Sheffield (England)
Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:
Bartolomé Papers
Freer Documents
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.
Gamblin Papers
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.
Hillsborough Socialist Workers Party Documents
Howard Smith Photographic Collection
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.
J.L.A. Grout Archive
A collection of documents relating to the life and career of radiologist John Lewis Anderton Grout (1889-1963).
Lloyd and Lismer Illustrations
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.
Lydia Henry Documents
Madeleine Blaess Documents
Madin Collection
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.
Montgomery Manuscripts
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.
Mundella Papers
National Union of Mineworkers (Yorkshire) Minutes
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.
Nick Howard Papers
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.
People's College Sheffield Archive
Reminiscence Project Archive
A collection of documents relating to an ESRC-funded project “Evaluating the Impact of Reminiscence on the Quality of Life of Older People”.
Shaw Manuscripts
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.
Sheffield Bach Society Records
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.