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Fonds
Reference code: 202
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Documents relating to the work of Dave Feickert, former National Union of Mineworkers research officer 1983-1993.The collection consists of documents and working papers covering the period of the Great Strike (1984-85) and the subsequent privatisation and decline of the coal industry. It includes correspondence, newspaper and journal articles, and material published during the strike period. It also includes documents relating to clean coal technology, health and safety issues and...
Dates:
1972 - 2004
Fonds
Reference code: 406
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The collection consists of documents relating to Fighting Cock Press and Pennine Poets, and includes proofs of many poems, correspondence, grant applications, log books, photographs, illustrations and cover art. There is also a collection of books published by Fighting Cock Press, and of issues of Pennine Platform, the journal of Pennine Poets.
For further details of this collection please see the finding aid/box list in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1997 - 2018
Collection
Reference code: PE 25
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A collection of material relating to film festivals. Includes programmes, newsletters and flyers relating to a wide range of Film Festivals, including Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds, London, Los Angeles and Thessaloniki.
For further details of this collection please see the finding aid/box list in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1970 - 2005
Fonds
Reference code: PE 31
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The collection consists of 7 bound volumes containing over 700 ballads from the personal library of Sir Charles Harding Firth.
For digital images and finding aids for this collection please see the links in the external documents section below.
Dates:
19th century
Fonds
Reference code: 370
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...
Dates:
1835 - 1882
Collection
Reference code: 303
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Documents collected by David Gamblin, a PhD student at Sheffield University, whilst conducting research for his unfinished PhD thesis ‘Yorkshire and the American Civil War’, during the years 1996 to 1999.
For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the external documents section below.
Dates:
1995 - 1999
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
Collection
Reference code: GEO1
Scope and Contents
A collection of nineteenth and early twentieth-century printed novels assembled by Professor Geoffrey Bullough for the purposes of studying the literary representation of dialect and dialogue.
Dates:
1826 - 1922
Fonds
Reference code: 432
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Publications and papers from the work of Geoffrey Ford (1942-2011), University Librarian. The material is made up of reports, journals, newsletters, papers and books either authored by Geoffrey Ford or from his personal collection.
For further details of this collection please see the external documents section below.
Dates:
1963 - 2008
Fonds
Reference code: 284
Scope and Contents
Over 100 reports, both published and unpublished, relating to the UK coal industry during the years of the Great Strike and also the pit closures that followed it.The collection consists of over 100 reports, both published and unpublished, relating to the UK coal industry during the years of the Great Strike (1984/1985) and the programme of pit closures which followed it. The reports are concerned with national matters and also with the viability of individual pits....
Dates:
1960 - 1995
Fonds
Reference code: 493
Scope and Contents
The Gordon Brotherston Papers comprise circa 1000 pages of documentary materials. The vast majority of this material is original correspondence (a mixture of typescript and handwritten), which has never been available for research. The Papers represent, therefore, a previously unknown yet highly significant aspect of post-war small press poetry culture—a developing speciality of Sheffield’s Special Collections due to the Small Press Poetry Collection—particularly focused around international...
Dates:
1961 - 2013
Fonds
Reference code: SLI 23
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A collection of approximately 1,200 slides taken by Professor James Huntley Grayson during his time spent in East Asia. The collection consists of around 1,100 colour and black and white slides taken during visits to Republic of Korea (South Korea), Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong between 1965 and 1973; and a further set of 70 slides recording a visit to Shenyang, China, in August 1985.For further details of this collection, and links to digitised images, please see the...
Dates:
1965 - 1985
Fonds
Reference code: 163
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The collection consists of two parts: photocopied correspondence from James Huntley Grayson to his parents in America from Taiwan, Japan and Korea between 1965 and 1987; and field notes, research material, etc. compiled by James Huntley Grayson during research visits to Manchuria, Korea, Japan and Mongolia between 1982 and 2004.
For further details of this collection, please see the listing in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1965 - 2004
Fonds
Reference code: 279
Scope and Contents
A collection of both manuscript and printed musical works by Sir William Henry Hadow (1859-1937).
Dates:
1883 - 1902
Fonds
Reference code: 443
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of assorted research materials relating to marine convoys and those
who played a part in them during the Second World War. It was assembled by Morgiana
Halley for her PhD entitled “An Ethnography of Marine Convoys of World War II”, which
was completed in 1996 at the University of Sheffield.
The collection includes sound recordings of interviews, correspondence, primary documents,
poems and songs, newspaper cuttings, photocopies and research notes.
Dates:
1917 - 1995
Scope and Contents
Research papers and other material on several topics: English language and literature, theatrical history, nursery rhymes, World War One battles in 1918, and Anglo-Saxon cross fragments of the Sheffield area.The archive is in several distinct sections, and consists of research material in manuscript, with some printed material, often with ms. annotations. The sections include:Hamer Research Collections on English language and literature (MS 62);
Manuscript notes on...
Dates:
c1930 - 1962
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The papers and correspondence of Samuel Hartlib, educationalist, natural philosopher and polymath of the seventeenth century.The archive, which includes copies of his own letters as well as those sent to him by others, represents the greater part of extant Hartlib material. The seventeenth century was a period of rapid scientific and philosophical development, as well as of social, religious and political crisis, and the Hartlib Papers, as well as providing important insights...
Dates:
c1620 - 1662
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
Fonds
Reference code: 307
Scope and Contents
A set of notebooks recording biochemical research carried out by Reginald Hems (1922-2009), research assistant to Hans Adolf Krebs.
Fifteen of the eighteen notebooks in the collection document biochemical research carried out by Reg Hems, research assistant to the Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Hans Krebs, between the years 1946-1984 (for information on Krebs see the entry for the Krebs Papers). They cover the period when Hems worked with Krebs at the Universities of Sheffield and Oxford. Of...
Dates:
1946 - 1984
Collection
Reference code: 494
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This collection contains two original letters from Charles Darwin to Henry Denny and a reproduction of one of Denny's replies. It also contains a short note from Alfred Wallace, related correspondence, documents, research and background material on Henry Denny and his son Alfred Denny.
Dates:
[17 January 1865] - 29 October 1996
