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Total number of records: 220

Count of Record type

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Archives212
Objects6
Books and printed items2

Count of Collection group

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Brotherton Collection220
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection138
English Literature28
Leeds Poetry26

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
photographs220
portraits86
photography65
letters49
family19
theatre16
works of art10
portraits, british10
landscape9
correspondence9

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PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy39
London, United Kingdom16
Turin, Italy5
Florence, Italy4
Rome, Italy4
Boston, Usa3
Milan, Italy3
Nice, France3
Birmingham, United Kingdom3
Dublin (Ireland)2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Hogg, Jabez19
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)10
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)3
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)2
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn2
Puleston, John Henry1
Marston, Westland1
Parker, John Henry (1806-1884)1
Ramee, Maria Louisa1
Reade, J B1

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From 17004
From 1800176
From 190040

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Up to 1899168
Up to 199948
Up to latest4

Archive Collection

Philip O'Connor, letters and papers with some of his writings

O'Connor, Philip (1916-1998)

1916-2003

Comprises the personal papers and documents of Philip O'Connor; his correspondence with various literary figures (including Michael Hamburger, Stephen Spender, Gregory Stephenson, and David Thomson), ...

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Workshop Theatre productions, photographs, programmes and an acting text of Etherege's The Man of Mode

c.1968-1998

Comprises miscellaneous theatre programmes for Workshop Theatre productions dated between the early 1970s and 1998, many dozens of black and white and colour photographs of productions, some architect...

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Keith Douglas Collection

Douglas, Keith (1920-1944)

1881-2000

The archives include the following: a large collection of photographs, drawings and paintings by Douglas; 94 books owned by him, 10 of which have autograph additions; 9 holograph poems by Douglas; pro...

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Jacob Kramer Archive

Kramer, Jacob (1892-1962)

1910-1988

Comprises: (1) Autograph correspondence, comprising 216 letters and postcards, written either by or to Jacob Kramer or between third parties concerning his work, dated 1913 to 1988, held in 21 envelop...

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Archive Collection

Cottingley Fairies Collection

1920-2010

Comprises: (1) BOOKS: 11 books (and 1 video) related to the case of the Cottingley Fairies, 1973-1998; (2) JOURNAL ARTICLES, 1920-1992: including the 1920 and 1921 issues of the Strand Magazine in whi...

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Personalia

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1947-1997

2 boxes containing mixed personal items and papers belonging to Jon Silkin. Includes the following: - Diaries for 1966 (letters inserted, incl. Lionel Miskin, Falmouth School of Art), 1977-78, 1979,...

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Notebooks

Redgrove, Peter (1932-2003)

1974-1975

This subfonds contains notebooks compiled by Peter Redgrove as he worked towards poetry and prose compositions. The notebooks are a part of Redgrove's system of composition, whereby he kept a journal ...

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Archive Series

NOVELLO, Vincent

1808-1964

Five boxes containing jewellery, legal documents, manuscript music, newspaper cuttings, notebooks, photographs and the travel diaries from Vincent Novello's journey across Europe with his wife Mary Sa...

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Photographs

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1930s-2006

4 files of photographs of Geoffrey Hill, dating from his childhood to his time at Boston University, and including portraits by Fay Godwin and Judith Aronson.

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Photographs

1842-1913

Photographs and cartes de visite of musical, literary, theatrical and religious figures belonging to the Novello Cowden Clarke family, many of which were presented as gifts from the sitters. Also incl...

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Archive Sub-series

Photographs

1854-1906

Fourteen photographs of Clara Anastasia Novello, including photographic reproductions of a painted portrait of her by her brother Edward Petre Novello, cartes de visite, photographs of a plaster bust ...

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Villa Quaglia

c. 1855

Plans and photographs of Villa Quaglia in Nice, now in France and then part of Italy. Vincent Novello retired there in 1849 and was joined by his daughter and son-in-law Mary and Charles Cowden Clarke...

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