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Fonds
Reference code: 426
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of material relating to the community arts company Action Space, later Action Space Mobile, including photographs, slides, posters, publicity, sound and video recordings.
For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1968 - 2015
Fonds
Reference code: 457
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of ten volumes of index slips, divided into seven for mumming plays, one for disguising and two for morris.
For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
c1960
Fonds
Reference code: 437
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diaries recording the travel experiences of the Reverend Alfred Plummer in Germany and England. The earlier diaries cover his visits to Germany and Austria in 1869 and 1889 and include some photographs and newspaper cuttings, while the later diaries document his travels in England between 1916 and 1919, notably in Shropshire, Hertfordshire and Devon. Again they include many newspaper cuttings and photographs, and also some of Plummer’s reflections on World War 1.
Dates:
1869 - 1919
Fonds
Reference code: 365
Scope and Contents
A collection of documents, printed ephemera and artefacts relating to freemasonry, from Ian Cochrane Allan, member and officer of several masonic organisations in Cheshire during the mid-20th century. Includes minutes, correspondence, speeches, programmes, invoices, as well as some items of masonic regalia, as well as materials relating to Ian Cochrane Allan’s war service, and an account book for 1947 to 1948 kept by his wife Joan Allan.
Dates:
c1939 - 1977
Fonds
Reference code: AU 16
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of recordings of interviews about the book trade with librarians and
booksellers by Alastair Allan in 1974. The librarians represent a range of institutions
including the universities of Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, East Anglia, Edinburgh, Hull,
Leicester, Newcastle, Salford, Stirling, and polytechnics at Sheffield, Newcastle,
Wolverhampton and Kingston. Booksellers include representatives from the university
bookshops at Edinburgh and Stirling, and from Daley’s,...
Dates:
1974
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A collection of both manuscript and printed works by Herbert Antcliffe (1875-1964) including published and unpublished material, both musical and textual, during the period 1899 to 1961 (where dated).
Dates:
c1899 - 1961
Collection
Reference code: 452
Scope and Contents
An extremely wide and varied collection of material relating to mainly British cultural
tradition made up of individual donations to the Archives of Cultural Tradition. It comprises of
printed ephemera, hand written accounts and reproduced and original documents across a wide time
frame. Items mainly relate to Folklore, dialect, domesticity and British cultural tradition, although other countries are represented. Much of the material covers local history and folk-traditions with newspaper...
Dates:
1771 - 1999
Collection
Reference code: 268
Scope and Contents
Essays, poetry and short stories written by mineworkers for the Arthur Markham Memorial Prize administered by the University of Sheffield, submitted during the period 1932 - 1993. Contains essays that won the prize and those that were unsuccessful. Essays give insight into working in and for the mines and the home life of miners and their families. This archive contains essays for nearly all the years the prize was awarded. The 70 essays in this collection make up a small number...
Dates:
1932 - 1993
Fonds
Reference code: 174
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of documents relating to the history of the de Bartolomé family, which has a close connection with Sheffield and its University through two of its members, Dr Mariano Alejo Martin de Bartolomé (1813-1890) and Dr Stephen Martin de Bartolomé (1919-2001). It also includes a scrapbook dating from the earlier period, formerly in the possession of Dr Mariano Martin de Bartolomé’s family, and two 19th-century printed books on Spanish subjects. Mariano’s grandson, Dr Stephen...
Dates:
1832 - 1984
Fonds
Reference code: 146
Scope and Contents
The archive consists of 5 minute books, with election material and press cuttings, covering the years 1918-1949.
Dates:
1919 - 1949
Fonds
Reference code: SLI 22
Scope and Contents
A collection of just under 2,500 lantern slides collected by Arthur Edgar Beet, an academic in the Applied Science Department at the University of Sheffield in the first half of the 20th century.The collection covers a wide variety of subjects, including photographs of late 19th century Sheffield, illustrations of scenes from children’s tales and Bible stories, images of the Boer War and the First World War, portraits of important historical figures, and photographs of London and...
Dates:
Late 19th and early 20th century
Fonds
Reference code: 149
Scope and Contents
A collection of research papers relating left wing drama and theatre in Sheffield and elsewhere in the late 1930s, gathered by Betty Hunt when researching for a PhD in the School of English at the University of Sheffield in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
For further details of the Betty Hunt Papers please see the box list in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1930s - 1981
Fonds
Reference code: 332
Scope and Contents
A collection of 102 technical drawings made by Norman Arthur Birks (1892-1989) while he was an engineering student at Bradford Technical College and at the University of Sheffield between 1908 and 1914. Also includes 32 scholarship certificates, examination certificates and reports relating to Norman Birks’ technical education between 1908 and 1914 both at the University of Sheffield and Bradford Technical College, and 3 photographs featuring N.A. Birks dating from c.1912 to 1914....
Dates:
c1908 - 1914
Fonds
Reference code: 318
Scope and Contents
A collection of both manuscript and printed works by John and Emery Bonett, the literary pseudonyms of John Hubert Arthur Coulson (1906-1989) and his wife, Felicity Winifred Carter Coulson (1906-1995), during the period 1936 to 1984 (where dated).It consists of a range of both published and unpublished material, including novels, short stories, plays and television and film scripts, written by John and Emery Bonett, both together and individually.For further details...
Dates:
c1936 - 1984
Fonds
Reference code: CD 7
Scope and Contents
Collection consisting of recordings of interviews, plays, poetry and other works relating to Japan, made by Professor Geoffrey Bownas between 1958 and 1980. They include interviews with Kishida Kyoko, Abe Kōbō and Nakamura Utaemon about the Japanese author Mishima Yukio, Bownas’s translation of Naoya Uchimura’s play Marathon, and Japanese poetry. Some were broadcast on the BBC in the late 1950s and early 1960s.For further details of this collection please see the box list in the...
Dates:
1958 - 1980
Fonds
Reference code: 248
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of documents relating to the Great Strike of 1984-1985, collected by Andre and Phyllis Bradley. It includes newspaper cuttings, posters, pamphlets, photographs and correspondence, as well as working papers from specific mines, minutes, leaflets and conference reports. The majority of the documnets date from the 1970s to the 1990s but there are some older documents from the nineteenth century. For further details of this collection please see the finding...
Dates:
1865 - 1995
Fonds
Reference code: 487
Scope and Contents
Audiotapes and transcripts of interviews with mostly Jewish refugees and internees in Britain of the Nazi and World War II era. Interviews are undated but were conducted prior to 1980 and relate to the period 1933-1947.The collection consists of 168 cassettes tapes of interviews with 77 individuals (both men and women), and transcripts of 41 of those interviews. Those interviewed are mainly Jewish refugees (including individuals of mixed race or Jewish extraction), though a...
Dates:
[1979]
Fonds
Reference code: 138
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of documents relating to the work of the British Coke Research Association (BCRA) and related bodies, and includes correspondence, minutes, reports, photographs, slides and films.
For further details of this collection please see the box list in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1926 - 1975
Fonds
Reference code: 232
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of results files relating to the organised competitions of members of the British Orienteering Federation between April 1961 and March 2009, together with copies of some 50 series of newsletters issued throughout the UK from 1962. In addition, there are files of material collected by Carol McNeill, an active member of the BOF, which include maps, coaching and planning notes, and reports of meetings and events, plus further files donated by the Federation and...
Dates:
1961 - 2012
Collection
Reference code: 187
Scope and Contents
A collection of documents, published and unpublished, relating to the political movements associated with Sir Oswald Mosley - the New Party, the British Union of Fascists (later called the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists, or British Union), and the Union Movement, between circa 1925 to 1996. This collection was originally assembled to support research and teaching on political movements in 20th century Britain at the University of Sheffield, principally within...
Dates:
c1925 - 2017
