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Collection
Reference code: NFA0107
Scope and Contents
Posters, photographs, programmes, 1 piece of sheet music for six instruments and a small amount of business records and correspondence relating to the dancing and burlesque comedy on skates.
Dates:
c1920 - 1945; 2020
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0043
Scope and Contents
Photographs related to Harder Jonsson and his work at circuses such as the Riskett, Chipperfields and Jeserich Circus as an animal trainer, also some family photographs.
Dates:
1920 - 1955
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0048
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs of rides, engines, shows and acts from a variety of fairs, taken by a number of photographers including Albert Davies.
Dates:
c1900 - 1980
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0036
Scope and Contents
Black and white photographs taken by Harry Furness of his fairground boxing booth. Images show boxers, crowds and people related to the show mainly from the 1940s.
Dates:
1930 - 1950
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0076
Scope and Contents
Photographs, posters and other documents relating to Waddington family Steam Yacht.
Dates:
c1900 - 1989
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0144
Scope and Contents
This collection contains black and white photographs, postcards and negatives, newspaper cuttings, scrapbooks, posters, programmes, books and other miscellaneous items related to the Paulo Circus family. Other circuses and performers are also represented.
Dates:
1921 - 2000
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0039
Scope and Contents
Black and white photographs of rides, engines, shows and acts as well as scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings from 'The World's Fair' including British Fairground Society Notes, 1949-1963 and scrapbooks relating to fairs, particularly in the Lancashire area.
Dates:
c1900 - 1969
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0082
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs of Oxfordshire Fairs, Showmen and preservation societies.
Dates:
c1970 - 1999
Scope and Contents
The papers and correspondence of Samuel Hartlib, educationalist, natural philosopher and polymath of the seventeenth century.The archive, which includes copies of his own letters as well as those sent to him by others, represents the greater part of extant Hartlib material. The seventeenth century was a period of rapid scientific and philosophical development, as well as of social, religious and political crisis, and the Hartlib Papers, as well as providing important insights...
Dates:
c1620 - 1662
Collection
Reference code: 492
Scope and Contents
This diary was kept by W.H. Hatfield in March 1943 during the visit to America of the British Metallurgical Mission of which he was part. It records the details of Hatfield's trip including meetings between British, American and Canadian metallurgists and advisors regarding war-time production of steel. It contains press cuttings, photographs, postcards and other ephemera. The document also contains correspondence and a copy of Hatfield's manuscript 'Sheffield Burns' on the Sheffield...
Dates:
1943
Fonds
Reference code: 307
Scope and Contents
A set of notebooks recording biochemical research carried out by Reginald Hems (1922-2009), research assistant to Hans Adolf Krebs.
Fifteen of the eighteen notebooks in the collection document biochemical research carried out by Reg Hems, research assistant to the Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Hans Krebs, between the years 1946-1984. They cover the period when Hems worked with Krebs at the Universities of Sheffield and Oxford. Of the remaining three notebooks, one is written by Leonard V....
Dates:
1946 - 1984
Collection
Reference code: 494
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two original letters from Charles Darwin to Henry Denny and a reproduction of one of Denny's replies. It also contains a short note from Alfred Wallace, related correspondence, documents, research and background material on Henry Denny and his son Alfred Denny.
Dates:
[17 January 1865] - 29 October 1996
Fonds
Reference code: PE 33
Scope and Contents
Some 220 broadside ballads of the 19th century, from the library of W.A.S. Hewins.
For further details of this collection, and digitised images, please see the external documents section below.
Dates:
19th century
Scope and Contents
The papers and correspondence of William Albert Samuel Hewins (1865-1931), economist, historian and politician, and first director of the London School of Economics.The documents include official government papers, notes, lecture notes and diaries, together with an extensive and important correspondence involving leading politicians and dignitaries of the day.The collection also includes the unlisted papers of his son, M.G. Hewins.For further details of...
Dates:
1849 - 1931
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0209
Content Description
Business records, newspaper cuttings and photgraphs related to the H.F. Pinder fairground family.
Dates:
1925 - 1960
Fonds
Reference code: 217
Scope and Contents
A small collection of documents produced by the Hillsborough, Sheffield branch of the Socialist Workers Party in 1995 and 1996, illustrating issues addressed at both local and national levels during the period.Examples of issues addressed in this collection are, nationally, the Merseyside Docks dispute, the place of the Socialist Workers Party in the political climate dominated by New Labour, the Asylum Bill and, locally, the closure of local libraries in Sheffield, anti-racism...
Dates:
1995 - 1996
Fonds
Reference code: 389
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises the papers of the author and screenwriter Barry Hines, and includes television, film and play scripts, programmes, reviews and cuttings, photographs, posters, drafts and proofs. There is also a collection of published books, both Barry Hines’ own works and material collected for research purposes.
Dates:
1957 - 2019
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0098
Scope and Contents
Photographs, newspaper cuttings, programmes, memoirs and other items relating to the Hodson family travelling theatre. Also includes family history research material.
Dates:
1828 - 1977
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0210
Content Description
Business records related to the fairground and theatre, posters and photographs of performers and showmen.
Dates:
c1880 - 1993
Collection
Reference code: HOL1
Scope and Contents
A developing collection of books on the history of the Jewish Holocaust in Europe in the early 1940s.
For further details of this collection, please see the listing in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1940 - present
