Janus: Records of the Cambridge University Underwater Exploration Group

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Records of the Cambridge University Underwater Exploration Group

Title	Records of the Cambridge University Underwater Exploration Group
Reference	GBR/0265/SOC.92 (former reference: Ms.Add.8707)
Creator	Cambridge University Underwater Exploration Group
Covering Dates	1961–2008
Extent and Medium	3.5 metres; paper
Repository	Cambridge University Archives

Content and context

The group was founded in October 1957 by Nic[holas Coit] Flemming (Pembroke College, B.A. 1960); [? Peter William] (Bill) Hemmings (Gonville and Caius College, B.A. 1957); and David [Godffrey] Fagan (St John's College, B.A. 1959) to ''practice diving both as an enjoyable sport, and as a way of doing research or exploring the wildest boundaries of the seas and lakes''. C.U.U.E.G. was the first university branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club. The group provides tuition to both novice and experienced divers; and runs diving explorations nationally and internationally, some of which carry out research projects. Past fields of research have included biology, archaeology and psychology. It has won the B.S-A.C. Duke of Edinburgh's Prize for underwater achievement three times. Past members include the astronaut Colin Michael Foal (Queens' College, B.A. 1978). Further information about the group's activities is on its website at www.societies.cam.ac.uk/cuueg/.

The records were transferred to the University Archives from the Manuscripts Department on 4 April 2008. Initial deposits were made in 1974 and 1987 by the Cambridge University Underwater Exploration Group with the Manuscripts Department. Both were given the classmark Ms.Add.8707. A third batch of material was presented to the University Archives by Rowena Crawford (Corpus Christi College), as Treasurer of C.U.U.E.G., on 7 February 2008. A list of which items formed the third accession may be obtained from the University Archives. A contact list (added to SOC 92.16) and SOC.92.19 were presented to the University Archives by Neil Titchener on 14 July 2009.

Files SOC.92.2; SOC.92.12; SOC.92.14 and SOC.92.18 were held by the C.U.U.E.G. scientific officer as a resource to be consulted and borrowed by those planning expeditions. Their contents had become considerably confused and there was a great deal of duplication. The current organisation represents a rationalisation of contents by the archivist prior to cataloguing.

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Please cite as Cambridge University Archives, Records of the Cambridge University Underwater Exploration Group, SOC.92

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Indexed

The online catalogue entry for Janus was completed in April 2008 and emended in August 2009.

Index Terms

Cambridge University Underwater Exploration Group

University/SOC.92 contains:

SOC.92.1

Minutes of general, annual general and committee meetings, usually signed, together with some agenda papers.
2 volumes, 1 file; paper.

1964–1981

SOC.92.2

''Annual reports''. Although labelled ''annual reports'' these are actually compilations of informal internal reports of individual explorations. Not all cover a single academic year and they do not contain any accounts. There are reports covering: 1961/2*; 1963-5; 1964/5*; 1965+; 1966+; 1966-8; 1968/9; 1970/1; 1974+; 1975+; 1974-8. Asterisks indicate draft reports, plus marks those covering a single exploration.
11 items now in 2 folders; paper; Page 17/18 of the 1968/9 report is missing..

1961–1978

SOC.92.3

? Diving officer's correspondence and papers. This file contains group circulars; membership lists 1977/6; a proof copy of the 1974-8 group report; and minutes of a committee meeting held 3 October 1977.
1 file; paper.

1974–1978

SOC.92.4

Newsletter editor's correspondence and papers. This file mainly comprises group circulars, especially newsletters, and membership and circulation lists. There is also a constitution of 3 February 1978.
1 file; paper.

1977–1979

SOC.92.5

Secretary's correspondence and papers.
4 files; paper.

1966–1982

SOC.92.6

Treasurer's accounts, correspondence and papers.
5 files; paper.

1965–1983

SOC.92.7

Cash account and bank account log book.
1 volume; paper.

10 Nov. 1968–10 June 1976

SOC.92.8

Register of members. These are annual membership lists which usually give: member's name and college; subscriptions paid; B.S-A.C. membership number; and information about training progress. Each list is prefaced by a list of the group's officers and committee for the academic year.
1 volume; paper.

1963–1976

SOC.92.9

B.S-A.C. membership application form counterfoils.
18 items; paper.

24 Mar. 1965–6 Feb. 1980

SOC.92.10

B.S-A.C. branch (i.e. C.U.U.E.G.) membership application forms and lists of addresses of previous members.
1 file; paper.

1970–1979

SOC.92.11

Newsletters and information circulars. Newsletters were issued every two to three weeks during term and give details of scheduled group training, exploration preparation meetings and social events. They sometimes include committee minutes. The sequence appears to be incomplete.
1 file; paper.

18 Oct. 1972–28 Feb. 1980

SOC.92.12

Exploration project prospectuses. These items are printed research proposals with budgets; names of patrons; and biographical details of group members intending to dive in the exploration party. Not all items noted on the contents list are extant in the folder.
1 file; paper.

1966–1980

SOC.92.13

Records of exploration projects.
8 items; paper.

1965–1981

SOC.92.14

Exploration project reports, together with published articles arising from project research. These were reports intended for external circulation. They were either printed by the group or published as research articles by established journals such as Nautical Archaeology. Not all items noted on the contents list are extant in the folder.
1 folder now in 2 files; paper.

1967–1982

SOC.92.15

Records of participants in Octopush games, 1977-8, together with minutes of a committee meeting held 1June 1977. This volume is largely blank.
1 volume; paper.

1 June 1977–7 Mar. 1978

SOC.92.16

Material collected and created during celebrations of the group's fiftieth year. The material comprises a CD of digital versions (pdf format) of group records; a contact list and guest book from the anniversary dinner held 3 December 2007; a celebration programme; a bibliography of publications arising from the work of the C.U.U.E.G., together with copies of some of these; and four photographs [of the Illyria exploration, 1967].
1 CD, 1 file, 1 volume; cd, paper.

1967–2007

SOC.92.17.1-3

Circulars received from the University Federation of Sub-Aqua Clubs, 1975, and the British Sub-Aqua Club, 1972-80. There is also a list of expired subscriptions to B.S-A.C., 1979.
3 files; paper.

1972–1980

SOC.92.18

Collected reference material including scholarly articles, diving publications and reports of other sub-aqua groups.
1 folder now 2 files; paper.

1967–1979

SOC.92.19

Heinke Trophy application.
1 comb-bound volume.

Mar. 2008