Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 52 records

Total number of records: 52

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Textiles45
Archives7

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
International Textile Collection45
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman3

Count of Subject

SubjectCount
picture1
religion1
socialism1
migrations1
labour party (great britain)1
culture1
ethnicity1
europe1

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Manchester52
United Kingdom45
England6
Nigeria2
Leeds1
West Africa1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
The Textile Institute25
Wm. Briggs & Co. Ltd.7
Abc Company4
University of Manchester3
Societe Des Nouveautes Textiles2
J. Claude Freres & Co2
University of Keele1
The University of Manchester1
United Africa Co Ltd.1
Thornton, Peter - Leeds University1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 18001
From 190047
From 20004

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 18991
Up to 199946
Up to latest4

Archive File

Feb, 2004, Manchester

Jul 2003 - Feb 2004

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's contribution to a contextual theology seminar on "Media and Religion" on 27 February 2004. (Manchester University, 27 Feb 2004)

More details


Archive File

Apr, 2004, Manchester

Apr 2003 - Apr 2004

Correspondence inviting Zygmunt Bauman to take part in a workshop on "Socialist Modernities" in April 2004. (University of Manchester)

More details


Archive File

Sep, 2007, Manchester

Jun 2006 - Sep 2007

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture at the conference "Creolising Europe: a Conference of the Migration and Diaspora Cultural Studies Network”. (8 Sep 2007, University o...

More details


Archive File

Sep, 2006, Manchester

Aug 2006 - Sep 2006

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture titled "Does Labour care about the family?" on 25 September 2007 for the Labour Party Conference. (Polity Press, Public policy research...

More details


Archive File

Manchester, Dec, 1994

Sep 1994 - Dec 1994

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's contribution to the "Culture, Communication and Discourse: Negotiating difference in Multi-Ethnic Alliances" conference 9-12 December 1994. (University of Ma...

More details


Archive File

MAr, 1994, Manchester

Mar 1994

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's contribution to the "International Peace Lecture" (University of Manchester, Mar 1994 )

More details


Archive File

Journal article "High churchmen and the crisis in English education"

1910

From 'The Contemporary Review', n. 537, (September, 1910), pp. 257-72 two copies. Item 203 in Pickering, 16 pp

More details

Crochet Notions by Penelope
Textile

Crochet Notions by Penelope

Wm. Briggs & Co. Ltd.

mid 20th Century

A booklet with crochet projects, including the star motif, spider's web, well handled gloves, dressing set, dainty garlands, motif luncheon set, petal collar, two choux, blue birds and four lace edgin...

More details and larger image

The Brunnschweiler Collection [English Wax advertising pamphlet]
Textile

The Brunnschweiler Collection [English Wax advertising pamphlet]

ABC Company

late 20th Century

An A4 coloured stapled English Wax advertising pamphlet with four pages, showing annotated photographs of discharge printed textiles and models wearing the designs, along with information and business...

More details and larger image

ABC Wax print collection Summer 1999 [advertising leaflet]
Textile

ABC Wax print collection Summer 1999 [advertising leaflet]

ABC Company

1999

A three folding leaflet advertising the Summer 1999 collection of ABC, an English Wax company based in Hyde, Manchester. It includes 30 images of designs listed under six collections: Nigerian Classi...

More details and larger image

The Practical Workroom Series: More simple embroidery
Textile

The Practical Workroom Series: More simple embroidery

Wm. Briggs & Co. Ltd.; Randall, Marguerite

1930-1940

A booklet by Marguerite Randall outlining tools and techiques used for embroidery. This booklet contains illustrated intructions for different stitch applications and projects. It contains templates f...

More details and larger image

Stitches by Penelope, The Book of
Textile

Stitches by Penelope, The Book of "Hows" Series

Wm. Briggs & Co. Ltd.

1970

A booklet outlining an alphabet of embroidery stitches, from the Algerian eye stitch to the weaving stitch. The booklet is for instruction for people new to embroidery and the first page outlines the...

More details and larger image