Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 544 records

Total number of records: 544

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items534
Archives10

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection42
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society21
Leeds Russian Archive12
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman4
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections4
English Literature4
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society3
Ripon Cathedral1
Herbert Read Collection1
Quaker Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
law544
political science54
law reports, digests, etc53
history39
equity25
law, germanic20
swedish language17
state, the12
jurisprudence11
customary law10

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain12
Scotland6
Iceland3
Soviet Union2
Norway2
Spain2
France2
Russia1
Wales1
Guernsey (Channel Islands)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Great Britain83
Blackstone, Sir William (1723-1780)44
Mably, Gabriel Bonnot De (1709-1785)39
Great Britain. Record Commission31
Scotland28
Scotland. Parliament27
Thomson, Thomas (1768-1852)25
Innes, Cosmo (1798-1874)25
Innes, Cosmo25
Iceland25

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 1700207
From 1800228
From 1900106
From 20003

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1799204
Up to 1899179
Up to 1999153
Up to latest8

Archive Sub-collection

WARE Collection

1988-1997

R Ware, F M Watson "Democracy after Communism: Research Paper" (House of Commons Library, 1996) /1/. R Ware "The New Russia - Five Years On: Research Paper" (House of Commons Library, 1997) /2/. Pub...

More details


Archive File

(A2) Research and papers : 2002-2004 [with some 2015-2016]

c.1999 - 2016

Research material mainl;y from periods 2002-2004 and 2015-2016. Includes: Off prints of articles by various c. 1999- 2004; press release from Vatican; draft typescript "A suitable amount of crime" ...

More details


Archive File

(A3) Research and papers by Zygmunt Bauman: 2001-2014

c.2001 - c.2014

Includes printouts and copies of works by various others including; Gyorgy Markus; Max Pensky; Maria Renata Markus; several by Loïc Wacquant (on ghettoes; crime; urban sociology) Also includes: ...

More details


Archive File

(A4) Notes and papers :2013-2014

c.2000-c.2016

Papers and correspondence mainly relating to requests for Zygmunt Bauman to review work, proposals or attend events mainly covering 2013-2014. Mainly includes printouts and copies of works by variou...

More details


Archive File

(A5) Reference material and papers : 2000-2001

c.1996-c.2001

Mainly works by other authors (offprints, typescript papers, photocopies of articles, periodicals) including copy of "Echoes" -Post Modernity project publication; some with attached correspondence. Au...

More details


Archive File

A glossary of legal terms compiled by John Stanhope

Stanhope, John

1722-c.1723

A glossary of legal terms taken from various treatises and reports

More details


Archive File

Select cases and commentary on settlement in poor law, by John Stanhope and one other

Stanhope, John

c.1750

The cases and commentary by Stanhope are preceded, in another hand, by further reports on cases in King's Bench on poor law settlement

More details


Archive File

An institute of the law, by John Stanhope

Stanhope, John

c.1750

Three-volume manuscript book, surveying English common law. Vol. I (vi, 408, [8] pp.): Actions upon torts (slander, malicious prosecution, assault & battery, false imprisonment, negligence, adultery, ...

More details

Autobiography, by Herbert Thompson
Archive File

Autobiography, by Herbert Thompson

Thompson, Herbert (1856-1945)

c.1940

Contains recollections of the author's life and career, including his Yorkshire ancestry; earliest recollection, of the death of the Prince Consort in 1861; school in Wiesbaden, 1872-73; St John's Col...

More details and larger image


Archive Print Item