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Smyth Manuscripts

 Fonds
Reference code: 128
Scope and Contents

Documents relating to the career of Professor David Henry Smyth, including lectures, speeches and essays by Smyth and others. For the box list for this collection please see the external documnets sections below.

Dates: 1946 - 1973

Sorby Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: 51
Scope and Contents Documents relating to Henry Clifton Sorby, Sheffield scientist and Fellow of the Royal Society, in the period 1845-1906.The collection consists of architectural photographs, diaries, a letter, and a set of reprinted papers by Sorby with his manuscript amendments. The eight boxes of architectural photographs taken by Sorby on his travels contain mostly examples from all over England (Prehistoric to modern) but there are a smaller number depicting styles in foreign countries...
Dates: 1845 - 1906

Sorby Research Institute Collection

 Collection
Reference code: SOR1
Scope and Contents

A small collection of printed documents relating to the Sorby Research Institute at the University of Sheffield and its experimental work during World War II, and including some other works relating to those principally involved.

For a full listing for this collection please see the External Document Section below.

Dates: 1939 - 1979

Southport Mummers Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: 448
Scope and Contents

The collection comprises play scripts, photographs (black and white, and colour), newspaper cuttings, printed and manuscript items, newsletters, books and pamphlets.

Dates: 1968 - 1994

Staniforth Manuscripts

 Fonds
Reference code: 335
Scope and Contents

A collection of both unpublished manuscript and published printed works by Thomas Worsley Staniforth (1845-1909), from around the 1870s to 1905. Some of the documents are undated.

For further details of this collection, please see the finding aid in the external documents section below.

Dates: c1870 - 1904

Stuart Golland Papers

 Fonds
Reference code: 459
Scope and Contents The papers of actor, writer and director Stuart Golland, including scripts, publicity material, photographs, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and artefacts. The papers cover the entirety of Stuart Golland’s working life, from stage and screen acting through writing and directing plays and an involvement in setting up small theatre companies, and they include scripts, publicity material, photographs, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and some related artefacts.There is also a...
Dates: 1973 - 2015

Stuart Johnstone Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0041
Scope and Contents

Photographs of rides, fairgrounds, traction engines and organs taken by a number of individuals as well as detailed notebooks. His notebooks are essentially digested versions of the World's Fair and include chronological guides to fairs, machines for sale, parks, engines and families.

Dates: 1920 - 1980

Swan Papers

 Fonds
Reference code: 185
Scope and Contents Papers on the history of the clinical use of penicillin, 1945-1996, with particular reference to its early use in Sheffield, and to the reputation of Sir Alexander Fleming.The papers relate principally to the history of two medical scientists: Sir Alexander Fleming, who published his discovery of penicillin in 1929 but who has been subsequently criticised for an apparent failure to pursue its clinical potential, criticism repeated in a BBC Horizon programme in 1989; and Dr Cecil...
Dates: 1945 - 1996

Sykes-Baron Broadside Ballad Collection

 Collection
Reference code: 489
Scope and Contents The collection is in fact one item – a piece of linen twenty centimetres wide and, when unrolled to its full extent, nine metres long, on to which have been pasted fifty sheets, containing a total of 260 broadside ballads (including seven duplicates). These printed sheets carry song texts, some with tune titles and some decorated at the top with woodcut pictures. The choice of medium to carry these sheets is believed to derive from the fact that the Sykes family were cloth merchants....
Dates: 1839 - 1841

Ted Lightbown Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0088
Scope and Contents

Promotional photographs from Rhyl pleasure beach and a large number of plans for Rhyl and associated parks. This includes Battersea festival of Britain, the Battersea Amusement Park and client parks for whom Rhyl built water chute structures.

Dates: c1910 - 1999

Testo Family Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0032
Scope and Contents

This collection comprises photographs, business records, articles, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, advertising material, family research and items of personal archive related to the Testo family history in the fairground and circus

Dates: 1898 - 1999

Tetrad Press Collection

 Collection
Reference code: TET1
Scope and Contents

A developing collection of artist and writer Ian Tyson’s works from his own private press.

Dates: c1969 - 1995

Text World Theory Archive

 Fonds
Reference code: 419
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of writings relating to Text World Theory, as developed by Professor Paul Werth during the 1980s and 1990s, and includes books, journal articles and book chapters, theses and course notes, as well as a publisher’s manuscript of Professor Werth’s seminal book Text Worlds: Representing Conceptual Space in Discourse published posthumously in 1999.

For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the external documents section below.

Dates: 1974 - 2011

The Blackshirt Collection

 Collection
Reference code: 366
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of documents, correspondence, articles and research notes collected and created by Dr Stephen Dorril, of the University of Huddersfield, when researching his book “Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism”, published in 2006.

For further details of this collection please see the box list in the external documents section below.

Dates: 1930 - 2002

The Blackshirts in Kingston Project

 Collection
Reference code: 180
Scope and Contents Documentation recording the activities of the Kingston-upon-Thames Branch of the British Union of Fascists from 1932 to 1941. This collection was compiled as part of a project undertaken by Jeffrey Wallder. The original project is held by Kingston Museums and Heritage Service Archive, and another copy is held by the Imperial War Museum. It is intended "to record and study the activities of the Kingston-upon-Thames branch of the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists during the...
Dates: 1932 - 2003

The Blunkett Archives

 Fonds
Reference code: 467
Scope and Contents The Blunkett Archives is an extensive collection which has been amassed by Lord Blunkett throughout his career, and records his journey from one of the poorest areas of Sheffield to the highest level of British politics. The collection dates from the 1940s to the present day and includes political correspondence, policy papers, material relating to his constituency work, press cuttings, speeches, diaries, school reports, personal correspondence, book proofs, sound recordings and photographs....
Dates: 1940s - 2023

The Ian Kershaw Archive

 Fonds
Reference code: 413
Scope and Contents

A collection of research material from various archives compiled by Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, historian, author and university academic, covering the social history of twentieth-century Germany, and Nazism and the Third Reich. Part B of the catalogue also contains research material in medieval history.

For further details of this collection please see the finding aids in the External Documents Section below.

Dates: 1933 - 2008

The Ian Kershaw Collection

 Collection
Reference code: KER1
Scope and Contents

A collection of books from the personal library of Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, historian, author and university academic, covering a wide range of historical subjects including medieval history, the social history of twentieth-century Germany, and Nazism and the Third Reich.

For a further details of this collection please see the listing/link in the External Documents Section below.

Dates: 1847 - 2008

The James Montgomery and Sheffield Sunday School Union Archive

 Fonds
Reference code: 468
Scope and Contents

Papers relating to the SSSU and the Montgomery building on Surrey Street, Sheffield. The collection consists of minute books, correspondence, literature, music, educational material and newspaper cuttings covering the late 18th to the 21st centuries, and has a close connection with the Montgomery Manuscripts already held by the University of Sheffield Library.

Dates: 1797 - 2008

The Morris Ring Folk Play Archive (Ron Shuttleworth Collection)

 Fonds
Reference code: 456
Scope and Contents The collection consists of a vast range of material relating to folk plays and related subjects, including books and booklets, journal articles, audio and video recordings, unpublished works such as theses, dissertations and essays, and some ephemera.The collection has been painstakingly assembled since the 1960s by Ron Shuttleworth who made it his aim to collect copies of everything that had been written on the subject of folk plays, and to provide access to the material to...
Dates: c16th century - 21st century

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Special Collections and Archives 233
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Fairs 102
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University of Sheffield (Established 1828) 31
The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain (Established 1889) 13
National Centre for English Cultural Tradition (NATCECT) (1975 - 2008) 11
World's Fair Publications Limited (Established 1904) 11
University of Sheffield Library (Established 1879) 8
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Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 7
Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) 7
Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 7
British Union of Fascists (1932 - 1940) 6
Fairground Association of Great Britain. (FAGB) (Established 1977) 6
Anderton and Rowland (Established c1854 - 1879) 5
Friendship Circle of Showland Fans. (FCSF) (c1940 - 1969) 5
Sanger, George, 1825 - 1911 5
Belle Vue (1836 - 1982) 4
Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 4
Bostock and Wombwell Menagerie (c1846 - 1931) 4
Braithwaite, David, 1932 - 1982 4
Cairoli, Charlie, 1910 - 1980 4
Carters Steam Fair (1977 - 2022) 4
Circus Krone (Established 1905) 4
Fossett's Circus (Established c1870 - 1879) 4
Lord George Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 4
Lord John Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 4
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1919 - 2017) 4
Rosaire's Circus & Zoo (Established 1904) 4
Sanger, John, 1819 - 1889 4
Toulmin, Vanessa, Professor, Born 1967 4
Austen Brothers Circus (Established 1974) 3
Barrett, Norman, Born 1935 3
Blackpool Pleasure Beach (Established 1896) 3
Boswell's Circus (1882 - 2015) 3
British Fairground Society (BFS) (Established c1950) 3
Buffalo Bill, 1846 - 1917 3
Chapman, Ellen, 1831 - 1899 3
Chipperfield, Mary, 1938 - 2014 3
Circus Knie (Established 1803) 3
Circus Pinder (Established 1854) 3
Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus (Established c1957) 3
Collins, Pat (Patrick), 1859 - 1943 3
Cottle, Gerry, 1945 - 2021 3
Crystal Palace (1851 - 1936) 3
Dodd, Ken, 1927 - 2018 3
Duffy's Circus (Established c1800) 3
Electric (Modern) Printing Company (c1930 - 1991) 3
Gandey's Circus (Established c1918) 3
George Orton, Sons & Spooner Ltd (1875 - 1977) 3
Great Yarmouth Hippodrome (Established 1903) 3
Holland Amusements (Initiated c1870) 3
Innes Smith, Robert William, 1872 - 1933 3
J.W. Shaw Amusements (Initiated c1860 - 1889) 3
Jolson, Al, c1886 - 1950 3
Krebs, Hans Adolf, Sir, 1900 - 1981 3
Ling's Family Amusements (Initiated c1850 - 1859) 3
Mills, Cyril Bertram, 1902 - 1991 3
National Fairground and Circus Archive. NFCA (Established 1994) 3
Olympia London (Established 1886) 3
Pat Collins Fun Fairs (Established 1899) 3
Paulo Circus (Established c1900 - 1910) 3
Shufflebottom Family, c1870 - 1998 3
Smith, George Charles Moore, 1858 - 1940 3
The Agricultural Hall (1862 - 1943) 3
The Kursaal (1894 - 2020) 3
Union Movement (1948 - 1973) 3
W. E. Berry Ltd (1888 - 2004) 3
Waddington's Funfairs (Initiated c1860 - 1899) 3
Wilsons Group Services (Established c1860) 3
Acres, Birt, 1854 - 1918 2
Allan, Alastair J., Active 1970s - 2015 2
Althoff Circus (c1675 - 1999) 2
Argyle Theatre of Varieties (c1868 - 1945) 2
Aspland, George, 1836 - 1911 2
Aspland-Howden (c1875 - 1915) 2
Astley, Philip, 1742 - 1814 2
B. Cole & Sons (Amusements) Ltd (Established 1890) 2
Battersea Park Amusement Park (1858 - 1972) 2
Beverly Sisters (c1943 - 2009) 2
Bird, Margaret, c1900 - 1999 2
Buller, Redvers Henry, General, Sir, 1839 - 1908 2
Calladine, Neil, Born 1951 2
Centre for Luxembourg Studies (University of Sheffield) (Established 1995) 2
Charles Burrell & Sons Ltd (1770 - 1928) 2
Chessington World of Adventures (Established 1987) 2
Chipperfield, Jimmy (James), 1912 - 1990 2
Circus Busch (1903 - 1999) 2
Circus Busch-Roland (c1884 - 2018) 2
Circus Friends Association of Great Britain (Established 1934) 2
Circus Medrano (Established 1875) 2
Cirkus Merano (1975 - 2015) 2
Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione (Established 1852) 2
Cole Bros. Circus (c1884 - 1957) 2
Craston, Joe (Joseph), 1868 - 1948 2
Dainton, Frederick Sydney, Sir, 1914 - 1997 2
Dave Homer Video (Established 1989) 2
David Smart's Super Circus (c1980 - 1983) 2
Denver, Hal, 1909 - 1994 2
Downie, Graham, Born 1941 (Fairground Enthusiast) 2
Drury Lane Theatre (Established c1660) 2
Egyptian Hall (1812 - 1905) 2
Farrar's Fun Fairs (Established 1876) 2
Fisher, Hal, 1909 - 2002 2
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