France. Europe. Nation. Longitude: 2.0000. Latitude: 46.0000.
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Found in 94 Collections and/or Records:
52 letters of Michael Carmichael to his father.
File
Identifier: Acc.11539
Scope and Contents
Letters concern two tours in Europe, his first in Germany and the second in Italy and France.
Dates:
1819-1820 and 1825-1827.
'A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent' bound with a manuscript tour, 1841, of Thomas Davison Bland of Kippax Hall, Yorkshire.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14274
Scope and Contents
The volume includes a copy of the 1841 edition of Murray's handbook alongside a handritten account of a tour taken that year, a list of recommended hotels and a summary of travelling expenses.
Dates:
1841
A rough sketch of the late affairs with the enemy [near S. Jean pied de Port; signed] P Wright, Lt R.Engineers. Augt 7h 1813., 1813.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(79)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Some of the maps were acquired by General Sir George Murrary during his active service, others later for historical purposes. They are arranged as follows: Peninsula (numbers 1-88); France (numbers 89-95); uncertain locality (numbers 95-96); Canada (numbers 97-106); Flanders (numbers 107-133); various military actions, 1761-1846, and undated, especially those of 1813 (numbers 134-164). A list has been placed at the front of each volume; only the manuscript items have...
Dates:
1813.
Account of the experiences of Alpin MacGregor, 1st Gordon Highlanders, as a Prisoner of War, and notes on interviews conducted by his father, Rev Duncan MacGregor, with soldiers repatriated to Holland.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13710
Scope and Contents
Account of the experiences of Alpin MacGregor, 1st Gordon Highlanders, as a Prisoner of War, 1918, and notes on interviews conducted by his father, Rev Duncan MacGregor, with soldiers repatriated to Holland, early 1918.Alpin MacGregor was a Sergeant Major in the 1st Gordon Highlanders. In the regular army when the First World War broke out, MacGregor`s was amongst the first battalions to form the British Expeditionary Force in August 1914. In the retreat following the battle at...
Dates:
1918
Anonymous sketchbook of scenes in northern France., 1791.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13718/7
Another copy of [Map of the area about Denain, Bouchain-Prouvy, Abson-Noyelles]. [Signed] Alex Thomson, Capt. Royal Engineers. Oct. 13th, 1816; with ms notes, dated Oct. 22, 1816., 1816.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(118)
Scope and Contents
Scale 4 inch to 1 mile
Dates:
Other: 1816.
Another copy of [Map of the area about Denain]. October 22, 1816., 1816.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(120)
Scope and Contents
Scale 3 inches to 1 mile
Dates:
Other: 1816.
Biographical memoir and notes on Charles Hodge Mackie, compiled by Anne Mackie.
File
Identifier: Acc.9177
Scope and Contents
Includes an account of their visits to France, 1892-1893, and meetings with Gauguin, Sérusier and Vuillard.
Dates:
1st half of 20th century.
Borthwick manuscripts, consisting of two 15th century Books of Hours, and a 15th century almanac girdle book.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12059/1-3
Dates:
15th century.
Carte de dislocation du Corps d'Armee Russe … le. 10 Fevrier 1816. Paris:P. G. Chanlaire, [1816?]., 1816.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(113)
Scope and Contents
2 maps stuck together with list of infantry divisions. Covers area Ghent -Rheims, Peronne-Virton.
Dates:
Other: 1816.
Carte de dislocation du Corps d'Armee Russe … le. 10 Fevrier 1816. Paris:P. G. Chanlaire, [1816?]; with MS annotations., 1816.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(114)
Scope and Contents
This map has the same title as Adv.MS.46.10.2(113) but is mounted differently and does not have the detailed infantry list.
Dates:
Other: 1816.
[CC.5] Photographic slides, numbers XCC/1-84; Holland, Belgium, France., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.10605/13
Dates:
Undated.
[CC.6] Photographic slides, numbers XCC/85-182; France, Switzerland, Italy, Gibraltar., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.10605/14
Dates:
Undated.
Commonplace Book probably compiled by C Shaw, York.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13514
Scope and Contents
Commonplace Book consisting largely of verse, but also with drawings of a Highland scene and pipers at Farr, botanical specimens from Farr and Edinburgh, and pasted in scraps from a visit to Scotland of 1826, and later visits to Switzerland and France.
Dates:
1826-1865, undated
Copy of Claire Chevrillon-Fabre, "Cinq Années de Souvenir".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9697
Scope and Contents
An account of life in France under the German occupation, 1939-1944.
Dates:
circa 1988.
Correspondence of Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders and prisoner of war during the First World War.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13690
Scope and Contents
Correspondence of Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders and prisoner of war during the First World War, c.1914-1921Letters and postcards of and addressed to Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders, and part of the British Expeditionary Force, c.1914-1921. Riddell, a machine gunner (number 9969), was captured and made a prisoner of war in 1914, during the early weeks of the war. He was captured at the Battle of Bertry, at which time around 500 Gordon Highlanders were...
Dates:
1914-1921
Croques de la paroisse de Bidarray., n.d.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(76)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Some of the maps were acquired by General Sir George Murrary during his active service, others later for historical purposes. They are arranged as follows: Peninsula (numbers 1-88); France (numbers 89-95); uncertain locality (numbers 95-96); Canada (numbers 97-106); Flanders (numbers 107-133); various military actions, 1761-1846, and undated, especially those of 1813 (numbers 134-164). A list has been placed at the front of each volume; only the manuscript items have...
Dates:
n.d.
Departement de l'Arriege, decrete le 27 janvier 1790. Paris: P.G. Chanlaire [and] la veuve Dumez. [In:] Atlas Nationale de France, no.68, [plate] 52., Circa 1790.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(25)
Departement des Pyrenees Orientales, decrete le 9 fevrier 1790. Paris: Chez Dumez.… [In:] Atlas National de France, no. 63, [plate] 43., Circa 1790.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(23)
Scope and Contents
Text on side panel.
Dates:
Circa 1790.
Departement du Lot, decrete le 29 janvier 1790 par l'Assemblee-Nationale. Paris: Chez P.G. Chanlaire [and] la veuve Dumez. [In:] Atlas National de France, no. 55, [plate] 46., Circa 1790.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(22)
Scope and Contents
Text on side panel.
Dates:
Circa 1790.
Departement Hautes Pyrenees, decrete le 4 fevrier 1790. Paris: Chez P.G. Chanlaire [and] la veuve Dumez... [In:] Atlas National de France, no.67, [plate] 53., Circa 1790.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(24)
Diary and notes of Mary Stewart Richardson.
File
Identifier: Acc.5729
Scope and Contents
Concerning her nursing service in France.
Dates:
1914-1915.
Diary of Henry Dyce Paterson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10596
Scope and Contents
Records a tour of France and Switzerland.
Dates:
1864.
Diary of John Maxwell, of Baillieston.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7074
Scope and Contents
Detailing travels in France and Switzerland.
Dates:
1870-1871.
Diary of Joseph Mercer.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7952
Scope and Contents
Concerning a tour in France and Italy.
Dates:
1778-1779.