Janus: Records of the Cambridge University Scout and Guide Club, and predecessor Cambridge University Rover Scout Troop

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Records of the Cambridge University Scout and Guide Club, and predecessor Cambridge University Rover Scout Troop

Title	Records of the Cambridge University Scout and Guide Club, and predecessor Cambridge University Rover Scout Troop
Reference	GBR/0265/SOC.102 (former reference: Ms.Add.8283)
Creator	Cambridge University Scout and Guide Club; Cambridge University Rover Scout Troop
Covering Dates	1920–2005
Extent and Medium	7 metres; paper, photograph, plastic, wood
Repository	Cambridge University Archives

Content and context

The Cambridge University Scout and Guide Club (C.U.S.G.C.) was formed in 1953, by an amalgamation of Cambridge University Rover Scout Troop (C.U.R.S.T.), formed 1920, and Girton College Guides, foundation date unknown. The Rover Troop was founded primarily to train members to be future Scoutmasters and included the fencer Charles-Louis Leopold Alfred de Beaumont (Trinity College) and the colonial official and businessman Sir Frederick Johnson Pedler (Gonville and Caius College) amongst its early members. The Rover Scout Troop continued as a subsection of the main club until 1 March 1967 and increasingly came to be called the Rover Crew (C.U.R.C.) or although this term had also been used earlier. The C.U.S.G.C. undertakes both adventurous and community service activities and runs a programme of social events. Further information about the club's activities is on its website at: http://www.srcf.ucam.org/cusagc/.

The records were transferred to the University Archives from the Manuscripts Department on 12 June 2008. An initial deposit was made by C.U.S.G.C. with the Manuscripts Department on 21 November 1978. Further deposits were made in 1990, 1995, 1996, and circa 2003. All were given the classmark Ms.Add.8283. A great deal of the pre 1970s material appears to have been in the possession of Professor Patrick William Duff (Trinity College) at some stage. Accession dates and depositor names for individual items may be obtained from the University Archives. Several sets of the newsletter ''Sky Blue'' were amalgamated by the cataloguing archivist and transferred to make up the set held by the Rare Books Department (classmark: Cam.c.21.83). Four further programmes 1987-8 were presented to the University Archives by Elizabeth Ennion-Smith, archivist of St Catharine's College, on 25 May 2010 and added to SOC.102.2.2.8.

File SOC.102.3.1 was created by the cataloguing archivist by combining Ms.Add.8283/20 with an overlapping set of accounts acquired in November 1995.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Archives, Records of the Cambridge University Scout and Guide Club, and predecessor Cambridge University Rover Scout Troop, SOC.102

Further information

Further printed records, especially the newsletter known as ''Sky Blue'', are in the Rare Books Department, Cambridge University Library (classmark: Cambridge Papers J7788 and Cam.c.21.83).

A copy of C.U.S.G.C. Ladakh expedition report (Cambridge, [1981?]) is available in the West Room of Cambridge University Library (classmark: Uc.7.6629). The papers of Alison Duke (1915-2005), Senior Tutor and Fellow of Girton College Cambridge, and an active early member of C.U.S.G.C., are held in the Archives of Girton College, Cambridge (reference: GCPP Duke). Also at Girton is some material in the papers of Sheila Nevell relating to the Marsden Bay Camps which were the female equivalent of the C.U.R.S.T. Bredon Hill (reference: GCPP Nevell).

The online catalogue entry for Janus was completed in July 2008 and emended in June 2010.

Index Terms

Cambridge University Scout and Guide Club

Cambridge University Rover Scout Troop

University/SOC.102 contains:

SOC.102.1

Governance records.
20 volumes, 4 files; paper, photograph.

1920–2000

SOC.102.2

Administrative records.
35 files, 1 volume, 1 item; paper, plastic.

1945–2001

SOC.102.3

Financial records.
13 files, 1 card index, 3 volumes; paper.

1934–2000

SOC.102.4

Membership records.
3 volumes, 3 card indexes, 2 files; paper.

1920–1974

SOC.102.5

Activities records.
2 volumes, 12 files, 2 items, 1 pamphlet; paper, photograph, wood.

1924–2005

SOC.102.6

Photographs.
3 albums, 1 album box, 2 loose photographic prints; photograph.

1921–1975

SOC.102.7

Club library.
9 volumes, 14 pamphlets, 9 files; paper.

1949–1982

SOC.102.8

Correspondence, papers and ephemera; accumulated by club member Professor Patrick William Duff (Trinity College). The files include a constitution, 1924; a copy of the club rules, 1962; log-books of a camp of Valkyrie III (?Trinity College patrol), 1936, and a trip to Norfolk, 1939; C.U.R.S.T. cash book, 1921-4; accounts and receipts, 1928; correspondence; administrative forms and certificates; internal and external circulars and information leaflets; dinner menus; newsletters, including a copy of Patterdalia, the magazine of Trinity Unemployed Camp, 1939; Woodbadge (leader) training record cards, 1950s-60s; and a ?troop photograph, mid 1930s.
1 box file now 4 folders; paper, photograph.

1924–1962