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Daykin Drawings
Fonds
Reference code: 394
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a variety of architectural drawings, including around 45 produced during Alec Daykin´s student years from 1935 to 1940. There are also drawings relating to the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to the University of Sheffield in 1954 and to the conversion of Shearwood Road Baptist Church into the University of Sheffield´s Drama Studio in 1970. Also included are set and costume designs for theatre productions both at the drama studio and elsewhere, and also archaeological...
Dates:
1935 - 1983
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
Desch Manuscripts
Fonds
Reference code: 84
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of diaries; slides; reprints; school and university notebooks and working notes; committee papers; photographs; and some 1600 items of correspondence. The material deals with Desch´s interest and work in historical metallurgy and Positivism, as well as with aspects of his research and professional career and his chemical work in the First World War.
Dates:
1920 - 1931
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Devey Collection
Fonds
Reference code: 281
Scope and Contents
Drawings and photographs relating to the work of the 19th century architect George Devey.The collection is in two sections: the first, consisting of 95 loose but numbered items which are chiefly a selection of drawings in pencil, watercolour, and, in a few cases, ink, but also including some photographs. The second section consists of an album into which have been pasted 135 items which are almost all photographs but also include some pencil sketches. The drawings are...
Dates:
1840s - 1886
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Dewhurst Papers
Fonds
Reference code: 431
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises the papers of the screenwriter, playwright and author Keith Dewhurst. It includes scripts, screenplays, drafts, synopses and research material covering television, film, theatre and fiction/non-fiction. There is also correspondence, newspaper cuttings (research and authored), photographs, diaries, posters, memorabilia and biographical material along with a collection of published books, both Keith Dewhurst’s own works and material collected for research purposes....
Dates:
1943 - 2013
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
East End Newspaper Reports
Fonds
Reference code: 169
Scope and Contents
Notes, transcripts and photocopies of newspaper reports relating to Jewish immigration from a range of London East End newspapers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Dates:
1880 - 1910
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Economic League Collection
Fonds
Reference code: PE 21
Scope and Contents
A collection of journals and leaflets mostly published by the Economic League between 1961 and 1963.
For further details of this collection please see the finding aid/box list in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1961 - 1963
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
ed.it Archive
Collection
Reference code: ED1
Scope and Contents
A developing collection of artists’ books, pamphlets and original artwork created by Ian Tyson for his press, ed.it. This archive also contains mock-ups and experimental versions of the finished works.
Dates:
1995 - 2021
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Eggleston Notebooks
Fonds
Reference code: 253
Scope and Contents
A set of notebooks recording biochemical research carried out by Leonard Victor Eggleston, research assistant to the Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Hans Krebs, between the years 1941-1974. This collection contains a set of 20 notebooks and Eggleston's BSc thesis. The notebooks commence during the Second World War, when Krebs was engaged as part of the war effort in work on nutrition at Sheffield University's Sorby Research Institute, and continue in the post-war period at the Universities of...
Dates:
1941 - 1974
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Elizabeth Firth Manuscripts
Fonds
Reference code: 58
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...
Dates:
1812 - 1961
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Elliott Dodds Manuscripts
Fonds
Reference code: 152
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of cartoons, articles, newscuttings and notebooks, relating to the work and interests of journalist George Elliott Dodds.
For further details of this collection please see the box listing in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1900 - 1977
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Elliott Manuscripts
Fonds
Reference code: 155
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1959 - 1992
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Elmfield Collection
Collection
Reference code: ELM1
Scope and Contents
Printed books and pamphlets on the history of glass and glass-making, and on the
decorative aspects of glass. The collection consists of two formerly separate collections on the history of glass and glassmaking:The Turner Bequest: Volumes from the personal library of W.E.S. Turner, Professor of Glass Technology at Sheffield
University 1920-1946, bequeathed to the Joint Library of Glass Technology and bearing the legend
‘Turner Bequest 1964’ on their bookplates.Joint...
Dates:
1662 - 2001
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Empson Documents
Fonds
Reference code: 292
Scope and Contents
Material relating to Sir William Empson (1906-1984), poet, academic and critic and his wife, Hetta, Lady Empson (1915-1996), sculptor, political activist and socialite. The first part of the collection comprises papers (mainly letters) from William and Hetta Empson, to each other and to others, notably Walter Brown and David Jones. They include both domestic matters and also descriptions of world events such as their experiences in China during the Communist Revolution, and Hetta´s work in...
Dates:
1915 - 2000
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Eshelby Manuscripts
Fonds
Reference code: 144
Scope and Contents
A collection of papers relating to work on materials science carried out by John Douglas Eshelby. The collection consists of correspondence, notebooks, research papers and miscellaneous documents relating to the working life of John Douglas Eshelby, notably relating to the subject area of materials science, but also including mathematics, theoretical physics, languages and archaeology.For further details of this collection please see the listing in the External Document section...
Dates:
1957 - 1981
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
European Union Nursing Documents
Collection
Reference code: 269
Scope and Contents
Documents relating to the harmonisation of professional standards of nursing practice in the European Union, mainly relate to the period 1977 to 2000. They have been assembled by two professionally qualified nurses who represented the UK in the process, Dame Sheila Quinn and Thomas Keighley.Series 1 relates to the work of Dame Sheila Quinn, who was President of the Royal College of Nursing 1982-86 and Regional Nursing Officer, Wessex Regional Health Authority 1978-83, and who...
Dates:
1968 - 2000
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Fascism in Europe Collection
Collection
Reference code: FAS1
Scope and Contents
A developing collection of books on the history of fascism on the continent of Europe and beyond in the twentieth century.
For further details of this collection please see the listings in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1901 - 2015
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Fascism in Great Britain Collection
Collection
Reference code: FAS2
Scope and Contents
A collection of published and unpublished documents relating to Fascism and other right-wing movements in 20th century Britain up to the period of the demise of the Union Movement, but including critical and biographical material published after the period. It includes a number of rare pamphlets, and includes for the most part documents produced by the British Union of Fascists before 1940, as well as more overtly anti-Semitic material produced by organisations such as the Sons of Liberty...
Dates:
1901 - 2015
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Fearnsides Collection
Collection
Reference code: FEA1
Scope and Contents
A collection of printed books on geology assembled mainly by W.G. Fearnsides, Professor of Geology at the University of Sheffield from 1913 to 1945. The collection which bears Fearnsides´ name comprises books of historical interest of the 19th and 20th centuries, primarily but not exclusively relating to the British Isles, assembled by himself, with some later additions. The earliest title is a volume on fossils by James Parkinson: Organic remains of a former world (London,...
Dates:
1808 - 1990
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives