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Documents relating to the Sheffield Ecclesall Division Conservative and Constitutional Association, 1885 to 1929.

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

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Papers from the Sheffield Educational Settlement during the period of Arnold Freeman’s wardenship (1918-55). The records are incomplete, particularly for the 1930s, but include correspondence, minute books, account books, some published material, play files and information about lectures, classes and activities at the Settlement.

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

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Photographs and other portraits of medical personnel and institutions associated with Sheffield and its University, along with a small number of related documents.

The collection has been formed from material already held by the Library, both from University records and from donated material.

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

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Papers of the Sheffield Medico-Chirurgical Society and its predecessors, 1841-1972. The collection consists of the extant records of the Sheffield Medico-Chirurgical Society and of some of the various predecessor medical institutions, including book societies, of the early 19th century.

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

Scope and Contents The titles below are available in the Special Collections Department of the University of Sheffield´s Western Bank Library. Please note that holdings are incomplete, and that volumes and titles not included in this list may be held elsewhere in the local area.Iris (Sheffield): 1794-1806; 1812-1824; 1831-1832.Sheffield Courant: 1827-1832.Sheffield & Rotherham Independent: 1842-1863 - 2 copies of: 1845, 1846, 1847, 1851.Sheffield Mercury and...

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A collection of programmes for productions at the Sheffield Playhouse, 1956-1971. The programmes cover a variety of productions, from Shakespeare to Agatha Christie, John Osborne to fairy tales, and date from January 1956 to May 1971, the year in which the Playhouse closed and the Crucible Theatre opened.

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A collection of 234 photographic images of architectural features of Italian buildings, notably cathedrals, churches and castles created by the Sheffield Society of Architects and Surveyors.

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Documents relating to the Sheffield Society of Engineers and Metallurgists, 1894 to 1962

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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 Documents relating to Henry Clifton Sorby, Sheffield scientist and Fellow of the Royal Society, in the period 1845-1906.The collection consists of architectural photographs, diaries, a letter, and a set of reprinted papers by Sorby with his manuscript amendments. The eight boxes of architectural photographs taken by Sorby on his travels contain mostly examples from all over England (Prehistoric to modern) but there are a smaller number depicting styles in foreign countries...

Scope and Contents The papers of actor, writer and director Stuart Golland, including scripts, publicity material, photographs, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and artefacts. The papers cover the entirety of Stuart Golland’s working life, from stage and screen acting through writing and directing plays and an involvement in setting up small theatre companies, and they include scripts, publicity material, photographs, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and some related artefacts.There is also a...

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...

Scope and Contents The Blunkett Archives is an extensive collection which has been amassed by Lord Blunkett throughout his career, and records his journey from one of the poorest areas of Sheffield to the highest level of British politics. The collection dates from the 1940s to the present day and includes political correspondence, policy papers, material relating to his constituency work, press cuttings, speeches, diaries, school reports, personal correspondence, book proofs, sound recordings and photographs....

Scope and Contents Papers of Henry Joseph Wilson, Sheffield Radical politician and Liberal MP, for the period 1859 to 1910.The collection consists of the following sections:1. Correspondence, papers and related press cuttings received by Wilson 2. Wilsons letters to members of his family 3. Printed election material, newspapers and press cuttings 4. Sheffield Nonconformist Committee papers 5. A collection by Gertrude Lenwood, one of Wilson's daughters, of newspaper cartoons and copies...