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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.

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The collection consists of ten volumes of index slips, divided into seven for mumming plays, one for disguising and two for morris.

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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.

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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Carter Coulson (1906-1995), during the period 1936 to 1984 (where dated).It consists of a range of both published and unpublished material, including novels, short stories, plays and television and film scripts, written by John and Emery Bonett, both together and individually.For further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...

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...

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A collection of programmes from musical concerts, dance performances, operas and theatre productions, mostly in London, 1989-2008.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of a variety of architectural drawings, including around 45 produced during Alec Daykin´s student years from 1935 to 1940. There are also drawings relating to the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to the University of Sheffield in 1954 and to the conversion of Shearwood Road Baptist Church into the University of Sheffield´s Drama Studio in 1970. Also included are set and costume designs for theatre productions both at the drama studio and elsewhere, and also archaeological...

Scope and Contents This collection comprises the papers of the screenwriter, playwright and author Keith Dewhurst. It includes scripts, screenplays, drafts, synopses and research material covering television, film, theatre and fiction/non-fiction. There is also correspondence, newspaper cuttings (research and authored), photographs, diaries, posters, memorabilia and biographical material along with a collection of published books, both Keith Dewhurst’s own works and material collected for research purposes....

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A collection of material relating to film festivals. Includes programmes, newsletters and flyers relating to a wide range of Film Festivals, including Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds, London, Los Angeles and Thessaloniki.

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Scope and Contents Research papers and other material on several topics: English language and literature, theatrical history, nursery rhymes, World War One battles in 1918, and Anglo-Saxon cross fragments of the Sheffield area.The archive is in several distinct sections, and consists of research material in manuscript, with some printed material, often with ms. annotations. The sections include:Hamer Research Collections on English language and literature (MS 62); Manuscript notes on...

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This collection comprises the papers of the author and screenwriter Barry Hines, and includes television, film and play scripts, programmes, reviews and cuttings, photographs, posters, drafts and proofs. There is also a collection of published books, both Barry Hines’ own works and material collected for research purposes.

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Playbills of Sheffield theatres of the 19th century.

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Scope and Contents Television, film and theatre scripts, together with associated documents, by the contemporary dramatist Jack Rosenthal.The collection consists of copies of most of the scripts created by Jack Rosenthal during a career of over 40 years of writing for television, cinema and the theatre. Also includes related documents such as working notes, correspondence, press cuttings, personal papers and other memorabilia. A number of videos of programmes made from the scripts are also...

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This collection comprises the papers of the actor and author Maureen Lipman, and includes television, film and play scripts, programmes, reviews and cuttings, photographs, posters, drafts and proofs of published articles and books.

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Scope and Contents Papers from the life and works of Arthur Eaglestone (1892-1980), worker in the Yorkshire steel and mining industries, Oxford scholarship student, author, and adult educator with the WEA and the University of Sheffield’s Department of Extramural Studies. The material includes both manuscript and printed works, scripts for radio broadcasts, correspondence, and personal and family papers.For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the External Documents...

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A collection of programmes for productions at the Sheffield Playhouse, 1956-1971. The programmes cover a variety of productions, from Shakespeare to Agatha Christie, John Osborne to fairy tales, and date from January 1956 to May 1971, the year in which the Playhouse closed and the Crucible Theatre opened.

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The collection consists of documents relating to Sheffield University Drama Studio, and includes many programmes, posters, seasonal listings, lunchtime recital programmes, photographs, newspaper articles and correspondence relating to events held at the University Drama Studio

Scope and Contents A collection of films relating to the history and life of the University of Sheffield from its Inauguration in 1905 to the present day.In 1996 the University explored the possibility of producing a video film to mark the Centenary of the Inauguration of University College (the immediate forerunner of the University) in Sheffield in 1897, and a large cache of film footage was located in the Students' Union (see Sheffield University Students' Union Film Archive). Some of this was reformatted...

Scope and Contents The papers of actor, writer and director Stuart Golland, including scripts, publicity material, photographs, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and artefacts. The papers cover the entirety of Stuart Golland’s working life, from stage and screen acting through writing and directing plays and an involvement in setting up small theatre companies, and they include scripts, publicity material, photographs, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and some related artefacts.There is also a...