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Fonds
Reference code: 287
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The archive consists of documents and correspondence relating to internment under Defence Regulation 18B during WWII, assembled by Professor A.W. Brian Simpson during the writing of his book 'In the Highest Degree Odious: Detention Without Trial in Wartime Britain' (Clarendon Press, 1992). A large proportion of the collection are photocopies of primary source material held elsewhere, such as The National Archives (UK). (PRO) indicates copies of documents supplied by the Public...
Dates:
1934 - 1997
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The collection consists of diaries; slides; reprints; school and university notebooks and working notes; committee papers; photographs; and some 1600 items of correspondence. The material deals with Desch´s interest and work in historical metallurgy and Positivism, as well as with aspects of his research and professional career and his chemical work in the First World War.
Dates:
1920 - 1931
Fonds
Reference code: 281
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Drawings and photographs relating to the work of the 19th century architect George Devey.The collection is in two sections: the first, consisting of 95 loose but numbered items which are chiefly a selection of drawings in pencil, watercolour, and, in a few cases, ink, but also including some photographs. The second section consists of an album into which have been pasted 135 items which are almost all photographs but also include some pencil sketches. The drawings are...
Dates:
1840s - 1886
Fonds
Reference code: 431
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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....
Dates:
1943 - 2013
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0031
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This collection contains black and white and colour prints and negatives of lorries, rides, shows and personalities at various fairs, mainly Cheshire, Merseyside and Wales fairs taken and collected by Dick Price. Also VHS videos consisting of an eclectic range of fairground and transport themed visual material from a variety of steam rallies and fairs up and down the country, from Folkestone to Ross-on-Wye. The majority feature archive footage filmed in the 1990s by Dave Homer, a renowned...
Dates:
1906 - 1999
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0072
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Slide transparencies created for the 'Fairground Snaps' book and later projects. The material in this archive is all of Scott-Stewart's work relating to fairs and circuses, particularly from an artistic and social angle. This collection covers all the field work completed by the artist in preparing his book, as well as trips following the publication.
Dates:
1970 - 1990
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0179
Scope and Contents
Archive of the Digger Pugh family including newspaper cuttings, photographs, negatives, business records, programmes, research material, posters and films.
Dates:
c1930 - 2010
Fonds
Reference code: 418
Scope and Contents
Research papers, correspondence and transcripts of Professor David Dilks relating to his research project on former Special Operations Executive(SOE) operatives during the Second World War. The collection consists of full transcripts of interviews with 15 former members of SOE recorded between 2002 and 2004, along with supporting correspondence, press cuttings, obituaries and reports. Also includes documents relating to conferences organised or attended by David Dilks between 1962 and...
Dates:
1923 - 2010
Fonds
Reference code: 169
Scope and Contents
Notes, transcripts and photocopies of newspaper reports relating to Jewish immigration from a
range of London East End newspapers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Dates:
1880 - 1910
Fonds
Reference code: PE 21
Scope and Contents
A collection of journals and leaflets mostly published by the Economic League between 1961 and 1963.
For further details of this collection please see the finding aid/box list in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1961 - 1963
Collection
Reference code: ED1
Scope and Contents
A developing collection of artists’ books, pamphlets and original artwork created by Ian Tyson for his press, ed.it. This archive also contains mock-ups and experimental versions of the finished works.
Dates:
1995 - 2021
Fonds
Reference code: 253
Scope and Contents
A set of notebooks recording biochemical research carried out by Leonard Victor Eggleston, research assistant to the Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Hans Krebs, between the years 1941-1974. This collection contains a set of 20 notebooks and Eggleston's BSc thesis. The notebooks commence during the Second World War, when Krebs was engaged as part of the war effort in work on nutrition at Sheffield University's Sorby Research Institute, and continue in the post-war period at the Universities of...
Dates:
1941 - 1974
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0196
Scope and Contents
Collection of posters on variety and music hall printed by Electric Modern Company, mainly on card.
Dates:
c1920 - 1969
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Diaries and related papers of Elizabeth Firth, recording her life in the Yorkshire village of Thornton in the 1810s and 1820s. The diaries which form the bulk of the collection are of the simplest kind: brief day-to-day records of social and church occasions of a young girl in a small village near Bradford and at boarding school near Wakefield. Their principal interest lies in the references to members of the Brontë family with whom Elizabeth was acquainted, and the collection includes a...
Dates:
1812 - 1961
Fonds
Reference code: 152
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of cartoons, articles, newscuttings and notebooks, relating to the work and interests of journalist George Elliott Dodds.
For further details of this collection please see the box listing in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1900 - 1977
Fonds
Reference code: 155
Scope and Contents
Documents relating to the work of Ronald Witham Elliott, former County Medical Officer of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and a graduate of the University of Sheffield.
The collection consists of committee and other papers, and printed material, relating to the work of Ronald Witham Elliott.
Dates:
1959 - 1992
Collection
Reference code: ELM1
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Printed books and pamphlets on the history of glass and glass-making, and on the
decorative aspects of glass. The collection consists of two formerly separate collections on the history of glass and glassmaking:The Turner Bequest: Volumes from the personal library of W.E.S. Turner, Professor of Glass Technology at Sheffield
University 1920-1946, bequeathed to the Joint Library of Glass Technology and bearing the legend
‘Turner Bequest 1964’ on their bookplates.Joint...
Dates:
1662 - 2001
Fonds
Reference code: 292
Scope and Contents
Material relating to Sir William Empson (1906-1984), poet, academic and critic and his wife, Hetta, Lady Empson (1915-1996), sculptor, political activist and socialite. The first part of the collection comprises papers (mainly letters) from William and Hetta Empson, to each other and to others, notably Walter Brown and David Jones. They include both domestic matters and also descriptions of world events such as their experiences in China during the Communist Revolution, and Hetta´s work in...
Dates:
1915 - 2000
Collection
Reference code: NFA0125
Scope and Contents
This collection of printed material produced by the Enquirer Job Printing Company contains American sideshow and freak show posters mainly from the Ripley’s ‘Believe it or Not’ franchise and a poster sampler that was taken around by salesmen from the company.
Dates:
1869; c1930 - 1949
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0022
Scope and Contents
Black and white photographs of early fairground rides and transport.
Dates:
1906 - 1955
