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Buchan Theatre Programmes

 Collection
Reference code: PE27
Scope and Contents

A collection of programmes from musical concerts, dance performances, operas and theatre productions, mostly in London, 1989-2008.

Dates: 1989 - 2008

Burke-Haviland Family Documents

 Fonds
Reference code: 474
Scope and Contents Documents relating to some members of the family of Edmund Burke, politician and author.The collection consists of nineteen documents, mostly letters, relating to some members of the family of the eighteenth century politician and author Edmund Burke. In particular, the documents relate to Burke’s older sister Juliana, later Mrs. Patrick French, and her daughter Mary, later Mrs. Haviland. The letters date from 1762 to 1832, but there is also an explanatory note dated 2017...
Dates: c1762 - 2017

Burley Manuscripts

 Fonds
Reference code: 165
Scope and Contents

Textbooks, offprints, newspaper cuttings, degree certificates, etc. of George William Burley, Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield.

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

Dates: 1913 - 1992

Caricatures Collection

 Collection
Reference code: PE 34
Scope and Contents The caricatures collection consists of 55 volumes of social and political caricatures of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. Many very significant caricaturists are represented in the collection, including William Hogarth, Thomas Rowlandson, James Gillray and George Cruikshank. Both coloured and monochrome images are included, and provide a rich source of illustration of the political and social interests of the period.For further details of this collection and for links to...
Dates: c1700 - c1950

Carver Papers

 Fonds
Reference code: 352
Scope and Contents A collection of correspondence written to Catharine DeFrance Carver (1921-1997), publisher´s editor, mostly during the period 1991 to 1997 (where dated).The collection consists mostly of correspondence in the form of letters, postcards, etc. sent to Catharine Carver by her friends and colleagues, who included writers and poets such as Virginia Crosby, Desmond Graham, Jon Stallworthy, Michael Millgate and Richard Hoggart, as well as fellow editors and others from the publishing...
Dates: 1991 - 1997

Catalan Collection

 Collection
Reference code: CAT1
Scope and Contents

A collection of over 700 books and periodicals concerning Catalonia.

For further information about this collection please see the listing in the External Documents section below.

Dates: 1937 - 2006

Catherine Lovett Archive

 Fonds
Reference code: 436
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1945 - 2013

Changing Identities: Eastern Europeans in Bradford since 1945

 Fonds
Reference code: 497
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1983 - 1998

Chapman Manuscripts

 Fonds
Reference code: 153
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of lecture notes and papers relating to the teaching of Chemistry at The University of Sheffield by Arthur William Chapman, along with correspondence and papers concerning his invention of "a tube for indicating the extent of a thermal treatment".

Dates: 1922 - 1945

Charlotte Norman Derbyshire well-dressing collection

 Fonds
Reference code: ACT/97-015
Scope and Contents

The collection comprises manuscript, printed, photographic and audio items relating in the main to Charlotte Norman’s interest and academic research into the Derbyshire well-dressing custom. It also contains a number of academic folklore text books and journals, magazines, transparencies and photographs of corn dollies, canal boat art and Derbyshire calendar customs other than well-dressings.

Dates: 1834 - 1987

Chinese Cultural Revolution Pamphlet Collection

 Collection
Reference code: CHI1
Scope and Contents

A collection of almost 600 pamphlets, mainly in the English language, relating to the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Dates: 1915 - 1989

Circle Press Collection

 Collection
Reference code: CIR1
Scope and Contents

A developing collection of artist and sculptor Ronald King’s works from his own private press.

Dates: 1965 - 2005

Clapham Papers

 Fonds
Reference code: 170
Scope and Contents

These are the personal and working papers of Roy Clapham, Professor of Botany and following his retirement in 1969 Professor Emeritus, at The University of Sheffield. Consists of correspondence, teaching materials, post-graduate research papers, and papers regarding publications and lectures.

Dates: 1925 - 1994

Convocation Collection

 Collection
Reference code: CON1
Scope and Contents

This collection consists mainly of historical published items covering a variety of topics including prisons, juvenile justice, mental health, as well as general criminology and official reports.

Dates: 1843 - 1978

Cooper Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: 181
Scope and Contents Please note that this collection consists of material that is strongly anti-semitic in nature. The collection contains both published and unpublished material apparently compiled by an individual, thought to be F.T. Cooper, a cartoonist associated with the Imperial Fascist League, and mainly dates from the 1930s. It includes the English language version of the World Service issued by the Nazis in the 1930s. For further details of this collection, please see the...
Dates: 1917 - 1954

Crowther Manuscripts

 Fonds
Reference code: 151
Scope and Contents

Notes and manuscripts relating to the academic work of David Crowther, Staff Tutor in Extramural Studies (Philosophy) University of Sheffield.

Dates: 1928 - 1963

Curtis Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: 410
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of documents, sound and video recordings and photographs relating to children’s games and songs, which have been created and assembled by Mavis Curtis in the course of her research. The majority of the material deals with research in schools in West Yorkshire, notably in the Keighley area, but there are also conference papers and fieldwork notes of more general scope.

Dates: 1992 - 2006

Dainton Collection

 Collection
Reference code: DAI1
Scope and Contents

A collection of books from the personal library of Lord Dainton. The collection is intended to complement and support the Dainton Papers.

Dates: 1793 - 2005

Dainton Papers

 Fonds
Reference code: 231
Scope and Contents

The papers of Lord Dainton, scientist, university academic and administrator, and chairman of national committees on science, higher education and libraries, circa 1930 to 1997. The collection consists of the papers retained by Lord Dainton during his long and distinguished career.

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

Dates: 1915 - 1997

Dave Bathe Collection of Derbyshire Traditional Dance and Drama

 Fonds
Reference code: ACT/97-003
Scope and Contents The collection consists of printed and manuscript items, black and white and colour photographs, audio-cassettes and artefacts amassed as part of Dave Bathe’s research on Derbyshire mumming/guising traditions and the morris dance performed by members of the Taddington Oddfellows’ Lodge. The collection also contains a number of items relating to his interest in traditional custom, song and dance.For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the External...
Dates: 1973 - 1992

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Beckerlegge, Oliver A., 1913 - 2003 1
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Beet, Arthur Edgar, [?] - 1968 1
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Biggs, Howard (Thomas Howard Ashford), 1917 - 1994 1
Birks, Norman Arthur, 1892 - 1989 1
Blaess, Madeleine, 1918 - 2003 1
Blakeborough, Richard, 1850 - 1918 1
Blundell Jones, Peter, 1949 - 2016 1
Blunkett, David, Born 1947 1
Bonett, Emery, 1906 - 1995 1
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Bownas, Geoffrey, 1923 - 2011 1
Bramley, Paul A., 1923 - 2020 1
British Coke Research Association (1944 - 1983) 1
British Orienteering Federation (Established 1967) 1
Brotherston, Gordon, Born 1939 1
Brown, Robert Neal Rudmose, 1879 - 1957 1
Bullough, Geoffrey, 1901 - 1982 1
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Burley, George William , 1885 - [1967] 1
Campbell, Ken, Born 1939 1
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Champernowne, Irene, 1901 - 1976 1
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Clapham, Arthur Roy, 1905 - 1990 (Botanist) 1
Cooper, F.T., Active 1930s 1
Croft, Susan, Born 1958 1
Crowther, David, [?] - Died 1963 1
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Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809 - 1882 1
Daykin, Alec, 1918 - 2010 1
Denny, Alfred, 1847 - 1960 1
Denny, Henry, 1803 - 1871 1
Desch, Cecil Henry, 1874 - 1958 1
Devey, George, 1820 - 1886 1
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Empson, Hetta (Hester Henrietta), 1915 - 1996 1
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Eshelby, John Douglas, 1916 - 1981 1
Fairfax-Blakeborough, John, 1883 - 1976 1
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Feickert, Dave, 1946 - 2014 1
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