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Add MS 89203/2/4/163
- Record Id:
- 040-003371942
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003345873
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100042262597.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89203/2/4/163
- Title:
- Will Self: Umbrella (background research, various topics)
- Scope & Content:
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Background information on various topics:
- (1). Victorian and Edwardian advertisements (printed from the internet) for a water elevator (1905), household brushes (1901), bird cages (1910), typewriter (1900), and the cotton trade (1900). Also, a printed image of betting office interior (1909) and a related e-mail from Donna Poppy to English Heritage (on whose website the image was first seen).
- (2). 'England's drunkards', pp. 1-17 incomplete. A number of 'mugshots' of 'drunkards' have been cut out from the printed internet article (Daily Mail)
- (3). 'Seamstresses and Dressmakers of Edwardian England' (4 sheets).
- (4). Jonny Lowndes, 'Research on Turn of the Century Scientific Romance' (21 sheets, annotated).
- (5). Matthew Beaumont, 'Influential Force: Shafts and the Diffusion of Knowledge at the Fin de Siècle' (Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 3, 2006). 19 sheets, annotated.
- (6). 'Work Room Output and Labour (1931-38). 57 photocopy sheets from original ledgers.
- (7). 'Wages' (1906-10). 48 photocopy sheets from original ledgers.
- (8). 'Social Changes' in My Lifetime', word-processed document (7 sheets, highlighted) by 'C.H.M.' [Rev. Colin MacGregor, friend and contemporary of Peter Self).
- (9). Photocopied pages from the diaries of Elaine Self (5 sheets, originally 1957 and 1986).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003345873
033-003357982
036-003359578
040-003371942 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89203 : The Papers of Will Self
Add MS 89203/2 : Will Self: Personal and Literary Papers
Add MS 89203/2/4 : Will Self: Fiction
Add MS 89203/2/4/163 : Will Self: Umbrella (background research, various topics) - Hierarchy:
- 032-003345873[0002]/033-003357982[0006]/036-003359578[0164]/040-003371942
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89203
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 2010
- End Date:
- 2010
- Date Range:
- 2010
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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