| Title |
Papers relating to the Joint Services Russian courses |
| Reference |
SLAV.1.C |
| Covering Dates |
1946–1966 |
| Extent and Medium |
59 folders, 13 volumes |
|
| University/SLAV.1.C contains: |
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SLAV.1.C.1
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Air Ministry correspondence.
48 items in envelope. |
1951–1961 |
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SLAV.1.C.2
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Admiralty correspondence.
7 items in envelope. |
1952–1961 |
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SLAV.1.C.3
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War Office correspondence.
45 items in envelope. |
1952–1959 |
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SLAV.1.C.4
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Correspondence relating to officer cadets.
21 items in envelope. |
1951–1956 |
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SLAV.1.C.5
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Correspondence with the Ministry of Defence concerning the training of linguists by NATO countries.
2 items in envelope. |
1955 |
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SLAV.1.C.6
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Correspondence relating, chiefly, to VIP attendance at passing out ceremonies. Correspondents include Sir Anthony Eden (SLAV.1.C.6/5) and Lord Tedder (SLAV.1.C.6/17, 22, 50).
34 items in envelope. |
1953 |
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SLAV.1.C.7
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Correspondence with the Financial Board relating to budgets and estimates; several letters from students suggesting improvements to courses.
24 items in envelope. |
1953–1955 |
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SLAV.1.C.8
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Correspondence with central University offices on proposed courses, costs and teaching accommodation in Lensfield Road and Salisbury Villas. Also includes two letters about English courses for Hungarian students, 1956.
133 items in envelope. |
1951–1958 |
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SLAV.1.C.9
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Correspondence with University officers and service departments about housing and equipping the course. Accommodation was provided at 39 Lensfield Road (known as 'Stella Maris') and 5 Salisbury Villas, Station Road.
35 items in envelope. |
1951–1956 |
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SLAV.1.C.10
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Conference (or seminar) outlines for senior student groups.
25 items in envelope. |
1951–1958 |
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SLAV.1.C.11
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Memoranda, draft syllabus, letters and reflections on the course, its aims and content.
28 items in envelope. |
1951–1954 |
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SLAV.1.C.12
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Course timetables; instructions to teachers and examiners.
20 items in envelope. |
1951–1957 |
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SLAV.1.C.13
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Course timetables and notices, book-loan register and related papers. Include cutting (SLAV.1.C.13/9) from unidentified illustrated paper showing an honorary degree ceremony, with Professor Hill in the procession.
19 items in envelope. |
1951–1952 |
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SLAV.1.C.14
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Correspondence with University officers, service departments and trade representatives about the supply of copying equipment, stationery, furniture and fixtures.
28 items in envelope. |
1951–1956 |
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SLAV.1.C.15
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Correspondence about the supply of books and related teaching materials. Correspondence is exchanged with RAF Kidbrooke and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, book-sellers, Cambridge University Press and Pitman and Son Limited.
57 items in envelope. |
1951–1960 |
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SLAV.1.C.16
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Correspondence about the recruitment, payment and future employment of staff, with related papers. Correspondence is exchanged with individual teachers, the Home Office, Ministry of Labour and service departments. Papers include resumes and references.
374 items in 4 envelopes. |
1947–1962 |
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SLAV.1.C.17-18
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Correspondence relating to in/formal applications for employment, with related papers. Papers includes resumes.
350 items in 5 envelopes. |
1951–1954 |
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SLAV.1.C.19
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Correspondence relating to former employees, with related papers. Papers include references and press cuttings.
88 items in folder. |
1951–1966 |
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SLAV.1.C.20
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Correspondence about course applicants from schoolmasters, college tutors and commanding officers, among others.
167 items in folder. |
1951–1958 |
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SLAV.1.C.21-37
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Nominal lists of students on Courses A-T, some with test marks; sample application forms for course C; correspondence.
6 folders. |
1951–1957 |
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SLAV.1.C.38
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Russian vocabulary lists.
197 items in folder. |
1951–1958 |
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SLAV.1.C.39
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Course timetables and notices relating to classes and course work.
61 items in folder. |
1951–1954 |
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SLAV.1.C.40
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Lists of subjects for student 'lecturettes' and debates.
4 items in folder. |
1954 |
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SLAV.1.C.41
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Programmes of passing-out ceremonies, notes and texts of several addresses by Professor Hill, including that given at the start of first Joint-Services course in 1951.
51 items in folder. |
1951–1954 |
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SLAV.1.C.42
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Passages for translation and composition for army and airforce students and model translations, with vocabularies; referred to as 'Tests B'.
97 items in folder. |
1954 |
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SLAV.1.C.43
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Passages for translation by army, navy and airforce students and model versions, referred to as 'Blue books'.
2 notebooks. |
1951–1958 |
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SLAV.1.C.44
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Vocabulary lists, passages for translation and composition, press cuttings, drafts of the contents pages of an anthology of Russian poetry by Professor Hill.
48 items in folder. |
1945–1963 |
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SLAV.1.C.45
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Russian military abbreviations and their translations; glossary of English-Russian naval enquivalents.
67 items in folder. |
1948 |
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SLAV.1.C.46
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Summarised results of weekly and terminal tests for courses D-T.
15 items in folder. |
1951–1957 |
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SLAV.1.C.47
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Sets of examination papers for courses A-C and E-G; specimens of civil service interpretership papers; correspondence about printing examination papers.
31 items in folder. |
1952–1954 |
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SLAV.1.C.48
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Sets of examination papers for courses K-M, with GCE A'Level and Tripos papers.
12 items in folder. |
1954 |
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SLAV.1.C.49
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Final examination results for courses A-H and K-T.
2 notebooks. |
1951–1958 |
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SLAV.1.C.50
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Russian vocabulary lists.
9 bundles inside hard cover. |
1951–1958 |
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SLAV.1.C.51
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Library register.
1 binder. |
1951–1958 |
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SLAV.1.C.52
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Russian passages for translation practice: an air, land and sea reader. Selected for use of service students (HMSO, 1951). One of the two copies is interleaved with model answers but incomplete.
2 booklets. |
1951 |
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SLAV.1.C.53
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Programmes of conferences (or seminars) for senior student groups; Russian grammar exercises from the JSSL (Joint Services School of Languages) at Crail, Scotland.
26 items in folder. |
1953–1960 |
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SLAV.1.C.54
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Selected examination scripts for courses C-F.
12 items in folder. |
1952–1953 |
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SLAV.1.C.55
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Papers relating to Russia-related cultural events, including concerts, plays, radio and film broadcasts. Papers include programmes, songs and sketches for productions by Joint Services Russian Course students, occasionally in conjunction with the Cambridge University Slavonic Society.
149 items in folder. |
1951–1955 |
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SLAV.1.C.56
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Issues of the Quy Club magazine, The Link, signed menu card and theatre programme.
Creator: Quy Club.
8 items in folder. |
1947–1959 |
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SLAV.1.C.57
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Papers relating to the showing of Russian films. Papers include correspondence with Cambridge University Educational Film Council and Cambridge University Film Society.
60 items in folder. |
1946–1952 |
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SLAV.1.C.58
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Papers relating to the Joint Services Russian Course production of Boris Godunov in March 1949. This production, by Malcolm Burgess, was recorded by the BBC for transmission to the Soviet Union.
120 items in folder. |
1949 |
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SLAV.1.C.59
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Vouchers and accounts for the Joint Services Russian Course production of Boris Godunov in November 1953.
59 items in folder. |
1953 |
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SLAV.1.C.60
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Details of the syllabus covered week by week on courses Q-T.
1 volume. |
Jan. 1957-Mar. 1958 |
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SLAV.1.C.61
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Weekly test results for students on courses A-T.
10 volumes. |
1951–1960 |
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SLAV.1.C.62
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Termly and final examination results for students on courses A-D, G-L.
2 volumes. |
Oct. 1951-Dec. 1955 |
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