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Autograph Letter, Autograph Postcard, eight Typed Letters and two Christmas cards, all signed, Hull and University of Hull, 21 April 1956 to 6 February 1985, various sizes, 13 pages (excluding the Christmas cards), some with envelopes, to Anthony Thwaite.  Some of these letters appear in Thw

A bound volume containing three relatively rare printed pamphlets of the period (listed below) and a little gem – a contemporary manuscript plan apparently showing the proposed defences of the City.

Philip Miller’s Gardener's Dictionary was one of the most popular gardening books of the 18th century. Miller was an expert botanist and gardener, and the book was published in many different forms and editions: the first edition appeared in 1724, and the last edition in 1807.

This advice guide for female servants sets out rules of behaviour designed to promote their industriousness, preserve their characters and prevent any misbehaviour likely 'to result in their ending…their miserable days in an hospital or work-house…or [finding] their death-bed on a dunghill' and i

Hamish Scott Henderson was a published poet and member of the Scottish literary renaissance of the later twentieth century, a folksong collector and promoter of the folksong revival, a cultural historian, a Scottish nationalist, an international democratic socialist, a European intellectual and a

Robert, the son of Ralph de Alderstead of Merstham in Surrey, probably assumed the surname Pashley only on his marriage to Sarah, the heiress of an estate centred on Pashley in Ticehurst, in about 1265. His son Sir Edmund Pashley pursued a career in the common law.

This is an exceptionally rare early 11th-century charter.  The Godwine Charter is a single-sheet Anglo-Saxon charter written in Old English, on parchment, in the form of a chirograph.

The collection includes architect’s drawings of the New Wesleyan Methodist Chapel at Bridport  by James Wilson of Belmont, Bath, together with estimates, specifications and contracts of the builder, Charles Galpin, 1838.

The series of Godmanchester manorial records at Huntingdonshire Archives is of special interest for two reasons: first because it is one of the finest and most extensive of the county (including the enlarged modern county of Cambridgeshire), and secondly because the government of medieval Godmanchester was rather unusual: thanks to a 1212 charter of King John, the town, while not officially a borough until 1604, it operated as a self-governing manor answerable only for a fee-farm rent to the Crown. This important record of the administration of the manor was drawn up following a session of the manor’s leet court held on the Thursday before the feast St. Michael the Archangel in the twenty-second year of the reign of King Richard II (26 September 1398).

Dr Giles Roberts (1766-1834) was a prominent physician in Bridport. His family was part of the new merchant class, the rising middle class of its time. They were able to give him an education, and he instructed himself in a range of scientific topics by reading and experimentation.