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South Yorkshire (England)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Action Space Archive

 Fonds
Reference code: 426
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of material relating to the community arts company Action Space, later Action Space Mobile, including photographs, slides, posters, publicity, sound and video recordings.

Dates: 1968 - 2015

Elliott Manuscripts

 Fonds
Reference code: 155
Scope and Contents

Documents relating to the work of Ronald Witham Elliott, former County Medical Officer of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and a graduate of the University of Sheffield.

The collection consists of committee and other papers, and printed material, relating to the work of Ronald Witham Elliott.

Dates: 1959 - 1992

Freer Documents

 Fonds
Reference code: 370
Scope and Contents

Documents relating to the career of Walter Careless Freer, surgeon and early graduate of the Sheffield Medical School.

The collection consists of certificates and letters of recommendation relating to the career of Walter Freer from his entry into apprenticeship at the Sheffield Medical School in 1835 through a range of courses, applications and appointments.

Dates: 1835 - 1882

Hillsborough Socialist Workers Party Documents

 Fonds
Reference code: 217
Scope and Contents A small collection of documents produced by the Hillsborough, Sheffield branch of the Socialist Workers Party in 1995 and 1996, illustrating issues addressed at both local and national levels during the period.Examples of issues addressed in this collection are, nationally, the Merseyside Docks dispute, the place of the Socialist Workers Party in the political climate dominated by New Labour, the Asylum Bill and, locally, the closure of local libraries in Sheffield, anti-racism...
Dates: 1995 - 1996

Hines Papers

 Fonds
Reference code: 389
Scope and Contents

This collection comprises the papers of the author and screenwriter Barry Hines, and includes television, film and play scripts, programmes, reviews and cuttings, photographs, posters, drafts and proofs. There is also a collection of published books, both Barry Hines’ own works and material collected for research purposes.

For further details of this collection please see the finding aids in the External Documents section below.

Dates: 1957 - 2019

Howard Smith Photographic Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: 450
Scope and Contents

The collection comprises photographs taken by Howard Smith between 1991 and 1996 relating to the history of roads including milestones, mileposts, guide stoops, packhorse bridges and other road features, the majority of which were taken in South Yorkshire and Derbyshire. Includes photographs of mileposts taken in 1991 and 1992 to illustrate Smith's book 'A History of Rotherham’s Roads and Transport' published by the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in 1992.

Dates: 1991 - 1996

Literary remains of the writer Arthur Eaglestone a.k.a. Roger Dataller

 Fonds
Reference code: 425
Scope and Contents Papers from the life and works of Arthur Eaglestone (1892-1980), worker in the Yorkshire steel and mining industries, Oxford scholarship student, author, and adult educator with the WEA and the University of Sheffield’s Department of Extramural Studies. The material includes both manuscript and printed works, scripts for radio broadcasts, correspondence, and personal and family papers.For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the External Documents...
Dates: 1920 - 1999

Lloyd and Lismer Illustrations

 Fonds
Reference code: 421
Scope and Contents

A collection of original sketches of the Sheffield cutlery trade by Arthur Lismer (1885 - 1969), for illustration of Godfrey Isaac Howard Lloyd’s book The Cutlery Trades: An Historical in the Economics of Small-scale Production (London: Longmans, Green and Co.,1913). Also included are three photographs of cutlery workers, likely taken by Lloyd and used by Lismer as reference for his sketches.

Dates: c1913

Sheffield Voices Project

 Fonds
Reference code: 430
Scope and Contents

Recordings of interviews, and associated interview notes, from the project 'Sheffield Voices Through Time'.

For further details of the project, please see the External Documents below.

Dates: 2011

Tom Hague Papers

 Fonds
Reference code: 407
Scope and Contents

Papers from the life and works of miner Tom Hague (1915-1998), also known as Totley Tom. The majority of the papers date from the 1970s to the 1990s, but also includes later recordings of interviews with family members.

Dates: 1970s - 2011