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British Coke Research Association Archive

 Fonds
Reference code: 138
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of documents relating to the work of the British Coke Research Association (BCRA) and related bodies, and includes correspondence, minutes, reports, photographs, slides and films.

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

Dates: 1926 - 1975

British Orienteering Federation Archive

 Fonds
Reference code: 232
Scope and Contents The collection consists of results files relating to the organised competitions of members of the British Orienteering Federation between April 1961 and March 2009, together with copies of some 50 series of newsletters issued throughout the UK from 1962. In addition, there are files of material collected by Carol McNeill, an active member of the BOF, which include maps, coaching and planning notes, and reports of meetings and events, plus further files donated by the Federation and...
Dates: 1961 - 2012

British Union Collection

 Collection
Reference code: 187
Scope and Contents A collection of documents, published and unpublished, relating to the political movements associated with Sir Oswald Mosley - the New Party, the British Union of Fascists (later called the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists, or British Union), and the Union Movement, between circa 1925 to 1996. This collection was originally assembled to support research and teaching on political movements in 20th century Britain at the University of Sheffield, principally within...
Dates: c1925 - 2017

Buchan Theatre Programmes

 Collection
Reference code: PE27
Scope and Contents

A collection of programmes from musical concerts, dance performances, operas and theatre productions, mostly in London, 1989-2008.

Dates: 1989 - 2008

Burke-Haviland Family Documents

 Fonds
Reference code: 474
Scope and Contents Documents relating to some members of the family of Edmund Burke, politician and author.The collection consists of nineteen documents, mostly letters, relating to some members of the family of the eighteenth century politician and author Edmund Burke. In particular, the documents relate to Burke’s older sister Juliana, later Mrs. Patrick French, and her daughter Mary, later Mrs. Haviland. The letters date from 1762 to 1832, but there is also an explanatory note dated 2017...
Dates: c1762 - 2017

Burley Manuscripts

 Fonds
Reference code: 165
Scope and Contents

Textbooks, offprints, newspaper cuttings, degree certificates, etc. of George William Burley, Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield.

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

Dates: 1913 - 1992

Caricatures Collection

 Collection
Reference code: PE 34
Scope and Contents The caricatures collection consists of 55 volumes of social and political caricatures of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. Many very significant caricaturists are represented in the collection, including William Hogarth, Thomas Rowlandson, James Gillray and George Cruikshank. Both coloured and monochrome images are included, and provide a rich source of illustration of the political and social interests of the period.For further details of this collection and for links to...
Dates: c1700 - c1950

Carver Papers

 Fonds
Reference code: 352
Scope and Contents A collection of correspondence written to Catharine DeFrance Carver (1921-1997), publisher´s editor, mostly during the period 1991 to 1997 (where dated).The collection consists mostly of correspondence in the form of letters, postcards, etc. sent to Catharine Carver by her friends and colleagues, who included writers and poets such as Virginia Crosby, Desmond Graham, Jon Stallworthy, Michael Millgate and Richard Hoggart, as well as fellow editors and others from the publishing...
Dates: 1991 - 1997

Catalan Collection

 Collection
Reference code: CAT1
Scope and Contents

A collection of over 700 books and periodicals concerning Catalonia.

For further information about this collection please see the listing in the External Documents section below.

Dates: 1937 - 2006

Catherine Lovett Archive

 Fonds
Reference code: 436
Scope and Contents

A collection of documents relating to the dialect poetry of Catherine A. (Cathy) Lovett.

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

Dates: 1945 - 2013

Cathy Ward Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0132
Scope and Contents

This collection contains digital colour photographs of fairground rides, fairground art and showpeople from both travelling fairgrounds and amusement parks in Salzberg fair, Blackpool and various other places in the UK and abroad.

Dates: 1985 - 2002

Celine Williams Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0008
Scope and Contents

A collection of 5 black and white photographs, four relate to the Silcock Brothers' dodgems and arcades in the 1950s, and one to Whites' stall.

Dates: c1950 - 1959

Changing Identities: Eastern Europeans in Bradford since 1945

 Fonds
Reference code: 497
Scope and Contents

This archive consists of audio cassette tape recordings, with some transcripts, of interviews with members of the ethnic Ukrainian community in Bradford in the 1990s, regarding their personal histories. Interviewees include family groups, family members of some of the people interviewed earlier, and younger people born in the UK of immigrant parents. In contrast to the earlier work of the 1980s, more than half the interviewees are women.

Dates: 1983 - 1998

Chapman Manuscripts

 Fonds
Reference code: 153
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of lecture notes and papers relating to the teaching of Chemistry at The University of Sheffield by Arthur William Chapman, along with correspondence and papers concerning his invention of "a tube for indicating the extent of a thermal treatment".

Dates: 1922 - 1945

Charles Taylor Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0069
Scope and Contents

The Charles Taylor collection is a fine example of Taylor’s of Wombwell printers’ posters, which highlight changes in printing techniques, fashion and taste within the popular entertainment industry. Included are examples of posters for pantomimes, fairs and circuses. The collection also contains handbills and other advertising material.

Dates: c1937 - 1989

Charlotte Norman Derbyshire well-dressing collection

 Fonds
Reference code: ACT/97-015
Scope and Contents

The collection comprises manuscript, printed, photographic and audio items relating in the main to Charlotte Norman’s interest and academic research into the Derbyshire well-dressing custom. It also contains a number of academic folklore text books and journals, magazines, transparencies and photographs of corn dollies, canal boat art and Derbyshire calendar customs other than well-dressings.

Dates: 1834 - 1987

Chinese Cultural Revolution Pamphlet Collection

 Collection
Reference code: CHI1
Scope and Contents

A collection of almost 600 pamphlets, mainly in the English language, relating to the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Dates: 1915 - 1989

Chris Russell Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0112
Scope and Contents

This collection contains five boxes of original photographic material including negatives and slides, a small amount of fairground journals, newspaper cuttings, correspondence, six audio tapes and a small amount of posters and handbills all related to the fairground and steam rally events.

Dates: 1971 - 2013

Christopher Palmer Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0105
Scope and Contents

Circus programmes and VHS tapes from Billy Smart’s Circus and Chipperfields’s Circus collected during the 1970s and early 1980s by the TV producer, Christopher John Palmer. There are also a number of promotional photographs of artistes and other ephemera related to the circus.

Dates: 1973 - 1983

Circle Press Collection

 Collection
Reference code: CIR1
Scope and Contents

A developing collection of artist and sculptor Ronald King’s works from his own private press.

Dates: 1965 - 2005

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Acrobats 19
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Acres, Birt, 1854 - 1918 2
Allan, Alastair J., Active 1970s - 2015 2
Althoff Circus (c1675 - 1999) 2
Anderton and Rowland (Established c1854 - 1879) 5
Argyle Theatre of Varieties (c1868 - 1945) 2
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Aspland, George, 1836 - 1911 2
Aspland-Howden (c1875 - 1915) 2
Astley's Amphitheatre (1773 - 1891) 3
Astley, Philip, 1742 - 1814 2
Austen Brothers Circus (Established 1974) 3
B. Cole & Sons (Amusements) Ltd (Established 1890) 2
Barnum & Bailey Circus (1881 - 1919) 2
Barrett, Norman, Born 1935 3
Battersea Park Amusement Park (1858 - 1972) 2
Beatty, Clyde, 1903 - 1965 2
Belle Vue (1836 - 1982) 5
Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 9
Beverly Sisters (c1943 - 2009) 2
Big Daddy, 1930 - 1997 2
Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) 7
Bird, Margaret, c1900 - 1999 2
Blackpool Pleasure Beach (Established 1896) 3
Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 5
Bobby Robert's Super Circus (1993 - 2011) 2
Bostock and Wombwell Menagerie (c1846 - 1931) 4
Boswell's Circus (1882 - 2015) 3
Bradley, Philip W, Active 1920 - 1999 2
Braithwaite, David, 1932 - 1982 4
British Fairground Society (BFS) (Established c1950) 3
British Union of Fascists (1932 - 1940) 6
Buffalo Bill, 1846 - 1917 4
Buller, Redvers Henry, General, Sir, 1839 - 1908 2
Cairoli, Charlie, 1910 - 1980 5
Calladine, Neil, Born 1951 2
Carters Steam Fair (1977 - 2022) 4
Centre for Luxembourg Studies (University of Sheffield) (Established 1995) 2
Chapman, Ellen, 1831 - 1899 3
Charles Burrell & Sons Ltd (1770 - 1928) 2
Chessington World of Adventures (Established 1987) 2
Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 7
Chipperfield, Jimmy (James), 1912 - 1990 2
Chipperfield, Mary, 1938 - 2014 3
Circus Busch (1903 - 1999) 2
Circus Busch-Roland (c1884 - 2018) 2
Circus Friends Association of Great Britain (Established 1934) 2
Circus Knie (Established 1803) 4
Circus Krone (Established 1905) 4
Circus Medrano (Established 1875) 2
Circus Pinder (Established 1854) 3
Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus (Established c1957) 3
Collins, Pat (Patrick), 1859 - 1943 3
Cottle, Gerry, 1945 - 2021 3
Crystal Palace (1851 - 1936) 4
Dodd, Ken, 1927 - 2018 3
Drury Lane Theatre (Established c1660) 3
Duffy's Circus (Established c1800) 3
Electric (Modern) Printing Company (c1930 - 1991) 3
Fairground Association of Great Britain. (FAGB) (Established 1977) 6
Fossett's Circus (Established c1870 - 1879) 4
Friendship Circle of Showland Fans. (FCSF) (c1940 - 1969) 5
Gandey's Circus (Established c1918) 3
George Orton, Sons & Spooner Ltd (1875 - 1977) 3
Great Yarmouth Hippodrome (Established 1903) 3
Hengler Grand Cirque (1844 - 1924) 3
Holland Amusements (Initiated c1870) 3
Horne, Thomas, Reverend, c1850 - 1918 3
Innes Smith, Robert William, 1872 - 1933 3
J.W. Shaw Amusements (Initiated c1860 - 1889) 3
Jolson, Al, c1886 - 1950 3
Krebs, Hans Adolf, Sir, 1900 - 1981 3
Ling's Family Amusements (Initiated c1850 - 1859) 3
Lord George Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 6
Lord John Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 4
Mellors Group Events (Established 1890) 3
Merchant, Billy (Little Billy), 1919 - 2001 3
Mills, Cyril Bertram, 1902 - 1991 3
National Centre for English Cultural Tradition (NATCECT) (1975 - 2008) 15
National Fairground and Circus Archive. NFCA (Established 1994) 3
Norman, Tom, 1860 - 1930 (The Silver King) 3
Olympia London (Established 1886) 5
Pat Collins Fun Fairs (Established 1899) 3
Paulo Circus (Established c1900 - 1910) 3
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1919 - 2017) 6
Rosaire's Circus & Zoo (Established 1904) 5
Sanger's Allied Circus (Established 1854) 3
Sanger, George, 1825 - 1911 6
Sanger, John, 1819 - 1889 5
Shufflebottom Family, c1870 - 1998 4
Smith, George Charles Moore, 1858 - 1940 3
The Agricultural Hall (1862 - 1943) 3
The Kursaal (1894 - 2020) 3
The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain (Established 1889) 16
Toulmin, Vanessa, Professor, Born 1967 4
Union Movement (1948 - 1973) 3
University of Sheffield (Established 1828) 26
University of Sheffield Library (Established 1879) 7
W. E. Berry Ltd (1888 - 2004) 3
Waddington's Funfairs (Initiated c1860 - 1899) 3
Wilsons Group Services (Established c1860) 4
World's Fair Publications Limited (Established 1904) 11
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