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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.

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A developing collection of books on the history of the Jewish Holocaust in Europe in the early 1940s.

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A collection of around 1250 items from the library of Sir Hans Krebs. The Krebs Collection consists of over 800 books and periodicals, which have been individually catalogued, and over 400 pamphlets, newspaper cuttings and reprints of journal articles, which have been listed.

Some of the material has been annotated by Krebs.

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Scope and Contents The personal and scientific papers of the biochemist Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, circa 1915 to 1982.This extensive archive comprises the personal and scientific working papers of the distinguished biochemist Sir Hans Adolf Krebs (1900-1981), Nobel prizewinner in 1953 (with Franz Lipmann) for Physiology and Medicine in recognition of his elucidation of the metabolic process known as the tricarboxylic acid cycle or citric acid cycle. The collection was assembled from several sources...

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A collection of papers and sound recordings relating to Nick Howard’s research on the blockade of Germany after World War I and the influenza pandemic, and his contributions to a series of radio programmes for BBC Radio Sheffield on the history of the labour movement in the Sheffield region.

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A collection of glass-mounted slides relating to German history, literature, theatre and landscape. Ernest Arthur Seemann was a printer and publisher of art and history books, and these slides likely contain the images that were used in E. A. Seeman's publications.

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A collection of research material from various archives compiled by Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, historian, author and university academic, covering the social history of twentieth-century Germany, and Nazism and the Third Reich. Part B of the catalogue also contains research material in medieval history.

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A collection of books from the personal library of Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, historian, author and university academic, covering a wide range of historical subjects including medieval history, the social history of twentieth-century Germany, and Nazism and the Third Reich.

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The collection comprises 338 books and pamphlets relating to the modern history of Germany.

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