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Subject Guide to Special Collections

Archaeology
History of Bradford and Yorkshire
History of Britain and Ireland
History of Continental Europe and World
History of the University of Bradford
History of Science, Technology, Medicine
Literature
Peace Studies
Religion

Archaeology

Jacquetta HAWKES Archive
Elizabeth and Arthur RAISTRICK Collection (industrial archaeology of Dales region, mining, Quakers)
Calvin WELLS Collection (palaeopathology, general archaeology, history of medicine)

History : Bradford and Yorkshire

Papers on ANTHRAX
BRADFORD CHEMICAL SOCIETY Transactions
BRADFORD DYERS' ASSOCIATION Archive
Fred Robinson BUTTERFIELD Collection (photographs of the Yorkshire Dales)
DYEING and TEXTILE HISTORY Collection
Papers of Sir Isaac HOLDEN and Family
LOCAL and Regional Collection
W.R. MITCHELL Archive (Yorkshire Dales)
NEWSPAPERS in Special Collections (including "The Bradford Pioneer")
Papers of the POPPLEWELL Inquiry into Crowd Safety
J.B. PRIESTLEY Collection
Elizabeth and Arthur RAISTRICK Collection (industrial archaeology of Dales region, mining, Quakers)
Joseph RILEY Archive Fred SINGLETON Archive (Yugoslavia, Finland, Yorkshire)
Titus SALT's day book
WADDINGTON-FEATHER Collection (English language and literature, especially Yorkshire dialect)
The Yorkshire Ephemera Collection

History: Britain and Ireland

ANTIQUARIAN Collection
Ludwig BARUCH Internment Archive (World War 2 correspondence)
Rawnsley BRITISH UNION OF FASCISTS Collection
Barbara CASTLE Cabinet Diaries
ENGLISH DOMESTIC POLITICS Collection (industrial unrest 1918-1919)
IRISH DIASPORA material. A few items in Special, most in main stock.
KENNALLY Northern Ireland Archive
Paul MCKEE Election Broadcasting Archive
Davina MILLER Archive on the Scott Inquiry
David MITCHELL Archive of Military Nonconformity
NEWSPAPERS in Special Collections including Reynolds News
PUDSEY Civic Society Irish Home Rule Archive
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY Collection
Harold WILSON University Finance Speech

History : Continental Europe and World

H.G. ALEXANDER Minorities Archive (German minorities in Poland, early 20th century)
Harold BLAKEMORE Latin American Archive
Edith DURHAM Balkan Collection
Joel Martin HALPERN Balkan Archive (family life and social structures in Balkan region)
ILP Russian Tour Material (a visit to the USSR in 1932)
LAREDO South African Archive
NEWSPAPERS in Special Collections including Reynolds News
Fred SINGLETON Archive (Yugoslavia, Finland, Yorkshire)
The Yugoslavia and Balkans Ephemera Collection

History : University of Bradford

Revis BARBER and Denis BELLAMY Papers (former governors of Bradford Institute of Technology)
BRADFORD INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Archive
BRADFORD TECHNICAL COLLEGE Archive
Adam CURLE Archive (first Professor of Peace Studies)
Ted EDWARDS Archive (first Vice-Chancellor of the University)
Fred SINGLETON Archive (Yugoslavia, Finland, Yorkshire)
Bradford Students' Union SKOPJE Collection
UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD Archive
UNIVERSITY Collection
Alan WILLIAMS Students' Union Archive
Harold WILSON University Finance Speech

History of Science, Technology, Medicine

Papers on ANTHRAX
BRADFORD CHEMICAL SOCIETY Transactions
BRADFORD DYERS' ASSOCIATION Archive
DYEING and TEXTILE HISTORY Collection
GRIMETHORPE Pressurised Fluidised Bed Combustion Project
HISTORY OF PHARMACY
HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Collection
Elizabeth and Arthur RAISTRICK Collection (industrial archaeology of Dales region, mining, Quakers)
Joseph RILEY Archive
Titus SALT's day book
Calvin WELLS Collection (palaeopathology, general archaeology, history of medicine)

Literature

ANTIQUARIAN Collection
Jacquetta HAWKES Archive
Dimitrije MITRINOVIC and New Atlantis Foundation Library and Archive (philosophy, religion, art, esoterica and more)
PEART-BINNS Christian Socialist Archive
J.B. PRIESTLEY Collection
WADDINGTON-FEATHER Collection (English language and literature, especially Yorkshire dialect)

Peace Studies

ARMS CONTROL Cuttings Collection (press cuttings about disarmament, arms control and other peace-related topics)
Hugh BROCK Papers (Peace News and peace movements of the 1950s and 1960s) (a Commonweal archive).
COMMONWEAL ARCHIVES: over 70 archives on peace movements and social change.
CRAIG Medical Peace Movements Archive
Adam CURLE Archive
Records of the DIRECT ACTION COMMITTEE AGAINST NUCLEAR WAR. (a Commonweal Archive)
FRASER Collection on Nuclear Disarmament
Papers of Margaret GARDINER (mass media techniques in raising nuclear issues in 1960s) (a Commonweal archive)
David HARDISTY PAX Collection (Catholic peace organisation) (a Commonweal archive)
Jacquetta HAWKES Archive
KENNET Peace Archive
Dorothy Freeborn MARTIN Peace Archive
Sarah MEYER Collection Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PREVENTION OF WAR Archive
DAVID MITCHELL Archive of Military Nonconformity
The Peace Ephemera Collection
QUAKER Collection
Elizabeth and Arthur RAISTRICK Collection (industrial archaeology of Dales region, mining, Quakers)
Joseph ROTBLAT Collection (nuclear science, disarmament)
Fred SINGLETON Archive (Yugoslavia, Finland, Yorkshire)
Papers of Richard TAYLOR (1950s-60s peace movements - a Commonweal Archive)
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY Collection
Constance WILLIS Peace Archive
Records of the WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM (WILPF) (a Commonweal Archive)

Religion

ANTIQUARIAN Collection
David HARDISTY PAX Collection (Catholic peace organisation) (a Commonweal archive)
Dimitrije MITRINOVIC and New Atlantis Foundation Library and Archive (philosophy, religion, art, esoterica and more)
PEART-BINNS Christian Socialist Archive
PEART-BINNS Episcopal Biography Archive (Anglican bishops from the 19th century to the present)
QUAKER Collection
Elizabeth and Arthur RAISTRICK Collection (industrial archaeology of Dales region, mining, Quakers)
The Joseph RILEY Archive Methodists in Bradford.

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