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Fonds
Reference code: 435
Scope and Contents
Papers of Howard Biggs (1917-1994), mainly from the years of his schooldays, to just after the Second World War. Howard Biggs was a member of the British Union of Fascist in the 1930s, and was interned during the Second World War under Defence Regulation 18B. The material consists of letters (some with transcriptions), diaries, scrapbooks, newspaper cuttings and leaflets; there are also items from and about members of his family from previous generation including his father,...
Dates:
c1880 - 2004
Fonds
Reference code: 450
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises photographs taken by Howard Smith between 1991 and 1996 relating to the history of roads including milestones, mileposts, guide stoops, packhorse bridges and other road features, the majority of which were taken in South Yorkshire and Derbyshire. Includes photographs of mileposts taken in 1991 and 1992 to illustrate Smith's book 'A History of Rotherham’s Roads and Transport' published by the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in 1992.
Dates:
1991 - 1996
Fonds
Reference code: 383
Scope and Contents
A large collection of material collected by Nigel and Mary Hudleston reflecting their
interest in folk songs, calendar customs, folklore and traditional drama and dance, including
sound recordings, notes, newspaper cuttings, photographs, cine film and colour slides.Nigel and Mary Hudleston collected original recordings of folk songs from Yorkshire and Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s: 'Songs of the Ridings – a collection of Yorkshire folk songs' was published in 2001 after Mary...
Dates:
1816 - 2003
Fonds
Reference code: PE 17
Scope and Contents
Playbills of Sheffield theatres of the 19th century.
To see digitised versions of the playbills, click on each item in the collection from the right hand side collection hierarchy or go to the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1832 - 1858
Collection
Reference code: NFA0071
Scope and Contents
Research material used for the Hull Fair Project exhibition and DVD including audio visual material, digitised images, oral history and transcripts.
Dates:
c1800 - 2005
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0090
Scope and Contents
Colour photographs of fairground transport, living wagons and rides taken by Ian Cawthorne on his travels around the fairs.
Dates:
1974 - 1980; 1989 - 1992
Collection
Reference code: IFS1
Scope and Contents
A collection of books and journals covering the topics of Canadian language, tradition and history.
For further details of this collection, please see the listing in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1882 - 2004
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0067
Scope and Contents
This collection contains documents relating to Ilkeston Charter Fair.
Dates:
1936 - 1998
Collection
Reference code: INC1
Scope and Contents
A collection of medieval manuscripts and incunabula (books printed up to the year 1500).
The manuscripts include a twelfth-century Psalterium and a thirteenth-century charter. Among the incunabula is a French Book of Hours from 1494 and Hartmann Schedel´s "Nuremberg Chronicle" from 1493.
For a full list of items please see the external documents section below.
Dates:
12th century - 1637
Collection
Reference code: INN1
Scope and Contents
A collection of books on the history of medicine. The books range in date from the early 16th century to the early 20th century, all bearing the somewhat macabre Innes Smith bookplate. There is a strong bias towards medical biography.
For further details of this collection, please see the listing in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1548 - 1932
Fonds
Reference code: POR 7
Scope and Contents
Approximatly 300 portraits of medical men from the 16th to the early 20th centuries collected by Robert Innes Smith (1872-1933), a doctor who worked in the Brightside area of Sheffield. Most of the items in the collection are engravings, mezzotints, lithographs and photographs, the majority being portraits of distinguished medical men although some non-medical related portraits are also included within the collection. The collection reflects the interests of Innes Smith, a large proportion...
Dates:
1700s - 1911
Fonds
Reference code: 210
Scope and Contents
A small collection of personal papers of Robert William Innes Smith, medical practitioner in Sheffield and medical historian, for the period circa 1894 to 1936. The papers are personal documents (correspondence, news-cuttings etc.) which belonged to Robert William Innes Smith but which were not included in his Working Papers deposited at the Royal College of Physicians of London.The file includes a copy of the listing, with his notes on the papers, made by Dr Harold Swan,...
Dates:
c1894 - 1936
Collection
Reference code: EDU1
Scope and Contents
This collection from the University of Sheffield's Institute of Education Library comprises around 750 books, pamphlets and journals, including some pre-1851 books, and several fine copies of later Victorian works.
For further details of this collection please see the listings in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1708 - 1969
Fonds
Reference code: 483
Scope and Contents
This archive contains the professional and personal papers of Irene Champernowne. The archive mainly contains records relating to her working life such as her lectures, seminars, administration of the Withymead Centre and the Gilbert Champernowne Trust, and her analysis of her patients including children in post-war Germany. There is a large amount of correspondence with a range of individuals that Champernowne had a professional and personal relationship with, including prominent people in...
Dates:
1892 - 2024
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0019
Scope and Contents
Photographs and negatives, both collected and taken by him as well as notebooks with detailed lists of every fair visited. Jack Leeson used an elaborate system of cross-referencing which match the photographs and Jack's account of the fair. Also included are letters, scrapbooks and a collection of records of fairground music and some fairground models.
Dates:
1949 - 1992
Fonds
Reference code: 454
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises television, radio and theatre scripts by writer Jack Ronder. Also included are manuscripts for several novels, along with newspaper cuttings, correspondence and theatre programmes. A number of items have been printed from digital files, mostly relating to productions in which Ronder was involved while living in Edinburgh.
For further details of this collection please see the finding aid/box list in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1948 - 1980
Fonds
Reference code: 286
Scope and Contents
Television, film and theatre scripts, together with associated documents, by the contemporary dramatist Jack Rosenthal.The collection consists of copies of most of the scripts created by Jack Rosenthal during a career of over 40 years of writing for television, cinema and the theatre. Also includes related documents such as working notes, correspondence, press cuttings, personal papers and other memorabilia. A number of videos of programmes made from the scripts are also...
Dates:
1942 - 2001
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0103
Scope and Contents
This collection contains colour photographs of fairgrounds, fairground rides, organs and transport taken by Jack Stephens.
Dates:
1970 - 2006
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0168
Scope and Contents
Black and white and colour photographs and negatives of fairgrounds, fairground organs, steam engines and other transportation systems with annotations by Jack Wilkinson and other sources, such as William Keating, James Davidson, Philip Bradley and Jack Mellor, as well as notebooks, scrapbooks, journals, books, correspondence, research material, audio tapes of fairground organ music and some 3D items including Jack's recording equipment and a model of a fairground organ. Jack Wilkinson’s...
Dates:
c1900 - 1979
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0004
Scope and Contents
Colour photographs of fairground transport and rides taken by Jim Bassett.
Dates:
c1980 - 1999
