Collection items

Album cover for Fela Kuti’s ‘Sorrow, Tears & Blood...

Artwork on long playing disc

Lemi Ghariokwu is a Nigerian artist and graphic designer renowned for creating the album sleeve art for most of Fela Kut...

Alternative Ulster fanzine, 1977

Fanzine Created date: 1977

Alternative Ulster was an influential fanzine, edited by Gavin Martin, now music critic for the Daily Mirror. This issue...

Angela Carter's translation of The Fairy Tales of ...

Book, Illustration, Image

The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault is a little known work of translation by Angela Carter, with illustrations by Martin...

Anne McLaren’s Notebook

Notebook Created date: 1955

Dame Anne McLaren (1927 – 2007) was a developmental biologist who pioneered techniques that led to human in vitro fertil...

Benjamin Britten's manuscript score for A Midsumme...

Musical score, Manuscript Created date: 1960–1978

This manuscript, written in Benjamin Britten’s hand, is the score for the opera based on Shakespeare’s comedic play, A M...

Chaffinch 'trup' flight call

Sound recording Created date: 20 December 1977

“Trup” flight calls of a chaffinch, recorded in Herefordshire, England, by Victor Lewis.

Children's jokes

Video Created date: 1974 - 1978

A recording featuring the rhyme ‘Tarzan in the Jungle’, ‘Donald Duck’ and ‘Popeye the Sailor Man’ .

Delius: Cello Sonata (recording)

Sound recording Created date: 1926 (re-released by Symposium Records in 1992)

This wartime Cello Sonata (1916), by the English composer Frederick Delius, was written for the cellist Beatrice Harriso...

Delius: Brigg Fair (recording)

Sound recording Created date: 1928. Re-released by EMI in 1990

Frederick Delius’s Brigg Fair (1907) is a set of variations for large orchestra based on the folksong ‘Unto Brigg Fair’....

Jutta Bell

Photograph

Jutta Bell (also known simply as Jutta Bell-Ranske), a Norwegian living in Florida in the 1880s, was a neighbour of Fred...

Letter from Alan Turing to W Ross Ashby

Letter Created date: 1946

Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) was a mathematician and computer scientist. He is best known for his code-breaking work...

Letters from Peggy Ramsay on Joe Orton's Loot

Manuscript, Typescript, Letter, Ephemera Created date: 10 February 1965; 21 March 1983; 6 April 1983

Joe Orton insisted that his scandalous black comedies must be played straight and performed with ‘absolute realism’. In ...

Letters from Samuel Beckett to Harold Pinter

Manuscript, Letter, Ephemera Created date: 27 January 1965; 16 March 1978

This handwritten correspondence from Samuel Beckett to Harold Pinter pays testament to the enduring and affectionate fri...

Manuscript notes and drafts of stories from The Bl...

Manuscript, Typescript, Draft Created date: estimated 1975–79

This collection of manuscript sheets and typescripts contain notes, drafts and fair copies for stories from The Bloody C...

Pages from W. Ross Ashby’s journal

Journal Created date: 1948

William Ross Ashby (1903-1972) was a pioneer in cybernetics – the study of the control of human and animal systems by te...