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Bartolomé Papers
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
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
European Union Nursing Documents
Collection
Reference code: 269
Scope and Contents
Documents relating to the harmonisation of professional standards of nursing practice in the European Union, mainly relate to the period 1977 to 2000. They have been assembled by two professionally qualified nurses who represented the UK in the process, Dame Sheila Quinn and Thomas Keighley.Series 1 relates to the work of Dame Sheila Quinn, who was President of the Royal College of Nursing 1982-86 and Regional Nursing Officer, Wessex Regional Health Authority 1978-83, and who...
Dates:
1968 - 2000
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Lydia Henry Documents
Fonds
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
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Sheffield Medical Portrait Collection
Fonds
Reference code: SLI 11
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
c1800 - 1980
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Swan Papers
Fonds
Reference code: 185
Scope and Contents
Papers on the history of the clinical use of penicillin, 1945-1996, with particular reference to its early use in Sheffield, and to the reputation of Sir Alexander Fleming.The papers relate principally to the history of two medical scientists: Sir Alexander Fleming, who published his discovery of penicillin in 1929 but who has been subsequently criticised for an apparent failure to pursue its clinical potential, criticism repeated in a BBC Horizon programme in 1989; and Dr Cecil...
Dates:
1945 - 1996
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives