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University of Sheffield
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Businesses (4)
- Fighting Cock Press / Pennine Poets Archive
- Henry Sorby, edge tool manufacturer Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Radio Luxembourg
- Unnamed doctor, Sheffield Sheffield, Yorkshire
Organisations (34)
- Action Space Extended Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of England: Bredbury Bredbury, Cheshire
- Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of England: Edgeley Grange Chapter Edgeley, Cheshire
- Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of England: Romiley Lodge 4976 Romiley, Cheshire
- Arthur Markham Memorial Fund Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Batley, Morley and Ossett Divisional Labour Party Batley, Yorkshire;Morley, Yorkshire;Ossett, Yorkshire
- Biochemical Society
- British Orienteering Federation
- British Union of Fascists
- British Union of Fascists: Dorset West District Dorset;Dorset
- Ecclesall Division Conservative and Constitutional and Unionist Association Ecclesall, Yorkshire
- Empire Development Union
- Empire Industries Association London
- HMS Dreadnought (1801)
- London University: London School of Economics London
- Migration and Ethnicity Research Centre, Sheffield University Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Montgomery Arts And Christian Centre Sheffield Ltd
- People's College, Sheffield Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes: Enterprise Lodge 1765 Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Sheffield Bach Society Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Sheffield Committee on Munitions of War Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Sheffield Labour College Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Sheffield Medico-Chirurgical Society Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Sheffield Nonconformist Committee Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Sheffield Technical School Metallurgical Society Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Sheffield University Mountaineering Club Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Sheffield University: Krebs Institute for Biomolecular Research Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Socialist Workers Party: Hillsborough branch Hillsborough, Yorkshire
- St George's Day School Old Boys' Association, Sheffield Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Survey of Language and Folklore Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Tariff Commission
- Unionist Business Committee
- Workers Circle Friendly Society London
- Wortley Board of Guardians Wortley, Yorkshire
Persons (158)
- Antcliffe, Herbert, (1875-1964), musicologist composer
- Arnold, Sir Arthur, (1833-1902), Knight, radical politician and writer
- Arnold, Matthew, (1822-1888), poet and critic
- Ashworth, John Michael, (b 1938), Biochemist Chairman of British Library Board
- Asquith, Herbert Henry, (1852-1928), 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, statesman
- Austen, Ralph, (d 1676), horticulturist and religious radical
- Baldwin, Stanley, (1867-1947), 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, statesman
- Balfour, Arthur James, (1848-1930), 1st Earl of Balfour, statesman
- Bartolome, Mariano Alejo Martine de, (1813-1890), physician
- Bathe, David George, (1944-1993), town planner traditional dance specialist
- Beale, John, (1603-c 1682), scientific writer
- Beckett, John William Warburton, (1894-1964), MP
- Bedell, William, (1571-1642), Bishop of Kilmore
- Beecham, Sir Thomas, (1879-1961), 2nd Baronet Conductor and Composer
- Beet, Arthur Edgar, (d1968), lecturer
- Biggs, Thomas Howard Ashford, (1917-1994), fascist
- Blaess, Madeleine, (1918-2003), lecturer in French
- Blakeborough, Richard, (1850-1918), physician and folklore collector
- Blundell Jones, Peter, (1949-2016), architect
- Blunkett, David, (b1947) Baron Blunkett, politician
- Bourne, Francis Alphonsus, (1861-1935), Cardinal
- Brown, Robert Neal Rudmose, (1879-1957), geographer and botanist
- Browning, Robert, (1812-1889), poet
- Bruce, Alexander Hugh, (1849-1921), 6th Baron Balfour of Burghleigh, statesman
- Burbidge, Sir Richard Woodman, (1872-1945), 2nd Baronet, Managing Director of Harrods
- Caillard, Sir Vincent Henry Penalver, (1856-1930), Knight, Knight Administrator
- Chain, Sir Ernst Boris, (1906-1979), Knight, Knight Biochemist
- Chamberlain, Joseph, (1836-1914), statesman
- Chamberlain, Sir Joseph Austen, (1863-1937), Knight, politician
- Clapham, Arthur Roy, (1904-1990), botanist
- Clegg, Edward John, (b 1925), Professor of anatomy
- Comenius, John Amos, (1592-1670), Czech Theologian and Educationist
- Cooper, Anthony Ashley, (1801-1885), 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, philanthropist
- Dainton, Sir Frederick Sydney, (1914-1997), Baron Dainton of Hallam Moors in South Yorkshire, scientist
- Daykin, Alec, (b1918), architect and surveyor Sheffield, Yorkshire
- deFrance Carver, Catherine, (1921-1997), Publisher's Editor
- Derby, John, (fl 1838-1878), Secretary Sheffield People's College
- Desch, Cecil Henry, (1874-1958), metallurgist
- Devey, George, (1820-1886), Architect
- Dilks, David N, (b 1938), historian Coventry, Warwickshire;Leeds, Yorkshire;Hull, Yorkshire
- Durie, John, (1596-1680), theologian
- Eaglestone, Arthur, (1892-1980), Arthur Eaglestone, writer
- Eggleston, Leonard Victor, (1920-74), biochemist
- Elliott, Ebenezer, (1781-1849), Corn Law Rhymer
- Ellis, Frank, (1905-2006), radiotherapist Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Empson, Lady Hetta, (1915-1996), Journalist and Artist
- Empson, William, (1906-1984), Poet and Professor of English Literature
- Erickson, Charlotte Joanne, (1923-2008), historian
- Eshelby, John Douglas, (1916-1981), Materials Scientist
- Fairfax-Blakeborough, John, (1883-1976), folklorist writer
- Fawcett, Henry, (1833-1884), academic, economist and statesman
- Feickert, Dave, (fl 1983-1993), research officer, National Union of Mineworkers
- Firth, Sir Charles Harding, (1857-1936), Knight, historian
- Fisher, Sir Ronald Aylmer, (1890-1962), Knight Geneticist
- Fitch, Sir Joshua Girling, (1824-1903), Knight educationalist
- Fleming, Sir Alexander, (1881-1955), Knight, Knight, bacteriologist
- Forster, William Edward, (1818-1886), statesman
- Frewen, Moreton, (1853-1924), MP monetary reformer
- George, David Lloyd, (1863-1945), 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, statesman
- Gerbier, Sir Balthasar, (? 1591-1667), knight, painter, architect and courtier
- Gibbs, Herbert Cokayne, (1854-1935), 1st Baron Hunsdon, merchant banker
- Gladstone, William Ewart, (1809-1898), statesman
- Godwin, Sir Harry, (1901-1985), Knight Botanist
- Golland, Stuart, (1945-2003), actor and playwright
- Gretton, John, (1867-1947), 1st Baron Gretton
- Grout, John Lewis Anderton, (1889-1963), Royal Army Medical Corps
- Hadow, Sir William Henry, (1859-1937), Knight Scholar Educationist and Music Critic
- Hague, Tom, (1915-1998), miner Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Hall, Sir Arthur John, (1866-1951), Knight Physician
- Hamer, Douglas, (1897-1981), literary scholar, antiquary
- Hannon, Sir Patrick Joseph Henry, (1874-1964), Knight, businessman and politician
- Harley, John Laker, (1911-1990), forest scientist
- Harrison, Royden, (1927-2002), Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Lifelong Learning, University of Sheffield Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Hartlib, Samuel, (c 1600-1662), scientist
- Henry, Lydia Manley, (1891-1985), medical practitioner
- Hewins, William Albert Samuel, (1865-1931), politician, historian and economist
- Hickman, Sir Alfred, (1830-1910), 1st Baronet Industrialist MP
- Hill, Archibald Vivian, (1886-1977), MP, physiologist
- Hill, Robert, (1899-1991), biochemist
- Hines, Barry, (1939-2016), author and screenwriter
- Hoggart, Richard, (1918-2014), academic, broadcaster and writer
- Hunter, Joseph, (1783-1861), antiquary
- Hutton, Richard Holt, (1826-1897), theologian journalist and man of letters
- Innes Smith, Robert, (b1927), journalist
- James, Henry, (1828-1911), 1st Baron James of Hereford, statesman
- James, William Owen, (1900-1978), Plant Physiologist
- Joyce, William Brooke, (1906-1946), fascist and Nazi propaganda broadcaster
- Keighley, Thomas Christopher, (b 1951), Director of the Institute of Nursing, Leeds University, health care consultant
- Kelsey, Nigel, (1919-1990), teacher, folklorist
- Kennedy, Malcolm Duncan, (1895-1984), civil servant, businessman, intelligence officer
- Kornberg, Sir Hans Leo, (b 1928), Knight Biochemist
- Krebs, Sir Hans Adolf, (1900-1981), Knight Biochemist
- Kroto, Sir Harold Walter, (1939-2016), knight, chemist and Nobel Prize winner Wisbech, Cambridgeshire;Bolton, Lancashire;Sheffield, Yorkshire;Falmer, Sussex;United States of America
- Langley, Henry, (1611-1679), Puritan
- Law, Andrew Bonar, (1858-1923), Statesman
- Leader, John Daniel, (d 1899), Newspaper Proprietor and Antiquary
- Leader, Robert, (1809-1885), Sheffield Journalist and Politician
- Leader, Robert Eadon, (d 1922), Newspaper Proprietor and Antiquary
- Linstead, George Frederick, (1908-1974), musician and composer
- Long, Walter Hume, (1854-1924), 1st Viscount Long, statesman
- Lovett, Catherine, (b1941), poet
- Mackerness, Eric David, (1921-1999), lecturer in English Literature
- Madin, Joseph, (1892-1967), trade unionist
- Marshall, Alfred, (1842-1924), economist
- Mellanby, Sir Edward, (1884-1955), Knight, physiologist
- Miller, Harold, (1909-1995), Professor of Medical Physics
- Milner, Alfred, (1854-1925), 1st Viscount Milner, statesman
- Montgomery, James, (1771-1854), poet
- More, Henry, (1614-1687), Theologian
- Morley, Sir John, (1838-1923), 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, statesman
- Morris, Brian Robert, (1912-2002), Lord Morris of Castle Morris
- Mosley, Sir Oswald Ernald, (1896-1980), 6th Baronet, statesman and founder of the British Union of Facists
- Mundella, Anthony John, (1825-1897), statesman
- Norman, Charlotte, (d 1988), museum administrator folklorist
- Norwood, Sir Cyril, (1875-1956), knight educationist
- Oldenburg, Henry, (1618-1677), Scientist
- Pauling, Linus Carl, (1901-1994), Chemist
- Pearsall, William Harold, (1891-1964), Botanist
- Plummer, Alfred, (1841-1926), Theologian
- Pugh, Peter, (fl 2003), historian and author
- Quayle, John Rodney, (b 1926), Microbiologist
- Quinn, Dame Sheila Margaret Imelda, (b 1920), president of the Royal College of Nursing
- Randolph, Thomas, (1605-1635), Poet
- Reaney, Percy Hide, (d 1968), philologist
- Redgrove, Peter William, (b 1932), poet
- Ridley, Matthew White, (1874-1916), 2nd Viscount Ridley
- Roberts, Gareth, (1940-2007), Physicist Penmaenmawr, Caernarfonshire;Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Ronder, Jack, (d 1979), playwright
- Rosenthal, Jack Morris, (b 1931), writer, dramatist
- Saunders, Wilfred Leonard, (b 1920), Professor of librarianship
- Shaw, John, (1927-2008), composer
- Shera, Frank Henry, (1882-1956), professor of music
- Shuttleworth, Ron, (b 1930), Morris Ring Folk-Play Archive curator Sheffield, Yorkshire;Coventry, Warwickshire;Hathersage, Derbyshire
- Simpson, Alfred William Brian, (1931-2011), legal academic and writer
- Sisson, Rosemary Anne, (1923-2017), dramatist, novelist, TV and film scriptwriter
- Smith, George Charles Moore, (1858-1940), Professor of English
- Smith, Robert William Innes, (1872-1933), physician
- Smyth, David Henry, (1908-1979), physiologist
- Sorby, Henry Clifton, (1826-1908), geologist
- Spencer, John Poyntz, (1835-1910), 5th Earl Spencer, statesman
- Staniforth, Thomas Worsley, (1845-1909), musician and composer
- Steel-Maitland, Sir Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay, (1876-1935), Knight, politician
- Stephenson, Marjory, (1885-1948), Chemical Microbiologist
- Stuart-Harris, Sir Charles, (1909-1996), Knight, Professor of Medicine
- Tomlin, Donald Hugh, (b 1918), Ministry of Defence scientist
- Turnbull, George Henry, (1889-1961), Professor of Education Sheffield University
- Turner, Emily Gertrude, (1888-1956), lecturer in chemistry
- Warburg, Otto Heinrich, (1883-1970), Scientist
- Wayne, Sir Edward Johnson, (1902-1990), Knight Medical Scientist
- Webb, Martha Beatrice, (1858-1943), social reformer
- Webb, Sidney James, (1859-1947), Baron Passfield, statesman
- Willis, Arthur John, (1922-2006), botanist
- Wilson, Henry Joseph, (1833-1914), MP for Holmfirth
- Wood, Sir Henry Trueman, (1845-1929), Knight Chairman Royal Society of Arts
- Wood, Robert, (? 1622-1685), mathematician
- Wortley, Russell, (1912-80), scientist folklore collector
- Wynne, William Palmer, (1861-1950), professor of chemistry
- Zaidman, Lazar, (1903-1963), communist and Jewish activist
Diaries (12)
- Casey, Alphaeus Abbott, (1895-1916), soldier Sheffield, Yorkshire;Egypt;France
- Cooper, F, (fl 1930-1939), cartoonist, Imperial Fascist League
- Critchley, George Norton, (b 1904), chemist Trinidad;Coventry, Warwickshire
- Firth, Elizabeth, (b1797), Friend of Bronte Family Thornton, Yorkshire
- Ibberson, William Gregory, Engineering Student Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Lewis, Cecil Courtney, Solicitor Legal Adviser To B U F
- Paine, C, Doctor, Royal Infirmary Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Potter, Neville Mowbray, (1909-2004), chemist and geologist
- Saunders, Robert, Farmer And Fascist Dorchester, Dorset
- Smart, Thomas Bert, Student Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Sorby, Henry, (d1847), Manufacturer Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Unnamed, (fl 1870), travel diarist Fiji
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (23)
- NRA 22343 Batley, Morley and Osset Labour Party link to online catalogue
- NRA 43174 Arthur Roy Clapham, botanist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 17354 Cecil Henry Desch, metallurgist: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 43168 Leonard Victor Eggleston, research assistant to Sir Hans Krebs: notebooks rel to biochemical resear link to online catalogue
- NRA 42724 Douglas Hamer, reader in English literature: research notes and collected MSS link to online catalogue
- NRA 23591 Samuel Hartlib, educationalist and natural philosopher: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 42721 William Albert Samuel Hewins, politician, historian and economist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 28910 Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, biochemist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 20789 Joseph Madin, trades unionist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 43178 Harold Miller, medical physicist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 43170 James Montgomery, poet and journalist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 24161 GC Moore Smith, professor of English: corresp and papers
- NRA 6510 Anthony John Mundella, politician: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 21425 The People's College, Sheffield link to online catalogue
- NRA 24162 Percy Hide Reaney, philologist: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 42725 Peter Redgrove, poet: corresp and literary papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 43169 Robert Saunders, farmer and Fascist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 12693 Sheffield Committee on Munitions of War link to online catalogue
- NRA 9951 Sheffield University Library: misc accessions
- NRA 20467 Henry Clifton Sorby, scientist: diaries
- NRA 23592 George Henry Turnbull, educationalist: corresp and papers
- NRA 7902 Henry Joseph Wilson MP: corresp and papers
- NRA 33687 Lazar Zaidman, communist and Jewish activist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
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