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Special Collections: Business Studies

Agriculture

  • Papers of W T Hayward, agricultural company of Lifton, Devon (EUL MS 247); including legal correspondence, trade catalogues, receipts and general correspondence 1892-1920

  • Material relating to farm management at Syon Abbey (EUL MS 389/PROP/5); management of the agricultural land and livestock at Syon Abbey

  • Gale and Morant family papers [EUL MS 44EUL MS 44 add. 1]; records relating to the management of sugar plantations and livestock pens in Jamaica (1731-1939). Content advice: this collection documents the oppression and enslavement of people of African and Caribbean descent. Papers within this collection may contain offensive terms or terms that have changed meaning over time.

Charitable Organisations

  • Common Ground archive (EUL MS 416); records relating to the management of an arts and environmental charity - see also Common Ground archive guide
  • Papers of John Fairfax relating to the establishment of the Arvon Foundation (EUL MS 272); materials relating to a charitable organisation that promotes creative writing
  • Ronald Duncan Literary Foundation (EUL MS 397/16); materials relating to a charitable trust that existed to promote the work and achievements of Ronald Duncan

Education

  • University of Exeter Archive (EUL UA); includes records relating to the management of the University and its predecessor institutions, including the Royal Albert Memorial College, the University College for the South West of England and St Luke's College of Education (previously the Exeter Diocesan Training College) - see also University Archive guide

Printing and Publishing

  • Agatha Christie business papers (EUL MS 99); files of correspondence from Christie's literary agent reflecting dealings with publishers, film-makers and other professional persons with an interest in the Christie estate
  • Papers of Sir Tom Blackburn relating to his work with Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (EUL MS 441); relating to the running of Beaverbrook Newspapers
  • Business papers in the Ronald Duncan Collection (EUL MS 397/12)

Retail and Trade

  • Somerfield supermarket and related organisations: papers (EUL MS 326); including ledgers of accounts, minutes for AGMs and directors' meetings, share certificates etc and other official records
  • Trade card collection: Devon businesses (EUL MS 223); including twenty-nine mounted trade cards for a variety of Devon firms

  • John Keymor's treatise on trade (EUL MS 97); a copy manuscript of Keymor's treatise (c 1620)

Theatre

  • Northcott Theatre Archive (EUL MS 348); including administrative, marketing, outreach and production records
  • Cygnet Theatre and Monica Shallis Collection (EUL MS 489); including promotional material, videos of performances and training, correspondence, administrative and financial papers, and teaching material
  • Papers relating to the English Stage Company and the Royal Court Theatre (EUL MS 397/12/7); including minutes, correspondence, financial statements, publications and other material

Files in the Common Ground Archive (EUL MS 416)

Ledgers and minutes in the papers of Somerfield supermarket and related organisations (EUL MS 326)

Photograph postcard of Sister Mary Peter with two goats on the Syon Abbey Farm in South Brent, Devon (EUL MS 389/PUB/3/2)

Envelopes, in file labelled 'some of the letters that found us' from the Common Ground Archive (EUL MS 416/PRO/6/1/16)

Promotional material from the Northcott Theatre Archive

Transport

  • Papers of Sir Harold Harding (EUL MS 337 and EUL MS 337 add.1); reports, photographs, lantern slides and prints relating to exploratory works for a Channel Tunnel and Piccadilly Circus

  • Papers of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company (EUL MS 155); one bound volume of annual reports of directors and statements of accounts for 1877, 1895-1927, 1929-1933 and 1935

Business around the world

  • Records of the Santa Teresa Mine, Guadalajara, Mexico (EUL MS 56); 19th century records relating to a series of mines in the Province of Guadalajara
  • Hubert Milner Brown papers relating to the North Uruguayan Railway Company (EUL MS 62); 19th century records, including photographs, a contract of employment, correspondence, and a balance sheet for the company for the year 1891

  • Professional papers of Jonathan Crusoe relating to Iraq and Kuwait (EUL MS 143); material on travel and tourism in 1980s Iraq (EUL MS 143/19); material on industry tenders, contractors' projects, banking and finance (EUL MS 143/3); the oil industry (EUL MS 143/15), railway development (EUL MS 143/21/4-7) and a folder detailing western businesses and companies operating in Iraq (EUL MS 143/20/8).
  • Papers of Michael Adams relating to Middle Eastern politics (EUL MS 241/1); includes material relating to travels and tours in the Middle East
  • Papers of Henry Michael Barker relating to the history of the Barker family of Alexandria, Egypt (EUL MS 238); this archive traces over 200 years of family involvement in business and educational enterprises in Egypt
  • Papers of the Whittall Family of Turkey (EUL MS 259); this archive traces over 200 years of family involvement in business enterprises in Turkey
  • Research papers and Omani manuscripts of John Craven Wilkinson relating to Oman (EUL MS 119); includes records relating to the early part of his career working in the petroleum industry (EUL MS 119/2/3)
  • Citrus Marketing Board Correspondence (EUL MS 406); business papers and correspondence (1948-72) documenting the financial affairs of the Citrus Marketing Board for Palestine

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