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Fonds
Reference code: PE 33
Scope and Contents
Some 220 broadside ballads of the 19th century, from the library of W.A.S. Hewins.
For further details of this collection, and digitised images, please see the external documents section below.
Dates:
19th century
Scope and Contents
The papers and correspondence of William Albert Samuel Hewins (1865-1931), economist, historian and politician, and first director of the London School of Economics.The documents include official government papers, notes, lecture notes and diaries, together with an extensive and important correspondence involving leading politicians and dignitaries of the day.The collection also includes the unlisted papers of his son, M.G. Hewins.For further details of...
Dates:
1849 - 1931
Fonds
Reference code: 217
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...
Dates:
1995 - 1996
Fonds
Reference code: 389
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1957 - 2019
Collection
Reference code: HOL1
Scope and Contents
A developing collection of books on the history of the Jewish Holocaust in Europe in the early 1940s.
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Dates:
1940 - present
Fonds
Reference code: 435
Scope and Contents
Papers from the life of Howard Biggs (1917-1994), mainly from the years of his schooldays, to just after the Second World War. The material consists of letters (some with transcriptions), diaries, scrapbooks, newspaper cuttings and leaflets; there are also items from and about members of his family from previous generations.The final sections of the Papers contain material relating to Biggs’ father (Edgar Arnold Biggs, 1887-1943), his aunt (Ethel Bright Ashford, 1883-1980),...
Dates:
c1880 - c1975
Fonds
Reference code: 450
Scope and Contents
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.
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Dates:
1991 - 1996
Fonds
Reference code: 383
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...
Dates:
1816 - 2003
Fonds
Reference code: PE 17
Scope and Contents
Playbills of Sheffield theatres of the 19th century.
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Dates:
1832 - 1858
Collection
Reference code: IFS1
Scope and Contents
A collection of books and journals covering the topics of Canadian language, tradition and history.
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Dates:
1882 - 2004
Collection
Reference code: INC1
Scope and Contents
A collection of medieval manuscripts and incunabula (books printed up to the year 1500).
The manuscripts include a twelfth-century Psalterium and a thirteenth-century charter. Among the incunabula is a French Book of Hours from 1494 and Hartmann Schedel´s "Nuremberg Chronicle" from 1493.
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Dates:
12th century - 1637
Collection
Reference code: INN1
Scope and Contents
A collection of books on the history of medicine. The books range in date from the early 16th century to the early 20th century, all bearing the somewhat macabre Innes Smith bookplate. There is a strong bias towards medical biography.
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Dates:
1548 - 1932
Fonds
Reference code: POR 7
Scope and Contents
Approximatly 300 portraits of medical men from the 16th to the early 20th centuries collected by Robert Innes Smith (1872-1933), a doctor who worked in the Brightside area of Sheffield. Most of the items in the collection are engravings, mezzotints, lithographs and photographs, the majority being portraits of distinguished medical men although some non-medical related portraits are also included within the collection. The collection reflects the interests of Innes Smith, a large proportion...
Dates:
1700s - 1911
Fonds
Reference code: 210
Scope and Contents
A small collection of personal papers of Robert William Innes Smith, medical practitioner in Sheffield and medical historian, for the period circa 1894 to 1936. The papers are personal documents (correspondence, news-cuttings etc.) which belonged to Robert William Innes Smith but which were not included in his Working Papers deposited at the Royal College of Physicians of London.The file includes a copy of the listing, with his notes on the papers, made by Dr Harold Swan,...
Dates:
c1894 - 1936
Collection
Reference code: EDU1
Scope and Contents
This collection from the University of Sheffield's Institute of Education Library comprises around 750 books, pamphlets and journals, including some pre-1851 books, and several fine copies of later Victorian works.
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Dates:
1708 - 1969
Fonds
Reference code: 483
Scope and Contents
This archive contains the professional and personal papers of Irene Champernowne. The archive mainly contains records relating to her working life such as her lectures, seminars, administration of the Withymead Centre and the Gilbert Champernowne Trust, and her analysis of her patients including children in post-war Germany. There is a large amount of correspondence with a range of individuals that Champernowne had a professional and personal relationship with, including prominent people in...
Dates:
1892 - 2022
Fonds
Reference code: 454
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises television, radio and theatre scripts by writer Jack Ronder. Also included are manuscripts for several novels, along with newspaper cuttings, correspondence and theatre programmes. A number of items have been printed from digital files, mostly relating to productions in which Ronder was involved while living in Edinburgh.
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Dates:
1948 - 1980
Fonds
Reference code: 286
Scope and Contents
Television, film and theatre scripts, together with associated documents, by the contemporary dramatist Jack Rosenthal.The collection consists of copies of most of the scripts created by Jack Rosenthal during a career of over 40 years of writing for television, cinema and the theatre. Also includes related documents such as working notes, correspondence, press cuttings, personal papers and other memorabilia. A number of videos of programmes made from the scripts are also...
Dates:
1942 - 2001
Fonds
Reference code: 433
Scope and Contents
A collection of documents relating to the life and career of John Lewis Anderton Grout (1889-1963).
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Dates:
1913 - 1964
Fonds
Reference code: 238
Scope and Contents
Documents, correspondence, books, and journals belonging to the politician John Beckett. Also includes files of research material assembled by his son, the journalist Francis Beckett, during the writing of a biography of his father 'The Rebel Who Lost His Cause' (1999).
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Dates:
1914 - 1998
