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Total number of records: 413

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items336
Archives76
Art items1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection163
English Literature100
Cookery Collection21
Leeds Russian Archive17
Quaker Collection13
Herbert Read Collection11
Liddle Collection5
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections2
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1
Leeds Animation Workshop1

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SubjectCount
women413
letter71
women's rights15
queens14
home economics14
feminism9
femmes9
conduct of life9
education7
world war, 1914-19186

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Great Britain33
France12
England5
Soviet Union4
London (England)2
Nubia2
Russia2
South Africa2
United States2
Egypt2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Sala, George Augustus53
Leeds Animation Workshop26
Strickland, Elizabeth11
Strickland, Elizabeth (1794-1875)11
Strickland, Agnes (1796-1874)11
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)8
Sala, Bessie (Mrs George Sala)7
More, Hannah (1745-1833)7
Chapone, Mrs Hester (1727-1801)6
Sala, Harriet (Mrs George Sala)6

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From 1800164
From 1900137
From 200020

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Up to 1899147
Up to 1999149
Up to latest27

Archive Collection

Little Owl Society, Leeds Archive

1879-2002

Comprises: (1) Journal, 2 vols, 1879-1937; (2) Album containing photographs of Little Owl members, 1879-1987; (3) Minute books, 21 vols, 1879-1999; (4) Treasurer's note books, reports and cashbook, 18...

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Leeds Animation Workshop Archive

1972 - 2020

The Leeds Animation Workshop (LAW) archive documents the history and workings of Britain’s first all-female led animation collective. The Workshop began in 1978 and is still active, working from a t...

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منحة السلوك على تحفة الملوك. minḥatu-sulūk ʿala tuḥfat almulūk

1187-1773

The volume discusses jurisprudence issues; marriage, divorce, women, robbery etcetera. Author: ابي محمد محمود ابن احمد العيني. ʾabī muḥammad maḥmūd ʾaḥmad alʿaī...

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Album of signatures presented to Lady Morris by members of Leeds University Ladies' Tea Club on the occasion of her retirement

Morris, Mary De Selincourt

1963

The volume is bound in green leather with the university crest embossed on it in gold. A letter from the donor, Peter Miller, to the Librarian, Mr R.P. Carr, dated 1st June 1990, is attached to the ba...

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Fair women in painting and poetry

Sharp, William (1855-1905)

1894

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Fair women in painting and poetry

Sharp, William (1855-1905)

1894

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The position of the mother in the family in its legal and scientific aspects

Hoggan, Frances Elizabeth Morgan (1843-)

1884

"Read at the annual congress of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, held at Birmingham in 1884, and published by permission of the council" - Title p.

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Histoire littéraire des femmes françoises : ou, Lettres historiques et critiques, contenant un précis de la vie & une analyse raisonnée des ouvrages des femmes qui se sont distinguées dans la littérature françoise (v.1)

Laporte, Joseph de (1713-1779); Lacroix, Jean François de Marquis de Castries

1769

Also pub. under title : Histoire des femmes qui se sont rendues célèbres dans la littérature françoise, 1772.

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Histoire littéraire des femmes françoises : ou, Lettres historiques et critiques, contenant un précis de la vie & une analyse raisonnée des ouvrages des femmes qui se sont distinguées dans la littérature françoise (v.2)

Laporte, Joseph de (1713-1779); Lacroix, Jean François de Marquis de Castries

1769

Also pub. under title : Histoire des femmes qui se sont rendues célèbres dans la littérature françoise, 1772.

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