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Total number of records: 104079
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Top 10: Collection group
| Collection group | Count |
|---|---|
| Brotherton Collection | 104079 |
| English Literature | 18882 |
| Herbert Read Collection | 17239 |
| Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse | 7171 |
| Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections | 5289 |
| Leeds Poetry | 4282 |
| Incunabula | 1353 |
| Novello Cowden Clarke Collection | 1257 |
| Rudolf Laban Collections | 1060 |
| Medieval Manuscripts | 642 |
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Anonymous | 2650 |
| Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) | 1378 |
| Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968) | 1114 |
| Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016) | 946 |
| Silkin, Jon (1930-1997) | 752 |
| Wodehouse, Sir Philip | 631 |
| Sala, George Augustus | 505 |
| Great Britain | 447 |
| Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum | 442 |
| Great Britain. Parliament | 402 |
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Ralph Abercrombie correspondence
Abercrombie Family
1928-1969
Contains: (1) Letters of condolence to Catherine and Ralph Abercrombie on the death of Lascelles Abercrombie, Oct./Nov. 1938; (2) Abercrombie family letters, from various correspondents chiefly to Ral...
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...
Great Britain C16/17 (Brotherton Collection)
Works printed in Great Britain in the 16th and 17th centuries, nearly all in English or Latin. The earliest is a law book, the Natura breuium, printed in 1518 - one of a number of law books in the col...
Michael Millgate correspondence
Millgate, Professor Michael (1929-); Thwaite, Dr Ann (1932-); Thwaite, Anthony (1930-)
1986-2011
Comprises mainly Professor Michael Millgate's correspondence with Dr. Ann Thwaite. Also includes some correspondence with Dr. Anthony Thwaite.
1890's Literature (Brotherton Collection)
1890s
Literary works published in the final decade of the 19th century. The collection also contains a small number of more recent works surveying the literary and artistic movements and ideas of the closin...
Edward Clodd (Brotherton Collection)
Works by Edward Clodd (1840-1930), including anthropology, mythology, evolution and religion. Clodd, a banker by profession, had a far-ranging influence through his wide circle of intellectual friends...