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Fonds
Reference code: NFA0028
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Black and white photographs of the Marshall and Scott families, including photographs and correspondence related to Walter Marshall while serving on the RAF during WWII, the Kayes Brothers' Family Circus, the Baker Family and some images of members of the Testo family as well as other performers and acts. Additionally there are circus programmes, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, birth, marriage and death certificates and Wills.
Dates:
c1880 - 1999
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0007
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Small collection of black and white photographs of fairground personalities in Devon and Cornwall taken by Martin Burridge.
Dates:
1988 - 1994
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0191
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Black and white photographs and some documents belonging to the Mazelly and Miller fairground families including documents related to WWI and a ditty box.
Dates:
c1870 - 1999
Collection
Reference code: MEN1
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The collection is a part of the personal library of John Mendelson, Labour MP for Penistone 1959-1978. Although covering a wide range of subjects and countries, the collection relates principally to politics, economics, history, literature and the fine arts, and is particularly rich in material on German and French political and economic history, especially of the twentieth century, including works on the rise of fascism, communism and socialism, and post-war conditions in Europe after 1945....
Dates:
c1908 - 1977
Collection
Reference code: MIL1
Scope and Contents
A collection of pamphlets gathered by medical physicist Harold Miller, which relate to his interests in medical physics, the Methodist church, social justice, and world peace.
Dates:
1924 - 1969
Fonds
Reference code: 184
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The collection consists of both the working, and personal papers, along with other documents, of medical physicist Professor Harold Miller.
For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the external documents section below.
Dates:
1912 - 1995
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0161
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Research material by Pauline Tindale and a small amount of original archive related to Randall Williams and his descendants, including birth, death and marriage certificates and photographs.
Dates:
1797 - 1998; 2018 - 2021
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Papers of, and relating to, James Montgomery (1771-1854), Sheffield journalist and poet.The collection includes reminiscences of Montgomery, poems and manuscripts by him, printed works and illustrations. Also included is a scrapbook entitled “Negro’s album of the Sheffield Anti-Slavery Society, 1828”, and material by and about Montgomery assembled by Mary Anne Rawson (née Read).For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the external documents...
Dates:
c1800-1850
Collection
Reference code: 57
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Family and other papers, working notes and annotated printed texts, including material relating to the life and works of Thomas Randolph, made by George Charles Moore Smith (1858-1940), Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield.The collection is of a miscellaneous character, and has been acquired through several separate donations. It consists of a selection of early essays by Professor George Charles Moore Smith; papers and correspondence...
Dates:
1702 - 1950
Fonds
Reference code: 288
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The collection comprises the surviving personal and working papers, manuscripts and associated correspondence relating to the life and work of Brian Robert Morris, university teacher and professor of English Literature, University Principal, writer, broadcaster and public figure through his membership/chairmanship of many public and private cultural bodies and his appointment to the House of Lords.The papers consist of :Material collected from BRM´s home in Foolow...
Dates:
1912 - 2002
Fonds
Reference code: PE 32
Scope and Contents
Nine framed and seven unframed political cartoons relating to the elections in Sheffield in 1868 in which Anthony John Mundella was the winning candidate.
Dates:
1868
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Correspondence and other papers of Anthony John Mundella, Liberal MP for Sheffield, plus other related correspondence.The content of the papers is mainly political, and consists largely of the correspondence of Mundella. The collection also includes correspondence of the family of Robert Leader, some of which does not relate to Mundella, acquired by Mundella's daughter Maria Theresa who intended to write a biography of her father, and transcriptions by Maria Theresa of...
Dates:
1861 - 1932
Collection
Reference code: NFA0092
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Contains thousands of posters, programmes, photographs, handbills, original documents, specialist journals, newspapers and a library containing publications on all the areas of collecting
Dates:
c1700 - 2020
Collection
Reference code: NAT1
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The Collection consists of several thousand books, pamphlets, reports, journal issues and multimedia materials relating to the subject of 'play'. Topics covered include play provision, facilities and equipment, the psychology of play, play for children with special needs, play therapy, play and the environment, the design of play spaces, playwork training, and the safety of play areas and equipment.For further details of this collection, please see the listing in the External...
Dates:
1910 - 2014
Fonds
Reference code: 242
Scope and Contents
Documents both published and unpublished relating to the Coal and other energy industries (mainly 1970s to early 1990s) formerly in the Library of the Research Department of the National Union of Mineworkers, Sheffield.
For further details of this collection please see the box list in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1925 - 1993 (mainly 1973 - 1993)
Fonds
Reference code: 243
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The collection consists of a complete set of printed minutes of the National Union of Mineworkers distributed to over 100 collieries in operation in the Yorkshire region between 1925 and 1992.
Dates:
1925 - 1992
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0012
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 6 black and white photographs of fairgrounds and 8 audio cassette recordings of interviews with showpeople from the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Section of the Showmen's Guild of Great Britain.
Dates:
c1920 - 1979; 1993
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0016
Scope and Contents
The collection contains photocopies of photographs of Aspland & Howden rides, photocopies of 5 newspaper cuttings of the Aspland & Howden families and a 45 minute videotape of Boston fair from 1994.
Dates:
c1900 - 1999
Fonds
Reference code: 02-002
Scope and Contents
Paper and electronic copies of Derek S. Newby’s 'A compilation of ballads and songs of South West Durham'.
For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the External Documents Section below.
Dates:
2001
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0029
Scope and Contents
This collection contains amateur Super8 cine reels filmed by Thomas O’Beirne, black and white and colour photographs and slides, circus and theatre posters, a watercolour and a small amount of other ephemera.
Dates:
c1920-1939
