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Total number of records: 1060

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives687
Books and printed items371
Art items1
Objects1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture546
Brotherton Collection103
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society39
Herbert Read Collection38
Leeds Russian Archive28
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive17
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman11
Quaker Collection8
Liddle Collection7
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society7

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
education1060
community life546
culture359
english language - dialects246
occupations174
manners and customs132
agriculture126
nature125
food111
animals108

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England73
Great Britain41
Northumberland29
Embleton11
Lowick11
Durham, United Kingdom4
Leeds, United Kingdom4
Italy3
Moscow (Russia)3
Modena2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)102
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)38
Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed To Inquire Into the Education of the Poor38
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)23
Barry, Michael V (1935-)22
Dunn, Ginette17
Wright, Peter15
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)14
Wright, John T13
Tammivaara, Irmeli13

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 1800248
From 1900797
From 200015

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1899230
Up to 1999801
Up to latest29
Michael Sadler Archive

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John William Jacob papers

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City of Leeds Training College, Leeds College of Art and Leeds College of Music, papers on higher education, held by Leeds City Council Education Committee

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Association of Directors and Secretaries for Education, the Association of Education Officers, and the National Association of Education Officers (papers)

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Society of Education Officers papers

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Papers of Diana Allen, Gypsy and Traveller Rights Campaigner.

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William Norman Illingworth, educationalist, letters and papers relating to his early career as a teacher in Leeds and Birkenhead, 1923-1929

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West Riding of Yorkshire Education Authority, Alexander Bradshaw Clegg directorship documents

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JOHNSON, Louis (1920-1996)

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Miscellaneous papers relating to Parliamentary grants to local authorities for educational purposes, 1925-1928; compiled by the Association of Education Committees

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Papers and correspondence of the North of England Education Conference

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Pamphlet collection compiled by Lord Boyle of Handsworth

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