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...

Scope and Contents The collection is a part of the personal library of John Mendelson, Labour MP for Penistone 1959-1978. Although covering a wide range of subjects and countries, the collection relates principally to politics, economics, history, literature and the fine arts, and is particularly rich in material on German and French political and economic history, especially of the twentieth century, including works on the rise of fascism, communism and socialism, and post-war conditions in Europe after 1945....