineering
- Archives of the Department of Geology and the Woodwardian and Sedgwick Museums
- Archives of the Molteno Institute of Biology and Parasitology
- Archives of the Department of Mineralogy and Petrology
- Archives of the Nuffield Unit Tropical Animal Ecology
- Archives of the Department of Physiology
- Records of the Ray Club
- Records of the Cambridge University Wireless Society
- Miscellaneous Papers and Accounts of the Cambridge University Cognitive Science Society
Manuscripts
A selective list of key HPS-related UL manuscript collections. Contact Manuscripts Department staff for further details of UL manuscript holdings.
- George Airy 1801–1892 (Astronomy)
- *Francis William Aston 1877–1945 (Physics, Chemistry)
- Charles Babbage 1791–1871 (Computing)
- Charles Cardale Babington 1808–1895 (Botany)
- Kenneth Bailey 1909–1963 (Biochemistry)
- Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett 1886–1969 (Experimental psychology)
- John Desmond Bernal 1901–1971 (Science)
- Papers of the Board of Longitude
- Albert Charles Chibnall 1894–1988 (Biochemistry)
- Darwin Papers
- Malcolm Dixon 1899–1985 (Biochemistry)
- *Ulrick Richardson Evans 1889–1980 (Metallurgy)
- Papers of John Flamsteed 1646–1719 (Astronomy)
- James Gray 1891–1975 (Zoology)
- Papers of Edmond Halley 1656–1742 (Astronomy)
- Godfrey Hardy 1877–1947 (Mathematics)
- Robert Hill 1899–1991 (Biochemistry)
- Frederick Gowland Hopkins 1861–1947 (Biochemistry)
- *William John Hughes, Baron Butterfield of Stechford 1920–2000 (Medicine)
- David Keilin 1887–1963 (Biochemistry)
- *Albert Ernest Kempton 1911–2000 (Physics)
- Baron Kelvin of Largs (Sir William Thomson) 1824–1907 (Physics)
- Wilfrid Bennett Lewis 1908–1987 (Physics)
- Edward Hubert Linfoot 1905–1982 (Astronomy, Mathematics, Optics)
- Macclesfield Collection
- Thaddeus Robert Rudolph Mann 1908–1993 (Biochemistry)
- Papers of Nevil Maskelyne 1732–1811 (Astronomy)
- James Clerk Maxwell 1831–1879 (Physics)
- Joseph Stanley Mitchell 1909–1987 (Radiotheraphy)
- Peter Dennis Mitchell 1920–1992 (Biochemistry)
- George Edward Moore 1873–1958 (Philosophy)
- Nevill Francis Mott 1905–1996
- Joseph Needham 1900–1995 (Biochemistry, Sinology)
- Isaac Newton 1642–1727 (Science) (UL webpage) / Portsmouth Collection (Janus) / Macclesfield Collection (Janus)
- Ronald George Wreyford Norrish 1887–1978 (Chemistry)
- William Renwick 1924–1971 (Computing)
- Lewis Fry Richardson 1881–1953 (Physics, Meteorology)
- Francis John Worsley Roughton 1899–1972 (Physiology)
- Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives UL webpage / Janus entry.
- Ernst, Lord Rutherford 1871–1937 (Physics, Chemistry)
- Adam Sedgwick 1785–1873 (Geology)
- Sir George Gabriel Stokes 1819–1903 (Mathematical physics)
- Peter Markham Scott 1909–1989 (Nature Conservation)
- Gordon Brims Black McIvor Sutherland 1907–1980 (Infrared spectroscopy, Science & society)
- Arthur George Tansley 1871–1955 (Ecology)
- Sir Joseph John Thomson 1856–1940 (Physics)
- Alexander Stuart Watt 1892–1985 (Ecology)
- Torkel Weis-Fogh 1922–1975 (Zoology)
- *Francis John Welsh Whipple 1876–1943 (Meteorology, Mathematics)
- *Neil Earnst Wiseman 1934–1995 (Computing)
- Frank George Young 1908–1988 (Biochemistry)
For information on * items please contact the Manuscripts Department.