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Law

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Convocation Collection

 Collection
Reference code: CON1
Scope and Contents

This collection consists mainly of historical published items covering a variety of topics including prisons, juvenile justice, mental health, as well as general criminology and official reports.

Dates: 1843 - 1978

Defence Regulation 18B Research Papers

 Fonds
Reference code: 287
Scope and Contents 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

The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0054
Scope and Contents

The main extent of the collection contains yearbooks, meetings and minutes, correspondence and a record of day to day activities within The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain.

Dates: 1904 - 2023

Wheat Collection

 Collection
Reference code: WHE1
Scope and Contents A collection of 245 volumes on law from the Wheat family of Sheffield solicitors. The majority were printed in the 18th century, although 35 date from the 17th century, and 21 from the early 19th century.The Wheats were a family of Sheffield solicitors, active from around 1766 until the 1930s. The first James Wheat was a solicitor whose business was based in Paradise Square in Sheffield. He built a library of books on the law dating back to the sixteenth century. Many of the...
Dates: c1600 - c1850