Janus: Records of the Cambridge University Explorers' and Travellers' Club

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Records of the Cambridge University Explorers' and Travellers' Club

Title	Records of the Cambridge University Explorers' and Travellers' Club
Reference	GBR/0265/SOC.75 (former reference: Ms.Add.8645)
Creator	Cambridge University Explorers' and Travellers' Club
Covering Dates	1954–1985
Extent and Medium	1 volume, 6 files, 12 booklets; paper
Repository	Cambridge University Archives

Content and context

The club was formed by John Graham Esplen, St Catharine's, on 9 June 1954. It sought to support worldwide expeditions led by university members through the provision of: networking opportunities for persons wishing to organise and/or support expeditions, a speaker programme, a store for expedition equipment, a cache of information on potential sources of funding and equipment, a library of maps and expedition reports, and publication of a club magazine. The associated Cambridge Expedition Committee approved around twenty-five CUETC-advocated trips annually. These expeditions were usually concerned with academic research or field work in undeveloped countries. The club's members were largely, though not exclusively, undergraduates. It liaised closely with the Geography Department and the Cambridge University Expeditions Fund. The club was occasionally referred to as the ''Wogs and Trogs''. At some point between 1985 and 2007 the club changed its name Cambridge University Expeditions Society. Information about its activities is on its website at http://www.srcf.ucam.org/cuex/.

SOC.75.1-2 were transferred to the University Archives from the Manuscripts Department on 12 November 2007. They had been presented by the president of the Cambridge University Explorers' and Travellers' Club, John Snyder of Christ's College, Cambridge to the Manuscripts Department on 4 July 1986 and had been give the classmark Ms.Add.8645. SOC.75.3-5 were presented to the University Archives by Dr J. Hedger on 15 November 2012.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Archives, Records of the Cambridge University Explorers' and Travellers' Club, SOC.75

Further information

Further printed records are in the Rare Books Department, Cambridge University Library (classmark: Cambridge Papers J 3745 and Cambridge Papers 2nd series, Societies 25). See also: MS.Add.8646 report and papers of the Cambridge Expedition to Ecuador, 1985-6.

The online catalogue entry for Janus was completed in November 2007 and emended in january 2013.

Index Terms

Clubs

Explorers

Field Work

Geographical Exploration

Scientific Expeditions

Travellers

Cambridge University Explorers' and Travellers' Club

University/SOC.75 contains:

SOC.75.1

Minutes of meetings held 1954-62, signed. The volume includes lists of committee members and notes on lectures given by both club and guest speakers. Term cards for Michaelmas 1960, Michaelmas 1961 and Lent 1962 are enclosed. A list of past members present at the twenty-fifth anniversary dinner is pasted to the inside of the front cover.
1 volume; paper; The covers and spine are detached and some pages are loose. There is some minor water damage..

1954–1978

SOC.75.2

Presidents' correspondence and papers.
6 files; paper.

1977–1985

SOC.75.3

Visa, the journal of the Cambridge University Explorers' and Travellers' Club.
9 issues.

1955–1966

SOC.75.4

Cambridge Expeditions Journal.
2 issues.

1965–1966

SOC.75.5

Baboons and bilharzia. Report of the Cambridge Mwanze expedition.
1 booklet.

1965