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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 ArchiveFred 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
• Papers of Barbara BRUCE a British nurse in India in the 1940s.
• 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

General

• ARMS CONTROL Cuttings Collection press cuttings about disarmament, arms control.
• COMMONWEAL ARCHIVES: over 70 archives on peace movements and social change.
• The Peace Ephemera Collection
• Archives of PEACE NEWS especially useful for 1960s.

1950s and early 1960s nuclear disarmament movement

• Papers of the European Organiser of the AMERICAN-EUROPEAN PEACE MARCH from San Francisco to Moscow
• The Papers of Hugh BROCK Peace News and peace movements of the 1950s and 1960s.
• Archives of the DIRECT ACTION COMMITTEE AGAINST NUCLEAR WAR
• Papers of Margaret GARDINER mass media techniques in raising nuclear issues in 1960s.
• Archives of the Committee of 100 collected by Derry HANNAM early 1960s nuclear disarmament campaign.
• Jacquetta HAWKES Archive A co-founder of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
• Papers of David MARKHAM relating to tax refusal 1960s nuclear weapons tax protest.
• J.B. PRIESTLEY Collection Instrumental in founding of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
• Papers of Michael RANDLE 1950s and 1960s direct action, George Blake prosecution case.
• Papers of Mary RINGSLEBEN relating to the Committee of 100
• Papers of Richard TAYLOR 1950s-60s peace movements.

1980s peace camps

• Papers of Ian and Jennifer HARTLEY on the Molesworth Peace Camp
• Papers of Sarah MEYER relating to Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
• Papers of Tim WALLIS on the Molesworth Peace Camp

1980s Bradford

• Records of the BRADFORD NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT GROUP
• BRADFORD PEACE ACTION GROUP Archive creating Bradford's nuclear free zone, 1980s.
• Papers of Colin HUNTER Councillor active in creating Bradford's nuclear free zone, 1980s.

Other organisations

• Records of ARCHITECTS FOR PEACE
• Archives of the CAMPAIGN AGAINST MILITARY RESEARCH ON CAMPUS
• Archives of the COMMITTEE FOR CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION SUPPORT
• FRASER Collection on Nuclear Disarmament
• Records of the PEACE TAX CAMPAIGN
• Records of the WEST YORKSHIRE EUROPEAN NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT GROUP
• Records of LONDON GREENPEACE Anarchist collective, campaign against nuclear testing in 1970s
• Records of OPERATION NAMIBIA direct action against South Africa's role in Namibia, 1970s.
• MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PREVENTION OF WAR Archive
• Records of the WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM (WILPF) (a Commonweal Archive)
• CRAIG Medical Peace Movements Archive
• David HARDISTY PAX Collection (Catholic peace organisation) (a Commonweal archive)

Links with India and the ideas of Gandhi

• Papers of Barbara BRUCE a British nurse in India in the 1940s.
• The Papers of Geoffrey OSTERGAARD academic and activist interested in sarvodaya movement.

Papers of Bradford academics active in peace campaigns

• Adam CURLE Archive Our first Professor of Peace Studies.
• Ted EDWARDS Archive first Vice-Chancellor of the University.
• Fred SINGLETON Archive Yugoslavia, Finland, Yorkshire.

Other active individuals

• Papers of Eric BAKER Quaker peace activist, European links, Amnesty, campaigner against torture.
• Dorothy Freeborn MARTIN Peace Archive
• DAVID MITCHELL Archive of Military Nonconformity
• Elizabeth and Arthur RAISTRICK Collection (industrial archaeology of Dales region, mining, Quakers)
• Constance WILLIS Peace Archive

Book collections

• Commonweal Rare Books Collection.
• QUAKER Collection
• Joseph ROTBLAT Collection books on nuclear science, disarmament.
• SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY Collection

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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