Special Collections and Archives

Princess Elizabeth, who celebrated her 21st birthday at Capetown today, broadcast a speech to the youth of the Empire from the Gardens of Government House at Capetown this evening

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/

Agency: Popperfoto

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip on their wedding day

ITN/5/14/29
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20 November 1947

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

Agency: Press Association

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip on their wedding day

ITN/5/14/31
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20 November 1947

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

A November 1947 library picture of the Queen (then Princess Elizabeth) and Prince Philip as they leave Westminster Abbey after their wedding

Broadcast Date: 9 April 1976

Agency: Press Association

Queen Mother, King George VI, Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend

ITN/5/15/131
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6 July 1947

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

Peter Townsend at Morning Service with the Royal Family. Group Captain Peter Townsend, then an Equerry to the King, leaving St Paul's Cathedral, London with the Royal Family after attending morning service on a National Day of Prayer in 1947

Broadcast Date: 10 November 1988

Agency: Unknown

The Queen Mother attending a St James's Palace garden party in aid of the British Empire Nurses War Memorial Fund

ITN/5/15/132
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8 July 1947

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

On 4 August 1980, the Queen Mother celebrates her 80th birthday. The Queen Mother has always been famous for her millinery and in this July 1947 library picture she wears a striking toque, in grey felt, decorated all round the high brim with clipped ostrich feathers, finished off with a felt bow on the right side. The occasion was as Queen Elizabeth she attended a St James's Palace garden party in aid of the British Empire Nurses War Memorial Fund

Broadcast Date: 3 April 1980

Agency: Press Association

Newspaper article "Northern Poem is Masterpiece" by David Martin

DP/MG/2/10
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8 June 1947

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Reynolds Sunday. A review of "Coldknuckles" praising Gibson's use of "regional lore and dialect", whilst always maintaining a high level of "imagination and wordmanship"

Newspaper article "Mr Gibson"

DP/MG/2/11
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13 June 1947

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Manchester Guardian, author "H I'A F". A review of "Coldknuckles" praising Gibson's handling of the Northumbrian dialect. The cutting was forwarded to Frederick Mullen Ltd. and is glued to a pre-printed form

Poem "Edward Thomas" by Ralph Lawrence

DP/MT/1/6/4
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Autumn 1947

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Newspaper unknown

"Practical Large Scale Cookery: National Institutional & Catering Management Examination: Gloucester Training College of Domestic Science Group A Test 2"

D525/3/2
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4 December 1947

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Reverend Beck’s History of the Colleges 1847-1947

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photographs of Miss Bowen with a teaching practice group in Stroud and of St Mary's art room

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photographer unknown

Programme for production of "She Passed Through Lorraine" by Lionel Hale

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Performed by the junior year of the Colleges of St Paul and St Mary. Signed by members of the cast and production team

Western Joint Board examination paper History Advanced Scheme A Paper I

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20 June 1947

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

With pencil and ink annotations

"The Arabs: A Puffin Picture Book" by R B Serjeant and Edward Bawden

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Published by Penguin Books Limited, Middlesex

Year Secretary's records of his year members, kept by Bill Elliot

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Alphabetical address book with general information page at back. Sheets loose

Letter to John Taylor from Cyril Baker with news of year members 1939 - 1941

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

A review of the performance “Murder in the Cathedral” at St Paul’s College by Joan M Pritchard

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Essay “What reasons can you offer for the collapse of the City State Organisation in the Government of Rome?” by Joan M Pritchard

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Essay “What reasons can you offer for the disruption of the Roman Empire?” by Joan M Pritchard

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Reverend Beck’s History of the Cheltenham Colleges 1847-1947

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip on their wedding day

ITN/5/14/32
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20 November 1947

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

A November 1947 library picture of the Queen (then Princess Elizabeth) and Prince Philip as they leave Westminster Abbey after their wedding

Agency: Press Association

Queen Elizabeth wedding balcony scene at Buckingham Palace

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20 November 1947

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

Queen Elizabeth OBIT

Broadcast Date: 9 June 1977

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/

Agency: Fox Photos

Newspaper article "Dramatic Poem"

DP/MG/2/8
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c.1947

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in John O'London, author "W M". A review of "Coldknuckles", praising the "touch of magic in the description of his opening chapter"

Letter from unknown to Julian Thomas thanking him for sending a book of essays and hoping to meet his daughter on her travels to the USA

DP/ET/5/2/14
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1 September 1947

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

"One Step Backward Taken" Christmas greeting

DP/ET/5/3/2
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1947

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 3,050 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. This was one of the 350 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender. This poem was collected in "Steeple Bush published 1947

Western Joint Board examination paper English Literature Ordinary and Alternative to Essay, Advanced

D446/8
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13 June 1947

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

With pencil and ink annotations

Photograph of Gloucestershire Training College of Domestic Science students outside Barrack Square buildings

D525/1/5
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c.1946 - 1947

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photographer unknown. Annotated with students' names on reverse

"Institutional Management Association: National Institutional and Catering Management Examination: Business Affairs and Simple Book-Keeping"

D525/3/3
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8 December 1947

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Annotated "E L Brown". Includes pencil annotations

"Institutional Management Association: National Institutional and Catering Management Examination: Institutional Management Theory"

D525/3/6
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11 December 1947

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Annotated "E L Brown"

Photograph of Miss E W Jones, Rev Beck and the Archbishop of Canterbury at the Centenary celebrations

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Christmas card from H K Hartley

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

"Activity in the Primary School" by M V Daniel

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Published by Basil Blackwell, Oxford

Photograph of Bernard Wilson in Carthage

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photographer unknown

“History of the Cheltenham Colleges 1847-1947” by Reverend W E Beck

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Queen Elizabeth engagement announcement

ITN/5/14/27
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July 1947

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

The engagement of Princess Elizabeth to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, Royal Navy, is announced, and the happy young couple are pictured together at Buckingham Palace. Queen and Prince Philip's Silver Wedding. Press Association library photo from a collection re-issued to mark the silver wedding of The Queen and Prince Philip, who will have been married 25 years on 20 November

Broadcast Date: August 1972

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/

Agency: Press Association

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip Wedding

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20 November 1947

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

The Royal Silver Wedding. The scene in Westminster Abbey on 20 November 1947 during the wedding ceremony of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. The ceremony was conducted by the then Archbishop of Canterbury, the late Lord Fisher. Flanking the royal couple are King George VI and the groomsman, the Marquess of Milford Haven, Queen Elizabeth, now the Queen Mother, is seen on the right

Broadcast Date: 26 October 1972

Agency: Central Press Photos

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip on their wedding day