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Scope and Contents Printed books and pamphlets on the history of glass and glass-making, and on the decorative aspects of glass. The collection consists of two formerly separate collections on the history of glass and glassmaking:The Turner Bequest: Volumes from the personal library of W.E.S. Turner, Professor of Glass Technology at Sheffield University 1920-1946, bequeathed to the Joint Library of Glass Technology and bearing the legend ‘Turner Bequest 1964’ on their bookplates.Joint...

Scope and Contents 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...

Scope and Contents A developing collection of books published by private presses worldwide dating from the late nineteenth century to the present day.The original legacy core collection purchased in the mid-twentieth century comprises works of collaboration between important contemporaneous artists, writers and poets, as well as classic works by canonised figures such as Shakespeare and Goethe reinterpreted by nineteenth and twentieth century artists, all enabled and published by innovative small...

Scope and Contents Printed volumes of mainly pre-1851 origin, with some others of later date of special interest or value.Apart from the general collection which includes, for example, a first printing of the first edition of Newton's 'Principia', and an edition of Galen which bears the signature of François Rabelais, areas of particular note, with approximate number of volumes, are:The Pamphlet Book Collection: 16th to 19th centuries, which includes many Civil War and other 17th...

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Photographs and other portraits of medical personnel and institutions associated with Sheffield and its University, along with a small number of related documents.

The collection has been formed from material already held by the Library, both from University records and from donated material.

For further details of this collection please see the box list in the External Documents section below.

Scope and Contents The titles below are available in the Special Collections Department of the University of Sheffield´s Western Bank Library. Please note that holdings are incomplete, and that volumes and titles not included in this list may be held elsewhere in the local area.Iris (Sheffield): 1794-1806; 1812-1824; 1831-1832.Sheffield Courant: 1827-1832.Sheffield & Rotherham Independent: 1842-1863 - 2 copies of: 1845, 1846, 1847, 1851.Sheffield Mercury and...

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A collection of photographs relating to individual alumni of the University of Sheffield.

For further details fo this collection see the finding aid in the external documents section below.

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A collection of photographs, documents and artefacts illustrating notable persons, events and buildings in the history of Sheffield University Library.

For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the external documents section below.

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A small collection of printed documents relating to the Sorby Research Institute at the University of Sheffield and its experimental work during World War II, and including some other works relating to those principally involved.

For a full listing for this collection please see the External Document Section below.