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Fonds
Reference code: SLI 17
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A collection of 234 photographic images of architectural features of Italian buildings, notably cathedrals, churches and castles created by the Sheffield Society of Architects and Surveyors.
Dates:
c1880 - c1950
Fonds
Reference code: 142
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Documents relating to the Sheffield Society of Engineers and Metallurgists, 1894 to 1962
Dates:
1894 - 1962
Collection
Reference code: SLI 12
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A collection of photographs relating to individual alumni of the University of Sheffield.
For further details fo this collection see the finding aid in the external documents section below.
Dates:
1925 - c1970
Fonds
Reference code: 422
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The collection consists of documents relating to Sheffield University Drama Studio, and includes many programmes, posters, seasonal listings, lunchtime recital programmes, photographs, newspaper articles and correspondence relating to events held at the University Drama Studio
Dates:
1972 - c2010
Fonds
Reference code: FM 2
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A collection of films relating to the history and life of the University of Sheffield from its Inauguration in 1905 to the present day.In 1996 the University explored the possibility of producing a video film to mark the Centenary of the Inauguration of University College (the immediate forerunner of the University) in Sheffield in 1897, and a large cache of film footage was located in the Students' Union (see Sheffield University Students' Union Film Archive). Some of this was reformatted...
Dates:
1905 - 1968
Fonds
Reference code: 214
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A collection of photographs, documents and artefacts illustrating notable persons, events and buildings in the history of Sheffield University Library.
For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the external documents section below.
Dates:
1905 - 2020
Fonds
Reference code: 204
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The collection includes documents and photographs relating to the history of the Sheffield University Mountaineering Club and its members.The initial donation consisted of photographs, together with some accompanying documentary material, which principally record the life and outdoor activities of Frederick Wilson Jones, who, with W.T. Catton, founded the Sheffield University Mountaineering Club. Photographs relating to Mountaineering Club activities cover the years 1932 to 1934,...
Dates:
1913 - 1986
Fonds
Reference code: 316
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A collection of documents found in a time capsule which had been buried under the University of Sheffield foundation stone in June 1903. The records all date from 1903 apart from one newspaper article from 2003.
For details of this collection please see the finding aid in the external documents section below.
Dates:
1903 - 2003
Fonds
Reference code: 430
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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.
Dates:
2011
Fonds
Reference code: 274
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Manuscript works, including musical scores and lectures, with some correspondence relating to the Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra, of Frank Henry Shera, Professor of Music at the University of Sheffield 1928-1948. The collection comprises scores, lectures and other writings on the history of music, together with a small collection of correspondence relating to the Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra in the years 1929-33.For further details of this collection please see the finding...
Dates:
1904 - 1938
Collection
Reference code: 2
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This collection comprises approximately 250 items, largely single manuscripts and ephemera. The bulk of the material dates from the nineteenth century and includes autographed letters from noted individuals and diaries.
The collection is arranged alpabetically by person/subject. For a completed listing of items within this collection please see the external documents section below.
Dates:
c1600 - 2011
Fonds
Reference code: 429
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Material relating to the personal life and professional career of Sir Gareth Roberts, including school exercise books and reports, correspondence, diaries, committee and meeting papers, publications, photographs, computer discs, audio cassette tapes, 35mm slides, VHS video cassettes, lectures, prizes and certificates.Dating from 1942 to 2007, the collection covers the whole span of Sir Gareth’s life from his early schooldays to memorial services held in his honour after his...
Dates:
1942 - 2007
Collection
Reference code: SPP
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A developing collection of small press poetry publications from over a hundred non-mainstream international presses, with a particular focus on the avant-garde.The collection includes substantial holdings of several individual British presses including Barque Press, Crater Press, Face Press, West House Books, and Gargoyle Editions. It also includes the full output of the Canadian presses Weed/Flower and Seripress, as well as a large collection of books and ephemera from the San...
Dates:
1960s - 2019
Fonds
Reference code: 128
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Documents relating to the career of Professor David Henry Smyth, including lectures, speeches and essays by Smyth and others. For the box list for this collection please see the external documnets sections below.
Dates:
1946 - 1973
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Documents relating to Henry Clifton Sorby, Sheffield scientist and Fellow of the Royal Society, in the period 1845-1906.The collection consists of architectural photographs, diaries, a letter, and a set of reprinted papers by Sorby with his manuscript amendments. The eight boxes of architectural photographs taken by Sorby on his travels contain mostly examples from all over England (Prehistoric to modern) but there are a smaller number depicting styles in foreign countries...
Dates:
1845 - 1906
Collection
Reference code: SOR1
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A small collection of printed documents relating to the Sorby Research Institute at the University of Sheffield and its experimental work during World War II, and including some other works relating to those principally involved.
For a full listing for this collection please see the External Document Section below.
Dates:
1939 - 1979
Fonds
Reference code: 448
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The collection comprises play scripts, photographs (black and white, and colour), newspaper cuttings, printed and manuscript items, newsletters, books and pamphlets.
Dates:
1968 - 1994
Fonds
Reference code: 335
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A collection of both unpublished manuscript and published printed works by Thomas Worsley Staniforth (1845-1909), from around the 1870s to 1905. Some of the documents are undated.
For further details of this collection, please see the finding aid in the external documents section below.
Dates:
c1870 - 1904
Fonds
Reference code: 459
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The papers of actor, writer and director Stuart Golland, including scripts, publicity material, photographs, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and artefacts. The papers cover the entirety of Stuart Golland’s working life, from stage and screen acting through writing and directing plays and an involvement in setting up small theatre companies, and they include scripts, publicity material, photographs, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and some related artefacts.There is also a...
Dates:
1973 - 2015
Fonds
Reference code: 185
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Papers on the history of the clinical use of penicillin, 1945-1996, with particular reference to its early use in Sheffield, and to the reputation of Sir Alexander Fleming.The papers relate principally to the history of two medical scientists: Sir Alexander Fleming, who published his discovery of penicillin in 1929 but who has been subsequently criticised for an apparent failure to pursue its clinical potential, criticism repeated in a BBC Horizon programme in 1989; and Dr Cecil...
Dates:
1945 - 1996
