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Allan Collection
Fonds
Reference code: 365
Scope and Contents
A collection of documents, printed ephemera and artefacts relating to freemasonry, from Ian Cochrane Allan, member and officer of several masonic organisations in Cheshire during the mid-20th century. Includes minutes, correspondence, speeches, programmes, invoices, as well as some items of masonic regalia, as well as materials relating to Ian Cochrane Allan’s war service, and an account book for 1947 to 1948 kept by his wife Joan Allan.
Dates:
c1939 - 1977
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Defence Regulation 18B Research Papers
Fonds
Reference code: 287
Scope and Contents
The archive consists of documents and correspondence relating to internment under Defence Regulation 18B during WWII, assembled by Professor A.W. Brian Simpson during the writing of his book 'In the Highest Degree Odious: Detention Without Trial in Wartime Britain' (Clarendon Press, 1992). A large proportion of the collection are photocopies of primary source material held elsewhere, such as The National Archives (UK). (PRO) indicates copies of documents supplied by the Public...
Dates:
1934 - 1997
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Dilks Papers
Fonds
Reference code: 418
Scope and Contents
Research papers, correspondence and transcripts of Professor David Dilks relating to his research project on former Special Operations Executive(SOE) operatives during the Second World War. The collection consists of full transcripts of interviews with 15 former members of SOE recorded between 2002 and 2004, along with supporting correspondence, press cuttings, obituaries and reports. Also includes documents relating to conferences organised or attended by David Dilks between 1962 and...
Dates:
1923 - 2010
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Gell Documents
Fonds
Reference code: 301
Scope and Contents
Documents relating to the career and life in China during the period 1930-1945 of Mary Prowse Gell, hospital doctor and lecturer in medicine. The collection consists of a small number of documents relating to Dr Gell's career in China, during which she experienced the Japanese invasion of that country and was subsequently interned there by the Japanese during World War II. The documents consist largely of contemporary letters and her own eyewitness accounts.
Dates:
[1922] - 1978
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Hatfield Diary
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
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Howard Biggs Papers
Fonds
Reference code: 435
Scope and Contents
Papers from the life of Howard Biggs (1917-1994), mainly from the years of his schooldays, to just after the Second World War. 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 generations.The final sections of the Papers contain material relating to Biggs’ father (Edgar Arnold Biggs, 1887-1943), his aunt (Ethel Bright Ashford, 1883-1980),...
Dates:
c1880 - c1975
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Madeleine Blaess Documents
Fonds
Reference code: 296
Scope and Contents
Documents relating to the early life and career of Madeleine Blaess, Lecturer and later Senior Lecturer in the Department of French at the University of Sheffield.The collection consists of diaries, personal papers and memorabilia from Madeleine Blaess´s school career in York, through her university days at Leeds to her academic career in the Department of French at the University of Sheffield. Notably, it also includes a journal written during Madeleine Blaess´s years in Paris...
Dates:
1845 - 1989
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
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
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives