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The collection consists of material relating to the community arts company Action Space, later Action Space Mobile, including photographs, slides, posters, publicity, sound and video recordings.

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

Scope and Contents Essays, poetry and short stories written by mineworkers for the Arthur Markham Memorial Prize administered by the University of Sheffield, submitted during the period 1932 - 1993. Contains essays that won the prize and those that were unsuccessful. Essays give insight into working in and for the mines and the home life of miners and their families. This archive contains essays for nearly all the years the prize was awarded. The 70 essays in this collection make up a small number...

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The archive consists of 5 minute books, with election material and press cuttings, covering the years 1918-1949.

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A collection of documents relating to the dialect poetry of Catherine A. (Cathy) Lovett.

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

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This archive consists of audio-tape recordings, with some transcripts, of interviews with members of the ethnic Ukrainian community in Bradford in the 1990s, regarding their personal histories. Interviewees include family groups, family members of some of the people interviewed earlier, and younger people born in the UK of immigrant parents. In contrast to the earlier work of the 1980s more than half the interviewees are women.

Scope and Contents Diaries and related papers of Elizabeth Firth, recording her life in the Yorkshire village of Thornton in the 1810s and 1820s. The diaries which form the bulk of the collection are of the simplest kind: brief day-to-day records of social and church occasions of a young girl in a small village near Bradford and at boarding school near Wakefield. Their principal interest lies in the references to members of the Brontë family with whom Elizabeth was acquainted, and the collection includes a...

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Documents relating to the work of Ronald Witham Elliott, former County Medical Officer of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and a graduate of the University of Sheffield.

The collection consists of committee and other papers, and printed material, relating to the work of Ronald Witham Elliott.

Scope and Contents Documents relating to the career of Walter Careless Freer, surgeon and early graduate of the Sheffield Medical School.The collection consists of certificates and letters of recommendation relating to the career of Walter Freer from his entry into apprenticeship at the Sheffield Medical School in 1835 through a range of courses, applications and appointments.For digital images and further details of this collection please see the links in the External Documents section...

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...

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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.

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

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The collection comprises 126 colour photographs taken by Howard Smith between 1991 and 1996 of milestones, guide stoops, packhorse bridges, etc., mostly in South Yorkshire and Derbyshire.

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

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...

Scope and Contents Papers from the life and works of Arthur Eaglestone (1892-1980), worker in the Yorkshire steel and mining industries, Oxford scholarship student, author, and adult educator with the WEA and the University of Sheffield’s Department of Extramural Studies. The material includes both manuscript and printed works, scripts for radio broadcasts, correspondence, and personal and family papers.For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the External Documents...

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A collection of original sketches of the Sheffield cutlery trade by Arthur Lismer (1885 - 1969), for illustration of Godfrey Isaac Howard Lloyd’s book The Cutlery Trades: An Historical in the Economics of Small-scale Production (London: Longmans, Green and Co.,1913). Also included are three photographs of cutlery workers, likely taken by Lloyd and used by Lismer as reference for his sketches.

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Recordings of interviews, and associated interview notes, from the project 'Sheffield Voices Through Time'.

For further details of the project, please see the External Documents below.

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Papers from the life and works of miner Tom Hague (1915-1998), also known as Totley Tom. The majority of the papers date from the 1970s to the 1990s, but also includes later recordings of interviews with family members.