Newcastle University

Thomas Sharp papers
A project (May 2006 - October 2007) to catalogue and conserve the papers of Thomas Sharp funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Thomas Sharp was a key figure in town planning in the mid-twentieth century. The concepts he developed in his writings and plans have been of enduring significance and influence on thinking about planning and design for both practitioners and academics in the UK and beyond.

One of the main outcomes of the protect is a web-site, which when completed, will include:

• the collection catalogue
• a brief biography of Sharp
• an annotated bibliography of Sharp’s published writings and plans
• a finding aid for other publicly accessible Sharp material
• a selection of digital images of items from the collection
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Cowen Tracts digitisation
Newcastle University Library contributed the Cowen Tracts to a CURL-sponsored project, to digitise 19th Century pamphlets as part of the JISC Digitisation Programme. The pamphlets were sent for scanning in May 2007.

Digital copies of the pamphlets are now available on the JSTOR service.