Scope and Contents The collection consists of documents relating to the history of the de Bartolomé family, which has a close connection with Sheffield and its University through two of its members, Dr Mariano Alejo Martin de Bartolomé (1813-1890) and Dr Stephen Martin de Bartolomé (1919-2001). It also includes a scrapbook dating from the earlier period, formerly in the possession of Dr Mariano Martin de Bartolomé’s family, and two 19th-century printed books on Spanish subjects. Mariano’s grandson, Dr Stephen...

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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.

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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.

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...

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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.

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A collection of documents relating to the life and career of radiologist John Lewis Anderton Grout (1889-1963).

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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.

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Documents on the early life and career of Lydia Manley Henry, graduate of the University of Sheffield Medical School. The collection consists of notes by Dr Henry on her early life in Sheffield as a medical student and her subsequent relatively short career in medicine, together with three photographs. There are also notes relating to her time as a pupil at Sheffield Day High School for Girls.

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...

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The collection comprises the papers, including many press cuttings, of Joseph Madin, Sheffield trades-unionist and Labour Party activist, and co-founder of the Sheffield Labour College, circa 1913 to 1959. The collection also includes his personal library of books and pamphlets. Other ephemera such as election pamphlets are included.

For further details of this collection, please see the listing in the External Documents section below.

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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.

Scope and Contents This collection comprises correspondence and some related papers of Anthony John Mundella, Liberal MP for Sheffield. The content of these letters and papers is primarily political and cover his time as a member of the Cabinet under William Ewart Gladstone, as well as his work as the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education and then the President of the Board of Trade.There are also letters written by Anthony John Mundella to Robert Leader, John Daniel Leader,...

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The collection consists of a complete set of printed minutes of the National Union of Mineworkers, Yorkshire Area, distributed to over 100 collieries in operation in the Yorkshire region between 1925 and 1992. Some years contain multiple copies.

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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.

Scope and Contents Records of the People's College, Sheffield, together with later information about the history of the College.The archive includes records of the College, some published textbooks used for teaching, and College Secretary John Derby's note books, essays, correspondence, notes and papers. Also included is material relating to the history of the College after it closed, this includes: correspondence, notes, press cuttings and pamphlets compiled by G. C. Moore Smith, Professor of...

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A collection of documents relating to an ESRC-funded project “Evaluating the Impact of Reminiscence on the Quality of Life of Older People”.

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A collection of manuscript musical works composed by John William Shaw (1927-2008). The majority of this collection is undated, but dated material ranges from 1973 to 1999.

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

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Records of the Sheffield Bach Society, 1950-2010. The collection consists of the records of the Sheffield Bach Society during its first half-century, from its founding in 1950 up to the year 2010.

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

Scope and Contents Correspondence and other documents relating to the Sheffield Committee on Munitions of War during World War I, 1915-1919. Includes some later records to 1924.The collection consists of the records of the Sheffield Committee on Munitions of War, a body which existed during the First World War, consisting of correspondence with the Ministry of Munitions relating to contracts for armaments, together with copies of contracts placed, stock records, minutes, and various ledgers...

Scope and Contents A collection of programmes, souvenirs, etc. for concerts held mostly in Sheffield between 1896 and 1984.The collection came to the Library from an unknown source, but it may have been put together by Arthur S. Burrows, conductor and chorus master, as it contains two letters written to him and many of the programmes include his name. The collection consists of programmes, prospectuses, fliers and other material relating to the Sheffield Musical Festival, the Sheffield Musical...