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Collection
Reference code: PE 28
Scope and Contents
A collection of programmes and cast lists for performances at various Sheffield theatres, primarily The Playhouse, as well as The Crucible, The Lyceum, Sheffield City Hall and others.
Dates:
November 1948 - October 1996
Fonds
Reference code: 430
Scope and Contents
Recordings of interviews, and associated interview notes, from the project 'Sheffield Voices Through Time'.
For further details of the project, please see the External Documents below.
Dates:
2011
Fonds
Reference code: 274
Scope and Contents
Manuscript works, including musical scores and lectures, with some correspondence relating to the Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra, of Frank Henry Shera, Professor of Music at the University of Sheffield 1928-1948. The collection comprises scores, lectures and other writings on the history of music, together with a small collection of correspondence relating to the Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra in the years 1929-33.For further details of this collection please see the finding...
Dates:
1904 - 1938
Collection
Reference code: NFA0205
Content Description
Reports, training pack, event and promotional leaflets, merchandise (badges, notebook, flag and t-shirt) and photographs, relating to the work, activities and services offered by The Showmen's Mental Health Awareness Charity, compiled by founder and chairman, Sheldon Chadwick. Accompanied by two digital films made by the charity titled, ‘A Showmen’s Life’ and ‘I Want to Help’.
Dates:
c2022 - 2023
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0014
Scope and Contents
The main part of the collection consists of material relating to the Shufflebottom family and receipts and posters advertising their latest attractions. The second half of the collection relates to the Waddington family and Margaret Shufflebottom's later marriage to Arthur Bird.The Shufflebottom collection consists of photographs, diaries, albums, account books and assorted ephemera associated with the family's history on the fair. The photographic material dates from 1890 to the...
Dates:
c1890 - 1989
Collection
Reference code: 2
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises approximately 250 items, largely single manuscripts and ephemera. The bulk of the material dates from the nineteenth century and includes autographed letters from noted individuals and diaries.
The collection is arranged alpabetically by person/subject. For a completed listing of items within this collection please see the external documents section below.
Dates:
c1600 - 2011
Fonds
Reference code: 429
Scope and Contents
Material relating to the personal life and professional career of Sir Gareth Roberts, including school exercise books and reports, correspondence, diaries, committee and meeting papers, publications, photographs, computer discs, audio cassette tapes, 35mm slides, VHS video cassettes, lectures, prizes and certificates.Dating from 1942 to 2007, the collection covers the whole span of Sir Gareth’s life from his early schooldays to memorial services held in his honour after his...
Dates:
1942 - 2007
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0157
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the archive of Skinning the Cat, aerial circus company including press cuttings relating, promotional material, programmes, photographs, costumes and costume designs and business records. It also contains DVDs of footage of performances, a book by Rebecca Truman and digital born files.
Dates:
1988 - 2018
Collection
Reference code: SPP
Scope and Contents
A developing collection of small press poetry publications from over a hundred non-mainstream international presses, with a particular focus on the avant-garde.The collection includes substantial holdings of several individual British presses including Barque Press, Crater Press, Face Press, West House Books, and Gargoyle Editions. It also includes the full output of the Canadian presses Weed/Flower and Seripress, as well as a large collection of books and ephemera from the San...
Dates:
1960s - 2019
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0079
Scope and Contents
This collection contains posters, programmes, letters, film, business records and a large number of family and circus photographs. This unique family collection charts the history of the Smart family from their beginnings as fairground showmen to presenting one of the greatest British circuses.
Dates:
c1880 - 2014
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
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
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
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
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
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
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0041
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises articles, correspondence, diaries, notebooks, printed ephemera and photographs, compiled by Stuart Johnstone, relating to his interest in fairs, amusement rides, traction engines and transport, as well as his involvement in the Circle of Showland Fans. The notebooks include chronological guides to fairs, and lists of fairground machine and equipment for sale, and information on showmen and their families, taken from the World's Fair Newspaper.
Dates:
1920 - 1980
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
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
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
