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Fonds
Reference code: NFA0153
Scope and Contents
This collection contains black and white and colour photographs and postcards, some originals and some copies, including one World War I soldier photograph, and some colour photographs, as well as a newspaper clipping, a baptism certificate and a recent letter from BBC Northamptonshire.
Dates:
1900 - 1999
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0152
Scope and Contents
Colour and black and white born digital photographs of Zippos Circus taken by John Anderson in Endcliffe Park, Sheffield
Dates:
2017
Fonds
Reference code: 238
Scope and Contents
Documents, correspondence, books, and journals belonging to the politician John Beckett. Also includes files of research material assembled by his son, the journalist Francis Beckett, during the writing of a biography of his father 'The Rebel Who Lost His Cause' (1999).
For further details of this collection please see the finding aid/box list in the External Documents section below
Dates:
1914 - 1998
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0086
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of handbills, programmes and small flyers for shows, fairs, expositions and circus performances in the nineteenth century. The circus material in the Bramwell Taylor Collection was sponsored by the Circus Friends Association of Great Britain and consists of material relating to 19th century touring circuses, individual acts and purpose built hippodromes such as Hengler’s Circus and Astley’s Amphitheatre. Additionally this collection also contains a small amount of...
Dates:
c1786 - 2003
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0056
Scope and Contents
Black and white photographs related to Joseph Charles Heather, the Sanger Circus and the Bostock Jungle.
Dates:
c1897 - 1953
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0033
Scope and Contents
Photographs taken by John Gale, including a collection of negatives from his favourite fairs: Newcastle Town Moor, Durham Miners' Gala, Houghton Feast, Northallerton and his home town of Wolsingham. There are also a number of newspaper cuttings, circus and rally programmes.
Dates:
c1920 - 1989
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0063
Scope and Contents
This collection contains John Turner’s research on circus people indexes, which lists circus performers from the Victorian age onwards. It contains notebooks, index cards, photocopies and pictures gathered from a number of repositories and libraries during John Turner’s life and used for articles published in a variety of journals and magazines, and for the numerous books that he published during his lifetime. The collection also contains some posters and programmes
Dates:
1990 - 2007
Fonds
Reference code: 166
Scope and Contents
A collection of documents related to William Joyce and Cecil Courtney Lewis, including material collected by Lewis relating to the British Union of Fascists (BUF). The collection appears to have belonged to C.C. Lewis, a solicitor who acted as Oswald Mosley's legal adviser, and is noteworthy in that it contains five letters to Lewis in the hand of William Joyce. It also includes extensive annotations to Lewis' manuscript exercises on matters of current political interest, also by...
Dates:
1930s - 1960s
Fonds
Reference code: 451
Scope and Contents
A collection of manuscript musical and literary works by Stuart Kilby Kay (1886-1962), including songs and hymns.
For further details of this collection, please see the listing in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1909 - 1919
Collection
Reference code: KEN1
Scope and Contents
A collection of approximately 350 volumes on Japan and some other countries of the Far East, including China, mainly in the 20th century.
For further details of this collection, please see the listing in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1891 - 1979
Fonds
Reference code: 117
Scope and Contents
Papers, including diaries, of Captain Malcolm Duncan Kennedy relating to Japanese economic, military and political matters, and recording his time spent in Japan, during the period 1917 to 1965. The collection consists of diaries for the years 1917 to 1946, lecture notes, manuscripts and news-cuttings, and miscellaneous items. An unpublished Memoir for the period 1912 to 1922, 'Their Mercenary Calling', covering his service in World War I and introduction to Japan is also...
Dates:
1912 - 1965
Fonds
Reference code: 496
Collection
Reference code: KLU1
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of books and pamphlets formerly in the Library of the Communist Party of Great Britain, being acquired for the University of Sheffield Library circa 1994. Some of these were at one time the personal property of N.J. Klugmann and bear his signature. Other volumes are stamped or labelled as the property of the Library of the Communist Party of Great Britain. The majority of the items relate to trials (often what are sometimes termed "show trials"), related matters such...
Dates:
1929 - 1983
Fonds
Reference code: SLI 5
Scope and Contents
A collection of approximately 1,600 photographic images, some duplicated, assembled by Douglas Knoop on a world tour undertaken in 1913 and 1914.The collection consists of slides, photographs, negatives and postcards, in colour and black and white. The images cover natural features, human interest such as street scenes, and major events such as earthquakes, as well as incidental events on the tour (e.g. on board ship). The countries recorded include India, Ceylon,...
Dates:
1913 - 1914
Fonds
Reference code: 156
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of three separate documents from Korea. The first is an album of twelve hand-tinted photographs of the Ch’angdok Palace; the second is a diviners’ handbook, and the third is a pair of scrolls bearing state civil service examination scripts.
Dates:
Mid 19th to early 20th century
Collection
Reference code: KRE1
Scope and Contents
A collection of around 1250 items from the library of Sir Hans Krebs. The Krebs Collection consists of over 800 books and periodicals, which have been individually catalogued, and over 400 pamphlets, newspaper cuttings and reprints of journal articles, which have been listed.
Some of the material has been annotated by Krebs.
For further details of this collection, please see the listing in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1854 - 1981
Fonds
Reference code: 215
Scope and Contents
Papers of the early years of the Krebs Institute for Biomolecular Research, University of Sheffield, from before its creation in 1988 until 1993.
For further details of this collection, please see the listing in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1984 - 1993
Fonds
Reference code: 116
Scope and Contents
The personal and scientific papers of the biochemist Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, circa 1915 to 1982.This extensive archive comprises the personal and scientific working papers of the distinguished biochemist Sir Hans Adolf Krebs (1900-1981), Nobel prizewinner in 1953 (with Franz Lipmann) for Physiology and Medicine in recognition of his elucidation of the metabolic process known as the tricarboxylic acid cycle or citric acid cycle. The collection was assembled from several sources...
Dates:
c1915 - 1982
Collection
Reference code: LEF1
Scope and Contents
Books published by Victor Gollancz on behalf of the Left Book Club during the years 1936 to 1948. The collection includes a complete set – (Special Collections received the final addition to the collection from the library of journalist and writer, Paul Foot, in December 2016: “The adventures of the little pig and other stories” by F. Le Gros Clark and Ida Clark). In all, taking into account both the selected “Book of the Month” and the additional choices offered to members, some 252 titles...
Dates:
1936 - 1948
Collection
Reference code: LEF2
Scope and Contents
A collection of printed pamphlets relating to left-wing politics mainly of the twentieth century. A great deal of such material exists from many sources but, as such publications are necessarily ephemeral in nature, and often produced in order to address a particular issue of the moment without any thought of their potential historical value (many are undated), they are frequently scarce, and holding them in the form of a special collection is a means of ensuring their preservation. The...
Dates:
1893 - 1996
