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Burley Manuscripts

 Fonds
Reference code: 165
Scope and Contents

Textbooks, offprints, newspaper cuttings, degree certificates, etc. of George William Burley, Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield.

For further details of this collection please see the box list in the External Documents section below.

Dates: 1913 - 1992

Caricatures Collection

 Collection
Reference code: PE 34
Scope and Contents The caricatures collection consists of 55 volumes of social and political caricatures of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. Many significant caricaturists are represented in the collection, including William Hogarth, Thomas Rowlandson, James Gillray and George Cruikshank. Both hand-coloured and monochrome images are included, and provide a rich source of illustration of the political and social interests of the period.For further details of this collection and for links to...
Dates: c1700 - c1950

Carver Papers

 Fonds
Reference code: 352
Scope and Contents A collection of correspondence written to Catharine DeFrance Carver (1921-1997), publisher´s editor, mostly during the period 1991 to 1997 (where dated).The collection consists mostly of correspondence in the form of letters, postcards, etc. sent to Catharine Carver by her friends and colleagues, who included writers and poets such as Virginia Crosby, Desmond Graham, Jon Stallworthy, Michael Millgate and Richard Hoggart, as well as fellow editors and others from the publishing...
Dates: 1991 - 1997

Catalan Collection

 Collection
Reference code: CAT1
Scope and Contents

A collection of over 700 books and periodicals concerning Catalonia.

For further information about this collection please see the listing in the External Documents section below.

Dates: 1937 - 2006

Catherine Lovett Archive

 Fonds
Reference code: 436
Scope and Contents

A collection of documents relating to the dialect poetry of Catherine A. (Cathy) Lovett.

For further details of this collection please see the finding aid/box list in the External Documents section below.

Dates: 1945 - 2013

Cathy Ward Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0132
Scope and Contents

This collection contains digital colour photographs of fairground rides, fairground art and showpeople from both travelling fairgrounds and amusement parks in Salzberg fair, Blackpool and various other places in the UK and abroad.

Dates: 1985 - 2002

Celine Williams Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0008
Scope and Contents

A collection of 5 black and white photographs, four relate to the Silcock Brothers' dodgems and arcades in the 1950s, and one to Whites' stall.

Dates: c1950 - 1959

Changing Identities: Eastern Europeans in Bradford since 1945

 Fonds
Reference code: 497
Scope and Contents

This archive consists of audio cassette tape recordings, with some transcripts, of interviews with members of the ethnic Ukrainian community in Bradford in the 1990s, regarding their personal histories. Interviewees include family groups, family members of some of the people interviewed earlier, and younger people born in the UK of immigrant parents. In contrast to the earlier work of the 1980s, more than half the interviewees are women.

Dates: 1983 - 1998

Chapman Manuscripts

 Fonds
Reference code: 153
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of lecture notes and papers relating to the teaching of Chemistry at The University of Sheffield by Arthur William Chapman, along with correspondence and papers concerning his invention of "a tube for indicating the extent of a thermal treatment".

Dates: 1922 - 1945

Charles Taylor Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0069
Scope and Contents

The Charles Taylor collection is a fine example of Taylor’s of Wombwell printers’ posters, which highlight changes in printing techniques, fashion and taste within the popular entertainment industry. Included are examples of posters for pantomimes, fairs and circuses. The collection also contains handbills and other advertising material.

Dates: c1937 - 1989

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University of Sheffield (Established 1828) 26
National Centre for English Cultural Tradition (NATCECT) (1975 - 2008) 18
The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain (Established 1889) 17
World's Fair Publications Limited (Established 1904) 12
Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 9
Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) 9
Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 8
Lord George Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 7
Sanger, George, 1825 - 1911 7
University of Sheffield Library (Established 1879) 7
British Union of Fascists (1932 - 1940) 6
Fairground Association of Great Britain. (FAGB) (Established 1977) 6
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1919 - 2017) 6
Anderton and Rowland (Established c1854 - 1879) 5
Belle Vue (1836 - 1982) 5
Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 5
Braithwaite, David, 1932 - 1982 5
Cairoli, Charlie, 1910 - 1980 5
Collins, Pat (Patrick), 1859 - 1943 5
Fossett's Circus (Established c1870 - 1879) 5
Friendship Circle of Showland Fans. (FCSF) (c1940 - 1969) 5
Olympia London (Established 1886) 5
Rosaire's Circus & Zoo (Established 1904) 5
Sanger, John, 1819 - 1889 5
Shufflebottom Family, c1870 - 1998 5
Astley's Amphitheatre (1773 - 1893) 4
Blackpool Pleasure Beach (Established 1896) 4
Buffalo Bill, 1846 - 1917 4
Carters Steam Fair (1977 - 2022) 4
Circus Knie (Established 1803) 4
Circus Krone (Established 1905) 4
Circus Pinder (Established 1854) 4
Crystal Palace (1851 - 1936) 4
Gandey's Circus (Established c1918) 4
Lord John Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 4
Norman, Tom, 1860 - 1930 (The Silver King) 4
Toulmin, Vanessa, Professor, Born 1967 4
Wilsons Group Services (Established c1860) 4
Austen Brothers Circus (Established 1974) 3
Barrett, Norman, Born 1935 3
Bostock and Wombwell Menagerie (c1846 - 1931) 3
Boswell's Circus (1882 - 2015) 3
British Fairground Society (BFS) (Established c1950) 3
Chapman, Ellen, 1831 - 1899 3
Charles Burrell & Sons Ltd (1770 - 1928) 3
Chipperfield, Mary, 1938 - 2014 3
Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus (Established c1957) 3
Cole Bros. Circus (c1884 - 1957) 3
Cottle, Gerry, 1945 - 2021 3
Craston, Joe (Joseph), 1868 - 1948 3
Dodd, Ken, 1927 - 2018 3
Drury Lane Theatre (Established c1660) 3
Duffy's Circus (Established c1800) 3
Electric (Modern) Printing Company (c1930 - 1991) 3
Farrar's Fun Fairs (Established 1876) 3
George Orton, Sons & Spooner Ltd (1875 - 1977) 3
Gerry Cottle's Circus (1974 - 2003) 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
Lee, Harry, 1913 - 1997 3
Ling's Family Amusements (Initiated c1850 - 1859) 3
Mellors Group Events (Established 1890) 3
Merchant, Billy (Little Billy), 1919 - 2001 3
Mills, Cyril Bertram, 1902 - 1991 3
National Fairground and Circus Archive. NFCA (Established 1994) 3
P.C. Sorcar, Junior, Born 1946 3
Pat Collins Fun Fairs (Established 1899) 3
Paulo Circus (Established c1900 - 1910) 3
Robert Brothers Circus (Established 1944) 3
Sanger's Allied Circus (Established 1854) 3
Savage Ltd (1850 - 1973) 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
Zippos Circus (Established 1986) 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
Arnold, Tom, 1897 - 1969 2
Aspland, George, 1836 - 1911 2
Aspland-Howden (c1875 - 1915) 2
Astley, Philip, 1742 - 1814 2
Austin, Florence, Active 1930 - 1969 2
B. Cole & Sons (Amusements) Ltd (Established 1890) 2
Barnum & Bailey Circus (1881 - 1919) 2
Battersea Park Amusement Park (1858 - 1972) 2
Beatty, Clyde, 1903 - 1965 2
Beverly Sisters (c1943 - 2009) 2
Big Daddy, 1930 - 1997 2
Bird, Margaret, c1900 - 1999 2