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Total number of records: 698

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Books and printed items379
Archives319

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection422
English Literature338
Leeds Russian Archive51
Herbert Read Collection33
Leeds Poetry19
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society3
Liddle Collection3
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1

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SubjectCount
english fiction474
letters307
english poetry290
english drama267
english literature267
fiction in english168
science fiction, english26
librettos16
russian fiction7
fantasy fiction, english7

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England7
Middle East2
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Palestine1
Russia (Federation)1
South Africa1
Rome (Italy)1
Kurdistan1
Canada1
Great Britain1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Marryat, Frederick (1792-1848)20
Blavatnik Honresfield Library13
Bronte, Anne (1820-1849)11
Acton Bell11
Billing, J6
Newby, Thomas Cautley6
Aldiss, Brian W (1925-2017)6
Charles Hunt, London6
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832)5
Moorcock, Michael (1939-)5

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From 180087
From 1900584
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Up to 189980
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Up to latest37
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Blackburn
c.1893-1988
The items in this collection relate to Thomas Blackburn's personal life, his career as a poet and his teaching career. Comprises: typescripts, autograph manuscripts and other papers relating to Thoma...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Berry
1931-1994
Literary archive of Francis Berry. The collection is separated into two series: Correspondence and Literary papers. Correspondence files arranged alphabetically by correspondent, following Berry's ...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Mackendrick
1970-1994
The collection includes drafts of plays by Mackendrick, photographs of his productions, newspaper reviews, posters, flyers and correspondence.
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Fuller
1941-1990
Comprises: (a) 2 boxes (Boxes 1-2) containing Roy Fuller's autograph manuscript notebooks, comprising 25 numbered notebooks of poetry dated 1941-1983, 2 unnumbered notebooks of his reviews of works by...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Keown
1934-1959
Comprises: (1) Autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of some of Anna Gordon Keown's literary works, including at least 9 short stories or plays, dated ca. 1948-1955, and held in a red folder; at ...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Swinburne
1851-1999
Comprises a substantial collection of manuscripts (many of them autographs), typed or pencilled transcriptions, and some printed proofs and early editions of literary works by Swinburne, including poe...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Hughes
1975-1999
Comprises: (1) 39 autograph manuscript notebooks containing many drafts of Glyn Hughes' poems, research notes for novels, and numerous personal notes, partly dated between ca. 1979 and 1999, with so...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Trevor
c.1973
Comprises: (1) Three autograph typescripts of literary works by Trevor with many manuscript revisions, namely fragments of two plays and one piece of fiction, undated and not identified; and (2) An au...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Crossley-Holland
1946-2011
This collection of the literary papers and correspondence of Kevin Crossley-Holland represents the wide range of his interests and achievements. It covers his own poetry, translations and re-tellings ...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Morgan
1922-1991
Comprises: (1) 3 boxes of literary papers by Morgan, including (a) Mainly typescript drafts with autograph manuscript revisions of 12 plays, namely, 'The Squire of Darkfield' (4 drafts), 'The Jurado R...
Archive Sub-collection:
BC MS 20c Crossley-Holland/10
1971-2003
This sub-fonds contains material related to dramatic works written by Kevin Crossley-Holland's.
Archive Sub-collection:
BC MS 20c Crossley-Holland/11
1965-2016
This sub-fonds contains correspondence, notes, drafts and material related to Kevin Crossley-Holland's editorial work.