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Bovril War Diary

Consists of a booklet produced by the company 'Bovril' which includes the dates of significant events which occurred during World War I.

Boxes of loose photographs (Trevelyan, Richmond and Plowden families)

These boxes have not been catalogued and the photographs remain as they were deposited - loose in boxes and in no particular order. Box 1 largely relates to the Trevelyan side of the family. Box 5 relates to the Richmond side of the family. Boxes 2 - 4 relate largely to Lady and Lord Plowden later in life and are mainly official event photographs and formal portraits.

Boy and woman

Consists of a watercolour sketch of a boy and a woman. Caption reads: Mother - "Now Tommy - tell me how to spell 'cat'." Tommy - "Well, Ma' - I really don't know myself!"

Boy stretching in front of window

Consists of a watercolour sketch of a boy stretching in front of a window. Caption reads: The Phantom of Plessy Old Hall - generally appears 9.30 am. Calls - Pa - is breakfast ready?

Boy talking to grandma

Consists of a watercolour sketch of a boy talking to his grandma while she is knitting. Caption reads: "Always knitting Gran'ma." Grandma - "Yes dear - socks for the poor - you kow the Bible tells us 'Charity covers…'" "Oh yes! I remember - a multitude of shins!"

Bradshaw Collection

  • Bradshaw
  • Book Collection
  • 1477 - 1978

The Bradshaw Collection contains books published 1601-1700 and is notable for its English Revolution, or Civil War, tracts, of which there are about sixty mostly describing local events, such as The Taking of Gateshead Hill: and blocking up of Newcastle … (1644), A Terrible and bloudy fight at Tinmouth Castle on Fryday last … (1648) and The King's declaration at Newcastle concerning his refusall to come to the parliament of England … (1647). Some of these are illustrated, often with wood-cut portraits.Other subjects represented in the collection include theology and some literature. Classical works, in Latin and Greek, by such authors as Catullus, Pliny, Virgil and Juvenal; Aristophanes, Dionysius and Euripides make up a large portion of the collection. The collection also has volume I of Edmund Gibson's English translation of William Camden's Britannia (1695), the first (Latin) edition of which had been the first comprehensive study of Britain.

Newcastle University

Bradshaw-Bewick Collection

  • Bradshaw-Berwick
  • Book Collection
  • 1760 - 1978

The Bradshaw-Bewick Collection contains works by and relating to the engraver Thomas Bewick (1753-1828). Bewick was born at Cherryburn, near Mickley, Northumberland and his early interest in drawing, under the tuition of the Reverend C. Gregson, was later developed when he was apprenticed under the Newcastle engraver, Ralph Beilby. He was to become a master craftsman.Bewick had a particular fascination with the natural world and this is reflected in works such as A general history of quadrupeds (1790) and History of British birds (1797). The collection is strong in Bewick's other main area of interest - morals and fables. His Select fables (1784) was immediately popular and ran into several editions but he worked on many small moral instruction books, such as Youth's instructive and entertaining story-teller (1778) and The looking-glass for the mind (1792).

Newcastle University

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