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Reference code: 110
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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: 10
Scope and Contents
Records of the People's College, Sheffield, together with later information about the College, 1848 to 1912.The archive includes records of the College, some published text books, and John Derby's note books, essays, correspondence, notes and papers. Also included are some post-closure documents: correspondence, notes, press cuttings and pamphlets relating to the College, assembled by G. C. Moore Smith, Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Sheffield...
Dates:
1848 - 1912
Scope and Contents
Papers from the Sheffield Educational Settlement during the period of Arnold Freeman’s wardenship (1918-55). The records are incomplete, particularly for the 1930s, but include correspondence, minute books, account books, some published material, play files and information about lectures, classes and activities at the Settlement.
For further details of this collection please see the finding aid/box list in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1918 - 1955
Scope and Contents
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
