An album compiled by three students (Bill Bawtree, Jack Nelson and Tony Milward) who worked as volunteers during the Great Strike with notes on their activities, photographs and also notes on the founding of the Biscuit Club.
Re-used, probably by Henry Thirkill, Senior Tutor of Clare College, for agendas and notes on meetings of General Board of Studies (of Cambridge University), 1924.
Volume signed by College Fellows and their wives, presented to Sir Henry Thirkill on his retirement as Master in 1958. Includes a summary of Thirkill's career and two copies of the retirement dinner menu.
File contains:
(1) Silhouettes of Thirkill, Telfer and Mollison
(2) Reproduction of the Conversation Piece by Terence Cuneo 1949
Prints of portraits of Lady Clare, John Moore (Bishop of Ely), Hugh Latimer (Bishop of Worcester), John Tillotson (Archbishop of Canterbury), Charles Cornwallis, one unidentified.
Contains:
(1) 'Ultramicroscopy and ultramicroscopic particles'', from Science Progress, 1909
(2) 'On the nature of magneto-cathodic rays'', 1910 from Proceedings of Royal Society
(3) 'On the recombination of the ions produced by Rontgen rays', 1913 from Proceedings of Royal Society
Includes an autographed volume presented on his retirement as Master in 1958 and "H.T." a booklet containing reminiscences by friends presented on his 80th birthday in August 1966.
Includes images of Thirkill and other people connected to Clare as well as personal photos and images of Clare College including Dilettante dinner and tables laid in Senior Common Room