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Total number of records: 33451

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Indexes16522
Archives11852
Books and printed items4075
Objects946
Art items56

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
world war, 1914-19182787
world war, 1939-1945342
photographs335
letters155
conscientious objectors108
postcards79
diaries66
soldiers63
english wit and humor, pictorial54
somme, 1st battle of the, france, 191652

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain209
Germany34
France30
Soviet Union29
Europe28
United States20
Belgium19
India10
Turkey10
Al Kut (Iraq)10

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Great Britain. Army181
Liddle, Peter H (1934-)143
Great Britain114
Liddle, Peter97
Great Britain. Commonwealth War Graves Commission80
Great Britain. Royal Navy77
Hammerton, Sir John Alexander (1871-1949)67
Bairnsfather, Bruce (1887-1959)55
Great Britain. Royal Air Force48
Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)44

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17005
From 1800227
From 190033101
From 2000118

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 17991
Up to 189916
Up to 199933055
Up to latest379

Archive Collection

Legacies of War: Leeds University O.T.C. and roll of honour, 1908-1921

Stowe, David

2018

Stowe, a historical researcher and member of the Legacies of War team, researched into the Brotherton Library's War Memorial at the University. He collected the images in this tribute to the Leeds Un...

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Alec Buckels Collection

Buckels, Alec; Alston, Lucy (1910-1996); Buckels, Lucy (1881-1967); Alston, William (1880-1958)

1903-1973

Material relating to Alec Buckels’ biography and career. Many of the letters were written to Lucy Alston (1910-1996). Lucy is often referred to as Mi-lady and sometimes as Lady Alston and Lady Al...

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Jane Hamlyn Collection

1847-1997

The collection contains the personal records of Jane Hamlyn. There is a substantial amount of correspondence with male friends and some miscellaneous correspondence. It contains some letters from Ja...

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Margaret L. More Collection

1907-1949

The diaries of Margaret Louise More (1888-1952), an British housewife. The diaries date between 1920 and 1949, and are in the format of purpose built diaires or notebooks used as diaries. Margaret w...

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Liddle Collection (First and Second World Wars)

1914-1945

Peter Liddle began collecting First World War personal experience material from veterans and their descendants in the 1960s, when he was a schoolteacher in Liverpool making pioneering use of original ...

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Liddle Collection (First World War)

1914-1918

Letters and diaries, official and personal papers, photographs, newspapers, artwork and recollections of the First World War.

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Liddle Collection (Second World War)

1939-1945

Letters and diaries, official and personal papers, photographs, newspapers, artwork and recollections of the Second World War.

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Liddle Collection (Museum Objects)

1899-1945

The Liddle Collection includes the personal papers of well over 4,000 people who lived through the First World War, and approximately 500 who experienced the Second World War. The Museum Objects Colle...

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Diaries

1914-1918

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Diaries

1914-1915

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Diaries

1912-1929

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Diaries

1914-1916

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