Thomas Wright of Durham and Inmanuel Kant.
- THS 19.9
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- 1941
Part of Thomas Sharp papers
Thomas Wright of Durham and Inmanuel Kant by F.A. Paneth. Durham University Journal.
Thomas Wright of Durham and Inmanuel Kant.
Part of Thomas Sharp papers
Thomas Wright of Durham and Inmanuel Kant by F.A. Paneth. Durham University Journal.
Thomas Wright of Durham and Immanuel Kant.
Part of Thomas Sharp papers
Thomas Wright of Durham and Immanuel Kant by F.A. Paneth. Durham University Journal.
Thomas Wright material for "Ill- starred Astronomer".
Part of Thomas Sharp papers
File with photographs and research material on Thomas Wright.
Sharp, Thomas, 1901 - 1978, town planner
Thomas Wright exhibition. Letter of exhibit.
Part of Thomas Sharp papers
Thomas Wright exhibition. Letter of exhibit. Bishop Cosin's Library, Durham.
Part of Thomas Sharp papers
Notebook of research notes on Thomas Wright.
Sharp, Thomas, 1901 - 1978, town planner
Part of Thomas Sharp papers
Research material relating to Thomas Wright, including illustrations and photographs of Wright and notes re. Wright’s Original Theory. Photocopied research notes and mss. notes for research and Sotheby’s catalogue.
Sharp, Thomas, 1901 - 1978, town planner
Thomas Sharp, Vladimir Vladimirovitch Mayakovsky and me by Dr Bob Jarvis.
Part of Thomas Sharp papers
Module for M.A. in creative and transactional writing (practical language – writing in the work place), May 2003. Deposited in June 2003.
Thomas Sharp: the man who dared to be different by Gordon Cherry. Thomas Sharp Memorial Lecture.
Part of Thomas Sharp papers
Thomas Sharp: the man who dared to be different by Gordon Cherry. Thomas Sharp Memorial Lecture.
Cherry, Gordon Emanuel, 1931-1996, Geographer and Academic Researcher in the field of Urban Planning.
The papers held at Newcastle are a substantial repository of the personal papers and plans of Sharp. The major part of the collection consists of papers collected from Sharp's Oxford house on his death by the now-retired Professor Brenikov of this University. The papers were subsequently put into storage. Their significance realised they were deposited with the University Library Special Collections. The principal elements of the collection are as follows:
• Files of information and correspondence relating to individual texts, including unpublished works
• Files of information and correspondence relating to individual plans. This includes, for example, work on historic cities, new villages, new towns and overseas commissions and competition entries
• Original plans for many commissions
• Extensive documentation on key planning cases where Sharp appeared as a witness at public inquiry e.g. Oxford Roads, Kepier Power Station Durham, Clarendon Hotel Oxford
• Extensive books of press-cuttings on all of the above
• Typescript of an unpublished autobiography and manuscript autobiographical notes
• Typescripts of government information films, radio talks, lectures
• Documentation on unsuccessful commissions
• Correspondence regarding the formation of the Civic Trust
• Lecture slides
• Miscellaneous personal correspondence
• Creative writing i.e. poetry, novels, radio plays etc., largely unpublished
Collectively these resources demonstrate the evolution of Sharp's thinking both in terms of individual commissions and over the course of his career. They illustrate important issues about the process of undertaking planning commissions in the period e.g. fees charged, numbers of staff employed, briefs set etc. They provide a rich source of information on how commissions were received both by clients and professional and local audiences. Additionally they are a rich source of material on how competing arguments and ideologies of urban evolution were advanced.
Sharp, Thomas, 1901 - 1978, town planner
'Thomas Hodgkin , M.D. (1798-1866): An Annotated Bibliography' (1969)
A detailed bibliography of published work and letters. The paper is reprinted from the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. LXIII, No. 2, Mar.-Apr., 1969.