University of Birmingham Staff Papers: Papers of Professor J.F.D. Shrewsbury

Letters, notes, references and printed items as well as revisions and the final draft of Shrewsbury's major work A History of the Bubonic Plague in the British Isles , 1970; miscellaneous materials including illustrations, lantern slides, maps and file cards; notebook containing research material for a History of the Witchcraft in the British Isles .

John F. D. Shrewsbury, 1898-1971, was Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Birmingham, 1937-1963.

Reference: Finding aid to University of Birmingham Staff Papers: Professor J.F.D. Shrewsbury

For further reading about the University of Birmingham see: Eric Ives, Diane Drummond, Leonard Schwarz The First Civic University: Birmingham 1880-1980 An Introductory History ( The University of University of Birmingham Press. 2000 ).

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This collection was deposited in 1980 by Shrewsbury's son. A subsequent deposit was received from the family in 1998. The collection was then transferred from the Barnes Medical Library in 2000.

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