Posted on Friday 21st December 2012
Archives and manuscripts
Personal and family papers
Henry Radcliffe Crocker (1846-1909), dermatologist: medical drawings, in watercolour, of the symptoms of skin diseases, c 1880. Finding No: MS858
Jean Overton Fuller (1915-2009), poet, biographer and theosophist: correspondence between Jean Overton Fuller and her friend, and fellow writer, Martin Booth (1944-2004), dated 1967-2004. Finding No: MS859
Samuel West (b 1966), actor and director: personal, annotated copies of scripts for productions directed by West, or in which West performed as an actor, and related papers, 2000-2011 (Collection held at the Shakespeare Institute Library). Finding No: DSH26
Jasper Britton (b 1962), actor: annotated script for the New Shakespeare Company's production of Shakespeare's 'Richard the Third' performed at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, London in 1995, directed by Brian Cox (Collection held at the Shakespeare Institute Library). Finding No: DSH27
Percy Marshall Young (1912-2004), organist, musicologist and teacher: papers relating to Dr Percy Young's work as an Elgar scholar; predominantly concerning his work on 'The Spanish Lady', Sir Edward Elgar's last, and unfinished, opera which Young adapted and arranged following a commission by the BBC in 1969. Finding No: MS860
Irene Winifred Tatham, CMS missionary nurse: scrapbook of a trip to Florence in July 1938, and an album of photographs and verse presented to Ms Tatham her on her retirement as Principal of 'Foxbury', the Church Missionary Society’s training college for women, June 1957. Acc. No: 2012/85
Records of organisations, societies and businesses
Bristol YMCA: handbook for 1936/1937. Finding No: YMCA Section C (Acc. No: 2012/77)
City of Leicester YMCA: handbook for 1950/1951. Finding No: YMCA Section C (Acc. No: 2012/77)
Jardine and Co., organ builders (additional deposit): papers concerning Charles Woodfield Smith (of Thorold and Smith) and his son, and successor, Edwin Charles Smith (later 'Jardine-Smith'), including apprenticeship indenture for Charles Wooodfield Smith, accounts, publicity material, drawings, patents and other legal papers, 1862-1912. Finding No: BOA box 51
Leeds Central YMCA: winter syllabus for 1936/1937. Finding number: YMCA Section C (Acc. No: 2012/77)
Toc H (additional deposit): legal papers including charter of incorporation and bylaw amendment papers, travel journal of Sydney D. Walker and a few miscellaneous printed papers, 1923-2012. (Acc. No: 2012/86)
Records of the Youth Hostels Association (additional deposit): Youth Hostels Association songbook, 1969 (Finding No: YHA)
Artificial collections
Joseph Chamberlain Postcard Collection (additional deposit): 4 picture postcards on a political theme, featuring Joseph Chamberlain, early 20th cent. Finding No: MS821
University Archives
Governing Bodies
Senate Committees: Accreditation Committee, Birmingham College of Food and Tourism minutes 2009-2010 (3 vols) (Acc. No: 2012/82)
Academic Faculties, Schools and Departments
School of History and Cultures: Postcard photographs of members of the History Students Fellowship, made by Percy Wynne, Broad Street, Birmingham, 1920s. Finding No: UA10/9
Halls of Residence
University House: Additional records comprising group photographs 1945, 1946-1947, 1948-1949 and a hardback notebook used as an Air Raid log book to record accounts of air raid activity affecting University House between 18 October 1940 and 5 March 1945 (Acc. No: 2012/78a)
University and Student Societies
University Women’s Club: Additional records comprising minutes, financial records, administrative papers and photographs, 1970s-2009 (Acc. No: 2012/83)