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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

The Oliver Beckerlegge Bible Collection

 Collection
Reference code: BEC1
Scope and Contents

A collection of 198 bibles from the personal library of Oliver Aveyard Beckerlegge dating from the 15th to the 20th centuries.

For a further details of this collection please see the listing in the external documents section below.

Dates: 1445 - 1978

The Ron and Willow King Collection of Ian Tyson Editions and Artwork

 Collection
Reference code: KIN1
Scope and Contents A collection of artist and writer Ian Tyson’s pre-Tetrad Press work including lithographs, posters, screen prints, books and ephemera. This collection represents a fifty-year friendship between two master printers (e.g., the numerous personal inscriptions, the dedications, the hand-made birthday and New Year cards). The donation also includes transitional work that is the direct precursor of Tetrad. Works such as 'Six extracts from the Zenrinkushu' (1966) are an advancement...
Dates: c1961 - 2008

The Russell Wortley Collection of Traditional Dance, Music and Custom

 Fonds
Reference code: ACT/97-022
Scope and Contents

The collection comprises printed, manuscript and photographic items, including correspondence, notebooks, published and unpublished articles, pamphlets and musical notations, newspaper cuttings, and sound recordings relating to traditional dance, music and custom.

Dates: 1870 - 1979

The Ruth and Ken Campbell Collection

 Collection
Reference code: CAM1
Scope and Contents

This is a collection of artists’ books from the book artist and printer Ken Campbell. Detailed descriptions of, and many images from each of Campbell’s books, can be found on the artist's website

Dates: 1977 - 2015

The Sir Thomas Beecham Music Library

 Collection
Reference code: BEE1
Scope and Contents The music score library of Sir Thomas Beecham, including annotations, together with his extensive collection of press cuttings.The Library consists of some 3000 music scores (full orchestral scores and parts, choral music, piano music and songs) which formed Beecham's own working library. It includes many rare editions and his own works, while many of the scores bear Beecham's blue-pencil manuscript orchestral directions and editings. In addition there are some 150,000 press...
Dates: c1900 - 1961

Theatre Archive Project: Archive

 Fonds
Reference code: 349
Scope and Contents

The archive at Sheffield contains 170 CD-ROMs of interviews with theatre workers and audience members, including Glenda Jackson, Brian Rix, Susan Engel and Michael Frayn. There is also a collection of copies of correspondence between Gyorgy Lengyel and Michel and Suria Saint Denis, and between Gyorgy Lengyel and Sir John Gielgud, dating from 1958 to 1999.

Dates: 1958 - 2008

Theatre Royal Playbills Collection

 Collection
Reference code: PE 18
Scope and Contents A selection of printed playbills issued by the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1789-1838.The collection consists of playbills issued by the two Royal Patent theatres of London, the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden and the Theatre Royal , Drury Lane, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The Covent Garden theatre section begins in the year of the French Revolution, 1789, and announces a comic opera with a French name Fontainbleau together with a...
Dates: 1789 - 1838

Theosophical Society Collection

 Collection
Reference code: THE1
Scope and Contents

A collection of books and journals covering the topic of Theosophy, a doctrine of religious philosophy and metaphysics which developed in the late 19th century.

Dates: 1877 - 1963

Tillett Papers

 Fonds
Reference code: 416
Scope and Contents

A collection of papers and books relating to Jeffery Tillett’s uncompleted thesis on the literary contribution of Charles Darwin.

Dates: 1970 - 1982

Timmer Collection

 Collection
Reference code: TIM1
Scope and Contents

A collection of around 250 books and journals covering the topics of Old and Middle English, Old Norse and Germanic languages.

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

Dates: 1865 - 1967

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