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Ratushinskaya file

Consists of the book, which Neil Astley has annotated, Newspaper material, regarding the publication and her release, information on the USSR conditions for women prisoners in the "Small Zone", annotated translations, authors photograph, and maps that are used in the book.

Ration Book

Consists of a ration book issued to Thomas Baker Brown. A large number of stamps have been used, and the name of 'Fred Inness' has been registered as the meat supplier.

Rare Books

  • RB
  • Book Collection
  • 1541 - 2003

The Rare Books collection is miscellaneous but literature and local history are two of the collections strengths. Items date from the mid-Sixteenth Century to the present day (facsimile of The Arundel Choirbook, 2003). Particularly notable items include a German propaganda sheet which was dropped on England in 1940: Adolf Hitler, A last appeal to reason; Edward Jenner's Inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolæ vaccinæ (1798); various works by Charles Dickens which remain in their original serialised parts, complete with paper wrappers; herbals by Elizabeth Blackwell (1739) and Nicholas Culpepper (1802); a volume of printed ephemera, broadsides, posters and cartoons referring to elections in Northumberland, Newcastle and Tyneside divisions, including cartoons of Joseph Cowen (1826-1931) as well as some English Revolution (or Civil War) tracts and the manuscript Design no. 11 - Plans, specifications and estimates for building a chapel in the township of St. John, Newcastle upon Tyne by John Dobson (1840).

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