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Vic King Fairground Film Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0142
Scope and Contents

Amateur fairground and steam fair films, made by Vic King, Syd Taylor and Edward Albert (Ted) Dandridge around Oxfordshire, Somerset and surrounding areas. Also 1 empty can entitle Old Steamers by E. A. Dandridge.

Dates: 1950 - 1987

Violet Bartram Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0195
Scope and Contents

Black and white photographs, negatives and postcards of fairgrounds, amusement parks, circus and performers, a newspaper cutting and a handbill.

Dates: c1902 - 1953

Waechter-Higgs Collection

 Collection
Reference code: WAE1
Scope and Contents A collection of articles, offprints, magazines, photographs and site reports from the personal collections of archaeologists John Waechter and Eric Higgs. The collection is mainly concerned with Palaeolithic archaeology, but this broadens to include zoology, botany, ethnography, palaeoanthropology and African archaeology. The collection is composed of two formerly separate archives, one curated by John Waechter, and the other by E.S. Higgs.The collection is precious on two...
Dates: 1848 - 1976

War Magazines Collection

 Collection
Reference code: WAR1
Scope and Contents The collection consists of issues of three illustrated magazines, which were published during the First and Second World Wars. The issues describe and comment on events at home, in Europe and in the wider world, with lavish use of illustration and photographs.The War Illustrated (1914-1919) 1-208, 22nd August 1914-10th August 1918. Missing no. 3The War Illustrated (1939-1947) 1-255, 16th September 1939-11th April 1947War Weekly 2-85, 3rd November 1939-5th...
Dates: 1914 - 1947

Warrender Manuscripts

 Fonds
Reference code: 137
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of documents relating to the work of Howard Warrender, largely relating to his Latin and English editions of Hobbes´ "De Cive", 1983, which were his major publications. They include proofs, correspondence, articles and copies of various editions of "De Cive" and other works of Hobbes.

Dates: 1972 - 1985

WGH Rides Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0133
Scope and Contents

This collection comprises 27 years of the WGH company’s business history. The collection is split between physical and born digital records and contains project files, financial information, designs, photographs, drawings, plans and some samples of 3D ride models.

Dates: 1989 - 2016

Wheat Collection

 Collection
Reference code: WHE1
Scope and Contents A collection of 245 volumes on law from the Wheat family of Sheffield solicitors. The majority were printed in the 18th century, although 35 date from the 17th century, and 21 from the early 19th century.The Wheats were a family of Sheffield solicitors, active from around 1766 until the 1930s. The first James Wheat was a solicitor whose business was based in Paradise Square in Sheffield. He built a library of books on the law dating back to the sixteenth century. Many of the...
Dates: c1600 - c1850

William Carr Collection

 Collection
Reference code: CAR1
Scope and Contents

The collection comprises 338 books and pamphlets relating to the modern history of Germany.

For further details of this collection please see the listing in the External Docouments Section below.

Dates: 1891 - 1988

William Keating Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0066
Scope and Contents

Photographs, some of large size negatives and glass plate negatives of fairground rides and transport.

Dates: c1880 - 1979

Willis Papers

 Fonds
Reference code: 391
Scope and Contents

The working papers of Arthur Willis (1922-2006), Professor of Botany at the University of Sheffield.

Dates: 1899 - 2006

Wilson Papers

 Fonds
Reference code: 41
Scope and Contents Papers of Henry Joseph Wilson, Sheffield Radical politician and Liberal MP, for the period 1859 to 1910.The collection consists of the following sections:1. Correspondence, papers and related press cuttings received by Wilson 2. Wilsons letters to members of his family 3. Printed election material, newspapers and press cuttings 4. Sheffield Nonconformist Committee papers 5. A collection by Gertrude Lenwood, one of Wilson's daughters, of newspaper cartoons and copies...
Dates: 1859 - 1955

Winnington Papers

 Fonds
Reference code: 327
Scope and Contents

Notebooks, reports (published and unpublished), correspondence, photographs, manuscripts and personal documents created by the journalist and author Alan Winnington. The material is mainly focussed on his professional career as a foreign correspondent for the Daily Worker in China, Korea and Berlin between 1949 and 1980. It also contains material relating to his later activities as an author of fictional works.

Dates: 1910 - 2004

Woods Collection

 Collection
Reference code: WOO1
Scope and Contents

A collection of 70 books dating from the sixteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, mostly relating to medical matters. Among the titles: Robert Boyle’s 'Medicinal Experiments' (1692), John Ray’s 'Catalogus Plantarum Circa Cantabrigiam' (1660), and Nicholas Culpepper’s 'A Directory for Midwives' (1777).

Dates: 1516 - 1952

World's Fair and Expositions Collection

 Collection
Reference code: NFA0159
Scope and Contents

The collection covers material from British, European and American expositions including programmes, guides, postcards, advertisements, newspapers and books.

Dates: 1851 - 1951

World's Fair Newspaper Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0085
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the complete run of The World's Fair Newspaper from 1904 to the present day. Issues from 1904 to 1950 are on microfilm.

Dates: 1904 - 2020

Zaidman Collection

 Collection
Reference code: ZAI1
Scope and Contents

The personal library of Lazar Zaidman, reflecting his interests in anti-Fascism, Jewish matters, politics and economics before, during and after World War II.

For further details of this collection please see the listing in the External Documents Section below.

Dates: 1872 - 1978

Zaidman Papers

 Fonds
Reference code: 118
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of printed ephemera and manuscript documents relating to the Anti-Fascist movement in London and to the Communist Party of Great Britain during the period 1930s to 1950s. There is also material on Jewish affairs during this period, including the origins of the state of Israel. A collection of pamphlets is included.

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

Dates: 1911 - 1961

Zoe Beloff Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0116
Scope and Contents Archive of the Blackpool chapter of Dreamland: The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and their Circle1926-1972 comprising; 12 framed humorous postcards from Blackpool mounted on A4 paper with hand written text, 18 framed pieces of A4 size letters containing typed text and drawings and watercolours, 1 large hand drawn piece with text a hand drawn introduction to the material described above, 14 black and white photographs of people, 32 negatives of landscapes and people, 5...
Dates: 1929 - 2013

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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) 2
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
Belle Vue (1836 - 1982) 4
Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 7
Beverly Sisters (c1943 - 2009) 2
Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) 7
Bird, Margaret, c1900 - 1999 2
Blackpool Pleasure Beach (Established 1896) 3
Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 4
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 4
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) 3
Circus Krone (Established 1905) 4
Circus Medrano (Established 1875) 2
Circus Pinder (Established 1854) 3
Cirkus Merano (1975 - 2015) 2
Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione (Established 1852) 2
Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus (Established c1957) 3
Cole Bros. Circus (c1884 - 1957) 2
Collins, Pat (Patrick), 1859 - 1943 3
Cottle, Gerry, 1945 - 2021 3
Craston, Joe (Joseph), 1868 - 1948 2
Crystal Palace (1851 - 1936) 4
Dainton, Frederick Sydney, Sir, 1914 - 1997 2
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
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) 5
Lord John Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 4
Mellors Group Events (Established 1890) 3
Mills, Cyril Bertram, 1902 - 1991 3
National Centre for English Cultural Tradition (NATCECT) (1975 - 2008) 11
National Fairground and Circus Archive. NFCA (Established 1994) 3
Norman, Tom, 1860 - 1930 (The Silver King) 3
Olympia London (Established 1886) 4
Pat Collins Fun Fairs (Established 1899) 3
Paulo Circus (Established c1900 - 1910) 3
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1919 - 2017) 4
Rosaire's Circus & Zoo (Established 1904) 4
Sanger's Allied Circus (Established 1854) 3
Sanger, George, 1825 - 1911 6
Sanger, John, 1819 - 1889 5
Shufflebottom Family, c1870 - 1998 3
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) 13
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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