Hines Papers Scope: the Papers of Barry Hines (1939-2016), Author and Screenwriter Dates: 1957- Level: Fonds Extent: 33 Boxes Name of Creator: Barry Hines
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University of Sheffield Library. Special Collections and Archives Ref: MS 389 Title: Hines Papers Scope: The papers of Barry Hines (1939-2016), author and screenwriter Dates: 1957- Level: Fonds Extent: 33 boxes Name of creator: Barry Hines Administrative / biographical history: This collection comprises the papers of the author and screenwriter Barry Hines, and includes television, film and play scripts, programmes, reviews and cuttings, photographs, posters, drafts and proofs. There is also a collection of published books, both Barry Hines’ own works and material collected for research purposes. Barry Hines was born in the mining village of Hoyland Common near Barnsley on 30th June 1939, and attended Ecclesfield Grammar School. One of his proudest moments was playing for the England Secondary Schools football team in 1957. He worked for the National Coal Board as an apprentice mining engineer, but returned to education, eventually gaining a teaching qualification at Loughborough University. He worked as a Physical Education teacher for several years, first in London and then in Hoyland Common, eventually leaving to become a full-time writer. His best known work is the novel A Kestrel for a Knave, which was made into the film Kes, directed by Ken Loach. It is the story of Billy Casper, a young boy from a mining village who cared for a kestrel. Other notable works include the film Looks and Smiles, also directed by Ken Loach, which won the Best Contemporary Screenplay award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1981, and the television film Threads, about Sheffield during and after a nuclear war, which won a special award at the Monte Carlo Television Festival in 1985 as well as the Broadcasting Press Guild Award and seven BAFTA nominations. The collection includes drafts for many other works, both published/produced such as The Gamekeeper, The Heart of It and The Price of Coal, and unpublished such as After the Strike, Slate and Tom Kite. Barry Hines was Yorkshire Arts Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Sheffield from 1972 to 1974, and became an Honorary Doctor of Letters in 2010. Barry Hines died in March 2016. Source: Donated, November 2008 onwards System of arrangement: By category Subjects: English fiction - 20th century; Motion picture plays, English - 20th century Names: Hines, Barry, 1939-2016 Conditions of access: Available to all researchers, by appointment Restrictions: Certain documents are restricted Copyright: According to document Finding aids: Listed Page 1 MS 389 Hines Papers Section 1 Scripts and drafts, with associated materials No. of pages of scripts ATS After the Strike Accompanying note says 'Neither of us have any memory of Barry writing this, although I do remember him recounting the anecdotes in the story. I feel that the 90 page version is the later. They are very different. Also have vague memory of "the powers that be" not being interested in the strike any more.' 1/1. Revised order of scenes 1/2. Script in typescript with copy of manuscript Revised Order of Scenes 91 1/3. Note 2 Another version - missing pages 1, 15, 22, 33-36, 39-41, 64, 90-91, 101-103, 109-110 112 3 Press cuttings BLS Billy's Last Stand Radio and Stage play adapted for Television as a 'Play for Today' transmitted 4 Feb 1971 Apparent proof copy for published version with imprint Peter Crouch Plays Ltd, though this edition does not 1 appear to have been published 56 2 Shooting script for Television version missing last few pages 45 3 Typescript with manuscript annotations 65 4 Carbon copy of typescript BLS 3 65 5/1-7. Reviews and correspondence Page 2 Copy of "The Bell" by Iris Murdoch (London: Chatto & Windus, 1958), on the first few pages of which BH wrote 6 some of "Billy's Last Stand" BLX The Blinder BH's diploma year dissertation for Loughborough University entitled Flight of the Hawk which formed the basis of 1 the novel The Blinder (first published by Martin Joseph in 1966) Correspondence and review. Includes letters from Stan Barstow, and from the late Sheila Lemon, BH's first and 2 only agent BOK Born Kicking TV film transmitted 20 Sep 1992 Fifth draft dated 31.7.91 which appears to be script as filmed 12 August - 13 September 1991. A number of 1 pages are labelled 'new page' with various dates in July 1991 167 2 Filming script, 4th draft 175 3 Typescript 101 . 4 Typescript 131 5 Typescript with 2 versions of opening scenes 131 CSS Continental Size Six Radio play broadcast as BBC Radio 4's 'Afternoon Theatre' on 12 Apr 1967 1 Shooting script for Leeds Studio, April-May 1966 51 2 Transmission script 41 Page 3 3 Correspondence, April-May 1966 DIG The Diggers Very similar to 'Walking Wounded' (see later file) 1 Synopsis 6 2 Script labelled final draft 66 3 Script labelled final draft facsimile 67 EOE Elvis over England Novel published by Penguin in 1999 1 1 copy of proofs with covering letter 106 2 Corrected typescript 184 3/1-2. Editorial queries and correspondence; typescript 166 4 Photocopy of 2nd draft manuscript 223 5 2nd draft manuscript 222 6 Ist draft manuscript 302 7 Notebook and notes 8 Correspondence and documents relating to copyright clearance for music titles and lyrics 9 Proofs of covers and related correspondence 10 Press cuttings and related correspondence Page 4 FIS First Signs Novel published by Michael Joseph in 1972 1 Typescript as submitted to publisher 323 2 Typescript 323 3 Manuscript 2nd draft 233 4 Manuscript, early draft, partly on sheets of paper, partly in exercise books 5 Reviews FUN Fun City Proof copied of version published in New plays / general editor Peter Terson. 2 / activities section by Steve 1 Barlow and Steve Skidmore, Oxford University Press, 1988. 9 2 Correspondence with Willy Russell and revised beginning for film version 7 3 Typescript 2nd draft 24 4 Typescript 24 5 Manuscript also 2nd draft 22 6 Manuscript 2nd draft 31 7 Background material and manuscript 1st draft 35 GAM The Gamekeeper Novel published by Michael Joseph in 1975; TV play broadcast by ATV in 1980 Page 5 Novel 254 1/1 Submitted typescript 131 1/2 Manuscript. 3rd draft 157 1/3 Manuscript. 2nd draft 181 2 Rough notes (Five A5 notebooks and one A4 notepad) Play 68 3/1 Typescript 56 3/2 Manuscript and notes 4 Blurb' from Michael Joseph, 21 Oct 1974 Reviews, including letter from John Berger (6 Nov 1975) enclosing review written for "New Society" which had 5 been changed so much that he had withdrawn it HEA The Heart of It Novel published by Michael Joseph in 1994; proposed (unfinished) screenplay, provisionally titled either 'The Heart of It' or 'Follow the Sun' Novel 271 1 Corrected typescript 20 2 Corrected typescript pages 267 3 Typescript 269 4 Corrected typescript with early title of 'Rosa' 120 5 Manuscript. 2nd draft Page 6 178 6 Manuscript. 1st draft. Brown folder also includes annotations 15 7 Notebook Screenplay 48 8 Corrected typescript 45 9 Typescript 63 10 Partial typescript, annotated. Includes resume of plot 72 11 Manuscript 23 12 Corrected manuscript and typescript pages 103 13 Manuscript. 2nd draft 103 14 Manuscript. Photocopy of 2nd draft 101 15 Manuscript. 1 st draft 41 16 Background notes 7 17 Notes on script 1 18 Christmas card to BH and Eleanor Mulvey from Ken Loach and Lesley (2003?) 4 19 Letters to BH from Sebastian Born, The Agency re. development of screenplay, Apr-Jun 2003 Addenda Blue folder containing material relating to 'The Heart of It', including article on the Miners' Strike from the Observer Magazine 1 Feb 2004, Notes on The Potter Hill Prisoner of War Camp by Colin Sansam, 'Running 20 order' relating to Miners' Strike, lyrics for miners' songs, annotated typescript 21 Reviews and articles on "The Heart of It" Page 7 Letter to BH from Flis Callow, 20 Oct [1986?]. Found in "The heart and soul of it" by Worsborough Community 22 Group (1985) (Hines 136) INJ Injury Time Filmscript 119 1 Manuscript. Early version of script with title 'Man of the match' 75 2 Manuscript. Early draft 113 3 Manuscript. Later draft 95 4 Typescript 5 Further manuscript draft 82 KES A Kestrel for a Knave Novel published by Penguin in 1968; adapted into the film 'Kes' in 1969, directed by Ken Loach; also adapted into a stage play Novel 1 Manuscript. First draft 95 2 Typescript, with ms. annotations 137 2a Two reviews of "A kestrel for a knave", 2009-2010 Film 3/1 Typescript 90 3/2 Folder containing call sheet, 3 stills, 7 newspaper reviews and articles Page 8 3/3 Folder of articles and correspondence, including DVD of feature on "Kes" from The One Show 29 Sept 2014 Play 4 Typescript. Adaptation by Allan Stronach 63 5 Rehearsal script. Adaptation by Lawrence Till. June 1991 107 6 Rehearsal script. Adaptation by Lawrence Till. Draft 3. February 1999 110 7 Photocopied reviews, April 1999 5 7a Brief article from Barnsley Chronicle re amateur performance of "Kes", 13 Sep 2013 1 Record 8 Typescript, pages 1 to 51. Abridged by Edward Phillips 51 9 Typescript, pages 52 to 109. Abridged by Edward Phillips 57 Radio 10 BBC Radio, 3-Part Serialisation, 1973: Manuscript 13, 15, 15 11 BBC Radio, 3-Part Serialisation, 1973: Typescript 18, 20, 18 12 List of episodes, on reverse of call sheet from 1968 filming (BBC Radio, 3-Part Serialisation, 1973) 13 Letter to BH from John Kerry? at BBC, 17 Mar 1972 (BBC Radio, 3-Part Serialisation, 1973) 14 "Storytime" adaptation of Kes, 1978.