History

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...

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Documents collected by David Gamblin, a PhD student at Sheffield University, whilst conducting research for his unfinished PhD thesis ‘Yorkshire and the American Civil War’, during the years 1996 to 1999.

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

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'Lichtbilder zur Geschichte. V. Deutsche Kaiserzeit des 10. und 11. Jahrhunderts'. [Slides for Volume V on the German Imperial Period of the 10th and 11th Century].

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This collection consists of assorted research materials relating to marine convoys and those who played a part in them during the Second World War. It was assembled by Morgiana Halley for her PhD entitled “An Ethnography of Marine Convoys of World War II”, which was completed in 1996 at the University of Sheffield. The collection includes sound recordings of interviews, correspondence, primary documents, poems and songs, newspaper cuttings, photocopies and research notes.

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A collection of papers and sound recordings relating to Nick Howard’s research on the blockade of Germany after World War I and the influenza pandemic, and his contributions to a series of radio programmes for BBC Radio Sheffield on the history of the labour movement in the Sheffield region.

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

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'Lichtbilder zur Geschichte. XIX. Weimar und das nachklassische Zeitalter'. [Slides for Photographs on History XIX: Weimar and the post-classical age].

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'Lichtbilder zur Geschichte. VI. Staufer-Kreuzzüge-Ritterliche Kultur'. [Slides from Photographs on History Volume VI: Staufer Crusades-Knightly Culture].

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'Lichtbilder zur Geschichte. XIII. Luther und die Reformation'. [Slides for Photographs on History Volume XIII: Luther and the Reformation].

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'Lichtbilder zur Geschichte. XVII. Friedrich der Grosse'. [Slides for Photographs on History Volume XVIII: Frederick the Great]

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'Lichtbilder zur Geschichte. XX. Die Befreiungskriege'. [Slides for Photographs on History Volume XX: the German wars of liberation. Also known as the German campaign of 1813].