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Philip Swindlehurst Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0040
Scope and Contents

This collection contains original cabinet cards relating to Orton and Spooner of Burton upon Trent and postcards depicting fairs from the turn of the 19th century.

Dates: c1800 - 1899

Pierce Manuscripts

 Fonds
Reference code: 127
Scope and Contents

The papers of Emeritus Professor Frank Pierce (1915-1999), who held the chair of Spanish (Hispanic Studies) at the University of Sheffield from 1953 until 1980. The collection mainly relates to his work on Spanish literature, especially epic poetry.

For further details of this collection please see the box list in the External Documents section below.

Dates: 1947 - 1977

Potter Manuscripts

 Fonds
Reference code: 132
Scope and Contents

The papers and correspondence of George Richard Potter (1900-1982), Professor of Modern/Medieval History at the University of Sheffield from 1931 until 1965. The collection relates to his work on medieval and modern history.

For further details of this collection please see the box list in the External Documents section below.

Dates: 1926 - 1981

Private Presses Collection

 Collection
Reference code: PPC1
Scope and Contents A developing collection of books published by private presses worldwide dating from the late nineteenth century to the present day.The original legacy core collection purchased in the mid-twentieth century comprises works of collaboration between important contemporaneous artists, writers and poets, as well as classic works by canonised figures such as Shakespeare and Goethe reinterpreted by nineteenth and twentieth century artists, all enabled and published by innovative small...
Dates: 1891 - 2020

Protest Collection

 Collection
Reference code: PRO1
Scope and Contents

A collection of primary material relating to the protest movements of the second half of the twentieth century.

For further details of this collection please see the listings in the External Documents section below.

Dates: 1950 - 1999

Pugh Papers

 Fonds
Reference code: 441
Scope and Contents This collection consists of assorted research materials relating to Oswald Mosley and Fascism between 1932 and 1955 which were assembled by Peter Pugh during work for his PhD entitled “A Political Biography of Alexander Raven Thomson”, which was completed in 2003 at the University of Sheffield. The collection includes correspondence, questionnaires, photocopies, research notes and sound recordings. There is also a small collection of books and reprints.For further details of this...
Dates: 1932 - 1997

Radio Luxembourg Archive

 Fonds
Reference code: 387
Scope and Contents

The archive includes schedules, scripts, cuttings, tapes and photographs relating to English-language broadcasting on Radio Luxembourg in the periods 1933-1939 and 1945-1946.

Dates: 1923 - 2007

Rare Book Collection

 Collection
Reference code: RBC
Scope and Contents Printed volumes of mainly pre-1851 origin, with some others of later date of special interest or value.Apart from the general collection which includes, for example, a first printing of the first edition of Newton's 'Principia', and an edition of Galen which bears the signature of François Rabelais, areas of particular note, with approximate number of volumes, are:The Pamphlet Book Collection: 16th to 19th centuries, which includes many Civil War and other 17th...
Dates: 1501 - 2021

Ray Madison Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0027
Scope and Contents

Black and white and colour photographs of fairground transport, rides and shows from various locations.

Dates: 1980 - 1995

Reaney Manuscripts

 Fonds
Reference code: 75
Scope and Contents The extant material in the collection consists of the post-World War II papers of Dr Percy Hide Reaney. The collection comprises working notes, offprints and articles, some correspondence, an annotated copy of 'A Dictionary of British Surnames', and a proof copy of 'The Origin of English Surnames'. The majority of the papers date from 1946 to 1967, with one letter dated 1943. The documents in the collection relate primarily to the two works on surnames, and additionally to...
Dates: 1943 - 1967

Redgrove Collection

 Collection
Reference code: RED1
Scope and Contents

A collection of the published texts of the poet Peter Redgrove, works of criticism, a selection of books from Redgrove’s personal library, and some of the work of his partner and co-author Penelope Shuttle. The collection is intended to complement and support the Redgrove Papers.

For further details of this collection please see the listing in the external documents section below.

Dates: 1959 - 2012

Redgrove Papers

 Fonds
Reference code: 171
Scope and Contents Papers of the poet Peter Redgrove, including working notebooks and correspondence. The bulk of the collection consists of Redgrove's correspondence (some 10,500 letters) during the period 1970 to 1989, including correspondence with many significant figures in the world of contemporary literature, together with his complete working papers recording the composition of his work during this period, drafts of several literary works, and copies of interviews and reviews.A small...
Dates: 1952 - 2002

Reminiscence Project Archive

 Fonds
Reference code: 434
Scope and Contents

A collection of documents relating to an ESRC-funded project “Evaluating the Impact of Reminiscence on the Quality of Life of Older People”.

Dates: 2000 - 2002

Richard Blakeborough and John Fairfax-Blakeborough Yorkshire Folklore Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: ACT/97-005
Scope and Contents The collection includes copies and extracts from the notebooks of Robert Hird and David Naitby, together with fieldwork collected by Richard Blakeborough; original dialect rhymes and sketches; published folklore articles and folktales; the correspondence and papers of Richard Blakeborough and John Fairfax-Blakeborough. The original manuscripts of Hird and Naitby which Richard Blakeborough copied in part, and from which the older part of his folklore collection derives, appear to...
Dates: 1750 - 1974

Richard Hoggart Collection

 Collection
Reference code: HOG1
Scope and Contents

A collection of books from the personal library of Richard Hoggart, university teacher and professor of English literature and cultural studies, academic administrator, writer, broadcaster, literary critic, cultural analyst and international civil servant, whose work spanned the second half of the twentieth century and continued into the early years of the twenty-first.

Dates: 1718 - 2012

Richard Hoggart Papers

 Fonds
Reference code: 247
Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence of Richard Hoggart, academic, broadcaster and writer on cultural matters. The papers were transferred to the Library in two separate accessions and are currently catalogued separately. The main part of the collection (Section 1) comprises a substantial part of the personal and working papers, manuscripts and associated correspondence relating to the life and work of Richard Hoggart, university teacher and professor of English literature and cultural...
Dates: 1919 - 2007

Richard Sissons Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0017
Scope and Contents

Colour photographs of personalities and artefacts taken on the first day of the 1995 Sheffield "Mile Long" City Centre funfair by Richard Sissons.

Dates: 18 August 1995

Richley Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0121
Scope and Contents

Circus and sideshow posters including small amount of material on Koringa and copy of Bertram Mill’s Circus limited edition book written by the donor.

Dates: c1950 - 2014

R.M. Wilson Memorial Collection

 Collection
Reference code: RMW1
Scope and Contents

The R.M. Wilson Memorial Collection comprises around 180 books on the subject of place names, personal names, family history and genealogy.

For further details of this collection please see the listings in the External Documents section below.

Dates: 1865 - 1967

Robert Dearling Archive

 Fonds
Reference code: 424
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of thematic catalogues of the works of largely eighteenth-century musical composers, compiled, collected and developed by Robert Dearling, along with further supporting material.

For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the external documents section below.

Dates: c1951 - c1999

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Special Collections and Archives 237
National Fairground and Circus Archive 145
University Archive 1
 
Subject
Fairs 102
Amusement rides 86
Showman 81
Showwoman 73
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English 379
German 24
French 17
Spanish; Castilian 8
Dutch; Flemish 7
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University of Sheffield (Established 1828) 32
The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain (Established 1889) 13
National Centre for English Cultural Tradition (NATCECT) (1975 - 2008) 11
World's Fair Publications Limited (Established 1904) 11
University of Sheffield Library (Established 1879) 9
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Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 7
Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) 7
Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 7
British Union of Fascists (1932 - 1940) 6
Fairground Association of Great Britain. (FAGB) (Established 1977) 6
Anderton and Rowland (Established c1854 - 1879) 5
Friendship Circle of Showland Fans. (FCSF) (c1940 - 1969) 5
Sanger, George, 1825 - 1911 5
Belle Vue (1836 - 1982) 4
Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 4
Bostock and Wombwell Menagerie (c1846 - 1931) 4
Braithwaite, David, 1932 - 1982 4
Cairoli, Charlie, 1910 - 1980 4
Carters Steam Fair (1977 - 2022) 4
Circus Krone (Established 1905) 4
Fossett's Circus (Established c1870 - 1879) 4
Lord George Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 4
Lord John Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 4
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1919 - 2017) 4
Rosaire's Circus & Zoo (Established 1904) 4
Sanger, John, 1819 - 1889 4
Toulmin, Vanessa, Professor, Born 1967 4
Austen Brothers Circus (Established 1974) 3
Barrett, Norman, Born 1935 3
Blackpool Pleasure Beach (Established 1896) 3
Boswell's Circus (1882 - 2015) 3
British Fairground Society (BFS) (Established c1950) 3
Buffalo Bill, 1846 - 1917 3
Chapman, Ellen, 1831 - 1899 3
Chipperfield, Mary, 1938 - 2014 3
Circus Knie (Established 1803) 3
Circus Pinder (Established 1854) 3
Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus (Established c1957) 3
Collins, Pat (Patrick), 1859 - 1943 3
Cottle, Gerry, 1945 - 2021 3
Crystal Palace (1851 - 1936) 3
Dodd, Ken, 1927 - 2018 3
Duffy's Circus (Established c1800) 3
Electric (Modern) Printing Company (c1930 - 1991) 3
Gandey's Circus (Established c1918) 3
George Orton, Sons & Spooner Ltd (1875 - 1977) 3
Great Yarmouth Hippodrome (Established 1903) 3
Holland Amusements (Initiated c1870) 3
Innes Smith, Robert William, 1872 - 1933 3
J.W. Shaw Amusements (Initiated c1860 - 1889) 3
Jolson, Al, c1886 - 1950 3
Krebs, Hans Adolf, Sir, 1900 - 1981 3
Ling's Family Amusements (Initiated c1850 - 1859) 3
Mills, Cyril Bertram, 1902 - 1991 3
National Fairground and Circus Archive. NFCA (Established 1994) 3
Olympia London (Established 1886) 3
Pat Collins Fun Fairs (Established 1899) 3
Paulo Circus (Established c1900 - 1910) 3
Shufflebottom Family, c1870 - 1998 3
Smith, George Charles Moore, 1858 - 1940 3
The Agricultural Hall (1862 - 1943) 3
The Kursaal (1894 - 2020) 3
Union Movement (1948 - 1973) 3
W. E. Berry Ltd (1888 - 2004) 3
Waddington's Funfairs (Initiated c1860 - 1899) 3
Wilsons Group Services (Established c1860) 3
Acres, Birt, 1854 - 1918 2
Allan, Alastair J., Active 1970s - 2015 2
Althoff Circus (c1675 - 1999) 2
Argyle Theatre of Varieties (c1868 - 1945) 2
Aspland, George, 1836 - 1911 2
Aspland-Howden (c1875 - 1915) 2
Astley, Philip, 1742 - 1814 2
B. Cole & Sons (Amusements) Ltd (Established 1890) 2
Battersea Park Amusement Park (1858 - 1972) 2
Beverly Sisters (c1943 - 2009) 2
Bird, Margaret, c1900 - 1999 2
Buller, Redvers Henry, General, Sir, 1839 - 1908 2
Calladine, Neil, Born 1951 2
Centre for Luxembourg Studies (University of Sheffield) (Established 1995) 2
Charles Burrell & Sons Ltd (1770 - 1928) 2
Chessington World of Adventures (Established 1987) 2
Chipperfield, Jimmy (James), 1912 - 1990 2
Circus Busch (1903 - 1999) 2
Circus Busch-Roland (c1884 - 2018) 2
Circus Friends Association of Great Britain (Established 1934) 2
Circus Medrano (Established 1875) 2
Cirkus Merano (1975 - 2015) 2
Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione (Established 1852) 2
Cole Bros. Circus (c1884 - 1957) 2
Craston, Joe (Joseph), 1868 - 1948 2
Dainton, Frederick Sydney, Sir, 1914 - 1997 2
Dave Homer Video (Established 1989) 2
David Smart's Super Circus (c1980 - 1983) 2
Denver, Hal, 1909 - 1994 2
Downie, Graham, Born 1941 (Fairground Enthusiast) 2
Drury Lane Theatre (Established c1660) 2
Farrar's Fun Fairs (Established 1876) 2
Fisher, Hal, 1909 - 2002 2
Forde, Florrie, 1875 - 1940 2
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