Search Special Collections
Results
Total number of records: 215
Top 10: Collection group
Top 10: Subject
Top 10: Place
Top 10: People and organisations
Count of Earliest date
Thomas Askren farm Archive
Askren, Thomas
1835-1871
A collection of diaries and account books, dating from 1835 to 1871.
Stancliffe family of North Yorkshire Archive
Stancliffe Family; Stancliffe, Percy (1867-1949); Stancliffe, Richard Schofield (1895-1959); Stancliffe, George Hall (1899-1954)
c.1800-1952
Comprises: (1) Letters, diaries, and a few stamps; (2) Ledgers relating to financial accounts; (3) Various local maps, some rolled, others folded; (4) Game books for the years 1896-1903; (5) An ...
Shirley Brooks, diaries
Brooks, Shirley (1815-1874)
1867-1872
Each volume is bound in leather and embossed on the spine with gilt lettering: SHIRLEY BROOKS' DIARY, followed by the years 1867, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872 respectively. On the inside of each front cover...
John Braine Archive
Braine, John (1922-1986)
1943-1995
The literary archive of John Braine, comprising over 200 manuscript notebooks, 22 boxes of manuscript and typescript drafts and associated material. The collection is divided into 3 distinct series: ...
Ronald Blythe, pre-publication text of anthology 'Each returning day : the pleasure of diaries', with a related letter
Blythe, Ronald (1922-)
c.1989-1991
Comprises the complete pre-publication text of Ronald Blythe's anthology, here entitled 'Diaries: an exploration'. The accompanying autograph manuscript letter from Blythe is dated 25 March 1991, and...
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson Archive
Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson (1878-1962)
1902-1971
Comprises: (a) 5 boxes of autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of Wilfrid Gibson's poems and plays, and some groups of correspondence between Gibson and various literary figures and publishers, ...
Rayner Heppenstall, literary manuscripts, journals, press cuttings, and correspondence
Heppenstall, Rayner (1911-1981)
1933-1987
Comprises: (Box 1) 12 autograph manuscript diaries compiled by Rayner Heppenstall between 1969 and 1981; (Box 2) 6 scrapbook volumes of news cuttings compiled by him between 1947 and his death, includ...
Roger Senhouse, notebooks and literary papers including some letters
Senhouse, Roger (1899-1970)
c.1937-1970
Comprises: (1) 6 autograph manuscript notebooks kept by Roger Senhouse between ca. 1942 and 1962, numbers 1, 3, and 4 being commonplace-books (chiefly containing notes on books and on meetings with ot...
Angela Thirkell Archive
Thirkell, Angela Margaret
1895-2004
Comprises: (1) 12 boxes of material catalogued by David Gilson, namely, autograph manuscript notebooks containing drafts of the novels 'Love among the Ruins', 'The Old Bank House', 'Morning, afternoo...
Gerda Mayer Archive
Mayer, Gerda
c.1939 - 2008
The collection relates to the life and works of poet Gerda Mayer. It contains; Literary correspondence, personal correspondence, and published/ unpublished writings, with there being some amount of cr...
Charles Thomas Whitmell Archive
Whitmell, Charles Thomas (1849-1919)
1863-1919
This archive reflects the life and work of Charles Thomas Whitmell, an English astronomer, scientist, mathematician and educationalist. The collection includes a series of notebooks, scrapbooks, diari...
Dorothy Mary Leak correspondence and papers
Leak, Dorothy Mary (1903-1989)
1909-1989
Contents include: (1) Diaries; (2) Letters to Miss Leak; (3) Various documents relating to her life and professional career; (4) Gardening diaries from 1944 to 1987; (5) Accounts of her travels in Bri...