Includes photocopies of poem 'The Miner Knows', photocopy of 'The Bicycle against the Wall', annotated programme for the D H Lawrence centenary festival 1985, manuscript and typescript notes with various quotes, photograph of Sid crouched next to a car, programme for the Leeds Playhouse production of 'And Was Jerusalem builded here?' by Barry Collins with D H Lawrence quotes, and leaflet for The Sid Chaplin Entertainment May 1969 as part of the Mid Northumberland Arts Group Festival.

Includes correspondence from the BBC, articles, news cuttings considering appropriate actors; information on Dan Leno with photographs, music scores of Dan Leno's shows, Photocopy of Dan Leno's 'Hys Booke. A Volume of frivolities', information on other music hall actors and comedians, and the outline and background for the film. Consists of correspondence, draft ideas, notes, and research material. William Humble's file includes copy typescript of the outline and background to the film, photocopy of the Album of Dan Leno's Comic Song Creations of World Wide Popularity music scores, photocopy of Sheards Comic Annual 1893 and 1899.

Includes North East Group for the Study of Labour History Bulletins 1967,1970, and 1978, a Review of the History of the North of England Vol III 1972, booklet titled 53 Years at Auckland Castle, newspaper cuttings, typescripts of traditional songs and superstitions, correspondence, information on economic dislocation, article on Alnwick Freeman's Well, article on problems in autobiographical writing, notes on DMA cemetary, booklet concerning the general strike in the North East, minutes of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers Special General Meeting, booklet The Miners of North Durham, photocopy of The Life of Captain William Smith, Master Mariner of Blyth and his discovery of the New South Shetland Islands 1819-1820, booklet on Marxism, and autobiographical story of Ned Cowen 'Of Mining Life and Aal Its Ways".

Recorded at the Chaplin's home (11 Kimberley Gardens) The interview covers various subjects including Rene's childhood and family, intial meeting wit Sid and courtship, early married life, Sid's writing and early publicatons and travels. Recorded on a SA90 High position iecii/typeii.

With read through, prop list, synopsis and scene breakdown.

Miss Dorothy Martin's reference for a position related to further education for adults.

Programme, flyers, and newspaper cuttings. Covers the openings in Newcastle, Wakefield and London. With photo of colliery disaster near Ebbw Vale, photos of what is possibly opening night, tour schedule, and good luck cards.

Includes correspondence with Archivist Helen Arkwright and University Librarian Tom Graham, transcript of the oral history interview conducted with Rene Chaplin, hard copy archive catalogue, photocopy of newspaper cutting regarding an exhibition, and photocopies of records relating to Jack Common's obituary.

Correspondence, news cuttings, photographs, booklet on the statutes of the most excellent Order of the British Empire, and information on the Chapel of the Order.