Bradford University: JB Priestley Library
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JB Priestley Library
University of Bradford
Bradford
England
BD7 1DP
Telephone: 01274 235 256
Open: Monday-Wednesday 9.30-4
- Book in advance
- Wheelchair access
- Proof of identity required
ARCHON code: 532
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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 (28)
- Anglican Pacifist Fellowship
- Book Action for Nuclear Disarmament (BAND)
- 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 Action Network on Small Arms
- International Peace Bureau
- International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
- J B Priestley Society
- Medical Action for Global Security (MEDACT) London
- Medical Association for the Prevention of War
- Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons London
- New Atlantis Foundation
- Nuclear Free Zones Network
- Prehistoric Society
- Quaker Peace Studies Trust
- UK Campaign to free Vanunu and for a Nuclear Free Middle East
- University of Bradford Bradford, Yorkshire
Persons (42)
- 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
- 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
- Pustan, Cyril, (1929-1977), civil rights activist
- 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
- Waddington-Feather, John, (b 1933), clergyman, educationalist and writer
- 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, Yorkshire
- Butterfield, Fred Robinson, (1905-1999), photographer and cyclist Keighley, Yorkshire
- Carter, April, (fl 1960-1962), European organiser of the American-European peace march from San Francisco to Moscow
- Driver, Nellie, B U F Member Bradford, Yorkshire
- Peart-Binns, John, (1950-2009), episcopal biographer
- Rigby, Andrew, (b 1944), academic and peace activist
- Riley, Willie, (c1850-1960), author
- Thomson, Brenda, (fl 1980-1989), peace campaigner 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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