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

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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A collection of photographs relating to individual alumni of the University of Sheffield.

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The collection consists of documents relating to Sheffield University Drama Studio, and includes many programmes, posters, seasonal listings, lunchtime recital programmes, photographs, newspaper articles and correspondence relating to events held at the University Drama Studio

Scope and Contents A collection of films relating to the history and life of the University of Sheffield from its Inauguration in 1905 to the present day.In 1996 the University explored the possibility of producing a video film to mark the Centenary of the Inauguration of University College (the immediate forerunner of the University) in Sheffield in 1897, and a large cache of film footage was located in the Students' Union (see Sheffield University Students' Union Film Archive). Some of this was reformatted...

Scope and Contents The collection includes documents and photographs relating to the history of the Sheffield University Mountaineering Club and its members.The initial donation consisted of photographs, together with some accompanying documentary material, which principally record the life and outdoor activities of Frederick Wilson Jones, who, with W.T. Catton, founded the Sheffield University Mountaineering Club. Photographs relating to Mountaineering Club activities cover the years 1932 to 1934,...

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A collection of documents found in a time capsule which had been buried under the University of Sheffield foundation stone in June 1903. The records all date from 1903 apart from one newspaper article from 2003.

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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.

Scope and Contents Papers on the history of the clinical use of penicillin, 1945-1996, with particular reference to its early use in Sheffield, and to the reputation of Sir Alexander Fleming.The papers relate principally to the history of two medical scientists: Sir Alexander Fleming, who published his discovery of penicillin in 1929 but who has been subsequently criticised for an apparent failure to pursue its clinical potential, criticism repeated in a BBC Horizon programme in 1989; and Dr Cecil...