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Valentine cards
38 Valentine's Day cards, mostly dating from the 1940s, and originating from the United States. One card dates from around 1830.
Vic King Fairground Film Collection
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.
Violet Bartram Collection
Black and white photographs, negatives and postcards of fairgrounds, amusement parks, circus and performers, a newspaper cutting and a handbill.
Waechter-Higgs Collection
War Magazines Collection
Warrender Manuscripts
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.
WGH Rides Collection
This collection comprises 27 years of the WGH company’s business history. The collection is split between physical and digital born records and contains project files, financial information, designs, photographs, drawings, plans and some samples of 3D ride models.
Wheat Collection
William Carr Collection
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.
William Keating Collection
Photographs, some of large size negatives and glass plate negatives of fairground rides and transport.
Willis Papers
The working papers of Arthur Willis (1922-2006), Professor of Botany at the University of Sheffield.
Wilson Papers
Winnington Papers
Notebooks, reports (published and unpublished), correspondence, photographs, manuscripts and personal documents created by the journalist and author Alan Winnington.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.
Woods Collection
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).
World's Fair and Expositions Collection
World's Fair Newspaper Collection
This collection consists of the complete run of The World's Fair Newspaper from 1904 to the present day. Including microfilmed copies from 1904 to 1950.
Zaidman Collection
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.
Zaidman Papers
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.