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Fonds
Reference code: 429
Scope and Contents
Material relating to the personal life and professional career of Sir Gareth Roberts, including school exercise books and reports, correspondence, diaries, committee and meeting papers, publications, photographs, computer discs, audio cassette tapes, 35mm slides, VHS video cassettes, lectures, prizes and certificates.Dating from 1942 to 2007, the collection covers the whole span of Sir Gareth’s life from his early schooldays to memorial services held in his honour after his...
Dates:
1942 - 2007
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Documents relating to Henry Clifton Sorby, Sheffield scientist and Fellow of the Royal Society, in the period 1845-1906.The collection consists of architectural photographs, diaries, a letter, and a set of reprinted papers by Sorby with his manuscript amendments. The eight boxes of architectural photographs taken by Sorby on his travels contain mostly examples from all over England (Prehistoric to modern) but there are a smaller number depicting styles in foreign countries...
Dates:
1845 - 1906
Fonds
Reference code: 468
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to the SSSU and the Montgomery building on Surrey Street, Sheffield. The collection consists of minute books, correspondence, literature, music, educational material and newspaper cuttings covering the late 18th to the 21st centuries, and has a close connection with the Montgomery Manuscripts already held by the University of Sheffield Library.
Dates:
1797 - 2008
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The collection consists of documents relating to the work of George Henry Turnbull on the educational activities of Samuel Hartlib and his circle.
The papers include transcripts from the Hartlib Papers; transcripts relating to John Dury and John Milton; papers relating to Dury´s educational theory; Henry More´s letters to Hartlib; Comeniana; preparatory publications for the Massachusetts Historical Society, and other miscellaneous papers.
Dates:
1922 - 1961
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Documents relating to Emily Gertrude Turner, graduate of, and Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Sheffield, and to Professor William Palmer Wynne of the Department of Chemistry, dating from circa 1890 to 2002.The collection consists of two series of documents relating to Gertrude Turner: a set of papers, including some photographs, originally presented in 1969 (ref. 78), which relates mainly to the scientific work of her Department, and which also includes some of the...
Dates:
c1890 - 2002
