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Coins2727
Art items851
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Brotherton Collection42712
English Literature16343
Letters Database15497
Herbert Read Collection9400
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture5959
Leeds Russian Archive5627
Cookery Collection4772
Quaker Collection3711
Coin Collection2727
Liddle Collection2571

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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)2481
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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1533
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Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)1198
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Archive Collection

Alan Bennett, draft of the introduction written for the dramatisation of 'The Wind in the Willows' at the National Theatre in 1991.

Bennett, Alan

1991

Comprises the typescript draft of Bennett's introduction for the Faber version of the dramatisation of Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows', produced at the National Theatre in December 1991. T...

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS: INQUISITIONS

1808-1811

Comprising a volume of copies of Inquisitions relating to the Roos, Salvain and Aldburgh families, (Edward I to Henry VI 1306-1443), original letters from Robert Surtees, pedigrees of Hilton, Conyer...

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: PEDIGREES

nd [19th century]

Comprising a volume of pedigrees of Ashton, Sherwood, Rockley, Saville, Gascoigne and Blakeston some with branches. Index in volume, but the last 10 pedigrees are missing.

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: PEDIGREES

1810-1820

Comprising a volume of pedigrees with notes, including Ryther, Suger; Hoghton, Langton; Gerard, Butler, Clitheroe, Balderston, Gascoigne, Tate, Radcliffe, Fitzwilliam, with descent of the Constables ...

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION : LETTERS AND PEDIGREES

1795-1825

Comprising a volume of letters, miscellanea and pedigrees, relating to the families of Smithson, Strangewayes, Sherwood, Cholmeley, Consett and Talbot of Gonvill's Hall. Indexed

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: LETTERS

1820-1825

Comprising a volume of letters to Radcliffe with genealogical notes relating to the Field, Wilmer, Eamonson, Idle, Suger and Rawson families. There is also a letter from the Rev Joseph Hunter

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: LETTERS

1800-1827

Comprising a volume of letters and genealogical information on the Beaumont, Beckett, Barnard, Hornby, Ashton, Chadwick and Petre families

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: LETTERS TO RADCLIFFE

1804-1820

Comprising a volume of letters and notes to Radcliffe and others respecting the families of Adams, Gaskell, Litt and Lamb

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: LETTERS

1808-1818

Comprising a volume of letters and notes on private and heraldic matters respecting the families of Adams, Fearne, Broadwood, Goding and Bartram

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: LETTERS

1804-1827

Comprising a volume of letters to Radcliffe relating to the Bentham, Carr, Dimsdale, Doyle, Hildyard, Ridsdale and Turbutt families

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WILLIAM RADCLIFFE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: LETTERS AND NOTES

1807-1827

Comprising a volume of letters and notes relating to the families of Snell, Walton, Smithson, Waterhouse,London, Winn and Spencer-Stanhope (or Collingwood). Also letters from Thomas Blore, Historian ...

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PAPERS OF CHARLES TRAVIS CLAY

Clay, Charles Travis (1885-1978)

1642-1976

Consists mainly of photocopies and correspondence exchanged with historical scholars including P Aheir, W Paley Baildon, W Farrer, LC Loyd, WE Preston, FM Stenton and A Hamilton Thompson. Topics inclu...

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