Box Biggs Box 5
Contains 26 Results:
Scrapbook, July 1938 - August 1938
Incomplete scrapbook (with dark cover and red spine), containing pasted-in cuttings believed to be from Action. Dates are July to August 1938.
Copies of Action Journal, July 1938 - August 1938
Several copies of 'Action'; 21 loose cuttings from Action, placed in the final completed pages, and probably all dating from July to August 1938.
Newspaper cuttings from Action, May 1942 - June 1942
Newspaper cuttings, found between the empty pages of the scrapbook. Dates from May to June 1942, and relate to action around the Libyan port of Tobruk. Most of the cuttings are from the Daily Telegraph.
Copy of Pamphlet: 'The Germans. II What they covet', 1914
Copy of pamphlet : Fletcher, C R L (Charles Robert Leslie), 1857-1934. The Germans. II What they covet. London ; Oxford University Press, 1914. Series: Oxford Pamphlets. NB Copy in University of Sheffield Library at 3B 940.9 (O). Bound volume, copy number 200636234
Three leaflets pasted together, 11 October 1936 - 17 January 1937
Three items pasted together: leaflet for United Victory March Against Fascism, 11 October 1936, organised by the Communist Party; small leaflet about the Spanish Civil War; and letter dated 17 January 1937, from the Oxford University Group of the Communist Party.
Cartoon, 1930s
Cartoon published by the Municipal Society, undated.
Hand-drawn cartoon, 1930s
Hand-drawn cartoon about Anglo-Soviet relations, with a quote from the Daily Express, March 29th (no year).
Four leaflets pasted together, 5 May 1937 - 3 June 1937
Leaflet for Unity Campaign in Oxford, 21 May 1937; leaflet for meeting in Oxford about the Spanish Civil War and Guernica, 5 May 1937; leaflet for Oxford University Labour Club about Spain, 3 June 1937; and leaflet for protest meeting to be held in Oxford, no date given, on 'Action of the proctors on Armistice Day'.
University Labour Federation leaflet, 1930s
Leaflet published by the University Labour Federation, undated.
Oxford University Spanish Democratic Defence Committee leaflet, [1936 - 1939]
Leaflet from the University of Oxford Spanish Democratic Defence Committee, about the Spanish conflict, undated.
Joint Committee for Soviet Aid letter and leaflet, [1943]
Letter and leaflet from the Joint Committee for Soviet Aid, regarding rebuilding Stalingrad. Undated, but probably 1943.
British Union luncheon menu, 26 April 1940
Menu for the British Union luncheon, 26 April 1940, at the Criterion Restaurant.
Liberals and the War, 24 February [1940]
Ticket for meeting in the Queen's Hall, London, organised by the Liberal Party, with title 'Liberals and the War', and to be followed by a Great National Demonstration.
Heidelberg, June 1936 - July 1936
Diaries, map and other miscellaneous items relating to Howard Biggs' time in Heidelberg, summer 1936.
Diaries, 7 June 1936 - 18 July 1936
Two diaries kept be Biggs during his trip to Heidelberg, Germany in 1936. During this trip he attended a Nazi rally held in the Thingstätte (open-air amphitheatre) at midsummer, and this is recorded in his diary (volume 1). Volume 1 cover the period June 7th to July 1936 and Volume 2, 6 July to 18 July 1936.
Plan of Heidelberg Thingstatte, 1990s
Plan of Heidelberg Thingstatte. Modern copy from drawing in 435/4/1/1.
Kunigund und Poeteri, [1930s]
Text and resume of 2-act play 'Kunigund und Poeterei'. In German.
Receipt and steamer timetable, 1936
Timetable for Rhine Steamer services, 1936 (in English), and receipt for a Hotel Restaurant in Koln (in German).
Correspondence from Howard Biggs while in Heidelberg, 28 June 1936 - July 1936
Correspondence from Howard Biggs while in Heidelberg: 5 envelopes addressed to Howard's father Edgar Arnold Biggs; one postcard to Edward Arnold Biggs; letter, 28 June 1936 to Dessel; 5 letters numbered 1 to 5, June/July 1936 to Howard Biggs' parents.
Letters to Howard Biggs from Else Hupfield, Heidelberg, 1936 -1937
Three original letters in German to Howard Biggs, 1936-1937, from Else Hupfield, Heidelberg; translations of these letters, and associated correspondence, 2002.