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World War, 1939-1945

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 86 Collections and/or Records:

Hamilton Kaye Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0075
Scope and Contents

Programmes, handbills, photographs and a digital copy of Hamilton Kaye's notebook which contained jokes and stories that he kept for using in his act.

Dates: c1940 - 2000

Handby Celeine Collection

 Collection
Reference code: NFA0107
Scope and Contents

Posters, photographs, programmes, 1 piece of sheet music for six instruments and a small amount of business records and correspondence relating to the dancing and burlesque comedy on skates.

Dates: c1920 - 1945; 2020

Hatfield Diary

 Collection
Reference code: 492
Scope and Contents This diary was kept by W.H. Hatfield in March 1943 during the visit to America of the British Metallurgical Mission of which he was part. It records the details of Hatfield's trip including meetings between British, American and Canadian metallurgists and advisors regarding war-time production of steel. It contains press cuttings, photographs, postcards and other ephemera. The document also contains correspondence and a copy of Hatfield's manuscript 'Sheffield Burns' on the Sheffield...
Dates: 1943

Hatfield Diary

 Digital Record
Reference code: 492
Dates: 1943

Howard Biggs Papers

 Fonds
Reference code: 435
Scope and Contents Papers from the life of Howard Biggs (1917-1994), mainly from the years of his schooldays, to just after the Second World War. The material consists of letters (some with transcriptions), diaries, scrapbooks, newspaper cuttings and leaflets; there are also items from and about members of his family from previous generations.The final sections of the Papers contain material relating to Biggs’ father (Edgar Arnold Biggs, 1887-1943), his aunt (Ethel Bright Ashford, 1883-1980),...
Dates: c1880 - c1975

Jack Wilkinson Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0168
Scope and Contents Black and white and colour photographs and negatives of fairgrounds, fairground organs, steam engines and other transportation systems with annotations by Jack Wilkinson and other sources, such as William Keating, James Davidson, Philip Bradley and Jack Mellor, as well as notebooks, scrapbooks, journals, books, correspondence, research material, audio tapes of fairground organ music and some 3D items including Jack's recording equipment and a model of a fairground organ. Jack Wilkinson’s...
Dates: c1900 - 1979

Lord George Sanger Programme, 1944

 Item
Reference code: 178K43.572
Scope and Contents

Purple type and illustration of a galloping horse on off white background with note about the war and autograph on front cover, inside programme and purple and white photograph of Princess Alexandra visiting George Sanger's circus on back cover. Printed by W. E. Berry Ltd., Bradford, 2p.p.

Dates: 1944

Love and Glory by John V. Byrne, 1992

 Item — Box Arthur Markham Box 2: Series 268/25; Series 268/26; Series 268/27; Series 268/28; Series 268/29
Reference code: 268/28/2
Scope and Contents

'Love and Glory' by John V. Byrne won an Award in 1992. The author gives an account of his army service during World War Two, eventually becoming part of the original SAS. He also describes his relationship with a nurse, who he meets after being injured early in the war.

Dates: 1992

Lulu Adams Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0042
Scope and Contents

This collection contains business records, newspaper cuttings, programmes, notebooks and handbills, as well as a collection of black and white photographs, some original artwork and other items relating to Lulu Adam’s personal life and career

Dates: c1880 - 1959

Madeleine Blaess Documents

 Fonds
Reference code: 296
Scope and Contents Documents relating to the early life and career of Madeleine Blaess, Lecturer and later Senior Lecturer in the Department of French at the University of Sheffield.The collection consists of diaries, personal papers and memorabilia from Madeleine Blaess´s school career in York, through her university days at Leeds to her academic career in the Department of French at the University of Sheffield. Notably, it also includes a journal written during Madeleine Blaess´s years in Paris...
Dates: 1845 - 1989

Marshall and Scott Family Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0028
Scope and Contents This collection comprises family papers and photographs, relating to the large and extended circus and fairground families of Walter Marshall and Renee Marshall (nee Scott), together with correspondence and further photographs, concerning Walter Marshall’s service with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Accompanied by some business records and newspaper cuttings, concerning the family business, W. H. Marshall and Sons Amusements (later known as Marshall's Modern Amusements...
Dates: c1880 - 1999

Marshall and Scott Family Photographs, c1880 - 1970

 File — Multiple Containers
Reference code: 178C45.1-910
Scope and Contents Large collection of black and white photographs and postcards, and colour photographs, some annotated on the reverse, of the Marshall, Scott, Kayes, Baker and Testo families, as well as various other circus personalities and performers between 1880s and 1970s. Including studio portrait photographs, photographs taken for publicity purposes and candid photographs, of individual performers and groups of performers in costume onstage and backstage, with the animals they trained, at the family...
Dates: c1880 - 1970

Mary Gell Documents

 Fonds
Reference code: 301
Scope and Contents

Documents relating to the career and life in China during the period 1930-1945 of Mary Prowse Gell, hospital doctor and lecturer in medicine. The collection consists of a small number of documents relating to Dr Gell's career in China, during which she experienced the Japanese invasion of that country and was subsequently interned there by the Japanese during World War II. The documents consist largely of contemporary letters and her own eyewitness accounts.

Dates: [1922] - 1978

Mazelly-Miller Family Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0191
Scope and Contents

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

Midland Showman's Mutual Agreement Committee Minutes, 1940 - 1951

 Item — Box Showmen's Guild Box 3: Series 178H40
Reference code: 178H40.14
Scope and Contents

Bound minutes of meetings in red notebook containing list of chairmen and committee members and discussing arrangements for fairs, subscriptions, accounts, war service, and some attached documents including correspondence related to meetings, the Sixteenth Annual report. Manuscript.

Dates: 1940 - 1951

Minutes of Council Meeting of The Guild of Great Britain and Ireland, 1940 - 1944

 Item — Box Showmen's Guild Box 1: Series 178H40
Reference code: 178H40.4
Scope and Contents Bound minutes of meetings in green fabric with red leather spine and corners containing items dicussed on meetings of the Central Council, including section updates, updates of the appeals committee, details of deceased members, war and fallen soldiers updates, Warrior's Day fund, supplies of materials, history of the Guild, reports on fairs, donation to French showmen, reduction in age of lorry drivers, report on the ministry of food, showmen's vehicles haulage work, accounts, appeal...
Dates: 1940 - 1944

Minutes of Meetings of the Showmen's Guild, 1918 - 1957

 Sub-Series
Reference code: 178H40.1-14
Scope and Contents

Minutes of meetings of the Showmen's Guild comprising Central Council meetings, Special General meetings, Management Committee meetings, Mutual Agreement meetings, Annual and Extraordinary meettins, meetings of the Appeals Committee and War Emergency Committee meetings.

Dates: 1918 - 1957

Minutes of the Annual Meetings and Extraordinary Meetings of Members, 1930 - 1951

 Item — Box Showmen's Guild Box 1: Series 178H40
Reference code: 178H40.7
Scope and Contents

Bound minutes of meetings in red notebook containing annual accounts, elections of officials, general secretary's reports, admitance of member's wives in the meetings, accounts, rules, update on deceased members, benevolent funds, war updates among other matters. Signed by the Presidents W. Wilson and B. Hobson and Chairmen J. E. Browne, Charles Thurston, William Pullen and William Lennards. Manuscript.

Dates: 1930 - 1951

Minutes of the Management Committee Meetings, 1939 - 1945

 Item — Box Showmen's Guild Box 2: Series 178H40
Reference code: 178H40.11
Scope and Contents Bound minutes of meetings in green fabric with red spine and corners containing information on section updates and issues, appeals, performing rights, fairs, diesel oil and other supplies, General Secretary's report, vehicles and gas raids, the Spitfire fund, government's compulsory insurance scheme, accounts, Charter Fairs preservation, the use of traction engines by the Ministry of Agriculture, memberships, benevolent funds, the war damage act and compensation and rules among other...
Dates: 1939 - 1945

Minutes of the Management Committee Meetings, 1945

 Item — Box Showmen's Guild Box 2: Series 178H40
Reference code: 178H40.12
Scope and Contents

Bound minutes of meetings in green fabric with red spine and corners containing information on section updates and issues, supplies, road fund licences, the National Caravan Council, war charity funds, insurance and taxation, ride manufacturing, parliamentary bills, General Secretary's annual reports, accounts, benevolent funds, the National Amusements Council, rules, bye-laws, year books and the roll of honour among other matters. Signed by the Chairman William Lennards. Manuscript.

Dates: 1945