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Fonds
Reference code: 166
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A collection of documents related to William Joyce and Cecil Courtney Lewis, including material collected by Lewis relating to the British Union of Fascists (BUF). The collection appears to have belonged to C.C. Lewis, a solicitor who acted as Oswald Mosley's legal adviser, and is noteworthy in that it contains five letters to Lewis in the hand of William Joyce. It also includes extensive annotations to Lewis' manuscript exercises on matters of current political interest, also by...
Dates:
1930s - 1960s
Fonds
Reference code: 451
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A collection of manuscript musical and literary works by Stuart Kilby Kay (1886-1962), including songs and hymns.
For further details of this collection, please see the listing in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1909 - 1919
Collection
Reference code: KEN1
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A collection of approximately 350 volumes on Japan and some other countries of the Far East, including China, mainly in the 20th century.
For further details of this collection, please see the listing in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1891 - 1979
Fonds
Reference code: 117
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Papers, including diaries, of Captain Malcolm Duncan Kennedy relating to Japanese economic, military and political matters, and recording his time spent in Japan, during the period 1917 to 1965. The collection consists of diaries for the years 1917 to 1946, lecture notes, manuscripts and news-cuttings, and miscellaneous items. An unpublished Memoir for the period 1912 to 1922, 'Their Mercenary Calling', covering his service in World War I and introduction to Japan is also...
Dates:
1912 - 1965
Fonds
Reference code: 496
Collection
Reference code: KLU1
Fonds
Reference code: SLI 5
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A collection of approximately 1,600 photographic images, some duplicated, assembled by Douglas Knoop on a world tour undertaken in 1913 and 1914.The collection consists of slides, photographs, negatives and postcards, in colour and black and white. The images cover natural features, human interest such as street scenes, and major events such as earthquakes, as well as incidental events on the tour (e.g. on board ship). The countries recorded include India, Ceylon,...
Dates:
1913 - 1914
Fonds
Reference code: 156
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of three separate documents from Korea. The first is an album of twelve hand-tinted photographs of the Ch’angdok Palace; the second is a diviners’ handbook, and the third is a pair of scrolls bearing state civil service examination scripts.
Dates:
Mid 19th to early 20th century
Collection
Reference code: KRE1
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A collection of around 1250 items from the library of Sir Hans Krebs. The Krebs Collection consists of over 800 books and periodicals, which have been individually catalogued, and over 400 pamphlets, newspaper cuttings and reprints of journal articles, which have been listed.
Some of the material has been annotated by Krebs.
For further details of this collection, please see the listing in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1854 - 1981
Fonds
Reference code: 215
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Papers of the early years of the Krebs Institute for Biomolecular Research, University of Sheffield, from before its creation in 1988 until 1993.
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Dates:
1984 - 1993
Fonds
Reference code: 116
Scope and Contents
The personal and scientific papers of the biochemist Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, circa 1915 to 1982.This extensive archive comprises the personal and scientific working papers of the distinguished biochemist Sir Hans Adolf Krebs (1900-1981), Nobel prizewinner in 1953 (with Franz Lipmann) for Physiology and Medicine in recognition of his elucidation of the metabolic process known as the tricarboxylic acid cycle or citric acid cycle. The collection was assembled from several sources...
Dates:
c1915 - 1982
Collection
Reference code: LEF1
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Books published by Victor Gollancz on behalf of the Left Book Club during the years 1936 to 1948. The collection includes a complete set – (Special Collections received the final addition to the collection from the library of journalist and writer, Paul Foot, in December 2016: “The adventures of the little pig and other stories” by F. Le Gros Clark and Ida Clark). In all, taking into account both the selected “Book of the Month” and the additional choices offered to members, some 252 titles...
Dates:
1936 - 1948
Collection
Reference code: LEF2
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A collection of printed pamphlets relating to left-wing politics mainly of the twentieth century. A great deal of such material exists from many sources but, as such publications are necessarily ephemeral in nature, and often produced in order to address a particular issue of the moment without any thought of their potential historical value (many are undated), they are frequently scarce, and holding them in the form of a special collection is a means of ensuring their preservation. The...
Dates:
1893 - 1996
Fonds
Reference code: 01-006
Scope and Contents
Fifteen volumes of newspaper cuttings collected by Leslie F. Newman relating to folklore and magic, particularly but not exclusively in East Anglia, dating mostly from the early 1920s to 1970. The cuttings are taken from a range of magazines and newspapers, and include articles on witchcraft, folklore, country customs, ghosts, etc.
Dates:
1829 - 1970
Fonds
Reference code: 334
Scope and Contents
A collection of both manuscript and printed musical works by George Linstead (1908-1974)
For further details of this collection please see the finding aid/box list in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1930 - 1973
Fonds
Reference code: 367
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This collection comprises the papers of the actor and author Maureen Lipman, and includes television, film and play scripts, programmes, reviews and cuttings, photographs, posters, drafts and proofs of published articles and books.
For further details of this collection please see the box list in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1941 - 2009
Fonds
Reference code: 425
Scope and Contents
Papers from the life and works of Arthur Eaglestone (1892-1980), worker in the Yorkshire steel and mining industries, Oxford scholarship student, author, and adult educator with the WEA and the University of Sheffield’s Department of Extramural Studies. The material includes both manuscript and printed works, scripts for radio broadcasts, correspondence, and personal and family papers.For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the External Documents...
Dates:
1920 - 1999
Collection
Reference code: LIT1
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The collection consist of issues of roughly 100 “little magazines”, along with 15 associated monographs.
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Dates:
1960 - 2007
Fonds
Reference code: 421
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A collection of original sketches of the Sheffield cutlery trade by Arthur Lismer (1885 - 1969), for illustration of Godfrey Isaac Howard Lloyd’s book The Cutlery Trades: An Historical in the Economics of Small-scale Production (London: Longmans, Green and Co.,1913). Also included are three photographs of cutlery workers, likely taken by Lloyd and used by Lismer as reference for his sketches.
Dates:
c1913
Fonds
Reference code: 359
Scope and Contents
A collection of both manuscript and printed musical works by Phillip John Lord (1930-1969)
For further details of this collection, please see the listing in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1950 - 1968
