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Fonds
Reference code: 337
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A collection of correspondence to and from Dr. John E. Lunn of Sheffield concerning the book 'Ralph Vaughan Williams: a pictorial biography' that he wrote with Ursula Vaughan Williams, the widow of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the external documents section below.
Dates:
1968 - 1972
Collection
Reference code: LUX1
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The collection consists of books, journals, newspapers and CDs covering all aspects of Luxembourg-related interest: history, politics, language and literature, culture, geography, economy and society.
Dates:
1886 - 2008
Fonds
Reference code: 110
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Documents on the early life and career of Lydia Manley Henry, graduate of the University of Sheffield Medical School. The collection consists of notes by Dr Henry on her early life in Sheffield as a medical student and her subsequent relatively short career in medicine, together with three photographs. There are also notes relating to her time as a pupil at Sheffield Day High School for Girls.For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the External...
Dates:
1918 - 1979
Fonds
Reference code: 351
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A collection of papers, notebooks and memorabilia relating to Eric David Mackerness (1921-1999) and members of his family.
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Dates:
1912 - 1998
Fonds
Reference code: 296
Scope and Contents
Documents relating to the early life and career of Madeleine Blaess, Lecturer and later Senior Lecturer in the Department of French at the University of Sheffield.The collection consists of diaries, personal papers and memorabilia from Madeleine Blaess´s school career in York, through her university days at Leeds to her academic career in the Department of French at the University of Sheffield. Notably, it also includes a journal written during Madeleine Blaess´s years in Paris...
Dates:
1845 - 1989
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The collection comprises the papers, including many press cuttings, of Joseph Madin, Sheffield trades-unionist and Labour Party activist, and co-founder of the Sheffield Labour College, circa 1913 to 1959. The collection also includes his personal library of books and pamphlets. Other ephemera such as election pamphlets are included.
For further details of this collection, please see the listing in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
c1913 - 1959
Collection
Reference code: MEN1
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The collection is a part of the personal library of John Mendelson, Labour MP for Penistone 1959-1978. Although covering a wide range of subjects and countries, the collection relates principally to politics, economics, history, literature and the fine arts, and is particularly rich in material on German and French political and economic history, especially of the twentieth century, including works on the rise of fascism, communism and socialism, and post-war conditions in Europe after 1945....
Dates:
c1908 - 1977
Collection
Reference code: MIL1
Scope and Contents
A collection of pamphlets gathered by medical physicist Harold Miller, which relate to his interests in medical physics, the Methodist church, social justice, and world peace.
Dates:
1924 - 1969
Fonds
Reference code: 184
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of both the working, and personal papers, along with other documents, of medical physicist Professor Harold Miller.
For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the external documents section below.
Dates:
1912 - 1995
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Papers of, and relating to, James Montgomery (1771-1854), Sheffield journalist and poet.The collection includes reminiscences of Montgomery, poems and manuscripts by him, printed works and illustrations. Also included is a scrapbook entitled “Negro’s album of the Sheffield Anti-Slavery Society, 1828”, and material by and about Montgomery assembled by Mary Anne Rawson (née Read).For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the external documents...
Dates:
c1800-1850
Collection
Reference code: 57
Scope and Contents
Family and other papers, working notes and annotated printed texts, including material relating to the life and works of Thomas Randolph, made by George Charles Moore Smith (1858-1940), Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield.The collection is of a miscellaneous character, and has been acquired through several separate donations. It consists of a selection of early essays by Professor George Charles Moore Smith; papers and correspondence...
Dates:
1702 - 1950
Fonds
Reference code: 288
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The collection comprises the surviving personal and working papers, manuscripts and associated correspondence relating to the life and work of Brian Robert Morris, university teacher and professor of English Literature, University Principal, writer, broadcaster and public figure through his membership/chairmanship of many public and private cultural bodies and his appointment to the House of Lords.The papers consist of :Material collected from BRM´s home in Foolow...
Dates:
1912 - 2002
Fonds
Reference code: PE 32
Scope and Contents
Nine framed and seven unframed political cartoons relating to the elections in Sheffield in 1868 in which Anthony John Mundella was the winning candidate.
Dates:
1868
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Correspondence and other papers of Anthony John Mundella, Liberal MP for Sheffield, plus other related correspondence.The content of the papers is mainly political, and consists largely of the correspondence of Mundella. The collection also includes correspondence of the family of Robert Leader, some of which does not relate to Mundella, acquired by Mundella's daughter Maria Theresa who intended to write a biography of her father, and transcriptions by Maria Theresa of...
Dates:
1861 - 1932
Collection
Reference code: NAT1
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The Collection consists of several thousand books, pamphlets, reports, journal issues and multimedia materials relating to the subject of 'play'. Topics covered include play provision, facilities and equipment, the psychology of play, play for children with special needs, play therapy, play and the environment, the design of play spaces, playwork training, and the safety of play areas and equipment.For further details of this collection, please see the listing in the External...
Dates:
1910 - 2014
Fonds
Reference code: 242
Scope and Contents
Documents both published and unpublished relating to the Coal and other energy industries (mainly 1970s to early 1990s) formerly in the Library of the Research Department of the National Union of Mineworkers, Sheffield.
For further details of this collection please see the box list in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1925 - 1993 (mainly 1973 - 1993)
Fonds
Reference code: 243
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a complete set of printed minutes of the National Union of Mineworkers distributed to over 100 collieries in operation in the Yorkshire region between 1925 and 1992.
Dates:
1925 - 1992
Fonds
Reference code: 02-002
Scope and Contents
Paper and electronic copies of Derek S. Newby’s 'A compilation of ballads and songs of South West Durham'.
For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the External Documents Section below.
Dates:
2001
Fonds
Reference code: 423
Scope and Contents
A collection of papers and sound recordings relating to Nick Howard’s research on the blockade of Germany after World War I and the influenza pandemic, and his contributions to a series of radio programmes for BBC Radio Sheffield on the history of the labour movement in the Sheffield region.
For further details of this collection please see the box list in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1919 - 2005
Fonds
Reference code: 126
Scope and Contents
Papers, lecture notes, etc. of Peter Harold Nidditch (1928-1983), Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield from 1969 until his death.
The collection relates mainly to his work on John Locke.
For further details of this collection please see the box list in the External Documents section below
Dates:
1975 - 1982
