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Individual albums of pictorial items collected according to the research interests of former members of the University, or donated to the University Library. The Liverpool University Library Albums sequence includes postcards, greetings cards, photographs, prints, and other pictorial items.
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Individual manuscript items and autograph letters collected according to the research interests of former members of the University, or found within the University Library. The Liverpool University Library Manuscript sequence includes diaries, commonplace books, letters and notebooks.
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"Christian Students": a postscript to the article by Em Prof Baker in University of Liverpool Recorder3 Feb 1989 by the Revd Leak about the Student Christian Movement at Liverpool 1942-1948, and later at Cambridge etc, and about the World Student Christian Federation
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Robert Graham's correspondence with Sir Cyril Burt including original introduction by Sir Cyril Burt to The Future of Man by Robert Graham 1963-1971; copy of Robert Graham The Future of Man, The Christopher Publishing House, Massachusetts, 1970 which includes an abrided introduciton by Sir Cyril Burt; Typescript of Klark Graham's The human situation and its reparation n.d. [c. 1995]
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Minutes of meetings and committee meetings of the Società Letteraria Italiana di Liverpool (the Liverpool Italian Literary Society) including copies of programmes, invitation cards and press-cuttings, Sep 1920-14 Mar 1963; minutes of meetings and committee meetings of [the Dante Alighieri Society of Liverpool] n.d. [late 1964]-18 Nov 1968
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Photocopy of typescript draft chapter of David Jones' "A study of the foundations of civic Universities: Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool"
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The Gerald Beech Partnership Papers relate to various projects the company was involved with, particularly the erection of Bedford House Staff Club and the Wyncote Development. There are also folders relating to smaller projects at a warehouse in Gloucester Place, Abercromby Square redevelopment/railings, Staff House extension into 5 Abercromby Square, Staff House future developments, Corporation Cottage, University Air Squadron buildings at 24-26 Oxford Street, the University Chaplaincy, Tate Hall, School of Architecture and the University Naval Unit at 18 Oxford Street. These folders consist mainly of correspondence, plans and drawings, tenders, certificates for payment, invoices, reports, minutes and costings.
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Minute books of the Liverpool Society of Anaesthetists dating from 1930 to 1990
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Notes, drafts of papers, minutes of meetings etc., assembled by Anne Dennier as a member of the team at Colin Buchanan and partners re the South Hampshire Study (regarding expansion in the South East of England and its implications for South Hampshire); copy of Regional studies in Ireland, Sep 1968 commissioned by the United Nations on behalf of the Government of Ireland and undertaken by Colin Buchanan and Partners in association with Economic consultants Ltd (Miss Dennier was again a member of the team)
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Papers of Jacoba J Milovich, comprising: Jacoba J Milovich, To whatever nation they belong; extracts from letters and diaries, translated from the Dutch, relating in part to her nursing service as a nurse in a field hospital at St Oedenrode, Holland in September 1944 and at bourg Leopold, Belgium in October-November 1944 when she was closely involved with the work of Major J M Leggate, Commanding Officer of the 46th Field Surgical Unit, British Liberation Army
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Records and the Universities Athletics Union Western Division comprising committee minutes and files; also some material re the Northern Division
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In the 1980s Professor Anthony Ryan of the School of History at Liverpool University was made secretary of the society. The papers in this collection therefore generally comprise the documents held by Professor Ryan and those given to him by his predecessors. The papers include correspondence with society members, details of meetings including discussions of papers and publications.
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This collection of working and personal papers dates from Patten's childhood to the time immediately before deposit in 2007. It gives much insight into his working practices and includes many manuscript, typescripts and notebooks containing various drafts of his poetry, plays, books for children and work for television and radio. There is a small but significant series of handmade typescript poetry booklets featuring Patten's early poetry, these are precursor's to his later published magazine Underdog. There is an important series of correspondence with letters from literary figures such as Allan Ginsberg, Philip Larkin, John Betjemen and Ted Hughes, amongst many others. Included with the collection is also a series of printed books is this collection for which see the printed book catalogue at SPEC Patten.
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The archive of the Liverpool Philomathic Society includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1894-1929, primarily concerned with membership matters and arrangements for debates and dinners, but also documenting the Liverpool Civic Service League Intelligence Bureau in Bold Street, Liverpool. This was run by LPS members during 1914, and was set up as a contribution to the War effort, to provide an information service "to applicants for relief and assistance". The correspondence files also record members' reactions to postwar strikes and the admission of women, and document the drift of successful former members from business in Liverpool to London or colonial postings. Nomination papers have been extracted into a separate, chronological series.

The printed records of the LPS include historical accounts given in Presidential addresses, catalogues of the Library prior to its sale in 1925, and periodical revisions of the Society's Laws. The Proceedings of the Liverpool Philomathic Society and copies of addresses are kept with the book collections of Liverpool University Library.

Records of the Society's dinners include toast lists from 1885 and detailed seating plans from 1899. Some menu cards, accounts, tickets and programmes also survive; there was music at the dinners of 1907, 1908 and 1926.

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The collection at the University of Liverpool comprises of over 700 deeds, rent rolls, accounts, receipts, inventories, bonds, fragments of court rolls and presentments. The collection also contains documents concerning the shrievalty of Cheshire, legal papers, correspondence, and maps of Cheshire.

Associated Material

The Aston collection at the University of Liverpool form only a small part of the papers of the Aston family. A full list of the other holdings of the papers of the Aston family of Aston Hall can be found on the National Register of Archives. Links are provided below to the catalogue entries for the Aston papers held by

  • The British Library
  • John Rylands University Library Special Collections
  • Cheshire Record Office
  • Liverpool Record Office

Bibliography

 

George Ormerod: The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Volume I, 2nd edition, revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby (George Routledge, London, 1882). Pages 531-537 are Ormerod's account of the Aston family from the reign of Henry II up to the time of Sir Willoughby Aston, 2nd Baronet, with an added family tree which follows the family up to Sir Arthur Ingram Aston.

George Edward Cockayne: Complete Baronetage, Volume II, 1625-1649, (William Pollard & co., Exeter, 1902). Pages 48-49 list the grantee and successors to the title of Baronet Aston in the reign of Charles I.

The Cheshire Sheaf, 3rd series, vol 24, (Chester, 1927). Contains a description of the biographical diaries of Sir Willoughby Aston with some biographical notes.

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