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2012 Diary, 2012
File — Box Dewhurst Papers Box 74: Series 431/9
Reference code: 431/9/35
Scope and Contents
Includes loose Filofax pages.
Dates:
2012
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
2014 'Kes' theatre adaptation by Philip Osment and Kully Thiarai, 2014
File — Multiple Containers
Reference code: 389/1/KES/3/5
Scope and Contents
Programme, poster, leaflets and press cuttings relating to the play 'Kes', a theatre adaptation by Philip Osment and Kully Thiarai. Produced by Cast and Right Up Our Street. Performed 5 - 13 September 2014 at the Cast theatre in Doncaster, UK.
Dates:
2014
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
2020 Circus of Horrors Poster, c1960-1999
Item
Reference code: 178R47.1068
Scope and Contents
Manchester, Old Smithfield Market Site, 14 to 25 February, extended to 10 March. Dr HAZE v The X Factor, Pierrot Bidon director, Dani Behr as Cruella E Ville, Macabra, Daemonia, Pandaemonia, Umbra, Penumbra, The Executioner, Exocet, Scud, Humungus, Phantom, Brain Damage, Quasi and Druid, dead celebrities the late Queen Victoria, J Major Esq, Sin Bad and the Pygmy flesh-eaters. Colour illustration of a women with red eyes and sharp fangs leaping towards the observer, purple cityscape in the...
Dates:
c1960-1999
Found in:
National Fairground and Circus Archive
2020 Circus of Horrors Poster, c1970-2005
Item
Reference code: 178R47.934
Scope and Contents
Manchester, Old Smithfield Market Site, 14 to 25 February, extended to 10 March. Dr HAZE v The X Factor, Pierrot Bidon director, Dani Behr as Cruella E Ville, Macabra, Daemonia, Pandaemonia, Umbra, Penumbra, The Executioner, Exocet, Scud,Humungus, Phantom, Brain Damage, Quasi and Druid, dead celebrities the late Queen Victoria, J Major Esq, Sin Bad and the Pygmy flesh-eaters. Colour illustration of a women with red eyes and sharp fangs leaping towards the observer, purple cityscape in the...
Dates:
c1970-2005
Found in:
National Fairground and Circus Archive
A Bank of England Briefing, c1989
Sub-Series
Reference code: 431/1/30
Scope and Contents
Material for 'A Bank of England Briefing', not produced.
Dates:
c1989
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
A Batch of Peers, 6 January 1792
Item — Box LF104/2 Box 1: Series LF104/2
Reference code: LF104/2/2
Scope and Contents
Political satire. In a bakery, George III is shown putting into a baking oven a group of three heads wearing peers' coronets. He is assisted by Queen Charlotte and Pitt. On the table to the left are four more heads wearing coronets with more heads on the shelves to the left of the oven. Speech balloon above Pitt reads, "Blast this roll. it is the crookedest son of a bitch that ever came out of an oven." The king's speech balloon reads, "Such a batch and such a match, there never was I swear...
Dates:
6 January 1792
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
A Battle Royal!, 20 March 1802
Item — Box LF104/6 Box 1: Series LF104/6
Reference code: LF104/6/85
Scope and Contents
Artist unknown. Plateinscribed: 'London, pubd. April 20,1802 by W Holland. Oxford St.' Satire on the Napoleonic wars.
Dates:
20 March 1802
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
A Benediction for a Baby, c1832
Item — Box Montgomery Manuscripts Box 3
Reference code: 19/3/2
Scope and Contents
Handwritten poem by James Montgomery titled 'A Benediction for a Baby'.
Dates:
c1832
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
A Benediction for a Baby, c1832
Item — Box Montgomery Manuscripts Box 3
Reference code: 19/3/12
Scope and Contents
Handwritten poem by James Montgomery titled 'A Benediction for a Baby'.
Dates:
c1832
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
A Biography of George Sanger, c1990 - 2000
Item — Box Sanger Family Box 1
Reference code: 178B40.2
Scope and Contents
Manuscript by June Dick about George Sanger's life, 10pp. Black pen and ink on ruled paper, text only on one side of the pages.
Dates:
c1990 - 2000
Found in:
National Fairground and Circus Archive
A Bon Fire for the Poor or the Shame of Albion Exposed, 1 April 1791
Item — Box LF104/1 Box 1: Series LF104/1
Reference code: LF104/1/25
Scope and Contents
Anonymous artist. Published by S. W. Fores. A large building, the Albion Mills, seen from the Thames, is on fire. Demons rejoice at the sight: one seated under a central arch at the waterside, another, squatting on the chimney of an adjacent 'Gin Shop' (right), applies bellows to the building. A crowd below (on Blackfriars Stairs) shouts "blow away my old dad". He answers, "That i will for what they save in Bread theyl spend in Gin". Another group on the extreme right shouts "Aye now we...
Dates:
1 April 1791
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
A Bouncer, A Belcher, 20 January 1802
Item — Box LF104/6 Box 1: Series LF104/6
Reference code: LF104/6/80
Scope and Contents
Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Inscribed in plate: 'London Pub: Janry. 20, 1802 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly'.
Dates:
20 January 1802
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
A Brief History of Knife Throwing, c1940 - 1960
Item — Box Norman Family Box 1: Series 178B19; Series 178I13
Reference code: 178B19.21
Scope and Contents
Typescript titled, 'A Brief History of Knife Throwing', thought to be written by Hal Denver (aka Ralph Norman), 1p.
Dates:
c1940 - 1960
Found in:
National Fairground and Circus Archive
A brief report of the libel action at Berne, May 1935
Item — Box Cooper Box 2: Series 181/3
Reference code: 181/3/25
Scope and Contents
Ink-duplicated typescript. Published by the IFL (Imperial Fascist League). "These notes will probably be useful to Aryans in different countries and enable them to propagate the Truth".
Dates:
May 1935
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
A Burning Shame or Throwing a Light on the Practice of Pidgeon-plucking, 3 December 1804
Item — Box LF104/7 Box 1: Series LF104/7
Reference code: LF104/7/91
Scope and Contents
Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. Two stout elderly watchmen, each with a lighted lantern hung from the top of his staff, stand on the pavement, on opposite sides of the dignified doorway of Brooks's. Each staff supports a notice: 'Beware of Bad Houses'. Over the door is the notice: 'Subscription Ho[use]'. A tipsy gamester leaves it, saying: "I say! ta ta take ca ca care of your Pockets - I've been in develish genteel Company." He is dishevelled, With hands thrust in his...
Dates:
3 December 1804
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
A Cake in Danger, 20 April 1806
Item — Box LF100 Box 1: Series LF100
Reference code: LF100/21
Scope and Contents
Engraving (coloured impression). A night scene in a London street. A countryman responds to the advances of two young prostitutes, one of whom takes a handkerchief from his coat-pocket. They are lit by the lantern hanging in front of a watchman’s box, within which the aged watchman sleeps, leaning his arms on the half-door. Behind, in shadow, are the houses. Below the title: 'Careful Observers, studious of the Town, Shun the Misfortunes that disgrace the Crown. Gay’s Trivia.' Cake = fool,...
Dates:
20 April 1806
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
A Cat in Pattens, 1812
Item — Box LF100 Box 1: Series LF100
Reference code: LF100/54
Scope and Contents
Engraving (coloured impression). An old woman, wearing pattens, walks preceded by a small poodle, clipped in an exaggeration of the French manner, and followed by a foot-boy in livery, who holds on a skewer a lump of 'Cat’s Meat'. He carries an umbrella under his arm. Her dress is blown back against her skinny form; her hands are in a large muff, and she wears a fur tippet over a tight bodice defining shoulders. She walks with a fixed stare, not looking at a half-naked beggar (right) with a...
Dates:
1812
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
A Catalogue of Dioramic Tableaux Handbill, 22 June 1835
Item — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 1: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.45
Scope and Contents
George Robin's Auction at Cosmorama Rooms. Auction of 'Five splendid representations forming a series of historical Dioramic Tableaux of the interior of the Houses of Lords & Commons, prior to the Conflagration', 6pp.
Dates:
22 June 1835
Found in:
National Fairground and Circus Archive
A Catamaran, or an Old Maid's Nursery, 1 March 1811
Item — Box LF100 Box 1: Series LF100
Reference code: LF100/45
Scope and Contents
An old hag leans back in an armchair of antique pattern; she is beset with cats which swarm round her, and turns her head with a macabre smile to kiss one on the mouth; her left hand rests on a cat standing on the table beside her. Two sit in her lap, another scrambles up her skirts. On a cushion on the floor are two large cats and two kittens; two others lap from a bowl. Others scramble and fight on the back of her chair. A pretty young woman stands (right) holding a cat which is tightly...
Dates:
1 March 1811
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
A celebration between Past and Future, 'Over the Top', 1976
Item — Box Action Space Box 66: Series 426/49
Reference code: 426/49/32
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Posters promoting performances, workshops and projects by Action Space across different periods.
Dates:
1976
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives