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Collection
Reference code: PPC1
Scope and Contents
A developing collection of books published by private presses worldwide dating from the late nineteenth century to the present day.The original legacy core collection purchased in the mid-twentieth century comprises works of collaboration between important contemporaneous artists, writers and poets, as well as classic works by canonised figures such as Shakespeare and Goethe reinterpreted by nineteenth and twentieth century artists, all enabled and published by innovative small...
Dates:
1891 - 2020
Collection
Reference code: PRO1
Scope and Contents
A collection of primary material relating to the protest movements of the second half of the twentieth century.
For further details of this collection please see the listings in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1950 - 1999
Fonds
Reference code: 441
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of assorted research materials relating to Oswald Mosley and Fascism between 1932 and 1955 which were assembled by Peter Pugh during work for his PhD entitled “A Political Biography of Alexander Raven Thomson”, which was completed in 2003 at the University of Sheffield.
The collection includes correspondence, questionnaires, photocopies, research notes and sound recordings. There is also a small collection of books and reprints.For further details of this...
Dates:
1932 - 1997
Fonds
Reference code: 387
Scope and Contents
The archive includes schedules, scripts, cuttings, tapes and photographs relating to English-language broadcasting on Radio Luxembourg in the periods 1933-1939 and 1945-1946.
Dates:
1923 - 2007
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0027
Scope and Contents
Black and white and colour photographs of fairground transport, rides and shows from various locations.
Dates:
1980 - 1995
Scope and Contents
The extant material in the collection consists of the post-World War II papers of Dr Percy Hide Reaney. The collection comprises working notes, offprints and articles, some correspondence, an annotated copy of 'A Dictionary of British Surnames', and a proof copy of 'The Origin of English Surnames'. The majority of the papers date from 1946 to 1967, with one letter dated 1943. The documents in the collection relate primarily to the two works on surnames, and additionally to...
Dates:
1943 - 1967
Collection
Reference code: RED1
Scope and Contents
A collection of the published texts of the poet Peter Redgrove, works of criticism, a selection of
books from Redgrove’s personal library, and some of the work of his partner and co-author
Penelope Shuttle. The collection is intended to complement and support the Redgrove Papers.
For further details of this collection please see the listing in the external documents section below.
Dates:
1959 - 2012
Fonds
Reference code: 171
Scope and Contents
Papers of the poet Peter Redgrove, including working notebooks and correspondence. The bulk of the collection consists of Redgrove's correspondence (some 10,500 letters) during the period 1970 to 1989, including correspondence with many significant figures in the world of contemporary literature, together with his complete working papers recording the composition of his work during this period, drafts of several literary works, and copies of interviews and reviews.A small...
Dates:
1952 - 2002
Fonds
Reference code: 434
Scope and Contents
A collection of documents relating to an ESRC-funded project “Evaluating the Impact of Reminiscence on the Quality of Life of Older People”.
Dates:
2000 - 2002
Fonds
Reference code: ACT/97-005
Scope and Contents
The collection includes copies and extracts from the notebooks of Robert Hird and David Naitby, together with fieldwork collected by Richard Blakeborough; original dialect rhymes and sketches; published folklore articles and folktales; the correspondence and papers of Richard Blakeborough and John Fairfax-Blakeborough. The original manuscripts of Hird and Naitby which Richard Blakeborough copied in part, and from which the older part of his folklore collection derives, appear to...
Dates:
1750 - 1974
Collection
Reference code: HOG1
Scope and Contents
A collection of books from the personal library of Richard Hoggart, university teacher and professor of English literature and cultural studies, academic administrator, writer, broadcaster, literary critic, cultural analyst and international civil servant, whose work spanned the second half of the twentieth century and continued into the early years of the twenty-first.
Dates:
1718 - 2012
Fonds
Reference code: 247
Scope and Contents
Papers and correspondence of Richard Hoggart, academic, broadcaster and writer on cultural matters. The papers were transferred to the Library in two separate accessions and are currently catalogued separately. The main part of the collection (Section 1) comprises a substantial part of the personal and working papers, manuscripts and associated correspondence relating to the life and work of Richard Hoggart, university teacher and professor of English literature and cultural...
Dates:
1919 - 2007
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0017
Scope and Contents
Colour photographs of personalities and artefacts taken on the first day of the 1995 Sheffield "Mile Long" City Centre funfair by Richard Sissons.
Dates:
18 August 1995
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0121
Scope and Contents
Circus and sideshow posters including small amount of material on Koringa and copy of Bertram Mill’s Circus limited edition book written by the donor.
Dates:
c1950 - 2014
Collection
Reference code: RMW1
Scope and Contents
The R.M. Wilson Memorial Collection comprises around 180 books on the subject of place names, personal names, family history and genealogy.
For further details of this collection please see the listings in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1865 - 1967
Fonds
Reference code: 424
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of thematic catalogues of the works of largely eighteenth-century musical composers, compiled, collected and developed by Robert Dearling, along with further supporting material.
For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the external documents section below.
Dates:
c1951 - c1999
Fonds
Reference code: 498
Scope and Contents
Robert Innes Smith’s archive mainly comprises of his letters. Correspondents are predominantly British aristocrats and from aristocratic families (including the Queen, and the Duke of Norfolk) as well as politicians (such as Oswald Mosely) and historians. They also include other notable individuals such as the poet Sir John Betjeman, script writers Jimmy Perry/David Croft (Dad's Army, Are You Being Served?, 'Allo 'Allo!) and actors including Nyree Dawn Porter, (The Forsyte Saga). ...
Dates:
1910s - 2020
Fonds
Reference code: 119
Scope and Contents
The administrative files of the Dorset West District of the British Union of Fascists and of the Dorchester Constituency of Union Movement, and other correspondence of Robert Saunders, mainly 1935 to 1952; together with some books and pamphlets.In the extent of its coverage this collection appears to be a unique survival: it includes the almost complete administrative files (at least for the period 1935 to 1952) of a District of Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists (BUF)...
Dates:
1933 - 1970
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0011
Scope and Contents
The collection includes photographs taken by Jack Mellor and includes images of fairground rides, sideshows and traction engines. There are copies of Rod Spooner's photographs of South and Midland Fairs from 1952-1953. Also included is a cassette recording of an interview With Kay Smart and other showmen/women.
Dates:
c1900 - 1989
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0052
Scope and Contents
Slides and photographs of Ron's travels to various preservation events and a few pictures from local Derbyshire fairs, articles, correspondence and Nottingham and Hull fair plans.
Dates:
1960 - 2002