Bradford University: JB Priestley Library
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JB Priestley Library
University of Bradford
Bradford
England
BD7 1DP
Telephone: 01274 235 256
Open: M-F 10-4.30, closing for lunch
- Book in advance
- Wheelchair access
- Proof of identity required
ARCHON code: 532
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Collections information
Businesses (3)
- Isaac Holden & Sons Ltd, wool combers Bradford, Yorkshire
- Peace News Ltd London
- Salts (Saltaire) Ltd, worsted and worsted yarn spinners Saltaire, Yorkshire
Organisations (26)
- International Action Network on Small Arms
- Bradford Chemical Society Bradford, Yorkshire
- Bradford Dyers Association Bradford, Yorkshire
- Bradford Institute of Technology Bradford, Yorkshire
- Bradford Technical College Bradford, Yorkshire
- Campaign against Depleted Uranium Manchester, Lancashire
- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND): Tories against Cruise and Trident (TACT)
- Committee for Conflict Transformation Support
- Committee of 100, radical disarmament group
- Commonweal Library Bradford, Yorkshire
- Conscience: Peace Tax Campaign
- Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War
- Grassington and District Peace Group Grassington, Yorkshire
- Independent Labour Party
- International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
- Medical Action for Global Security (MEDACT) London
- Medical Association for the Prevention of War
- Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons London
- New Atlantis Foundation
- Book Action for Nuclear Disarmament (BAND)
- Nuclear Free Zones Network
- Prehistoric Society
- J B Priestley Society
- Quaker Peace Studies Trust
- UK Campaign to free Vanunu and for a Nuclear Free Middle East
- University of Bradford Bradford, Yorkshire
Persons (41)
- Brittain, Vera Mary (1893-1970), nurse, writer, feminist and pacifist Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire
- Brock, Hugh (1914-1985), Pacifist
- Bruce, Barbara (1906-1976), Quaker, missionary
- Cunliffe-Lister, Samuel (1815-1906) 1st Baron Masham, inventor
- Curle, Adam (b 1914), professor of Peace Studies
- Durham, Mary Edith (1863-1944) Balkan Traveller and Author
- Edwards, Edward G. (1914-1996), Vice Chancellor of Bradford University
- Feather, John Waddington- (b 1933) clergyman, educationalist and writer
- Gardiner, Margaret (1904-2005), writer and patron of the arts
- Glover, Margaret (1935-2016), artist and peace activist
- Glyn, Caroline Mary (1947-81) writer, poet
- Hawkes, Jessie Jacquetta (1910-1996), author and archaeologist
- Heron, Thomas (1890-1983) businessman, writer
- Holden, Sir Isaac (1807-1897) 1st Baronet Woollen Manufacturer MP
- Humphrey, Nicholas (b 1943), psychologist and anti-nuclear campaigner
- Illingworth, Alfred (1827-1907), politician
- Laredo, John (1932-2000) social anthropologist, Anti-Apartheid campaigner
- Lockwood, Baroness Betty (b 1924), Baroness Lockwood of Dewsbury, Labour Party politician and activist Dewsbury, Yorkshire
- Mairet, Philippe Auguste (1886-1975), draughtsman and critic
- Markham, David (1913-1983), actor and pacifist
- Martin, Dorothy Freeborn (1886-1974) pacifist
- Mckee, Paul (d 1998) broadcaster
- Mitchell, William Reginald (b 1928), author and editor
- Mitrinovic, Dimitrije (1887-1953), radical philosopher and psychologist
- Papworth, Andrew (fl1960-2005), Andrew Papworth, peace campaigner
- Pinthus, Eva (b 1925), Quaker and pacifist
- Popplewell, Oliver Bury (b 1927) knight judge
- Priestley, John Boynton (1894-1984), writer
- Raistrick, Arthur (1896-1991), historian and industrial archaeologist
- Randle, Michael (b 1933), peace campaigner
- Rawlinson, Roger (b 1918), peace activist and photographer
- Reckitt, Maurice Bennington (1888-1980) Writer and Christian Sociologist
- Riley, Joseph (1838-1926), businessman and Methodist preacher
- Riley, Willie (1866-1961), author
- Salt, Sir Titus (1803-1876) 1st Baronet MP Woollen Manufacturer
- Smith, Ken (1938-2003), poet Rudston, Yorkshire;Leeds, Yorkshire;United States of America;London
- Smith, Peggy (1895-1976), artist and peace activist
- Tunnicliffe, Annie (fl1981-1987), peace activist
- Wells, Calvin Bampfylde (1908-1978) pioneer palaeopathologist
- Willis, Constance (d 1999) peace campaigner, writer
- Young, Nigel James (b 1938), Professor of peace studies
Diaries (8)
- Baruch, Ludwig Alfred (b 1917) Civilian Internee, Bradford Bradford, Yorkshire
- Binns, Peart-Binns John (1950-2009), episcopal biographer
- Butterfield, Fred Robinson (1905-1999), photographer and cyclist of Keighley Keighley, Yorkshire
- Carter, April (fl 1960-1962), European organiser of the American-European peace march from San Francisco to Moscow
- Driver, Nellie (fl 1930-1945) B U F Member Bradford, Yorkshire
- Rigby, Andrew (b 1944), academic and peace activist
- Riley, Willie (c1850-1960), author
- Thomson, Brenda (fl 1980-1989), peace campaigner of Bradford Bradford, Yorkshire
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (1)
- NRA 16299 Sir Isaac Holden, woollen manufacturer and politician: family and business papers link to online catalogue
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