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Total number of records: 1542

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives1521
Books and printed items19
Objects2

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection1107
English Literature867
Liddle Collection155
Leeds Russian Archive80
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections40
Medical Collections10
Leeds Poetry7
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse7
Herbert Read Collection4
Quaker Collection4

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letters1542
pre-raphaelites495
poets, english495
english poetry307
english fiction284
english literature282
english drama269
world war, 1914-1918151
photographs141
refugees, political77

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain1
Hertfordshire1
Lozere (France : Dept.)1
France1
England1
Aveyron (France)1
Birmingham1
Colney Heath1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)234
Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)146
Hogg, Jabez26
Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)10
Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821)5
Sotheby & Co. (London, England)5
Knox, Vicesimus5
Keeley, Robert5
Melville, Robert Saunders-Dundas4
Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle Baron (1923-1981)4

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 15002
From 160014
From 170051
From 1800772
From 1900702
From 20001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 16999
Up to 179923
Up to 1899634
Up to 1999876

Archive Collection

Geoffrey Woledge Archive

Woledge, Geoffrey (1901-1988)

19--

Includes diaries, letters, postcards, photographs, household accounts, notes on bibliography, librarianship and education, papers of various family members, documents relating to Aireborough Civic Soc...

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Henry Céard Archive

CĂ©ard, Henry

c.1873-1921

Comprises autograph French manuscripts of Henry Céard towards various of his poems, plays, and prose writings; also, many letters from or to him, dated between 1873 and 1921; together with various ed...

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George Nicholls, letters received

Nicholls, Sir George (1781-1865)

c.1815-1821

Comprises many manuscript letters written between 1815 and 1821 to Captain George Nicholls on St Helena while he was guarding Napoléon Bonaparte, with one dated much later in 1880.

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Charles Edwyn Vaughan correspondence and papers

Vaughan, C E (1854-1922)

c.1890-1922

Comprises letters, press cuttings, and notes

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James Digby Firth papers

Firth, James Digby

1888-1965

Includes correspondence, press cuttings, photographs, and pamphlets, mostly related to local history: 1. Manuscript list of correspondence: name and address of correspondent and brief summary. 2. ...

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David Edward Jenkins Archive

Jenkins, David Edward

c.1925-1984

Contains material relating to various professional appointments in the World Council of Churches, William Temple Foundation, and the University of Leeds; the Cadbury lectures; personal and family pape...

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Community Development Project (Home Office) papers.

c.1945-1975

Comprises: (1) Planning papers, research reports, and administrative papers and correspondence of the Project between 1967 and 1975; (2) Many books on economic history and pamphlets on urban developme...

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E. J. Arnold wholesale stationers

1903-1977

Comprises wage books, invoices, miscellaneous company papers and reports, catalogues, examples of printing, correspondence, notes on company history, photographs (loose and in albums), slides, 2 reels...

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Aldred Farrer Barker correspondence and papers

Barker, Aldred F (1868-1964)

1869-1960?

The collection contains the professional and personal papers of Aldred Farrer Barker. These include papers and correspondence about his textile related interests and his work on sheep breeding and wo...

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Yorkshire Contemporary Art Group and St Paul's Gallery Leeds Archive

1979-1988

Comprises: 1) Correspondence, posters, photographs and other material related to "New Art in Yorkshire" exhibition, 1987; 2) Material relating to exhibitions and events held by YCAG, 1984-1988; 3) Mat...

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Stancliffe family of North Yorkshire Archive

Stancliffe Family

c.1800-1952

Comprises: (1) Letters, diaries, and a few stamps; (2) Ledgers relating to financial accounts; (3) Various local maps, some rolled, others folded; (4) Game books for the years 1896-1903; (5) An album ...

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