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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to folk plays and related subjects, including books and booklets, journal articles, audio and video recordings, unpublished works such as theses, dissertations and essays, and some ephemera.The collection has been painstakingly assembled since the 1960s by Ron Shuttleworth who made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 Showmen's Guild of Great Britain Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0054
Scope and Contents

The main extent of the collection contains yearbooks, meetings and minutes, correspondence and a record of day to day activities within The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain.

Dates: 1904 - 2023

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

The University of Sheffield archive

 Fonds
Reference code: US
Scope and Contents The holdings cover the constituent elements of the University (US) - the Medical School (SMS), Firth College (FC), the Techncial School (STS) and the University College (UCS), although records from these are relatively sparse. The constituent elements have been catalogued as separate entries rather than being subsumed into the University of Sheffield descriptions. From the creation of the University in 1905 the records cover both academic departments and professional services. In particular...
Dates: 1886 - Present
Found in: University Archive

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

Tim Holmes Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0126
Scope and Contents

Digital colour photographs of fairgrounds, transport and fairground rides taken at Nottingham Goose Fair, Hucknall Fair and Blackpool amongst other places.

Dates: 1979 - 1999

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

Tom Hague Papers

 Fonds
Reference code: 407
Scope and Contents

Papers from the life and works of miner Tom Hague (1915-1998), also known as Totley Tom. The majority of the papers date from the 1970s to the 1990s, but also includes later recordings of interviews with family members.

Dates: 1970s - 2011

Tommy Green Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0001
Scope and Contents

This collection contains documents relating to fairgrounds collected by Tommy Green including photographs, paintings, manuscripts, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, cash books, programmes from Tydesley Wakes and plans of Bolton Fairs. Included in the collection are the Burrell photographs.

Dates: 1911 - 1968

Turnbull Manuscripts

 Fonds
Reference code: 70
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of documents relating to the work of George Henry Turnbull on the educational activities of Samuel Hartlib and his circle.

The papers include transcripts from the Hartlib Papers; transcripts relating to John Dury and John Milton; papers relating to Dury´s educational theory; Henry More´s letters to Hartlib; Comeniana; preparatory publications for the Massachusetts Historical Society, and other miscellaneous papers.

Dates: 1922 - 1961

Turner Family Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0030
Scope and Contents

This collection contains black and white photographs and negatives relating to the Turner family, mourning ribbons and a certificate of marriage

Dates: c1903 - 1956

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Acres, Birt, 1854 - 1918 2
Allan, Alastair J., Active 1970s - 2015 2
Althoff Circus (c1675 - 1999) 2
Anderton and Rowland (Established c1854 - 1879) 5
Argyle Theatre of Varieties (c1868 - 1945) 2
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Aspland, George, 1836 - 1911 2
Aspland-Howden (c1875 - 1915) 2
Astley's Amphitheatre (1773 - 1891) 3
Astley, Philip, 1742 - 1814 2
Austen Brothers Circus (Established 1974) 3
B. Cole & Sons (Amusements) Ltd (Established 1890) 2
Barnum & Bailey Circus (1881 - 1919) 2
Barrett, Norman, Born 1935 3
Battersea Park Amusement Park (1858 - 1972) 2
Beatty, Clyde, 1903 - 1965 2
Belle Vue (1836 - 1982) 5
Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 9
Beverly Sisters (c1943 - 2009) 2
Big Daddy, 1930 - 1997 2
Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) 7
Bird, Margaret, c1900 - 1999 2
Blackpool Pleasure Beach (Established 1896) 3
Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 5
Bobby Robert's Super Circus (1993 - 2011) 2
Bostock and Wombwell Menagerie (c1846 - 1931) 4
Boswell's Circus (1882 - 2015) 3
Bradley, Philip W, Active 1920 - 1999 2
Braithwaite, David, 1932 - 1982 4
British Fairground Society (BFS) (Established c1950) 3
British Union of Fascists (1932 - 1940) 6
Buffalo Bill, 1846 - 1917 4
Buller, Redvers Henry, General, Sir, 1839 - 1908 2
Cairoli, Charlie, 1910 - 1980 5
Calladine, Neil, Born 1951 2
Carters Steam Fair (1977 - 2022) 4
Centre for Luxembourg Studies (University of Sheffield) (Established 1995) 2
Chapman, Ellen, 1831 - 1899 3
Charles Burrell & Sons Ltd (1770 - 1928) 2
Chessington World of Adventures (Established 1987) 2
Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 7
Chipperfield, Jimmy (James), 1912 - 1990 2
Chipperfield, Mary, 1938 - 2014 3
Circus Busch (1903 - 1999) 2
Circus Busch-Roland (c1884 - 2018) 2
Circus Friends Association of Great Britain (Established 1934) 2
Circus Knie (Established 1803) 4
Circus Krone (Established 1905) 4
Circus Medrano (Established 1875) 2
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) 4
Dodd, Ken, 1927 - 2018 3
Drury Lane Theatre (Established c1660) 3
Duffy's Circus (Established c1800) 3
Electric (Modern) Printing Company (c1930 - 1991) 3
Fairground Association of Great Britain. (FAGB) (Established 1977) 6
Fossett's Circus (Established c1870 - 1879) 4
Friendship Circle of Showland Fans. (FCSF) (c1940 - 1969) 5
Gandey's Circus (Established c1918) 3
George Orton, Sons & Spooner Ltd (1875 - 1977) 3
Great Yarmouth Hippodrome (Established 1903) 3
Hengler Grand Cirque (1844 - 1924) 3
Holland Amusements (Initiated c1870) 3
Horne, Thomas, Reverend, c1850 - 1918 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
Lord George Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 6
Lord John Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 4
Mellors Group Events (Established 1890) 3
Merchant, Billy (Little Billy), 1919 - 2001 3
Mills, Cyril Bertram, 1902 - 1991 3
National Centre for English Cultural Tradition (NATCECT) (1975 - 2008) 15
National Fairground and Circus Archive. NFCA (Established 1994) 3
Norman, Tom, 1860 - 1930 (The Silver King) 3
Olympia London (Established 1886) 5
Pat Collins Fun Fairs (Established 1899) 3
Paulo Circus (Established c1900 - 1910) 3
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1919 - 2017) 6
Rosaire's Circus & Zoo (Established 1904) 5
Sanger's Allied Circus (Established 1854) 3
Sanger, George, 1825 - 1911 6
Sanger, John, 1819 - 1889 5
Shufflebottom Family, c1870 - 1998 4
Smith, George Charles Moore, 1858 - 1940 3
The Agricultural Hall (1862 - 1943) 3
The Kursaal (1894 - 2020) 3
The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain (Established 1889) 16
Toulmin, Vanessa, Professor, Born 1967 4
Union Movement (1948 - 1973) 3
University of Sheffield (Established 1828) 26
University of Sheffield Library (Established 1879) 7
W. E. Berry Ltd (1888 - 2004) 3
Waddington's Funfairs (Initiated c1860 - 1899) 3
Wilsons Group Services (Established c1860) 4
World's Fair Publications Limited (Established 1904) 11
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