Scope and Contents 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....

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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.

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Papers of Michael Hides (J.D.M. Hides 1926 - 2001) former editor of the Sheffield Morning Telegraph and chief sub-editor of the Guardian newspaper. This collection includes personal and professional correspondences, photographs, and personal documents and ephemera. The collection also contains a small amount of material relating to his wife, the travel writer Margaret Hides, including postcards and film reels from her travels.

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Papers relating to James Montgomery (1771-1854), hymn-writer, poet and editor, and to Mary Anne Rawson (née Read) (1801-1887), philanthropist and slavery abolitionist.

The collection includes material compiled by Mary Anne Rawson, including scrapbooks, poetry and letters by and about James Montgomery, and material relating to the Sheffield Anti-Slavery movement and its members. There are also other manuscripts and illustrations of James Montgomery’s work in the collection.

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Documents donated by the family of Peter and Rose Townsend, including booklets, newspaper cuttings, newsletters, reports and translated articles relating to China, including many items dating from the early 1950s concerning the Cultural Revolution.

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Scope and Contents Robert Innes Smith’s archive mainly comprises of his letters. Correspondents are predominantly British aristocrats and from aristocratic families (including the Queen, and the Duke of Norfolk) as well as politicians (such as Oswald Mosely) and historians. They also include other notable individuals such as the poet Sir John Betjeman, script writers Jimmy Perry/David Croft (Dad's Army, Are You Being Served?, 'Allo 'Allo!) and actors including Nyree Dawn Porter, (The Forsyte Saga). ...

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Notebooks, reports (published and unpublished), correspondence, photographs, manuscripts and personal documents created by the journalist and author Alan Winnington. The material is mainly focussed on his professional career as a foreign correspondent for the Daily Worker in China, Korea and Berlin between 1949 and 1980. It also contains material relating to his later activities as an author of fictional works.